UNit 10 Blog Reviewing the Benefits to a Happier Wellbeing

Hello, Everyone!

It has been great working with all of you this term! I look forward to maybe seeing you in some of our future classes virtually!

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 at unit three of my personal assessment of psychological, physical, and spiritual wellbeing I think that I have gained a lot since that unit. During that unit I scored myself a five because I had not all the right essentials, since then I consider me to be an eight, would say better but I think that with all the chaos I still find that I am in need of a strategy in timing of day vs. what I am going to follow. I keep mixing them up and moving it around. Essentially I am getting the proper exercise, and dieting, and have added yoga and breathing exercises I still feel like something is missing.

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

Reviewing my goals that I have met in each area still set. I have made progress, but there are times I get off track, but I keep reminding myself how much better I feel and seem to be that it is really important for me to follow. I have changed my ways of getting around close to home to walk rather than drive good exercise and saves gas like going to the library, light grocery shopping, or going to the post office. I drive to the Y about three times a week times vary at times, and I try different things to see what works for me best.

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

I would like to say I have implemented the activities that I chose in physical, psychological, and spiritually. It is the essential three that makes one to be whole in the process of accepting to the integral way, I would take this course again for all the wonderful things I have learned in the exercises and other things we forget to keep in mind on how our bodies really need both mentally and physically.

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 think this course has retrained the way I think, eat, and exercise. It has been rewarding by seeing the results and the others in my family for instance think I have reshaped my way of thinking and the way I perceived things. I think the most difficult is getting the drive initially, but once I knew that it would benefit my family and I , I knew that there was no turning back from a happier new me and family in a better wellbeing.

Unit 9 Project Post to a Better and Positive Way of Living

Unit 9 Project: Personal Application of the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing

Anna Lopes

Kaplan University

Professor Mark Maule

HW420-01:   Creating Wellness-Psych. & Spirit

July 17, 2012

I.                   Introduction:

            It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically so that they can implement and foster integral health in their lives in order to introduce it to others and for them to believe that the integral way is the way to live in prosperity. I think that I need to develop a better way of finding consistency through my plans and goals of living the integral way. I foster it now, but there is still so much going on that I have easily put it to the side in handling other things or situations when I should apply the integral way in my living properly.

II.                Assessment:

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

            I have assessed it with myself and my family doctor. I have taken the time to evaluate the areas that need change to being complete in the integral way of living. I think that I have high levels with spirituality of life and what it brings. I am a positive, outgoing, and I stick with the goals that I set for myself to achieve. My physical wellbeing is good, but not its best when it comes to weight for my height, but I am working each day on a proper diet and exercise to work on that each and every day the best that I can.

Psychologically I think I am on the right tract, I have suffered some losses this year, and have accepted them. Just like everything happens for a reason, I have come to the thought that maybe I lost everything because I idolized what I had too much to appreciate what life really has to bring for us. I am not missing anything. This has been a great learning process for me.

III. Goal development:

My physical goal is to have a time set, a regimen in workout, and a more strict diet that I can follow better. I find there is something we can all do better to improve it just takes initiating. My psychological perspective is to be positive not negative, know I can achieve anything I put my mind to. That god has given me a gift to help myself and others, and that I can make a difference. I think that it is the most important to think only positively and move forward with life, understand that god has given us all a gift of being here. My spirituality seems pretty close in sync with my psychological views, I am a Christian, I have learned that we are not here to suffer, but to learn from things, and that is what gives me the strength and I want to share that with everyone.

IV. Practices for personal health:

            Well I am a stronger believe that we must lead by example, and to foster an integral way of living, and others will want to do the same. I think that we must care for ourselves physically because our health is important. I will have to not only eat and be healthy, but to be in the right mind both psychologically and spiritually.

V. Commitment:

            I think my best way forth to commitment will be to set goals, write them down, and look to them each day. I plan to stick to my nutrition and exercise and up it in time each week to improve a better lifestyle as well. I will have set time each evening or early morning as I have to follow the mental imagery and breathing techniques to relieve and refresh my both physical and psychological wellbeing. My long term goals are to endure in my learning as this term has been the most uplifting in learning to be complete with one self.

Unit 8 Optimal Wellbeing, Helath, and Thriving

If I had to pick two Meditation Practices I would choose1) Loving kindness: because it allows me to be open minded, accepting all creations on this earth. It is completely relaxing to me, I like that it is repoetitive in notion, and one can remember more easily. I also before this term have became fond of Buddhism, and if you remember Loving Kindness is a Buddhist tradition and has been a method known to be compassionate. I have a tendancy to be compassionate with many individuals, and regardless of the situations I have been having to deal I have fresh faces that I help regularly to get my fix of accepting those in need, and I am able to give back to the community. I am sorry I am posting this units Blog so late, believe it or not I had to admit a friends father into the hospital, and thought he does not like hospitals and has not been in one for thirty years, he trusted me enough if I stayed by his side, this was not planned and therefore I will take a hit on grade for this, but it really does make me happy to hear others say how much I make them feel happier or comforted when they need it the most. I have been given so much in life to learn, to forgive, and now return to others. 2) Visualization: I pick this meditation for it's Visualization, I like to see things that I learn more so than reading or hearing, I am a visual learner so using an image is very useful to me, it also helps me focus more on what may come to mind at the moment of beginning such meditation state.It is much more guided in it meditation process, and of course I am more of a dry sense of humor person or serious, but focused, and some times this particular meditation seeks out m ore of my inner thoughts that I would like to trnslate for opther to understand, to accept, and aloow good things to come to mind as they do for me in visualization meditation.

Unit 7 Meeting Aesclepius mp3

Hello Everyone!
How is everyone this unit? Well I hope every one is well, especially that we are almost to completion of this term! I did follow the Meeting with Aesclepius Mp3, it was good, and though I have shared that my other half is absent till he gets the help or himself back in track of what needs to be done, I still focused on him , as he has been my rock through many of the changes and experinces in my life. I focused on him because I have an un conditional love for him and my children. The colors and sounds were relaxing and worked well in the sense of coming to sensation, feelings that worked out in a spiritual and relaxed set of mind frame. I am always seeing good in everything, it is the only way I can move on. This class has been a great inpiration of mind for these exercises, as it created better understanding with our mental state, to relieve stress, and to really learn to exercise, learn meditation, and it has been an asset that I hope to continue for a life long process. It is difficult starting by initiating these exercises, more or less have quality time to sit and focus with all the distraction, but it is the same as making time for ourselves, and our goals to achieve and experience all that we can put our selves to do!
The saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" is simply the way of saying practice what you preech! NO one will take you serious if you dont lead by example.
The meditation to this weeks was great as it allows us to visualise, and althought I chose my Tony to be this wise one, it is what i saw, but there wer others I took a look into as a wise individual like my sister. There were the radiant colors before me in my visual thought during meditation as guided. It allowed me to find loving-kindness no matter what the situation was whether it was a heated situation to just a stressful moment that I had experienced. It really brought me to a better place.
I will continue these practices of meditation along with yoga from here on out, it has really enlightened my load, and allow me to see a more clearer thought. This particular meditation exercise and also the others we have practiced will really apply when assisting the healthcare field. This is something that I can reflect and share my experience by having done it as well. It is not a good thing to recommend something one has not fullfilled to follow in their own regimen, so it really makes a difference to follow a way you believe to instill it upon others as good measure.

Unit 6: Exercises for Mind-Body-Spirit Wellness and Healing

Taking the time of to do the exercise of Loving - Kindness, is a great exercise, even practicing with someone you, love, and a way I find to embrace all of those that surround us. For many reasons I am always into finding a new way of giving, I don't mean by giving gifts, but to really an open minded person to listen. I really like that I can help those in our community. I know I have mentioned that I have seperated with my other half, but it was for a good thing. I really felt that he needed to see what he was doing for himself and see how much energy I put in to our family. I know that I am doing good could do better, been a little off with the exercise this week, but mentally I am right there saying to myself in my head in which for many of things much like exercise I just need to go for a walk, take in some of the world that surrounds me. There really is a lot out there for all of us, its all anout having faith much like our psychospiritual self to expand our horizon's. We need to be happy for ourselves, to raise our children, and to assist our future in the lives we want to touch to making a difference....This exercise brought the kind and sweet efforts that I want to share, give, and rub off onto others.It is also very calming, and can release any distress one might carry.

Mind-Body and Loving-Kindness Unit 5 Blog

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I have for the past week, twice a day, followed both the Loving-Kindness, and Mind-Body exercises. I found that both of them are lifting in many ways especially spiritually. I have been able to keep consistent on the basis with others, some that I have had troubles with in my relationship, to get me through this last week as we are separated right now due to some troubles my other half has. I think that this exercise has assisted me in helping myself along with the coarse in general. As our unit 5 started though had a real awakening for me and some of the emotions and reactions I have come to realize. So I have been trying to stay constructive, following the classes exercise, and find it working. It does take being consistent and the fact that you have to want it for yourself or your not giving your all and without giving your all it just won't be as accurate as your looking for it to be. I have also been reading some materials both online and at my local library to better learn some of many ways to connect with our mind, body, and soul. I think that every one has a way of picking and choosing what they like and there are many things out there for all of us to find and experience.

Unit 4 Mind-Body-Spirit Paradigm

 The Mind-Body-Spirit Paradigm

Experiencing the ocean background was soothing, the voice was a little unsettling in the sense of having the ability to relax, but I was able to make connection, understand, and practice during this guide. If it weren’t for the sound of water it would have been very difficult to follow. My understanding was that in our findings in our selves we are to share this loving kindness to those we are not familiar with, and I was able to connect that with my weekly volunteering at the food bank a way for me to give back to the community in which I have received much help in resources. I believe that it is affective to treat others as you want to be treated, if we follow a way of life that makes us whole considering it is happiness, loving, and unity that brings us together will implement others to want the same, see that there are alternatives, but if we can’t give others the visual in which we also practice it wouldn’t be so productive. This course and this lesson were right on in concept of following the integral way of living. Let there be no limit to what you can do, allow room for improvement, and live by example by daily repetition. I think I have come a long way; I have been inspired to never say never, do all that I can, set an example for others to lead, and to help all those that just need the right guidance or inspiration to gain for their own beliefs and overcoming’s.