Final Post Unit 10

Ok so in my unit 3 personal assessment I believe I ranked myself pretty well as where I was at that time in each domain. Then in Physical Well-being I rated myself a 5, Spiritual Well-being I rated myself a 7, and in Psychological well-being I rated myself a 5 as well. Now I don’t think they have changed much but definitely a few points simply because I have learned some new ways to better my well-being in each area through this class.

Now

Physical Well-being – I now rate myself a 7, simply because I have found ways to incorporate exercise in my busy schedule. I still feel like I could do more in this area but definitely have improved.

Spiritual Well-being – I now rate myself an 8 here, just simply from learning different exercises too really in power my love for others and myself through the eyes of my higher power.

Psychological well-being – I now rate myself an 8 here and I rate myself so much higher now because I am more aware of my psychological state than I ever have been. I find myself so many times rethinking how I think and act about certain aspects of my life. I love the feeling I now have with my psychological state.

I do feel that I have improved in all areas specifically, I have incorporated exercise in my daily life in some form or fashion, I have made attempts to find a good church to start going to, and then I have learn to deal with my impulses better and learn to talk to someone else about my problems.

I have started implementing all the activities that I stated in my initial blog, but there is still a lot of work ahead. I definitely started on the goal for my physical goal and I believe that my spiritual and psychological goals will come easier was I got the physical goal down pat.

I completely and thoroughly enjoyed this class. I have found that I may be walking around this earth and taking care of daily task, but none the less I may be doing this but not being healthy. It is so important for myself to learn to be healthy all over in my mind body and spirit because so many individuals depend on my. Not to mention for myself I need to be healthy. This class has taught me to be aware most importantly of what I need to be doing and has instilled in my mind to think of me first before anyone else. It has also taught me that I am important enough to take care of myself, and that I need to relax and take time out for me. Great class and I am so glad that I had to take it for my degree plan.

Final Project Unit 9

I Introduction:

Why is it important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically? What areas do you need to develop to achieve the goals you have for yourself?

It is so important for us as health care professionals to develop these skills of psychological, spiritual, and physical health because we need to be able to teach others to live longer, healthier, and more full filled lives. We are viewed upon as being the healthiest individuals out there and we want to be able to live up to those standards. If we are the healthiest we can prove to others that it can be done, because we have done it and we can show them the way easier.  

Myself as a health care professional I must learn to take the ultimate care of myself. I feel that this is coming more and more easier as I practice just some simple steps learned in this class. I feel that I need to learn to believe in myself and love myself more so that I matter to me. I feel my goal is to become more physically fit and more emotionally sound. I want to love my inner self as much as my appearance.

II Assessment:
How have you assessed your health in each domain? How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically?

Psychologically - I have to learn how to be more prepared and calm. I have learned not to get mad at the small things and realize there is nothing that I can do once things have happened except to move forward. I have also learned that other individuals have bad days to and not to take things so personally. I want to be able to live my life as stress free as possible. I have found myself talking and breathing situations out and staying calmer in difficult situations.

Spiritually – I have to learn to lean towards my higher power because this is fuel for my life. I feel that I rate the highest here in my spirituality because I do believe in my God and I do believe he watches over me and takes care of me. I do feel that I could read more about my God and teach about his teaching to others to stay on the top of spirituality.

Physically – Well this is where I fail significantly I must learn to take care of my body so that I can help others to the fullest. I tend to put myself on the back burner when it comes to my physical health. I will say that I have gotten a lot better and learning to eat healthier. The problem being is I make excuses not to exercise and use time as my crutch. I have learned that I must exercise my body for me to be in the best shape as a health care provider. I used the new year to make it mandatory that I work out at least 3 to 4 days a week for at least 30 minutes, not to lose weight but to be physically fit in my body.

III Goal development:
List at least one goal you have for yourself in each area, Physical, Psychological (mental health) and Spiritual.

My goal for each of the domain is to learn how to utilize the skills provided in integrated health for my profession. I must work out three days a week, I must take 30 minutes a day to meditate and relax my body and mind, and then I must take every evening and pray to my God and thank him for all I have.

IV Practices for personal health:

What strategies can you implement to foster growth in each of the following domains; Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual. Provide at least two examples of exercises or practices in each domain. Explain how you will implement each example.

Physical – I feel that the exercises I mentioned above are suffice for this domain, but I believe there are some other exercises we have learned that will help me accomplish my goal for this domain. I believe I will use visualization to help my see myself in the future once I have accomplished my healthy physical goal, and then I will also use journaling to help record my success.

Psychological – I believe here the exercises I will use will be from the Loving Kindness practices learning how to love others and myself at the same time. I believe that I will also learn how to meditate in my practices. I have found that meditation relaxes my body and mind so that I have more energy and feel more level headed.

Spiritually – Here I will also use the Loving kindness practices along with the Subtle mind practices. I feel that this will take a lot more practices in learning the steps of these practices but they will help me reach my level of consciousness of well-being that I feel I need to be at my ideal health.

V Commitment:

How will you assess your progress or lack of progress in the next six months? What strategies can you use to assist in maintaining your long-term practices for health and wellness?

I believe that my commitment will take a lot of strong mind meditation and learning how to stick to something is really hard in my eyes. I have to learn how to stay positive. I believe journaling will help me the most. Journaling seems to help me stay on target and helps me to actually see what it is I am doing and have accomplished. There are also websites out there to use for encouragement. I also feel that letting others know that I have a goal in mind and this is what I am trying to will help others to give me the time I need. I find it important that I be the best of my ability to one be the healthiest for myself, my family, and for those that I will be serving.

My Options for my "Mental Fitness"

Man to have to choose two practices only is really hard because I have found that all of them have a benefit or purpose for me and my mind. But to pick two I would have to say the Loving-Kindness and Meditation. I chose these two because they seem to have come to me the most easiest. Now they are definetley not easy to do at first but with practice they are the most enjoyable. I feel that for me to foster good "Mental Fitness" I must do these practice on a daily basis some way. I have found that even if the benefit is just to relax my mind, that is ok. I do like the Loving-Kindness practices because it teaches me to love myself, which I find that I don't do all the time. Mediation though seems to be my favorite because really all I do is breath and let my thoughts run. WOW how relaxing, and it really does make you feel a million tons better.

"Meeting Asciepius"

I would first like to mention that my New Year's resolution is to start taking care of Me, Myself,and I because I never have done this before. This class has really made me aware of my life in my eyes and not anyone else. With this meditation practice I found it difficult as always to stay focused on the task at hand with the image. But I think this would be typical with anyone doing it for the first time, because this type of meditation takes lots and lots of practice.

With the saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” this means to me that if you have not mastered the task at hand, you have no business trying to teach and individual how to do something. Now this means what you are trying to teach an individual could be learned to together if needed. I believe that this important in health and wellness because if we are not healthy mentally and physcially how can we help others be that way as well. And in our line of work we need to be able to give all individuals the best possible teachings we can to better their well-beings.

Unit 6 Experience

Well my experience with the Universal Loving-Kindness went really well. I don't believe that I lasted 10 whole mins. but close enough to get the effects. I found that this practice was easy for because I have a mind set to please everyone in the first place. However with that said we all have bad days from here or there and this helped me to realize that I must love all the time to better myself. It is very powerful in helping me to expand my heart alot.

I found that the areas in my life that need the most attention is first and foremost myself. I do not take care of myself as far as my health. I tend to put all before me kids, husband, job, and family. I tend to make them a priority before my health. Now with saying that I find that school is one thing that I am doing for myself and that is great, but if I am not healthy how will I ever be able to do anything with the knowledge that I have gained. I found this exercise really helpful in preparing my mind to become healthy and if I continue to practices it, it will help me to constantly think of myself and my health.

Unit 5 Project

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Unit 5 - Practice 2

Again I found this particular meditation quite difficult. I can tell that it is going to take my mind some training to learn to control my thoughts. However with that said I have learned that if I focus on the breathing methods I tend to do better. I found that reading the reading for this week with the hints and points from Dasher really help such as; using the breath as a focal point - I tend to use the rising and falling of my chest in the breathing cycle. I also found that this week I did my practice right before I went to bed when everything was quite and I was able to relax. I found this went better than trying to do it on my lunch break.

I feel that in my life I have impulses that I have to learn to control. I want to do so much better but I keep slipping back into my same routine. I was told the other day that I have to loose weight or I will have a lot of health problems to come. I need to take these practices to learn how to control my impulses as well. I found that these are difficult but there is nothing easy.