Unit 9 Final Project

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 important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically due to I believe in order to treat clients on all levels of healing, one must be able to practice and express what they have experience with.  How can one teach if they have never experienced the aspects of the whole body connection?  I believe I need to develop in both areas of psychologically and spiritually.  I tend to stress and cause myself distraction in my life, which then leads to a spiritual disconnection.  I must learn to lean on my spiritual growths to help with my psychological challenges.

II Assessment:

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

I have assessed my health in each domain as being an eight.  This leaves room for improvement.  What I know is that I am not perfect, even though I tried to make things around me perfect, I must pick my battles.  In addition, I have implemented a physical exercise and prayer into my daily life and this has helped with my health.  I would score my wellness spiritually an eight, physically and eight, and psychologically an eight.

III Goal development:

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

My goal for my physical is to be able to increase my workout to five days a week instead of three.  My goal for my psychological is to mediate and not allow less important things to clutter my mind, allow my mind to become still during parts of the day.  My spiritual goal would be to dedicate more of my time to serving God and do the things he has designed me to do.

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.

The strategies I can implement to foster growth in my physical domain would be to exercise regularly.  To do this I can increase my exercise days from three to five and park the car further from the entrance door and walk.  The strategies I can implement to foster growth in my psychological domain would be to pick my battles and calm my mind.  The ways I can do this is practice breathing and visualization exercises.  The strategies I can implement to foster growth in my spiritual domain would be to allow for change and connection.  The ways I can do this is to allow time from prayer during my day and do the things God has implemented in the bible for those to do to live a more wholly life.

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?

To assess my progress or lack of progress in the next six months would be to look at what I do on a daily basis.  In addition, I will make a goal plan sheet and keep track on the progress or lack of progress that I have made.  I will make sure that my goals are realistic and if they are not allow room for changes in my goals I set out for myself.

Unit 8 Blog Exercise

Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster mental fitness? Provide specific examples.

The two exercise I plan to implement into my personal life to foster mental fitness is loving-kindness and subtle mind.  The way I plan to implement these activities into my personal life is by having respect for others and what each person believes of them self.  How the will power to pray for equal love and peace for all of my brothers and sisters in the entire world in my daily prayers.  Focus more attention away from myself and allow more concerns of the world to become more of my attention.  I can allow myself to clear my mind of the worldly pollution and allow my mind to become still during a process of meditation during 5 minutes in the morning and in the evening.  Pray daily for my higher power to allow peace with-in my entire being and allow my mind to be filled with peace.  

Unit 7 Blog Exercise

Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself� (P.477) How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

When I think of the saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", I can describe that as how can the blind lead the blind.  I think of this statement as I think of one with and with out experience.  One who has experienced a certain situation can educate the next on how to over come the same situation being experienced by a person.  It is like a mother and child.  She will educate her child on what to do and not do from past experiences that she experienced in her life.  This applies to health and wellness profession as if the educator has experienced the affects of stress and integral health, this person can educate others how to over come stress and achieve integral health.  Yes I do have an obligation to my clients to develop my health on all levels.  If any aspect of my health becomes seriously imbalanced I can make mistakes with others financial stability which in turn with under develop their health.  I can implement psychological and spiritual growth in my personal life my praying more and allowing things that I cannot control not take over my mental which then will affect my entire being.  

Unit 6 Blog Exercise

Universal Loving-Kindness

The universal loving-kindness exercise allows one to look outside of themselves as the ones in need, however, to identify those throughout the world whom may be in need.  This exercise allows one to be grateful and thoughtful for what they have and wish for others to experience what they are experiencing or have.  This exercise allows one to clear the mind of negative thoughts and feeling they may have towards others in the environment.

Integral Health Assessment

The assessment process allows one to look at all four aspect of integral health ( psychospiritual, biological, interpersonal, and worldly) and identify which level needs to be further developed to allow the one to complete and develop a high level of integral health.

During both of the exercise I discovered that I am a person that wants universal loving-kindness for all creators and that I already practice this exercise in my daily prayer.  In addition, I discovered that I understand that to have and move to a high level of integral health one must make the connection of all four aspects and develop all six levels associated with integral health.  The area I chose to be of focus of growth and development is worldly flourishing.  The reason is why I have chosen this area is due to that I believe that I need to involve myself into my aspect of the world such as mentoring more, doing more of my missionary duties and becoming more involved with my sons school activities.  The activities I believe that I can do to help me reach and develop a wellness in this area of worldly flourishing, I can visit the sick more in the hospitals and nursing homes, go to the local high schools and encourage the students on how to be productive in life.

Unit 5 Blog Exercise

Mental Meditation

1. Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.

The subtle mind exercise I found to be very much of a useful tool as much as the loving-kindness exercise. Each one allowed the mind to try to mediate and become more focus on what changes are going on between the mind and body.  Where I can say they differ is that the loving-kindness exercise wanted the individual to respect and understand that you must love everyone for yourself to feel loved.  Now with the the subtle mind exercise, the idea was make the individual understand that many changes can happen mentally and physically if one would let their minds be clear, at peace, and still for all  pollutants around the individual.

2. Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

Great question.  When I think of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness, I must first understand why this connection must exist.  I believe that for a person to gave complete wellness, one must be in tune with their inner mental status and try to allow this status to remain clear from negative thoughts and behaviors.  If one can keep the mental clear the spiritual and physical aspects will fall into place.  Now, if one allows their spiritual to suffer then the mental and physical will began to suffer.  It is like a car.  If the engine which is the mind of the car is not working, how can the car move.  All things must work together for complete and healthy function to take place.

Loving-Kindness

Loving-Kindness

I found the exercise to be very relaxing, however it was somewhat of an issue for me to really dedicate my whole being to the exercise.  The reason I say this is that I am not a person that has a difficult time on visualizing a person that I care deeply about, it was just the persons that where coming to mind.  I believe this exercise allows a person to meditate on those who are either missing in a persons life or those who are very active in a persons life.  This exercise can be both positive and negative.  I really think this exercise would be beneficial for an individual who has learned to have that spiritual and mental connection with not only their inner self but those whom they hold close to their heats.  An example would be for two people who really love each other and they have the mental and spiritual bond, they can feel, smell, and breath for that person even if they are not in their environment.  Now, I can say this exercise can be negative for a person who has just lost a loved one.  To make a person visualize a loved one from a recent lost, can cause more stress and uncomfortable feelings during the exercise.holds resentment against another person.

Mental Workout

2. The concept of a mental workout is help an individual stream and clean their minds of unnecessary garbage that may fill their mind on a daily basis.  If your mind can be clear to absorb positive aspects of life the negative ones more than likely will have less of an affect on that person.  During the process of a mental workout one should be able to open their our mind to unexplainable expanded consciousness levels for which in turn will increase the connection of mind, body, emotions, and spirit.

Unit 3 Post

1. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?
 
I rate my physical wellbeing to be an 8 due to I work out everyday for a hour, eat a well balanced diet, and take the stairs instead of the elevator.  However, I do believe for me to raise my ratings I do need to eat less foods on my plate, increase my workout time, and not allow stress to overcome me.  I rate my spiritual well-being to be a 7 due to I feel that I am close to God but not close enough, I need to understand that things happen for a reason no matter if they are negative or positive, due to there is a lesson to be learned from both, and turn things over and not stress about them when I have meet the decision that nothing can be done by myself only God can fix it.  I rate my psychological well-being at an 8 as well.  I have found ways to help my self encourage myself, keep an open mind about why things happen,and pray when I feel mental drained. Even though I have found ways cope with the normal stresses of life, however I have not mastered how to cope with those things that seem way out of my control.

2. Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).


My physical goal would be to lose 13 pounds by May of 2011.  My spiritual goal would be to learn how to let go and let God when things are not of my control.  My psychological goal would be to appreciate the things in my life and be grateful for them.

3. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

The activities that I can implement into my life to assist in reaching my goals would be for physical increasing my workout time everyday and putting smaller portions of food on my plate.  For spiritual would be to step out of myself when things look rough and pray for guidance and understanding on what I am experiencing in my life at that moment.  Finally, for psychological would be to would be to wake up every morning and meditate on what blessings I have for me and my family and thank God for them.

4. Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century.  Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)


While listening to The Crime of the Century, I must say it was very relaxing especially the breathing part.  By breathing deep and slow this allowed me to take my mind off what was running through it all day and concentrate on my physical, psychological and spiritual connections.  I was not pleased with the color changes and trying to imagine bright colors shinning through windows that were suppose to be located on my body.  To me the thought of bright colors is not calming at all.  However, what I did appreciate was the descriptions of what each part of the body stood for and the statements to repeat which gave me the chance to encourage myself and appreciate what God has designed my being for.