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 have assessed my personal assessment of my psychological, physical and spiritual well being and in the psychological area and I had rated myself about a 6.5 and I feel that I am now on the upper end of the 7. My physical rating was at a 10 and I feel that I am still at a 10 as I have been accomplishing my goals day by day with my training. My spiritual wellbeing I had rated myself a 7 and I feel that I am still holding strong at a 7 and maybe sometimes a 7.5. I really feel that the only score that has really changed is my psychological wellbeing and it has change for the better, I am able to calm myself, maintain peace and relieve myself of worry. The other two scores haven’t changed, my training is consistent and as far as my spiritual wellbeing, I have made the steps to get back to church, but still not as much as I would like to, therefore I don’t feel that it has enough merit to be changed at this time.
Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.
I have met my goals psychologically, as I truly feel like a better person on the inside and out, I feel that I am more of a solid foundation, and I was solid before, so that is a great feeling for me. I have an overwhelming urge to remain peaceful and it is a wonderful feeling not to allow turmoil in your life. My physical goals, I am maintaining on a daily and weekly basis, and as of now I am still on track for my next scheduled show, so I am excited about that as well. Spiritually I feel as though in this area I haven’t maintained or hit the goals that I wanted, I really wanted to become an active participant in church, and I am just not at that level, however I am going more often, so baby steps it is.
Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.
I feel that both physically and psychologically I have implemented that activities that I chose very well, physically, through my training transformation, I had to take stock in myself and really see where I was going, I ended up switching trainers as well as competition divisions but I am still on pace for my competition goals. Psychologically, I have gained more personal growth from the activities that I chose that I ever thought I would, I really honed in on the meditation and I fell in love with it, it is something that I recommend to people who talk to me that are stress out and it is something that I practice every day as well. Spiritually, I have fallen short of the mark for my activities, like I mentioned before I really wanted to be more active in church and I am barley maintaining a presents at the church but I am taking it one Sunday at a time.
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?
Let me just start by saying that my personal experience in this course is one of bitter sweet memories that is for sure. While I was losing my dad day by day in the hospital, I was trying to also learn about meditation, and how to help yourself to overcome obstacles. It was a brutal lesson and one that I didn’t want to learn. I didn’t want to care about how to make yourself feel better while I held my dad’s hand every day praying to God he would get better. I found however as the days and the weeks went buy that the more I meditated the more at peace I felt, and the more at peace I felt the better decisions I was making about my dad’s arrangements and then life in general. I found that I have a very strong sense of peace in my heart and in my decisions and that came from meditation, through learning how to channel out the bad and bring in the good. That has been so rewarding as well as difficult for me. I use this experience every day to help others, whether it be to make them realize how important health, healing and happiness is, or whether it is to just help them bring peace to their heart. I have always believed that you are the best you when your insides match your outsides. This class has taught me how to maintain that on a daily basis in all circumstances, through the jitters of a new class down to saying my final goodbye’s to my dad.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
unit 9 project
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?
Being well rounded is a great place to start both personally and professionally, I believe that if you balanced in the areas of your spirituality and your mental and physical state you can only go up from there. When you feel good you help others feel good also, which is a great place for any wellness professional to start. I feel that in order to achieve the goals that I have set before me I need to become more proficient in all areas, mentally when the day is draining and someone needs help, or advise or just an ear, I need to be able to mentally pick myself up and participate. Spiritually because even though I have a faithful life I can always be a better example. Physically, without a healthy physical being you will wither and waste away. In the world of competitive figure, fitness and bodybuilding you need to have a tip top physically perfect body, and as a human being we all make mistakes along the way, and I need to become stronger mental, physically, and spiritually to accomplish my goals.
Assessment: How have you assessed your health in each domain? How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically?
I feel as though my wellness in the spiritual area has grown, it can still use some work, I am truly a faithful person and I shy away from religion, I have a strong walk with Jesus, but it can be so much more than it is, I feel that as a lover of Jesus I would still have to rate myself at about 50%. I know there is more to be expected of me, and I should be more of an example, scholar and student of the Lord.
My physical wellness is defiantly my strong suit, I am a competitor and as you know to be a competitor your body has to be working at its optimal peak. I make sure that I am working on all cylinders and I do my due diligence to make sure of that as well. I would have to say my assessment for my physical wellness in at about 80%.
Psychologically, well thank goodness this is my opinion, psychologically I feel that I rank in the top 10%, I am a pretty sturdy, solid person and I really feel that with a solid foundation in this area I can accomplish anything.
Goal development:
List at least one goal you have for yourself in each area, Physical, Psychological (mental health) and Spiritual.
I love goals they give you so much to look forward too, we will start with the easiest one here, physically my goal is to compete this summer, this I a goal that I have to work towards on a daily basis and as the days go by I get more and more excited, and as the physical changes take place I really get amped up. My actual contest date is August 7th, so if the good Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise, I will be a nationally qualified competitor going into next year.
A goal that I have for myself spiritually is to physically get back into the church building on Sunday mornings. I love the Lord and would love to be a larger participant in my church life here in Colorado.
As for my psychological goal, I would have to say, any and everything can be manipulated through your mind. If you put your mind to something you can conquer the world. Therefore my psychological goal is to become an expert in mood and thought manipulation, I will learn to acknowledge and accept situations and know that I don’t need to participate or feed into the situation unless I feel it is a health situation to begin with.
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 easiest thing to do for my spiritual goal, is to show up, they say that 90% of being successful is just showing up. I need to make it a point to pick a time, and a commitment to which service I want to go to, and just simply show up.
As for my physical goals, boy if the first sentence doesn’t hold true here also, staying motivated at times is extremely hard and I have failed at it at times, this is the one place in my life I am trying to accept the saying, “persistence not perfection”. I need to stick to my schedule that I have laid out for training and cardio 6 days a week as well as my diet plan that is what is going to make me successful in this area.
My psychological goal, that is a work in progress on a daily basis, it is a matter of daily reminders to myself as to what type of person I want to be, mediocre or successful, it is the difference between my daily meditation and accepting ciaos around me. It is about focus and drive with my psyche that is what it is going to take to make dreams come true.
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?
In the next six months I should have a real good idea of where I am at physically, as if I am on track I will have done a competitive show by then, I think taking this physical challenge day by day and week by week, I will not allow myself to fail at this, I want it to badly. I think my progress with weight loss, and leaning out will be a great judge for me to measure my success by.
Spiritually I can monitor my success by counting the Sundays that go by week by week, and make sure that I am in attendance of 90% of them, to be successful in this area it is nothing more than simple math. I know that it takes 28 days to form a habit and that is how I plan to monitor my success spiritually, as well as listening to my heart, if my insides match my outsides then I am on the right track and I hold no internal turmoil.
Psychologically, boy now that is a chore, I feel that in order to monitor my success long term here, I will really need to focus on my emotions and meditation. I have found that having meditation in my corner has helped me overcome devastating circumstances, when I lost my dad; meditation is what kept me from going into depression. I value this practice and I will continue to use and utilize this process by whatever means necessary to keep it in my daily realm.
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Being well rounded is a great place to start both personally and professionally, I believe that if you balanced in the areas of your spirituality and your mental and physical state you can only go up from there. When you feel good you help others feel good also, which is a great place for any wellness professional to start. I feel that in order to achieve the goals that I have set before me I need to become more proficient in all areas, mentally when the day is draining and someone needs help, or advise or just an ear, I need to be able to mentally pick myself up and participate. Spiritually because even though I have a faithful life I can always be a better example. Physically, without a healthy physical being you will wither and waste away. In the world of competitive figure, fitness and bodybuilding you need to have a tip top physically perfect body, and as a human being we all make mistakes along the way, and I need to become stronger mental, physically, and spiritually to accomplish my goals.
Assessment: How have you assessed your health in each domain? How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically?
I feel as though my wellness in the spiritual area has grown, it can still use some work, I am truly a faithful person and I shy away from religion, I have a strong walk with Jesus, but it can be so much more than it is, I feel that as a lover of Jesus I would still have to rate myself at about 50%. I know there is more to be expected of me, and I should be more of an example, scholar and student of the Lord.
My physical wellness is defiantly my strong suit, I am a competitor and as you know to be a competitor your body has to be working at its optimal peak. I make sure that I am working on all cylinders and I do my due diligence to make sure of that as well. I would have to say my assessment for my physical wellness in at about 80%.
Psychologically, well thank goodness this is my opinion, psychologically I feel that I rank in the top 10%, I am a pretty sturdy, solid person and I really feel that with a solid foundation in this area I can accomplish anything.
Goal development:
List at least one goal you have for yourself in each area, Physical, Psychological (mental health) and Spiritual.
I love goals they give you so much to look forward too, we will start with the easiest one here, physically my goal is to compete this summer, this I a goal that I have to work towards on a daily basis and as the days go by I get more and more excited, and as the physical changes take place I really get amped up. My actual contest date is August 7th, so if the good Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise, I will be a nationally qualified competitor going into next year.
A goal that I have for myself spiritually is to physically get back into the church building on Sunday mornings. I love the Lord and would love to be a larger participant in my church life here in Colorado.
As for my psychological goal, I would have to say, any and everything can be manipulated through your mind. If you put your mind to something you can conquer the world. Therefore my psychological goal is to become an expert in mood and thought manipulation, I will learn to acknowledge and accept situations and know that I don’t need to participate or feed into the situation unless I feel it is a health situation to begin with.
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 easiest thing to do for my spiritual goal, is to show up, they say that 90% of being successful is just showing up. I need to make it a point to pick a time, and a commitment to which service I want to go to, and just simply show up.
As for my physical goals, boy if the first sentence doesn’t hold true here also, staying motivated at times is extremely hard and I have failed at it at times, this is the one place in my life I am trying to accept the saying, “persistence not perfection”. I need to stick to my schedule that I have laid out for training and cardio 6 days a week as well as my diet plan that is what is going to make me successful in this area.
My psychological goal, that is a work in progress on a daily basis, it is a matter of daily reminders to myself as to what type of person I want to be, mediocre or successful, it is the difference between my daily meditation and accepting ciaos around me. It is about focus and drive with my psyche that is what it is going to take to make dreams come true.
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?
In the next six months I should have a real good idea of where I am at physically, as if I am on track I will have done a competitive show by then, I think taking this physical challenge day by day and week by week, I will not allow myself to fail at this, I want it to badly. I think my progress with weight loss, and leaning out will be a great judge for me to measure my success by.
Spiritually I can monitor my success by counting the Sundays that go by week by week, and make sure that I am in attendance of 90% of them, to be successful in this area it is nothing more than simple math. I know that it takes 28 days to form a habit and that is how I plan to monitor my success spiritually, as well as listening to my heart, if my insides match my outsides then I am on the right track and I hold no internal turmoil.
Psychologically, boy now that is a chore, I feel that in order to monitor my success long term here, I will really need to focus on my emotions and meditation. I have found that having meditation in my corner has helped me overcome devastating circumstances, when I lost my dad; meditation is what kept me from going into depression. I value this practice and I will continue to use and utilize this process by whatever means necessary to keep it in my daily realm.
http://health-healing-happiness.blogspot.com
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
unit 8 "mental fitness"
These are the two practices that I found to help me foster my “mental fitness”
Visualization is a fun exercise for me, if I am in the right frame of mind, I am all of the sudden visualizing myself in Ireland or on the beaches of old Mexico. This is an exercise that is worth its weight in gold. This is an exercise that I like to complete when I am on the stair climber at the gym or laying in bed drifting off to sleep, it puts me in a wonderful state of mind.
Meditation, I love meditation, I have found that during the hard times of losing my dad to the stressful times as work and dealing with difficult people that meditation is a saving grace. The meditation practice of breathing in the good and exhaling the bad in my personal opinion is the most amazing technique to settle a nervous stomach, to clear my head and to just slow things down. I implement this practice in my life daily and I have found myself recommending this meditation to other folks as well.
Visualization is a fun exercise for me, if I am in the right frame of mind, I am all of the sudden visualizing myself in Ireland or on the beaches of old Mexico. This is an exercise that is worth its weight in gold. This is an exercise that I like to complete when I am on the stair climber at the gym or laying in bed drifting off to sleep, it puts me in a wonderful state of mind.
Meditation, I love meditation, I have found that during the hard times of losing my dad to the stressful times as work and dealing with difficult people that meditation is a saving grace. The meditation practice of breathing in the good and exhaling the bad in my personal opinion is the most amazing technique to settle a nervous stomach, to clear my head and to just slow things down. I implement this practice in my life daily and I have found myself recommending this meditation to other folks as well.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
unit 7--Meeting Asciepius
The description of my meditative practices starts by picturing someone you love and hold with great tenderness, allow feelings to foster in your heart, turn feelings of affection towards yourself, give your feelings space and ease, and be at peace with your body and its sensations. Shift to the thoughts feelings and images that shift in and out, give them space, and ease and loosen the grasp, just observe. Turn your mind specifically to the stillness, peacefulness and gentleness of your natural mind. Love yourself, feel a natural rest, ease and openness. Peaceful breathing patterns can bring a peaceful mind. If you can still the breath you can still the mind, which in turn can make us unified.
I believe that meditation has fostered a great psychological wellbeing for me, it has helped me to clear my mind and calm my insides when things gets a little to much to handle, the breathing, and the focus on your breathing is amazing. Breathe the good in and the bad out, really adjusts my train of thought. I apply this practice on a daily basis in u busy world. I have used this technique when I lost my dad, all the way to using it to deal with an unruly co-worker and my roommate’s 4 year old little girl, so as far as I am concerned these practices can be used everywhere, everyday.
Part 2, One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself, is the ability to see the divine in everyone and treat each individual as though he or she were Christ or Buddha himself can transform the suffering of illness into the grace of healing. This is health and wellness, you cannot help a client unless you believe, practice, live, and use your knowledge on a daily basis. You wouldn’t trust a 1st year medical student to perform heart surgery; you would want a heart surgeon. I absolutely believe you have an obligation to your client, if you are not developing that means you are not learning, if you are not learning then you have nothing to share with your clients. Everyday should be an implementation of psychological and spiritual growth. If can be something simple and as small as saying a prayer at lunch or as vast as learning how to have a positive psychological outlook on things, focusing on the positive and not the negative issues.
I believe that meditation has fostered a great psychological wellbeing for me, it has helped me to clear my mind and calm my insides when things gets a little to much to handle, the breathing, and the focus on your breathing is amazing. Breathe the good in and the bad out, really adjusts my train of thought. I apply this practice on a daily basis in u busy world. I have used this technique when I lost my dad, all the way to using it to deal with an unruly co-worker and my roommate’s 4 year old little girl, so as far as I am concerned these practices can be used everywhere, everyday.
Part 2, One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself, is the ability to see the divine in everyone and treat each individual as though he or she were Christ or Buddha himself can transform the suffering of illness into the grace of healing. This is health and wellness, you cannot help a client unless you believe, practice, live, and use your knowledge on a daily basis. You wouldn’t trust a 1st year medical student to perform heart surgery; you would want a heart surgeon. I absolutely believe you have an obligation to your client, if you are not developing that means you are not learning, if you are not learning then you have nothing to share with your clients. Everyday should be an implementation of psychological and spiritual growth. If can be something simple and as small as saying a prayer at lunch or as vast as learning how to have a positive psychological outlook on things, focusing on the positive and not the negative issues.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
unit 6, universal loving kindness
1. Practice the universal Loving Kindness (meditation) exercise on p. 93.
May all individual gain freedom from suffering
May all individuals find sustained health, happiness, happiness and wholeness
May I assist all individuals in gaining, freedom from suffering
May I assist all individuals in finding health, happiness and wholeness2. Complete the Integral Assessment discussed in chapter 11 (p.115).biological flourishing3. Describe the exercise and assessment process. The process to start the assessment process is to sit in a peaceful quiet area, close your eyes and focus on what area of your life you want to concentrate on most, what is most essential for you at this time. Return to re-center in stillness, once that is accomplished then shifts from a focus on healing to a focus for growth and development. The 2nd aspect of assessment is that you can jot down a few ideas in your journal. Then you can assess where you are at and see if you are taking on too much in your life or not enough.
What did you discover about yourself? I learned that I either have a really big plate or really big shoulders because I have way too much going on.
What area have you chosen to be a focus of growth and development? I chose to focus on the biological flourishing aspect of my life.
Why? Because the thing at this point right now that is straight in front of me that is m goal is to compete this summer, their fore I need to have diet and fitness in the forefront on my mind at all times.What are some specific exercises or activities that you can implement to foster greater wellness in this area? I have every intention of implementing a good clean eating menu as well as eating every 2.5-3 hours. I will also be at the gym 6 days a week focusing on leaning out, high intense cardio and split training as well as circuit training.
May all individual gain freedom from suffering
May all individuals find sustained health, happiness, happiness and wholeness
May I assist all individuals in gaining, freedom from suffering
May I assist all individuals in finding health, happiness and wholeness2. Complete the Integral Assessment discussed in chapter 11 (p.115).biological flourishing3. Describe the exercise and assessment process. The process to start the assessment process is to sit in a peaceful quiet area, close your eyes and focus on what area of your life you want to concentrate on most, what is most essential for you at this time. Return to re-center in stillness, once that is accomplished then shifts from a focus on healing to a focus for growth and development. The 2nd aspect of assessment is that you can jot down a few ideas in your journal. Then you can assess where you are at and see if you are taking on too much in your life or not enough.
What did you discover about yourself? I learned that I either have a really big plate or really big shoulders because I have way too much going on.
What area have you chosen to be a focus of growth and development? I chose to focus on the biological flourishing aspect of my life.
Why? Because the thing at this point right now that is straight in front of me that is m goal is to compete this summer, their fore I need to have diet and fitness in the forefront on my mind at all times.What are some specific exercises or activities that you can implement to foster greater wellness in this area? I have every intention of implementing a good clean eating menu as well as eating every 2.5-3 hours. I will also be at the gym 6 days a week focusing on leaning out, high intense cardio and split training as well as circuit training.
Monday, March 8, 2010
unit 5 mental fitness practice
**approximately 4.05 minutes into my cd it went fuzzy and never returned to an audible sound so my blog is based on 4 minutes.
There are a couple of comparisons between the two exercises, the most obvious is the breathing and to focus, as well as the way we breathe, inhale and exhale. I did feel while listening to this track that the voices on here were a bit more demanding and less relaxing. There were a few references on the cd that follow right allow with the book (Dacher) as far as acknowledging the distractions but not to allow your mind to attach to them. I would have to say my only frustration with this exercise from what I had heard is with the voices being more abrupt, it wasn’t as easy as it should be, personally, to really focus and relax. I have found that since the beginning of this course and listening to different relaxation methods that I am able to calm myself quickly and I am learning to relax on a deeper level, I am able to let my mind wonder and actually use that situation as a type of meditation for me which is nice.
There are a couple of comparisons between the two exercises, the most obvious is the breathing and to focus, as well as the way we breathe, inhale and exhale. I did feel while listening to this track that the voices on here were a bit more demanding and less relaxing. There were a few references on the cd that follow right allow with the book (Dacher) as far as acknowledging the distractions but not to allow your mind to attach to them. I would have to say my only frustration with this exercise from what I had heard is with the voices being more abrupt, it wasn’t as easy as it should be, personally, to really focus and relax. I have found that since the beginning of this course and listening to different relaxation methods that I am able to calm myself quickly and I am learning to relax on a deeper level, I am able to let my mind wonder and actually use that situation as a type of meditation for me which is nice.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
unit 4--loving kindness
boy where to start with this one, ey. I can start by saying i absolutely hated this lady and her "philosophy". ..... " picture a loved one, in need or that is hurt. I know this blog is going to be a hum dinger you see, my dad was put in the hospital on Thursday night, and was on life support within 10 hours, so I have been by his bedside since then, for 10, 12 sometimes 15 hours a day, and to listen to this nit wit say, oh how the world is sooooooooo wonderful and just breath it in, and breath it out, I would love to smack the breath right out of her. So i guess to answer the 1st question on weather or not I found this beneficial, I think it is a general consensus that NO Jaimie did not find this cd beneficial, and NO i wouldn't recommend this to anybody going through any kind of tragedy in their family, however, if somebody has absolutely nothing better to do with their time than yes, listen to this lady. The concept of mental workout, well from what i have gathered at this point the only mental workout i had was trying to make myself listen to this cd, I am sure that the research has indicated that it will help lower stress levels and make all right with the world, I personally don't see how this could possible maintain a level that should qualify for research. I also am sure that the psychological health of people are helped tremendously if they are as previously noted, not going through a tragedy with their loved ones, and have nothing better to do with their time, it is possible that maybe another voice or another exercise would be more beneficial. I think that if a cd wants to walk somebody through breathing exercises while they picture their hurt, or injured loved ones then the producers of that cd better have a degree in psychology instead of just letting the first person that can read a script put a cd together.
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