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Methods:
specific inquiry and analysis of information given against existing scientific models for in-depth understanding, comparison and general conclusion, with openness for further discovery, regeneration and conclusions from personal experience with specific cases presented by supported individual.
Five (5) interventions were conducted for month two -coded sessions. Immediate redress was emphasized along the path of intervention.
Session 1: Cultivating self awareness and self discovery- openings through narrations and lamentation; breaking cycles of lamentations and narrations -and release of burden of unwanted experience.
Session 2: Aversive therapy: Recurrent anger and frustration as poison; feels helpless to relax himself from them as better said than done.
Session 3: Lifestyle evaluation - knowing and exercising limits - show understanding and knowing danger of exceeding limits (like values being dependent on who pursues them) - exercising consciousness of self to know when to give an issue a break for day, week or for good, self prioritization and self management within the environment he operates.
Session 4: Examined strength of the physical body to withstand external and internal pressure. His regular physical activities were noticeable, but goal-oriented, which too potentially took toll on his health. This was done to find out if he was most concerned about external needs with limited consciousness about the internal self. He was asked him whether he has moments of self examination and experiencing consciousness of the body during and after his work in order to get feedback on how well he was daily, so that his actions can be guide by self awareness against the person goal set.
Session 5: A general conversation was struck to look for areas of mental schemas that are ill conceived for immediate review and restructuring with him and commend those that are healthy for the body.
Results:
Session 1 Result: Result: Felt illuminated from different pointers put to him along conversation paths: clear view of events, acknowledgement of reality, clear knowledge of right paths, clear and instant decisions, and experience of happiness at the end of the day.
Session 2 Result: Demonstrated relaxation techniques from engaging sleep and breathing exercises during anguish to allow relaxation and weaken attachment. Demonstrated persistent reflections on session: waliwo webelaawo nezijukira byogamba. Showed midway between changes - cognitively and indicated return of self-consciousness and increasingly becoming more helpingly consciousness about himself and emerging from drowned depressions to submerged levels.
Session 3 Results: Showed strong knowledge of himself -not to burden himself with societal expectations so long as he is happy within himself and satisfied at personal level, 'until i am happy with myself, will i concern myself with others'; showed awareness of the need to limit social contact for personal regeneration 'i am ambitious but see how far i can go for any desires to avoid hypertension'; Upbeat ad exercising effort about improving his life, 'you search and i will research what you search... for example, when i am taking water, i experience every detail of it'. He was comfortable with me tailoring my interventions to his routines to ease grasp, integration, and personal practice.
Session 4 Results: He said he had some time with himself before going to bath, which was interesting and noted. I inquired from him whether he was involved in any conscious raising before waking up so that he shrugs off disappointments of yesterday and get fully into the new day. "i do that every orning from 4am with prayer on radio.' Are you involved in any conscious body movements? Ebyo abasawo nga tebabingaba, " he said. I said, yes, the body and mind work together to be in position to withstand pressures on the physical side. He responds, Byongamba binyongeddeko bingyi ku byemanyi." Wobatonamya mugaso gwekintu oba okilabulabi pakka ommuntu wakugamba nti kino kola kusonga enno ne eli." Kati etaala lyakka. Newonaba ogeeze e South Africa, njakulinda, he said this after suggesting to him to meet another colleague who could meet with him while i am away. He was not clear on conscious physical movement much as he acknowledged is importance. Next encounter will be for him to demonstrate how he develops consciousness of his body state and physical movements, besides cleaning the compound and other domestic chores.
Conclusion:
Great acknowledgement of the gains he has made from the interventions and happy to have them shared with the rest of the community. I noted he has a new pet, which is great. Pet are known to reduce the incidence of depression of potential sufferers. He shows greater cooperation than ever before and much grasp of aspects of his life to change. However, he is still at contemplation stage breaks always in consecutive months (4-6 months) to give way to actual change. Interventions is also challenged by unclear time is best ready to work with his life from the routine. He has a greater tendency of being busy with this or that. In that regard, evening hours were slotted in as much suitable, much as he is fatigued. Intervention will continue to focus on evening times of the day, with some sessions along his routines so he can contextualize new experiences. It is on recognition of noted gaps from his abilities that the intervention tailors itself into his own discoveries and streamlines them into a recovery programme and foundation to withstand future mental and physical shocks linked to hypertension. Tailoring interventions to fit local context was most ensuring strategy of working with a person of his kind. He is an intelligent man; he could review and demonstrate knowledge of what we concluded with in previous sessions giving cases of people he knew. Next interventions will seek him to demonstrate how he deals with the psychological ills - having realized how important to handle them, including the past misgivings, and to demonstrate he copes with failure to meet his expectations as those fundamentally influence his mental and physical states.
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