The importance for a health and wellness professional to develop psychological, spiritual, and physical well being is so that the health professional can teach others how to do the same. A quote that describes this perfectly is,” One cannot lead another where one had not gone himself.” The areas I need to develop to achieve my goals of psychological, spiritual, and physical well being is in all these areas of my life. I feel that you will always have room to grow and further yourself in these areas. There are no end goals just milestones. If I was to score myself on a scale of one to ten on my health and wellness in psychological, spiritual, and physical well being one being non-existent and 10 being fully developed I would give my physical well being an 8 My mental wellbeing an 7 and my wellbeing spiritual a 5. My goal for physical well being is to work out 5 times week and eat healthier and enjoy it. My goal for mental well being is to turn my loneliness into relaxing alone time and self reflection. My goal for spiritual wellbeing is to go to church with my mom. The strategies I have to implement to foster growth in physical wellbeing is to start a 6 day pre planned work out program called insanity that are 45 minutes to an hour long. The second thing im going to do is start running 3 days a week boxing at least 1 time and week and playing soccer 1 time a week. I plan to shop and buy and cook healthier food no fast food just home prepared meals. The strategies I have to implement to foster growth in mental wellbeing is each time I feel lonely I am going to reflect on the fact that I am better off alone and am not in a destructive relationship just because I don’t want to feel lonely. I am also going to focus this energy to working out. Furthermore I will use these feelings for self reflection and change the perception of loneliness to alone time and meditation. The strategies I have to implement to foster growth in spiritual wellbeing are to go to church with my mom and meditate. I must get more sleep to get up on Sunday morning and have the will power to drive an hour to see my mom on Sunday and go to church with her. The other practice im going to use to foster spiritual growth is meditation. I am going to use the meditative practices provided to me through this class Loving kindness, subtle mind practice and meeting Asclepius. I am also going to use stomach breathing techniques along with this in my meditation. I will assess my progress in the next six months with my physical well being with my mirror and my weight scale and by how many times I eat in as I do eat out or fast food. The strategy im going to use for this is track how many times I eat out as I cook for myself. To assess my progress for mental wellbeing is to see if my actual loneliness goes away with the exercises I outlined above. The strategy im going to implement is to keep a journal at the end of each day and record my ups and downs so I can look back and see how much I have improved and to keep my mind focused on my goal. To access my progress for my spiritual progress im going to meditate and see how much mental chatter and how much I can quite my mind this should be easy since my mental chatter sounds like a bar as of right now. The strategy im going to implement to maintain this is using my mom to hold me accountable to go to church with her.
Hi Jonathan,
ReplyDeleteI think that with meditation you will find that you can deal with your lonliness better. You will be able to step back and see that you may not really be that alone, it is your emotions that are telling you this. You will be able to choose new avenues to take to help yourself heal from your past relationships. Family is good to be around because they love you and want you to be all you can. When you learn to calm your mind you will be able to recieve the wisdom of religion. Good luck and take a look back every so often so you can see the progress that you have made.
I really love your post! I think you will do well sweety just keep up the positive attitude and you can succeed in anything! I think no fast food is a great idea. I think if we all thought of it as poison we would be better off. Fast food is addictive and leads our bodies to ugliness. Maybe not on the outside but inside our bodies aren't good. Plus i think your exercise regimen is exactly how you called it "Insane". I think if you have the positive attitude and the will power to do it you will. Good luck!!
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It seems that you have developed some hard and fast goals to stick to. This is the first step. We all have problems straying from our path at one time or another, but to have a goal to get back to is a key to making progress. Reducing the amount of fast food you consume is a great idea. I have sworn off the stuff for several years. Whenever the few times I have tried to eat something from one of those places, I end up feeling like I ate garbage, which is not entirely false! You can get there in time. All you need is a reason and a plan, and I think you are there.
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