Unit 10 Final Assessment

As I reflect back on unit #3 assessment, my physical assessment was 5/10 my spitirual wellbeing was 6/10 and my psychological was 2/10. In my unit nine assessment my physical assessment is 4/10 my spiritual is 8/10 and my psychological was 6/10. As I compare and reflect on my health and wellness, and although my scores haven't changed very much I can see I have grown in each of these areas.  My physical goal was to walk on my treadmill 3 times a week. Well that still hasn't happen, but I  have changed my diet- I am eating baked and grilled foods as well as increaseing my water intake.. My psychological goal was to focus on my breathing and visualization skills which I have and they really worked for me this week. My spiritual goal was to get back in church regularly and spent more time with my family, I will not make it to church tomorrow, but I did have dinner with my kids last night  and we had a wonderful time. I didn't realize how much they had going on in their lives. My overallpersonal experience has been great. I have learned alot from this class as well as my fellow classmates. I think we all were able to help and learn from each other. Thank-you and good luck to everyone in their future endeavors.

Unit 9 Self Assessment

Introduction-
I think it is important for health and wellness  professionals to develop physically, psychologically and spiritually because when you believe in what you are teaching and  you are teaching from your heart the individual and see and feel your passion and will therefore, be more open and willing to listen and follow your guidance.
Assessment-
As I review the past 8 weeks been introduced to the many different  aspects ofintegral health has help me realized that I realy need to slow down and evaluate myself. Spiritually my score is a 8/10, I say eight because I have very strong faith,but lately I have been going to church regulary. My physical score is 4/10, I always start out with the intentions of exercising at least 30 minutes every day. Well I have only done so 3 or 4 days  since the hoilday break . I know work, school and family is part of the reason for not do this as I planned. During the holiday break I was able to walk for 1 hour everyday- no class and work days were shorter.Psychologically my score id 6/10 because many days I 'm still a chatter brain- with my work schedul and duties increased-I can't seem to get my brain to become still.it always seem like I  have a thousand thing going on all the time.
Goal-
My physical goal is to walk on my treadmill at least an hour 3 days week. Psychological goal focus on my breathing and visualization exercises seem to help somedays. Spiritually My goal is to get back into church on a regular basis, and continue to pray that my family and friend know that I love them very much, even though my schedule hasn't allow me to spend much time lately.
Strategy-
My physical strategy is to mark my calendar on the days I choose to walk- and reward myself wit a smiley face sticker, after I have completed my walk. I think I may even incorporate handweights/dumdbells to help tone my arms.Psychological- Right now I honestly have no ieda  what my strategy would be. I am open for suggestions.
Commitment-
I think with my physical goal and my spiritual goal I will succeed. My psychological goal or lack there of remains to be seem. Maybe in 6 months my breathing exercise and visualization  exercise will help me to relax  and maybe in 6 month I will be ready for meditation. Have to think positive right?

subtle mind/ loving-kindness

The two exercises for me were the subtle mind exercise, in which I couldn't relax enough to allow my breathing to a calm abiding state. My mind wouldn't stay still long enough to relax. Usually the beach sounds relaxes me and I'm able to let go of whatever is bothering me. But for some reason that exercise didn't work. The loving-kindness exercise was a very good experience for me, I was able to free my mind and allow my thoughts to flow and follow the directions with out any difficulty. Again the beach sounds- ocean waves was all it took to get me in another state of mind. Now since the holidays are over and my mind and body has had a time to recovery, I think that if I was to try the subtle mind exercise again I would do better. As far as taking any of these exercises to use in the future would be the very first exercise with just the ocean sound and the focal point of the color scheming from your body.

Unit 6 integral Assessment

As I closed my eyes and tried to rest my mind, at first it was alittle difficult, because other thoughts would enter my mind,after about 5 min I was able to calm down enough to let my mind rest ant become still. I started to think about the 4 aspects of life. I found my self wanting to focus more on the interpersonal aspects of my life. The interpersonal aspects reflects on community, family and personal. As I thought more Ifelt the my relationship with my family was okay, as well as my community, so that leave personal. When I say personal, I am referring to me (myself). I feel that I need to work on me as a whole. Lately I realize that my stress levels are very high, work and school are both very demanding, I feel as If I'm pushed to the limit.My work hours/ and work load has increased, ( 1 co-worker short)so by the time I get home, tend to family needs and try to sit still  and focus on school my mind and body are drained. My approach to fix this is to talk to my supervisor to let him know that the work load, is become to be to much for me, I know we have someone  coming to assist us soon, but if I as least tell them know what's happening to me mentally and physically, than maybe  help will  get to our department soon. This aspect is the only aspect I'm focusing on at this time, because if  I can regain my mental and physcial strength , than I will no longer feel like I'm working against myself.Making me better, work better and even though family and community was okay, They too will be better, because a healthy mind is a healthy body.

Unit 5 Subtle mind

This week's exercise was a little difficult for me. In the beginning I was able to focus on my breathing, but as the excerise continued I found it hard to free my mind and allow it to reach a calm-abiding state.
I found my mind wondering on various things, like all the things I need to get done before I go to bed, the list of things I have to get completed tomorrow at work, it seems to be everywhere, but calm-abiding.
Usually the ocean sounds relaxes me and allow me to release what ever is on my mind, but not this time, I realize this exercise is suppose to get easier with practice, I guess today wasn't the day for calm-abiding.

Love and Kindness

This exercise was very relaxing for me. I love the beach and listening to the waves come to shore was very relaxing. It allowed me to step away from the stress of daily livig and be free. I could visulize my self sitting on the beach with my eyes close and relaxing. When asked t think of a love one suffering . at first I felt the stress thinking/knowning that someone I care about is suffering, But then I places that love one there on the beach with me  so that they could see beautiful scenery exhale and relax. Visualizing a stranger suffering was hard to do there are so many people suffering due to the economy losing jobs, homes, everything, was harder for me to concentrate on being relaxed. Trying to  show love and kindness to someone that doesn't like me, was a hard to concentrate, and relax, because it bother me if someone doesn't like me.

crime of the century

Okay everyone! as you can see I am having a difficult time with this blogging. I apoloize for not responding to your blogs, but this being a problem for me to get my responds to show on your blog. Any way,hopefully that will  be worked out soon.
Now  back to the assignment based on my reflection on a scale from 1 to 10, I would  rate my physical wellbeing maybe a( 5),my spiritual wellbeing an (6), and my psychological wellbeing right now a 2. This blogging has really gotten me stressed. I work had to keep my GPA up and I don't want something like this to hurt my grade.Please note it's not just school, work is very demanding right now. Anyway My goal for all three areas would be to learn to relax and exhale to releive my stress and  anxiety from both work and school demands. I think if I learn to breathe and exhale andstop holding my breathe because I am stress I would feel better. (Deep breathing exercise). When I listened to the audio It didn't relax me, I had to many other things going on in my head, so I guess it didn't benefit nor frustrate me.