unit 9 final

UNIT 9 FINAL

It is important for health and wellness professionals to be well developed physiologically, spiritually and physically because as we have learned throughout the class all three aspects of the human body must be working at optimal levels to provide for health and wellness. If one of the areas is lacking the body cannot fully function as a whole. How can professionals be expected to give the best care if he or she is not themselves practicing what they preach. I think that I really need to work on patience. I work in an Emergency Room so I have the idea that everything in medicine is suppose to be really fast and quick. When it is not I am really frustrated and get impatient. I think that I need to work on this, I feel that it will really benefit me in the long run to practice patience, not only with myself but with my peers and patients around me.

I think that if I had to assess my health now compared to where I started at the beginning of the class I would say that I have to say that I have improved significantly in many different aspects. I think that I have gone from a four to a solid 6.5 in the realm of spiritual growth. I think that I have become more mindful and conscious of how much time I spend in regards to my spiritual wellbeing and I think that through this class I have made a serious commitment to try and make more time to meditation and loving kindness. I believe that my co-workers have even seen a change. I had one of them mention to me that they felt I seemed like I had less stress than usual. This was very rewarding for me. I think in the realm of philological health I am at the same level as spiritual. I think that those two aspects of my life were always taking a back seat to the physical aspects and I have tried really had throughout this class to work on it and I feel confident that I have improved. Physically, I am the same. It has always been a part of my life I have placed a high level of time and commitment on, I really like the endorphins I get from working out and the “runners” high I get when I run long distances. I have yet to find a natural high I enjoy as much as I do when I work out. I would say that I am a solid 8 or 9 because there is always room to improve but I think that I am doing all the right things to get me there.

Goals are really hard for me to set because my life is very dynamic and it is always evolving and changing as are my goals but, if I had to set some I think for my spiritual life it would be to go on a meditation retreat like the ones I read in the books. I have always wanted to but have never pulled the trigger per say and gone. This year is the year; I am going to go to one. In my psychological life I want to commit to meditation for one hour every day, this is going to become a new habit of mine and I am not going to make any more excuses as to why I am not doing it. For physical health I plan on running my first full marathon in February of this year, I have been training for it for quite some time now and I am finally going to complete this goal and run it!

I think that there are many strategies one can implement when trying to reach his/her goals however; I think that the best one I am going to utilize is the motivation of a strong support team! I have told all my friends and family via facebook or in person that I have made these goals for myself and I have encouraged them all to motivate me and check in with me to keep me honest. I think that having myself accountable to others makes me more likely to follow through with these goals.

I am going to track my progress in a three section notebook. In each section when I go to bed at night I will write a small blurb for each category for what I did during that day. I think it will give me a great representation on where I am in my goals and how far I am to achieving them. I have been trying to think of a reward to give myself to work towards for when I finally reach them all but I have not yet come up with one yet. This class has been more than just a way to get credit and I could not be happier with the results I have yielded.

Reference:

Schlitz, M., Amorok, T., & Micozzi, M. S. (2005). Consciousness and healing. St Louis, MO: Churchill Livingstone.

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