It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically for the need to be balanced in those three areas of their lives. Practitioners should to be able to guide others in the journey, showing them how they accomplished the goal. One way is to display wisdom and knowledge. Professional practitioners should acknowledge that a balanced life is a successful life, and it can work and is working for them very well in regards to health, emotions, and mental attitudes about life in balance, peace and harmony.
I wish to develop the psychological area in my life in more depth as my brain has a hard time getting rid of mental chatter. I will aspire to exercise my brain with mental training: Biofeedback, humor, brain apps, reading, music, creative visualizations, relaxation techniques, games, learning how to calm and still the mind, observe its activities, quiet them, focus on a focus point, and concentrate at will.
My desire and need is to increase the physical area of my life by exploring new areas of physical activities I can partake in. Different methods of exercise, strengthening and flexibility activities, and an array and variety of recreational pursuits, since currently I only bike ride and or walk.
In the spiritual area of my life I yearn to be connected with God as well as myself. I believe I have and okay connection mind, body and soul but would prefer a deeper one. In regards to this I hope to be able to control my emotions with ease and coach myself through difficult situations.
II Assessment:
I personally need to increase my development in all three areas: psychological, spiritual, and physical as I am in need of growth in each area.
My personal self-assessment scoring will be the normal form of educational grading; A,B,C,D,F. The values/meaning of the scores will be as follows:
A is: close to humanly complete/ultimate success as much as humanly possible. Potential is reasonably high, vibrant and working well.
B means: moving closer to goal of strong, healthy, full of energy, forceful, working earnestly, vigorously, toward the ultimate goal.
C indicates mediocre progress of ordinary, moderate quality. The working/moving towards the goal, somewhat struggling.
D means, motivation is barely there and almost gone. Attitude not as positive as, behavior is in need of improvement, not given up, but potential to give up looming.
F is: motivation is almost not there, no flow of activity, defeated attitude, unsuccessful actions. A negative attitude is present in this area of your life.
Since I need more in the psychological/mental/emotional state of my life I give myself a score of C in this area. My assessed score for my physical domain is B. A score for the spiritual area of my life is C.
III. Goal development:
It is my goal and hope to daily and progressively, strive to improve my self-development. In the psychological area, my goals are to become familiar with many different meditation practices, make a list of them, review them, and make some new ones. Another psychological goal would be to investigate and visit a biofeedback clinic and see the machine first-hand with a demonstration; I have briefly experimented with this and it has great potential. An additional goal is to change my negative emotions to positive emotions. I will use music as a mind and emotion practice to calm my spirit.
In the physical area, I am going to start actively trying new exercise activities without pushing my body further than it can go. I might even find something I enjoy more than running. Getting started is the hardest thing and it is a goal to start within the next week. I would also like to continue with simple stretching exercises from my exercise book that my physical therapist has started to make for me. This will help keep all my muscles and joints working in the proper form.
In the Spiritual area, I am going to do yoga as a form of meditation. I also like to go out into my garden and think on things while I do an activity I really enjoy. I have found that this is quite relaxing and I can work on my intense/deathly fear of bees.
IV Practices for personal health:
In the Spiritual area, one strategy I will increase my mental focus on the spiritual foundations I believe, increase reflection time in the same way. I will use positive and creative visualization to focus, breathing to relax, and my own compassion and loving-kindness meditations to go inward for health and healing. I will use this time to set my mind in a mode of deep compassion and a giving attitude.
In the physical arena, I need to focus on variety of exercise activities, stretching, and core strength training will be the new focus. In addition, controlling my intake of food and working on not falling pray to my eating disorder.
In the Psychological area, some examples I will investigate, tweak, and integrate are: Silence and Stillness, Skillful Action, Loving-Kindness, Renunciation, Witnessing Consciousness, and Calm Abiding. I will look into and research and incorporate brain mental training methods and information form psycho numerology into my mental and emotional psychological learning and strategies.
V Commitment:
I will access my progress or lack of progress in the next six months by measuring the stress levels in my new job (or lack of a job). I will look at the date on the calendar marked “Life self-check” and access my progress. The strategies I plan to use in maintaining my long-term practices for health and wellness are: develop a daily routine in the morning to build a foundation and keep building on it. I will strengthen the inner mind. I will stimulate brain functioning, exercise, Biofeedback, humor, brain books, music, creative visualizations, relaxation techniques, games, etc. Not only will I daily work out muscles, I will work out my brain muscle as well, reading, writing, and contemplating.
Great job on your report. Your self assessment is so much more organized then mine,lol. I love how you have continued to remain so positive through out the semester with your trials. I have no doubt you will be successful in all you do! Using music and nature are great ways I use to focus and relax. You have listed many ways to relieve stress and many outlets that I am sure will be beneficial for you. Good luck with everything you come across in life! :)
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ReplyDeleteNice job on your project! Time consuming wasn't it?? I do have to agree with you about working on eliminating all that mental chatter floating around in my head. By trying to focus on one thing at a time and tossing out other thoughts that do not belong, hopefully that will help with the problem. I wish you the best of luck with all that you do in life!
Great job on your project. You did a great job assessing yourself honestly and coming up with a plan to help you move towards a healthy mind, body and spirit. You were very realistic with you goals, which will help you move forward and get on the road to a healthier you. I wish youthe best of luck and much success in living a life full of health and happiness!
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a great plan for reaching your goals of finding inner peace within yourself. It can be hard to assess yourself honestly because we see ourselves differently than others see us. You did a great job with this. I think your goals are reaslistic and attainable. Make sure that you set aside some quiet time for yourself each day or even each week if that is all that time allows you to do. This will help you to eliminate the mental chatter and focus on your breathing and calm-abiding nature. I love to do this outdoors and enjoy the calmness and serenity of nautre at the same time. When that mental chatter re-appears, just let it go and re-focus back on the sights, sounds, and even smells of nature. Best of luck to you. I enjoyed reading your paper.
Hey Nicole,
ReplyDeleteGreat work, I like how you ausing the assessment tool A,B,C,D,F. I did not think to use a grading scale for personal assessment. Your goals are reasonable and are ones that many can relate to. I love the honesty in your post. Great job
Having the ability to learn and continue the process is a major accomplishment. Staying on the path that we choose can be tough but we have the tools to succede and with family and friends to help if we need it. Being able to realize that it takes a villiage to raise a child the same hold true for us if we need the viliage they will come and help we just need to ask. Good luck in your future you will suceede. :)
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