Spiritual formation

I really believe, especially after today’s session, that Meditation is truly improving my life both physically and mentally. It has helped me have a more positive outlook on situations and negative events. I am now able to push negative thoughts away and replace them with more positive ones. I feel great about this progress! Today I sat on my bed right when I woke up and decided to concentrate on my breathing and meditate to start the day off right. The process feels more natural and the…

Prayer is a vital spiritual discipline in the life of every follower of Christ and must be treated as such. Not only did Jesus demonstrate the importance of prayer through his life, but the bible blatantly commands followers of Christ to pray. Therefore, it is vital that children’s ministry make every effort to help instill this value in children, that they would make prayer a priority. However, due to the limited impact a church has on a child’s life, it is necessary for children’s ministry to…

Victoria Andrews Oct 17, 2015 MW 1:00 vandrews@uwm.edu Yoga Philosophy Paper Before taking this class, I had no idea about yoga. While in this class I have learned so much about the art and science of yoga, as well as my self. Something I learned is that yoga has eight limbs. I focus on practicing asanas in this class. I also am learning about the second limb, which is niyama’s. These are personal guidelines in yoga that I follow when I practice the art. There are five different niyama’s…

Reflection 2 Having kids is something that not till recently I have discovered I wanted. I never thought about how the smallest factors, such as cartoons, can impact their persona greatly. For example, when Professor Ermitte showed the whole class a picture of her adorable daughter and then told us a story about how when she told her daughter to pick the pretty doll she picked the blonde one over the brunette. This complete shocked me because what has made this young girl think that the blond…

It was neat and odd observing people around my own age. It made me think about my own interactions and development as I was observing others. Starbucks is a common meetings place and study location for college students. Even though the majority of the people there were college students, some were adults. I paid attention how their behaviors differed from those of the college students. As I observed I noticed that of the groups it was mainly groups of all guys or all girls. I found this…

This sheds a great light on the modes of identity formation that varies on its own existing spaces, e.g. online and offline identity. Sherry Turkle (1995) supports that people experience identity in modern age as a set of roles that can be mixed and matched. She adds that in postmodern times, multiple identities…

Blake Smith Mr. Engstrom Physics May 8, 2017 Eta Carinae The Eta Carinae, previously known as Eta Argus, has a luminosity five million times greater than the suns. The Eta Carinae has two stars and for examples we will name them η Car 1 and η Car 2. η Car 1 has a mass of about ~100 to 200 solar masses, which equals about 1.99 × 1030 in kilograms. η Car 1 also has a 60 to 800 solar radius, which is 6.957 00 × 108 meters. η Car 1 has a 5,000,000 Luminosity. η Car 1 has a temperature of 9,400…

involved in student council and earned straight A’s. This type of academic achievement not only made Lolita proud of herself, but it also helped her identify who she wanted to be. Lolita’s search for identity can be linked to Erik Erikson’s identity formation concept. Erikson believed teenagers “use the hypothetical reasoning skills of the formal-operational stage to experiment with different selves to learn more about possible identities” (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2013, p. 316). Lolita experimented…

The future is scary; you’re expected to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life, move out of your parents house, go to school or get a job, find a life partner, and create a family of your own. Trying to figure out what you want to be as an adult in just a matter of four years is tough. Going to school, having a job, homework, a social life? Managing to have all of those is nearly impossible to me at this point but somehow I manage. I’m currently a junior in high school, the…

You are strolling through the streets and as you are walking through messiness you see a lot of different people. Some of them may be Europeans and Asians, others may be Americans and Africans. Some may be a company director, who hasten to a business meeting. Others may be ordinary workers, who want to have a family supper after a long, busy day. All these people look very different. They all have their own story of life with some problems, different experiences and knowledge. At that moment you…