Final Post!

Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas . How did you score yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? How do you score yourself now? Has the score changed? Why or why not?

I gave myself between a 4 and 5 in my physical well-being, and honestly that's still about the same. I have made more of an effort to workout but I am not doing all that I could. I have too much going on in other parts of my life to worry about working out everyday. My spiritual well-being I rated at a 5. I think that is definitely higher now. I feel that I would be about at a 7 now. I  feel more calm generally and I have started to get back into prayer. As for my psychological well-being I gave myself a 5 I would say that is now a 7 also. I have worked through a lot of issues I had with my fathers death last year and I am trying to move forward.

Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.

As for the goals list, I did not complete going to the gym three times a week. I am lucky if I make it there once a week! I did go for a while, however life got in the way. ( I know, I know..excuses! haha) Spiritually I have grown, I have started to talk to God again. I am starting to feel a connection again unlike before. Psychologically, I started a journal however, I did not keep it up! I hope to pick it back up, because it was a good outlet when things get rough!

Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. Have you developed improved well-being? What has been rewarding? What has been difficult? How will this experience improve your ability to assist others?

I really had a struggle with this course at first, I never really thought about all the aspects involved in health besides the obvious which is physical. But this class has opened my eyes to the idea that you really need to treat the whole body and not just the symptoms you have for a cold. If we can blend these worlds together we can help a lot more people than we ever imagined. I think this class has helped me learn compassion, and understanding and patience. Meditation has taught me patience quite a bit! I learned a lot and I really enjoyed this class!

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?

I believe it is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically because we need to look at a persona as whole, not just physical ailments. If we look at everything instead of a small part of a person we will have a better understanding of who they are and how to help. The area’s I need to develop for myself have to be physical, and stress related. I am horrible about going to work out, and I tie myself worth up in it sometimes. I mentally kick myself when I miss working out which causes me to stress over small things.

Assessment:

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

I believe I have tried my best to assess my health in each domain. I have tried to open myself up to all I can in this class and I think I have succeeded for the most part.  I would score myself in spiritually slightly low right now, I am dealing with faith issues, and however I have worked through some of them in this class. Physically, I am working on myself I know I can do better, but I am putting forth an effort even if I miss a few days a week, I do my best to eat healthy and try to maintain my physical being. Psychologically, I am kind of messy, it’s been crazy these past few months, dealing with my mother moving, my father’s death, and pack up my family home.

Goal development:

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

My goal physically for myself if to run a 5K in the fall, I have always wanted to complete a race, and I think I am ready to start to commit to training. Psychologically I want to keep up with meditation, and incorporate that with yoga. I think it would do wonders for calming my mind, and giving me peace. Spiritually, I want to go back to church. I still have faith in God, but I have been angry with him and I have worked some of that in our class. I want to start to go back and have the community also that come with going to church.

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.

Some strategies I can implement to help foster growth physically for me, could be to start using the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. Also another small thing would be to park farther away in parking lots, just to get that extra exercise in. They are small steps but every step adds up in the end.

Psychologically some strategies I can implement might include, cutting out negative energy in my life, by that I mean stop hanging out with people who are only negative or always have drama. Also I can implement it by giving myself positive affirmations daily. Can do this by leaving little notes around the house or on mirrors or even by just telling myself I look nice today or that I am a good person.

Spiritually some strategies I can implement include daily prayer. I use to pray before going to bed every night when I was younger. I think starting that up again can help me open up spiritually. Also going back to church, I think will help the most. It will give me that sense of community and also make me feel close to God. I always had my best ideas when I would go to church it was like God opened up my mind.

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 think the best way to assess my progress or lack of progress in six months would be to keep up with my blogs from this class. Filling it out once a week, and really looking back and what I have and haven’t accomplished is powerful. I know I will keep doing the Loving-Kindness meditation, I really enjoy that one and I have started to research other types of meditation and I am very much enjoying it. I think that will be my strategies to maintain my long-term practices for health and wellness.