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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?

After practicing for a while, I guess I improved my skills. I would scale myself 9 for being physical well being because I do physical activities five days a week and I don’t have any physical problems like neck pain, back pain or sleeping problems. I love exercise and I am perfectly healthy right now. I would give 9 for spiritual well being because I don’t take stress unless I am very overwhelmed. I do yoga everyday for 15 to 20 minutes to balance my life. I would give 8 for psychological well being and I still need to feel good about myself.

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

Answer: I never had any goal to myself of physical and spiritual well being since I was very satisfied but for psychological, I made progress for sure. I started thinking positive about myself and loving myself more than before.

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

 For psychological well being, I started doing loving kindness exercise and it helped me a lot to focus in my career and personal life.

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 just loved this course. I learned a lot about new meditation and physical exercise. I definitely improved well being. It was not difficult doing physical and spiritual exercise but it was difficult to do psychological exercise. I started doing loving kindness and it was hard in the beginning to focus but it became better. Yes I will advice my family and friends to do this exercise and hope it will help them to improve in their personal life.

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Introduction:

Ø  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 because it helps keep them in top nature. Our bodies, organs and systems are totally separate from our thoughts, emotions, energy field and our spiritual selves. Professionals need to look at how our thoughts can affect our behavior and ultimately our health. They need to understand how our emotions work and how our values and beliefs can directly affect our everyday health. Our body, emotion, mind, energy body and soul together form the whole person.  It is only by dealing with each part of the whole within the whole, that we can have vital and energetic health. Therefore what we feel, what we think, what we eat and drink, even what we day dream about, has a direct effect on our health.

I don’t have any goal to myself of physically well being because I am very satisfied about my health. I do physical activity 5 or 6 days a week. I love doing exercise. It makes me happier and more relaxed. I also feel better about myself when I do exercise regularly; it gives me confidence and improves myself-esteem. Physical activity can help prevent or manage a wide range of health problems and concerns, including stroke, metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes, depression, and certain types of cancer, arthritis and falls. I do Yoga every day for 20 minutes early in the morning because it helps me to improve flexibility, more strength, better concentration on a daily life and healthier breathing. I do Vigorous Intensity Aerobic at least two days a week, Moderate Intensity Aerobic three days a week and Muscle Strengthening two days a week. Fitness should be a part of every person's daily and weekly routine. Fitness goals are important for everyone because it helps maintain a healthy heart and circulatory system. It gives more energy during the day and makes asleep better at night. It also keeps metabolism active and help to maintain bone strength. I am very busy in my life with full time work and full time school but I always make a time to do physical exercise. I wake up 4:30 am in the morning and start my day with exercise. When I am not in mood to do physical exercise or lazy to get up, I usually go for walk at the Lake so it helps me to change my mood and maintain my physical activities. I am also satisfied about my spiritually well being. Spirituality is the practice of love based attitudes which are integrated into an individual’s everyday life. I pray to my “God” every morning before I go to work. I pray for few minutes and it makes me feel so relaxed and energetic. I believe in God and I feel like God is everywhere, in all people, in works at art, in melodious music and in sacred writings.  Those without spiritual lives or fragmented spiritual lives tend to be more fearful, anxious, angry and depressed.  The lack of a spiritual life can lead to illness and disease. I am very healthy and believing God it could be one of reasons. I definitely need to work on my psychologically well being. I am very emotional person. I take everything serious in my life which is good but it’s bad sometimes. I always care about what people think about me and their opinions. I need to love myself more and not to feel down so that’s way I won’t get upset. My goal is to love myself more and think positive. I will also try not to compare myself to others so that's way I won't think negative.

Assessment:

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

  I feel like I am really good in each domain. I would scale myself 9 for being physical well being because I do physical activities five days a week and I don’t have any physical problems like neck pain, back pain or sleeping problems. I love exercise and I am perfectly healthy right now. I would give 8 for spiritual well being because I don’t take stress unless I am very overwhelmed. I do yoga everyday for 15 to 20 minutes to balance my life. I would give 7 for psychological well being because sometimes I get upset with my life and feel so down. I guess because I always try hard so much to achieve everything at the same time which is not good. So I need to be happy more and think positive that everything will be done when comes to right time.

                                                Goal Development

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

   Physically, I have a goal is to work out six days a week like jogging, running or walking and work on weight lifting at least three days a week. I am also not good with my eating habits so I need to start eating proper food like three meals a day on proper timing. I know food can change our mood so I am going to work on it.  I will start taking breakfast between 7 am to 9 am – boiled eggs, oatmeal and juice. Take lunch between 12 pm-2 pm – salad and soup. Take dinner between 6 pm-8 pm- veggie sandwich or wheat pasta with boiled vegetables. Spiritually, I need to start believe in others and look for their positive qualities. Psychologically, I need to start loving myself and take less stress with school, work and personal life.

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. Two ways that I can improve my physical wellnesses is by doing regular exercise and eat healthy foods. I am going to consume 1500 to 2000 calories a day. I am also going to do Physical exercise for an hour or two for five days a week to maintain healthy body. Exercises like moderate-intensity aerobic like jogging and running, muscle strengthening like push-ups and weight lifting since I don’t have any health problems. Two ways that I can foster my psychologically health are by practicing loving kindness meditations and yoga exercises. Loving kindness exercises can help you to control your mind. Few months ago, I tried first time and it was very hard for me to focus because I hat lot of thoughts in my mind. My goal is to do loving kindness exercise every day before I start my day.  For me, Practicing loving kindness does not mean feeling love at the exclusion of any other emotions. Rather, it means calling upon loving kindness to enrobe all or the emotions inhabiting us in the present moment. Our emotions are shaped by our thoughts. If we retrain ourselves to substitute lovingly kind thoughts for our usual messages of self-hatred, over time, it is to be expected that our overall well-being will increase. Yoga helps a lot to relief your stress and improves your flexibility. I do all different kinds of yoga like hath yoga, intermediate yoga, and beach yoga. I never tried Bikram yoga so my goal is start doing Bikram yoga. My goal is do yoga every day for thirty minutes. Two ways that I can foster my spiritually are by believing in others for their good qualities and in me for being a beautiful human being.

Commitment:

Ø  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?

 If we want to feel truly alive and open to life’s opportunities we need to look carefully at our physical, psychological and spiritual health.  We need to identify our shortcomings and make those changes we need so that we are truly vibrating at the highest level and enjoying life to the fullest. After a few months of practicing all these levels of progress, I am very confident that I will be able to experience a balance between my mind, body and spirit. Once I am succeeding, I will make sure that I do regular exercise like running, meditation, yoga and stay healthy.  

References:

Ø  Dacher, E. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Basic Health Publications Laguna Beach, CA

Ø  Schlitz, M.(2005): Consciousness & Healing: Integral approaches to Mind-Body Medicine. St.Louis, Mo.: Elsevier Inc.