Initial post

1. 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?


The scores in unit 3 were spiritual was a 7, my psychological was a 7 and my physical was a 3. In unit 9 my scores are spiritual is an 8, psychological is a 6, and my physical is a 5. The scores have changed a little bit but not much. I find it strange that my psychological aspect has gone down 1. My physical has gone up 2 and I haven't starting working out yet. That is strange. Maybe at the time I was feeling stronger mentally when I did my scores for unit 9.


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


I have made progress in doing the mind exercises but I haven't done anything else different.


3. Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.


I only have implemented the relaxation exercises and meditation practices.


4. 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 have enjoyed this course so much! I have learned a lot about health and wellness and all that is involved. I have started improving my well-being. I haven't started working on my physical at all but now that I am done with my degree I will have more time to focus on myself. I have learned some new aspects to healing that will help me with my fibromyalgia. The only thing I found difficult were some of the relaxation exercises and meditation practices. I need to work more on calming my mind. This experience will help me to show others a different approach to healing. That in order to heal your body you have to focus on the mind, body, and spirit as a whole.

Unit 9 Final Project

                                                                  Unit 9 Project

I.                   The reason it is important for health and wellness professionals to develop

psychologically, spiritually, and physically is to be able to incorporate into their own

lives what they tell their patients. This gives the health and wellness professional the

inner aspects of health and life (Dacher, 2006). By experiencing these practices in

their own life they are able to know firsthand and share it with their patients. As the

saying goes “practice what you preach.”

I need to develop my psychological and physical areas. For my psychological I need

to work on meditation and training my mind. I need to focus on calming my mind and

controlling my thoughts.  For my physical I need to start working out at least 3 times

a week. I am going to start focusing on these as soon as I get finished with this term. I

will be graduating and have more time.

II.                I have assessed my health in each domain by looking at how much I have grown and

what I can continue to do to achieve integral health. My spiritual domain is the

strongest out of the three. I still have a ways to go on my psychological and physical

aspects. I score my wellness spiritually an 8, my psychological a 6, and my physical a

5.

III.             My goal for the physical aspect is to start working out at least 3 times a week. My

goal for the psychological aspect is to start meditating 3 times a week and when I

need to distress. I also am going to do relaxation exercises regularly. The last goal for

my psychological area is to work on calming my mind and controlling my thoughts.

 My goal for the spiritual aspect is to continue praying all the time.

IV.             The strategies that I plan on implementing for my physical area are:  I want to start

riding a stationary bike and weight lifting. I have a room in my house already set up

for working out. I am going to start working out as soon as I finish this term. The

strategies that I will use for my psychological aspect are the subtle mind exercise and

mind training exercises such as meditation and relaxation. The spiritual strategies that

I already have implemented in my life are prayer and meditation.

V.                Within the next six months I will assess my progress by using the integral assessment

in the Dacher book. I also plan on reading the book over again as needed to assess

how I am doing. I will look at this plan to see if I am keeping up with these goals. The

strategies that I will continue to do to maintain my practices are to do meditation

regularly, relaxation exercises, work on my subtle mind exercise, work out regularly,

assess my progress regularly, and continue to flourish.

                                                    References

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach: Basic Health

Publications, Inc.       

Unit 8 Initial Post

Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) 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.


I have enjoyed all of these exercises and practice sessions. It is hard to pick which ones I like the most. However the two I chose are the loving-kindness and sublte mind exercises. I have been doing these regularly. I am going to continue to do these exercises Monday, Wen., and Friday every week. If I feel like I am having a hard or stressful day I will stop and take a few minutes to do one of these. They help me to relax and destress. I have enjoyed these exercises and will practice them regularly to foster "mental fitness." 

Unit 7

1.Complete the "Meeting Asciepius" exercise on track #4 of the Dacher CD. Describe your meditative practice(s) for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

My meditative practices this week have been relaxing. I can tell the difference in my health when I practice these. I feel like my mind is calmer and I am happier. It will take some time and patience to get good at these. I am going to do these several times a week to achieve integral health.

2. 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?


In order for someone to be able to understand what a person is trying to convey they need to have experienced it for themselves.
This applies to a health and wellness professional because they need to practice the things that they tell their patients to do. For example if they tell a patient they need to stop smoking they need to not smoke as well.
Yes, all healthcare professionals have an obligation to develop their health as much as they possibly can and continue to do so. It is important to set an example for the patients. 
I can implement psychological and spiritual growth in life by continuing to pray and practice mindfulness.