unit 10 blog

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?

Physically I rate myself and 7 outside of not being too long getting out of the hospital, but I will tell you all that I do feel great, because not being so lazy no more. Psychological I give myself at least a 7 reason being those meditation exercises really been helping me and I don’t have that problem much as I use to, Because I use to have a lot of mind chatter going on now I know how to relax the mind, because that also need down time as well or that can burn out on you to. Spiritually I give myself a 7 reason being I haven’t totally done what I said I was going to do, but I making room in my life to make this part of my well-being a reality, and every day I tell myself Scottie stick to your plan in this way you can’t go wrong. I feel that all my scores has changed and they have, why because I know myself a little better than I did, and I also feel as though my life change will be better for me and those who are around me on an everyday.

2.      Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).

My goal that I have set for myself physically is to go out walking for at least 20 mins at least 3 days a week.

The goal that I have set for myself spiritually is to give god more of time and to dedicate myself to it and giving myself to him. Because I know what he has done for me throughout my life? God has help bring me through when things wasn’t going the best and when things was going goo it was because of him I even seen those days.

The goal that I have set for myself psychologically is to continue my meditation exercises and might of fact instead of doing my exercises 4 days a week make it my goal to do it every day and sometimes twice a day.

3.      What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

Physically- Motivation, eating healthier, and exercise, most of all have patients. Spiritually to stop thinking about what I think others gone think about me and just do what it is I have to do for my well-being. Psychological- continue meditations exercise subtle minds.

4.      Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. To hear this exercise, click here. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? Etc.)

I feel that everything was good, the frustrating part of it to me is right now I’m at work doing this part of unit 10 and all day long I deal with truck drivers and trucks coming in and out, I couldn’t really get into it like I wanted to, but it wasn’t due to the exercise it was just due to my job.

unit 9 project creating Wellness

Scottie Smith

April 26, 2014

Creating Wellness: unit 9 Project

The unit nine projects is an opportunity for you to create a plan that applies concepts you have learned regarding holistic/integral health. The plan is created to foster growth and health spiritually, physically, and psychologically in your personal life.

Introduction:

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 crucial for professionals in the health and wellness field to know what it is they be talking about when it comes to explaining psychologically, spiritually, and physically what health wellness is offering to the as patients and as professionals. Like I always say that it is good to be able to talk a good game, but the key question is can you as a person live it.

According to (Elliot S. Dacher, 2006. p.167), when professionals implement integral health in to their own lives, they “will come to know that the alleviation of suffering and the ascent to human flourishing are more than ideas.” These professionals will than want to end needless suffering to the best of their ability and therefore, “the soul of medicine returns.”

I would as a man I can really use help in all of these areas and I’m going to start with spiritually, reason being I know that I could afford threw out the course of my day to give god more of my time, but yet I can’t understand why I haven’t yet. The next area that I could use some help in psychologically, because even though I’m receiving meditation help in that department occasionally I be having a lot of mind chatter going on with in my head sometimes. Last of all physically I still use help in this department even though I’m not real big I can still use some toning up and not only that good physical exercise is good anyways, because it can be good for your health.

II.Assessment:

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

There are several exercises and/or processes which will successfully assess an individual’s need for psychological, spiritual and physical improvement. According to (Elliot S. Dacher, 2006), a mini meditation exercise “can be quite powerful in expanding your mind and heart. It can serve as an antidote to anger and hatred. It can help to shift your focus from personal love to universal loving-kindness.” (p.93) According to (Elliot S. Dacher, 2006. p.115), an assessment process can also be completed by asking a series of questions. Five questions which may focus on healing and promoting integral development are:

1. “What aspect of my life-psychospiritual, biological, interpersonal, or worldly- is the source of difficulty and suffering?” (HEALING)

2. “What line of development is most essential for me at this time?” (HEALING)

3. “What is my current level of development and what can I aim for.” (HEALING)

4. “What area of my life is ready for growth and development?” (PROMOTING)

5. “What would the next level of development look like?” (PROMOTING)

How do I rate myself  psychological about a 6 at least, and how do I rate myself spiritually I give myself a 5, because there are times where I can give the god that I serve more of my me time. Physically I rate myself a 6, because I need to stop being lazy at times.

III.Goal development:

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

The goal in which I had set for myself in all of these areas speaking physically to start walking about 3x a week and at 20mins out of each of these days. My goal psychologically is to meditate at least 30mins a day twice a day 7 days a week that can really help my mind chatter. My goal spiritually is just to surrender my life to the god I serve. 

IV.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.

The strategy that I can implicate with in my domains starting with psychologically would be increasing my meditation exercises by the week for my mind chatter. The strategy that I would implicate for my physical domain if I could stop being so lazy is to motivate myself every day to get up and out for my 20mins walks every day. Spiritual domain is to stop playing and just give god his time, and to stop looking around to see who coming with me or staying at home.

V.Commitment:

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?

In order to successfully achieve my goals to acquire optimal health and experience human flourishing, I will need to evaluate my progress on a regular basis. One strategy that I can use to accomplish this task is to keep a daily diary of progress levels. If certain levels appear to be lower than others, I can implement new processes which foster further growth in these areas.

After a few months of monitoring these levels of progress, I’m confident that I will be able to experience a balance between my psychological, spiritual and physical health. Once this balance is obtained, I will then try to ensure that this evaluation process remains a regular part of my daily life.

Reference

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral health: the path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications

creating wellness: unit 8 assignment

1.      Review the exercises and practice sessions you have completed in this course. (Loving Kindness, Subtle mind, Visualization, meditation etc.) Choose two practices that you have determined to be most beneficial. How can you implement these practices in your personal life to foster “mental fitness”? Provide specific examples.

The two practices that were the most beneficial for me are Meeting Asclepius and Loving Kindness. As stated in previous posts, I really need to work on my mind chatter. I really feel loving kindness, because it’s a part of my everyday charter of who I am. I really feel that there’s not benefit at all being mean to others for one thing, and being mean to others not only belittle you, but it also define the type of person you are. Like in our past assignments I have also mentioned that no one have ever promised us this road of life was going to be easy for anyone of us so sometimes you just have to deal with the cards that dealt to us, and just think about it if we never go through anything we would never learn life learned lessons that it takes to learn our inner selves.

The second practice I really feel that was beneficial to me was Meeting Asclepius. Because while I was in quietness listening to the exercise allowed me the opportunity to really focus on some of the good times That I missed having with my stepfather, and it also reminded me of the father and son bond that me and him had. These are something that I really tried my hardest sense he passed away to not think about so much. So now sense we been doing this class it’s ok to mourn because without it the healing process can’t begin. My step father passed away in 2005 and this whole time I been trying to be strong for my mother and my two sisters, and I never took the time to really get strong for myself.

The way that I can implement both of these practices in my own life is by implementing a routine to do these exercise more, because loving kindness helps me to understand more about myself and who my inner self is, and Meeting Asclepius not only do this practice helping me with my healing process with the loss of my stepfather, but it even brought me closer to him by bringing back some of the member able times that we had while he was yet still living.

Mental fitness can help me with mind chatter, and with my physical conditions, and with helping me to more understanding about the spiritual side of all of this and how important it is to have.    

unit 7 blog creating wellness

1.      Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

I firmly believe once you get into the habit of doing something on an continues bases you have grown a custom to it. Know that you’re doing something right to help your inner self psychologically and your spiritual wellness. It’s all a part of growing into a new person. Like all of the things you use to do learning these knew integral skills it can help program your mind to do something different, and this is what I call growth.  Like if your into tobacco, or drinking improving your inner self can really have you in tuned with yourself and that along can set you on a new path as of you won’t no longer need all of those bad things in your life. You can continue to foster these practices into your life everyday by not allowing your mind to set you up for failure, and we have to look at it like this an untamed mind will do that to you. So what I would have to do is tell myself that this is my plan and this is what I’m going to do no matter what. I can have greater health wellness.

2.      Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

What he is trying to say is that you don’t know unless you have tried it, and how this relate to medical profession say I’m a brain sergeant and a nurse walk into the hallway kind of pissed off at me because she felt as though it took me too long in surgery to complete just one patient and the nurse makes this one comment I could of did surgery on three patients brain the length to time it took you on just that one patient, but she don’t know that because she’s no brain Sergeant. Yes. Because I feel everyone no matter what it is that you do everyone should practice what they preach. How can you tell someone else what is good for them if you never tried it. When you know where you’re weak at in your personal life learning about the two can make you stronger where your weak, because you can really use the two in every aspect of your life.

unit 7 assignment creating wellness

1.      Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

I firmly believe once you get into the habit of doing something on an continues bases you have grown a custom to it. Know that you’re doing something right to help your inner self psychologically and your spiritual wellness. It’s all a part of growing into a new person. Like all of the things you use to do learning these knew integral skills it can help program your mind to do something different, and this is what I call growth.  Like if your into tobacco, or drinking improving your inner self can really have you in tuned with yourself and that along can set you on a new path as of you won’t no longer need all of those bad things in your life. You can continue to foster these practices into your life everyday by not allowing your mind to set you up for failure, and we have to look at it like this an untamed mind will do that to you. So what I would have to do is tell myself that this is my plan and this is what I’m going to do no matter what. I can have greater health wellness.

2.      Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

What he is trying to say is that you don’t know unless you have tried it, and how this relate to medical profession say I’m a brain sergeant and a nurse walk into the hallway kind of pissed off at me because she felt as though it took me too long in surgery to complete just one patient and the nurse makes this one comment I could of did surgery on three patients brain the length to time it took you on just that one patient, but she don’t know that because she’s no brain Sergeant. Yes. Because I feel everyone no matter what it is that you do everyone should practice what they preach. How can you tell someone else what is good for them if you never tried it. When you know where you’re weak at in your personal life learning about the two can make you stronger where your weak, because you can really use the two in every aspect of your life.

unit 7 blog creating wellness

1.      Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

I firmly believe once you get into the habit of doing something on an continues bases you have grown a custom to it. Know that you’re doing something right to help your inner self psychologically and your spiritual wellness. It’s all a part of growing into a new person. Like all of the things you use to do learning these knew integral skills it can help program your mind to do something different, and this is what I call growth.  Like if your into tobacco, or drinking improving your inner self can really have you in tuned with yourself and that along can set you on a new path as of you won’t no longer need all of those bad things in your life. You can continue to foster these practices into your life everyday by not allowing your mind to set you up for failure, and we have to look at it like this an untamed mind will do that to you. So what I would have to do is tell myself that this is my plan and this is what I’m going to do no matter what. I can have greater health wellness.

2.      Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

What he is trying to say is that you don’t know unless you have tried it, and how this relate to medical profession say I’m a brain sergeant and a nurse walk into the hallway kind of pissed off at me because she felt as though it took me too long in surgery to complete just one patient and the nurse makes this one comment I could of did surgery on three patients brain the length to time it took you on just that one patient, but she don’t know that because she’s no brain Sergeant. Yes. Because I feel everyone no matter what it is that you do everyone should practice what they preach. How can you tell someone else what is good for them if you never tried it. When you know where you’re weak at in your personal life learning about the two can make you stronger where your weak, because you can really use the two in every aspect of your life.

   

unit 7 blog creating wellness

1.      Complete the Meeting Aesclepius mp3 (located in the Doc Sharing area). Describe your meditative practices for the week and discuss the experience. Explain how mindfulness or meditation has fostered an increase in your psychological or spiritual wellness. How can you continue to apply these practices in your life to foster greater health and wellness?

I firmly believe once you get into the habit of doing something on an continues bases you have grown a custom to it. Know that you’re doing something right to help your inner self psychologically and your spiritual wellness. It’s all a part of growing into a new person. Like all of the things you use to do learning these knew integral skills it can help program your mind to do something different, and this is what I call growth.  Like if your into tobacco, or drinking improving your inner self can really have you in tuned with yourself and that along can set you on a new path as of you won’t no longer need all of those bad things in your life. You can continue to foster these practices into your life everyday by not allowing your mind to set you up for failure, and we have to look at it like this an untamed mind will do that to you. So what I would have to do is tell myself that this is my plan and this is what I’m going to do no matter what. I can have greater health wellness.

2.      Describe the saying: "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" (p.477). How does this apply to the health and wellness professional? Do you have an obligation to your clients to be developing your health psychologically, physically, and spiritually? Why or why not? How can you implement psychological and spiritual growth in your personal life?

What he is trying to say is that you don’t know unless you have tried it, and how this relate to medical profession say I’m a brain sergeant and a nurse walk into the hallway kind of pissed off at me because she felt as though it took me too long in surgery to complete just one patient and the nurse makes this one comment I could of did surgery on three patients brain the length to time it took you on just that one patient, but she don’t know that because she’s no brain Sergeant. Yes. Because I feel everyone no matter what it is that you do everyone should practice what they preach. How can you tell someone else what is good for them if you never tried it. When you know where you’re weak at in your personal life learning about the two can make you stronger where your weak, because you can really use the two in every aspect of your life.

unit 6 blog

While doing this assessment I have to really be honest with myself, because I’m the type of person that is always good to people and respectful, because I feel if you can’t give it you don’t deserve it. My only problem is I have too much mind chatter in my head, and I can’t never keep my mind focused just on one set thing and when I’m capable and have the time to focus on one set thing than my mind is all over the place. Now during these exercise that we been doing every week and when I have the time I do try to do these exercises a few more times during the day. They help a little bit with my problem, but not a lot. Maybe because I’m not really use to these exercises as of yet, but I’m going to keep working on it.

3. Describe the exercise and assessment process. What did you discover about yourself? What area have you chosen to be a focus of growth and development? Why? What are some specific exercises or activities that you can implement to foster greater wellness in this area?

The four assessment area would be relationship, emotion, fitness, work, or myself, and I chose myself with in this assessment. What I discovered about myself throughout this assessment is that I’m really patient. My area of focus would be for me is to continue to work on my mind chatter and to get that part of my mind under control. Reason is to me, I be really looking crazy when I can feel myself answering to the mind chatter that is going on in my mind. This meditation exercises is good, and to set myself little short goal and focus on just those goals, and most of all tell my brain to shut up when it get to going if that’s not where my thoughts in my head belong. I would recommend these books and these exercises to anyone in need of them.

unit 5 blog Subtle Mind

1.      Compare and contrast the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise. Explain your experience including the benefits, frustrations etc.

To compare the both is easy to do, because  you can hear the signs of the ocean in the both of them, and just hearing the ocean and that water is relaxing to me, but what was frustrating to me in both of them right when  my body starts relaxing and my mind start calming down there go that voice in the background with a new exercise that was kind of frustrating, but over all I feel that that the both are some good exercises, and I feel at my stressful moments that I’m going to use these methods and I will refer these exercises to someone else.

2.      Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life.

Well spiritual wellness been in me every sense I was a little boy, because my mother raised me with having the fear of god in me, and to be a firm believer in him, and if I wish to take a guess I would have to say that this is 75% of who I am. Physical wellness I guess I believe in that to, because I feel that shouldn’t know one just let themselves go physically, for one reason this is really how you become very unhealthy, and not able to get around like you want to. Mental wellness to me is the control center of everything else that I been discussing, and you my readers I know that you agree, and this has manifested in throughout the years that I been living this is so true. So taking care of me in every aspect is what I do.

Loving Kindness unit 4 assignment

1.      Describe your experience. Did you find it beneficial? Difficult? Why or why not? Would you recommend this to others? Why or why not?

I tried to practice the breathing techniques. Due to the point the way that I had to do the exercise I really couldn’t get into it, because I had to practice these exercise at work. But I can see where these exercises can be beneficial, because the background for loving kindness can really set the mind at peace. But the reason it was difficult for me to get into it because I was at work and it’s really hard for you to get into anything with people walking around and coming in out of your area. I would definitely recommend these exercises to others because it can really calm the mind.   

2.      What is the concept of "mental workout"? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a mental workout? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health?

To me, the word “Mental Workout” itself implies exercising the mind or working the mind to be healthy.  According to Dacher (2006) “Mental Workout” means utilizing contemplative practices to help tame the mind’s constant mental activities and train it along with opening one’s heart, expanding consciousness, and progressing towards psychospirtual flourishing.  The goal is for progressive development of an expanded consciousness and healing within the mind, body, and spirit.  There are two contemplative practices; they are loving-kindness and subtle mind.

So in order for me to implement mental workouts to foster my psychological health, I would need to devote at least one hour a day of my time and effort towards incorporating one of the contemplative practices of either loving-kindness or subtle mind.   By doing so, I could feel calm and at peace with myself and I can proceed with benefiting good health, happiness, and wholeness within myself.

Reference:

Dacher, M.D., E. S. (2006). Integral The Path to Human Flourishing Health. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publication, Inc.

unit 3 blog

1.      Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?

The way that I rate myself physically I would have to say a 5. The reason why I say this is because I can stand to work out more, and I can also stand to eat healthier. On the physical side of everything I often find myself getting really lazy and tired at times. My spiritual well-being I would have to say it’s a 10, the reason being I grew up in church and throughout my 38 years of living I have seen a lot of what was preached to then come to pass that I am a firm believer in Jesus. Psychological I can say that I rate myself a 6 reason being I need to gain control of my thought process, because my brain is always at work and it been this way all of my life, you all probably not going to believe this but I even be thinking of things in my sleep, so yes I really do feel that I need to do more training of the brain techniques.

2.      Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).

My goal for being more physical it to get me a regimen going as far as working out, and as far as some of the things that I eat replace it with more nutritional things that I can eat, and when I get lazy force myself to get up and become more active. Spiritual side I’ve been slacking a little bit as far as going to church I really need to pick up a lot and start going like I use to. Psychological before I can set myself a goal with this I’m going to need more feedback because I don’t know what to do I this case I’m going to have to get a little bit more out of this class to answer this question.

3.      What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

Developing myself a plan like a work out plan, and a nutritional plan, and psychologically I really do feel that I need more me time I guess sometime I really do feel that I could use more quite time to not just get my thoughts in check, but all of me can use it.

4.      Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. To hear this exercise Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)

This exercise was alright, because all while I was listening it allowed me to get really relaxed and even though if it was for nothing but for a little while it allowed me to stop thinking about everything that’s going on around me and just focus on just what was going on that very minute. Nothing could be frustrating about that.

Unit 2 Relaxation Blog

This Excercise was really soothing to me. Reason being it really put my mind at a very relaxed state, and it felt like I had a constant blood flow going through my mind. See I'm the type of person as of to mind is always at work and it seems as though my mind never shut down for no reason, and I feel that sometimes the brain can really use a break and listening to this recording it really allowed me to do that. Because when I tell you class that my brian is always at work it is, I'm really looking forward to blogging with you all.

Unit 2 relaxation Blog