I.
Introduction
I
feel that it is important for health and wellness professionals to develop
psychologically, spiritually, and physically because, it is good for their health.
Another reason is that if a professional has developed or mastered these areas
they are able to offer beneficial information to their patients. As we have
said so many times in class a health professional cannot teach about something
that themselves have no experience. Practice what you preach! We are less
likely to listen to a heavy person telling us that we need to lose weight.
Where with someone who is in shape and tells us that we need to lose weight; we
are more likely to listen to them. (I only say might because some people get
crabby when told they need to drop some weight. Bottom line is in all three of
these aspects they are role models to their patients. Health and wellness
professionals need to or should develop in all areas to better help their
patients. I need to further develop in all areas. I have not done much to
further myself in these areas. We move in a week in a half and once we are
settled I plan on making it a major goal to make all of this a priority.
II.
Assessment
I
would still rate myself a 7 for my psychological wellness. I feel that my
mental health is pretty healthy. Sometimes on rare occasion feel that I am
below a 7 but I think that is normal to have a rough day. Scoring myself
spiritually tends to be harder to score. The reason being is because I do pray
but not much, I believe in god, I believe that things happen for a reason.
However going to church and talking with god everyday has never been big in my
life. I feel that I have resentment towards some of my family who used to push
their beliefs on me. They tried to force it on me which has left a negative
effect. When I think of my spiritual health I think more about my psychological
health. (My mental health.) Physically I would have to rate myself with a 3.
Why? I have been eating so badly, I have not been doing any exercise of any
kind. I have been lazy about it, always too tired, or to busy. I don’t make it
important to take care of myself the way I should.
III.
Goal development
What
are my goals? Well spiritually and psychologically is to make time 4 days a
week if not every day to do yoga for at least 15 minutes a day. I feel I really
need this time to refocus myself. I need something like yoga and/or meditation.
It is my plan to use both of these methods. My deadline for this is three
months. Once we get settled in our house I want to make it a point to meditate
three times a week at least and yoga four times a week if not every day. Now
for my physical goal is to do workouts that will help me to get back into
shape. I do not want to be over-weight for the rest of my life. I have lost the
weight before and I know I can do it; I just have to stick to it. I need to
make myself a priority and give myself what I need.
IV.
Practices for Personal Health
What
strategies I can implement is to make doing this important and a priority and
realize I need to do this for myself. For my psychological and spiritual
development the two exercises I need to do is yoga and meditation. I feel these
two things will do wonders for my mental and spiritual health. As I said before
I feel these two go together for me. I plan on using yoga as a way to start off
my day. This will allow my mornings to start refreshed and stretched out. I
want to use the meditation as night. I want this to be what gets me ready for
bed. I feel that meditation will close down the busy roads of my head and allow
me to relax and sleep better and feel better rested. I feel this will help me
to be ready for the next day as well. The best way to implement is to just do
these exercises and realize how much it will help me in the end.
V.
Commitment
I
will track my progress by keeping a log. This log will be what I eat, drink and
exercise. I will also use this log to keep track of what time and how long I do
my yoga exercises and meditation exercises. If after two weeks, 1 month, 3
months and 6 months I will see how my progress is. After each interval period I
will take a look back. If what I am doing is not working I will try to make
changes and see if that works. When I start to see the results I want I am more
inclined to keep up with it, especially when I am finally done with school.
References
Dacher,
E.S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Health. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic
Health Publications, Inc.
Schlitz,
M., Amorok, T., Micozzi, M., S. (2005). Consciousness & Healing:
Integral Approaches to Mind-Body
Medicine. Elsevier, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri.
