Unit 10 Final Blog. My Thoughts:

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? Looking back on my responses in Unit 3, I scored myself an overall score of about 8. Physical wellbeing received a score of 10.Psychologica wellbeing; I scored myself as “9”. Now, I am experiencing a personal crisis and the midst of this, I have to continue doing classwork; and remind myself that these three areas are important in my life. I notice that my spiritual wellbeing was a 10 at the time Unit 3 was completed and it’s now a “10”. I am depending on my spiritual wellbeing to get me through this personal crisis.

2.        Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain. I have made progress towards all areas. Again, in the area of spiritual wellbeing, I made the most progress. I have more peace inside me when I encounter issues.  My Physical wellbeing temporary slipped, due to my personal crisis. But, I decided to get back in the swing of things. I have had to start from scratch again, walking slowly and stretching. Opposed to my usual walking/run and weight lifting routine. But I feel better now that I have started eating better again. My Psychological wellbeing has diminished a bit. In Unit 3 I scored myself as a “9”. Now, in Unit 10, because I have experienced a loss, I score myself at 6. I am more cautious and weary. I am careful of my feelings. Sometimes they’re under control, other times, they are erratic. Trying to keep my thoughts positive seems to be a challenge. Because of this, I look more to my spiritual wellbeing for help.

3.        Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain. I have implemented the activities I set before for my wellbeing, with some adjustments. I still spend time getting closer to God in my spiritual life. This gives me balance.  Physically I am making more progress. Psychologically I have decided to speak to a Christian counselor. I have also expressed, I would attend some seminar to help me in the areas of spiritual or in

 

the mind. I have completed one seminar about keeping my mind stronger.

4.        Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. Have you developed improved well-being? In this course I had the chance to actually look at my feelings, thoughts and actions. I was able to see where I stood in terms of health in every area of my life. I learned that I have several areas to fix and improve. I found out that I am better in some areas that I would not have thought I would be.  What has been rewarding? What has been rewarding was learning relaxation techniques to help me stay calm and see things in a better perspective.  I can use what I have learned in this class in my daily life. What has been difficult? Difficult was learning to be calm to center myself enough to relax. Even though I knew I had to relax, it's just something I am not used to doing. How will this experience improve your ability to assist others? Now, I can assist others, because I can understand the turmoil some people must go through. I’ll be better able to look at what they are saying and help them, instead of just hearing what they’re saying, I will be able to focus and give some solutions.

Gail Pinkard-Rudolph

HW240-02 Project Unit 9

Aug, 03 2013

I.               Introduction :

IT is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically to be able to help a person heal in all areas.  They should be psychologically developed so they can enrich other people’s lives with understanding positive ideals in life. They should be spiritually developed to help some people realize they can heal and they can rely on a higher power, or simply other help then they can provide. A professional should also be spiritually developed for times when people they help, reach a time in their lives when they may eventually die. They should be physically developed, not in the sense of being a fitness guru, but in a way they are able to motivate someone else to become physically fit. Also, they will need the stamina to be able; to handle the issues of another person. A body that’s exercise will be able to withstand more than the body that’s not prepared. Physically fit people have little stress.

 

The areas I need to develop to complete my goals are exercise. I work out, but I have a reoccurring injury, that’s becoming persistent and wants to limit my activity. I still attempt to so more, so I do not become complacent and give in to injuries. Without much exercise I experience more stress.

I am always working to develop myself more spiritually. I believe God exists. Other people have their idea of who god is and what. In order to be certain I feel you should have a relationship with God, to do that, I must develop more spiritually. When I am seeking to be better spiritually, I experience stress, no worries and am able to feel for people more.

 

II.                  Assessment:

Assessing myself in these domains I find that I can certainly improve in several areas. I also realized that I was stronger in some areas; I thought I had no knowledge of. I am able to understand spiritual concerns some people may have and at times I find I am able to help them with solutions. I find that the areas in terms of letting people find out for themselves the results in issues, I seem to want to offer more help than they are ready to accept at that time. I score myself out of a 10, around a 5. I can do better.

 

III.                Goal development:

Well, Physically I want to be at a lower weight. Not because I want to be super skinny, but because I feel better when I do not carry so much weight. My body is less sore and less weak. Psychologically I have a goal of having a more appositive attitude toward things in life. I start off having the right attitude and then something or someone make me mad and then there goes my positive ness. If I can learn to maintain that good disposition, even though I am upset, I can improve more. Spiritually I would say the same things as I said above in Numeral II. I would like to become closer and deeper in a spiritual walk, where I don’t rely on just this life to sustain me, but my spiritual life in God.

 

 

IV.                Practices for personal health:

To foster growth physically I have created for myself a workout schedule to gradually get myself back up to a level that I can be satisfied with. My schedule starts with a walk around the neighborhood for about 10 minutes, and then I do some different types of exercise on the weight machine in the garage. Psychologically, I have said I will start to attending some seminars given about the mind and maybe developing a better mental health. The hospital near me, gives seminars at times. Maybe, I can gain more insight from these and get more understanding. Spiritually, there are seminars that are given by people at church. There are some I am interested in attending about the connection between dreams. I believe we get messages from God in our dreams, which can help us develop spiritually.

 

V.                  Commitment:

Assessing progress in the six months can be seen by how people say I help them. They will either be pleased or unhappy. I think other people are better judges of other progress. I will be watching my attitudes in things to see how much I have progressed. Hopefully, I will impress myself, by learning to add spiritual issues, physical exercise to the world’s view of how I should help people. In six months I hope to have a better grasp of everything in this book we have read in this class.