I rated my physical wellbeing as a 6 and that did stay the same, I still would like to exercise more but I just do not seem to have the time with work and school but I still plan on changing this when I get caught up with what I need to do. Spiritually I rated myself a 7 but now I rate myself a 9 because I have a different way of looking at things, more calmly and understanding because of what I have learned in this class, I wish everyone can have a chance to take this class, they would see the world differently. My psychological wellbeing was rated as a 7 and I raised this to an 8, this is because I do focus more and have more of healthy wellbeing but it is still not a 10 because of my anxiety that still brings me down a little but definitely not as much but this will take time.

Unit 9 Project

Unit 9 Project

It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically because as professionals we need to understand how this feels and how our feelings bring out the best of us spiritually and then physically. I do not think that this is just for health and wellness professionals, but for everyone, developing spiritually, psychologically, and physically is like finding yourself again and living again. The areas that I think that I need to develop more in are to meditate more, to take in living in the moment instead of worrying about something in the past that I cannot change and something in the future that may not happen.

            Psychologically I have an understanding of health wellness and how it helps to focus, having the ability to shut out everything outside of yourself and listen to your body, but I still score myself a five because it does not happen easily for me yet, I get distracted. Spiritually I feel comfortable because once I am focused I can feel the change in my body and spirit, so for this I would score myself a nine because of the time I take to get in this mode. Physically I would give myself a nine because I do practice yoga, which I absolutely enjoy but I do not do it as often as I would like.

            My goal physically is to do my yoga a little bit everyday not just once a week, psychologically my goal would be to meditate more so that I have an easier time focusing, and spiritually I would like to let things go easier and not let things get to me so much, doing this with meditation.

            My strategies would physically do more tai chi and yoga, through Tibetan healing practices, every day so that I feel more relaxed and have an inner peace with my body and soul. Psychologically I would like to, like I just said, meditation through yoga in the form of breathing to reduce stress and stop the “mind chatter”. And spiritually I would integrate the Loving Kindness exercise because love heals and our nervous systems are not self-contained. To do more of these exercises, I need to balance my time off of work and errand I run with my mind, body, and soul exercises. This would mean getting up earlier so that I have time before work and when I get out of work to do my errand so that at the end of the day, I can relax and do my meditation and exercises to release all of the stress that I had throughout the day.

What type of meditation helped me

Hi class! I liked the Loving Kindness Exercise because of the understanding of what others go through and that people should not be too hard on each other, everyone has their ups and their downs. Also Meeting Aesclepius was another one that I liked because it gave me power and hope to reach my future goals with no fear. I can definitely use this through my personal life just to stop and really look at life and the people in it.

Meeting Aesclepius

Hi everyone! During this practice, I pictured my older sister because she is a strong, smart, thoughtful person. I focused on her wisdom being the ray of white light entering me and it seemed as there was an emptiness that was filled with her wisdom, love, and kindness that joined with my own. I felt one with her as if we conjoined bodies, it was a close feeling and a feeling of wholeness. Meditation has fostered an increase in my spiritual wellness because I am able to let different, new feelings in, feelings of love and happiness in different forms, it is a good feeling. I can continue to meditate in the ways that I have learned and looked up different ways of meditation. The saying that "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" means that if a person does not experience something than how would they teach another. This applies to a health and wellness professional because he or she cannot teach a client about meditation and wellness if the professional themselves has not been through it. I do have an obligation to my clients to still develop my health psychologically, physically, and spiritually because as I grow I can teach my clients to grow.

Loving Kindness and Integral Assessment

Hi everyone! I think that I finally got the hang of this! So, when I practiced the Loving Kindness exercise, it made me think of some of the people that give me a hard time and that it is because they themselves are suffering in a way and lashing out on whoever they can. I keep my distance from these people (or at least try to) but it made me think that maybe I should not shove them away, maybe I should try to help them. Everyone has difficulties in their lives, some just deal with it better than others. As for the Integral Assessment exercise, I focused my growth on interpersonal and worldly sources of my difficulty and suffering. I want to focus my growth on these two areas because I do not believe or have confidence in myself a lot of times, which holds me back from doing a lot of things that I would like to do and this then leads to me not being too social because of the lack of confidence. All of this can really cause me problems when looking into furthering my career from my BS. I am practicing the meditation and breathing exercises that I have read from this course so far and also exercising again, to help release that good feeling of being healthy and in control of my body again. It is helping so far, so I am going to continue with these exercises and hopefully learn more exercises to practice in this class.

Loving Kindness and Subtle Mind Exercises

Hi everyone! These two exercises are the same in the relaxation part and connecting your mind with your body, but different in ways of what they have you focus on and how you put your energy into different ways of thinking. The loving kindness exercise made me have a connection with myself and reaching for the connection of a loved one, it made me feel happy and loving inside. The subtle mind exercise made me feel more of a connection with my mind, my body, and my breathing. It was very relaxing, but it took me a little bit to shift my focus to my breathing and then again to not focus too much on my breathing to where I am just one in my mind and body. Spiritual wellness has a big connection to the mental and physical wellness of myself. Mentally relaxing myself by fixating on my breathing helps me to be calm and relieve any stress that may be on my mind or in my body, the key is to just relax and find that point of comfort. This is manifested in my personal life because I seem to be stressed lately with school and work, I have to constantly focus on what I am doing in my classes and at work but practicing these exercises have me focus on myself and how I am feeling. I want to keep my spiritual and mental wellbeing healthy, so this can let me do that so that I can focus on my work life better. Thanks for listening, see everyone in class!

Loving Kindness

Hi class! I am posting a new post and do not know how I did it! I have to get used to this stuff. Anyways, I took the Loving Kindness practice and found it again, very relaxing (which I think is do to the concentration of the deep breathing) and felt happy inside. I imagined the flow of water opening my heart and carrying love to the person that I was thinking about along with carrying the love throughout my body, getting rid of all the bad feelings and understanding why I have these feelings. I pictured the pouring of little hearts, flowing through my body from head to toe, it is a good feeling! Thanks for listening everyone! Hope you had a great experience too! :)