Unit 9 Wellness Plan

 

Introduction:
Why is it important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually and physically?

“Integral health can only be known and achieved though the development of our inner life and our inner healing capacities” (Dacher, 2006, p. 9).

As a health care provider it is essential to develop our inner wellness to be able to guide our clients to an Integral health. Health care professionals are the example of the communities; and the main reason why people look for health care professionals is to find guidance, help and clarity for the things that they don’t understand or don’t have knowledge about. And how can someone teach what they don’t know? Is a common rule of practice for practitioners, we choose to become the helpers of the communities and with that said with this decision it comes a great responsibility.

 As Dacher expresses on his book “we live blindly among unimaginable treasures, and at the end of our days, we leave life unaware of the great wealth and the great health that have always been right in front of us” (Dacher, 2006, p. 7). These words should be the inspiration for health care practitioners; we understand the true healing, and the holistic approach to find wellness. Therefore, is our responsibility to teach it to others that are walking blind in the path of life.

What areas do you need to develop to achieve the goals you have for yourself?

            I need to work on forgiveness and emotional self control; also I need to develop my spiritual meditation. Physically I need to be more discipline and exercise more.

Assessment:
How have you assessed your health in each domain?

My first observation in my spiritual, physical and psychological life is that I need to prioritize my time better and make an effort to increase these practices into my regular routine. I want to achieve a balance in my life; knowing that I am human and I am always going to be stronger in one area more than the other. Identifying what I need to focus on more is my first step to Integral Health. I also want to work on my inner being of stress and anxiety; I want to be able to stop myself when a negative thought invades my mind and replace them with positive, healthy thoughts. These practices will help me to alleviate stress and negative consequences like poor decision making. The way that I am assessed each domain is to practice each and every day and even more if necessary during difficult times.

How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically?

On a scale from 1 to 10 – 1 being the lowest score;

Spiritually wellness I would rate myself a 7: I had always tried to have meditation time at least once a day. Spiritual wellness is very important for me to have and I enforced to my family and my children. However, I know that I could be more devoted to my religion and dedicate more time for church.

            Physically wellness I would rate myself a 5: Because I need to dedicate more time to exercise and outdoors work. Psychologically wellness: I would rate myself a 6: Because I need to learn more self-control and positivity; However, I always tried to look at the positive side of all situations and I truly believed in the Golden rule. To apply the golden rule adequately, we need the knowledge and conscious imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action.

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

My goal is to find a balance and be psychologically healthy and prepare to help others in my profession. As a health care professional I would have to exercise these practices more often to be able to be stronger for others. Physically; my goal is to get back to my healthy weight and devote more time to exercise during the week; and continue to search for additional meditation practices like yoga exercises and meditation practices. Spiritually: My goal is to be more active in my religious beliefs and be part of the community in my church.

Practices for personal health:

The first Psychological, strategy that I must implement to foster growth is to prepare myself and stress on the preparation of the mind. “We choose to cultivate an attitude of loving-kindness. Loving and kindness opens the heart and ensures the help and cooperation of others” (Dacher, 2006, p. 50). Love and kindness is the antidote to anger and hurtful emotions that we can all develop very ease but they are very difficult to get rid of. “Making daily choices to re-channel our energy in the direction of internal health” (Dacher, 2006, p. 50). The second Psychological strategy is used the skillful action by only supporting positive behavior in my life and by implementing control and discipline in my thoughts and actions, knowing that as Dacher said on his book “This is not easy for those who consider any control or discipline over their behavior as an assault on personal freedom when in fact most if not all our actions are conditioned and programmed and few if any are actually freely chosen (Dacher, 2006, p. 50).

Spiritually I would implement is the Subtle Mind strategy and the Calm-abiding strategy. Subtle Mind: Take 30 minutes during the day and practice mediation concentrate in the breath and the mind. Peaceful breathing leads to peaceful mind (Dacher, 2006, p. 75). Calm-abiding is a mind undistracted by feelings or negative thoughts a Teflon mind that can help me to recap and retreat during difficult times and leading me to a more clarity. Physically: I would implement yoga exercises into my daily routine these types of exercises can help me reaching my goals to get into my ideal weight and also can help me to practice meditation.

Practices for personal health:
Commitment:

The way I would assess my progress in six months is by keeping a log of my weigh and a diary for my emotional and mental health accomplishments.

 

Unit 8 Human Flourishing

Mental fitness is very important; I came to the realization that mental fitness is even more important than physical fitness, because if you think about it once you learn to develop mental fitness in your life the physical fitness will come along. If you think about it, if mentally you are not able to focus, and you let your mind to take over your emotions, suddenly without even realizing your life would be out track. And what to do then when you feel that you are all alone? Where are you going to turn if not to yourself with meditation and self-reflection there is one place that I can always be, that place in my mind where I am save and I can see myself in the future be and do much better that what is now. And the only way to get there is picturing in my mind that I can, that I be able to concord the obstacles of life. This can only be done if you practice self meditation, love and kindness to others, and self reflection day by day knowing that we all make mistakes. But what is the man without balance and spiritual wisdom? I think that a part of us is always searching for a better tomorrow for happiness or self accomplishments but if we come to the realization that all those things are within ourselves that we just have to stop fixing others peoples life’s and judging others peoples decisions. That the answer is getting to know who we really are and what we really want and then during our self-reflection be honest to ourselves and work on our mistakes we probably then have a better chance to one day find happiness.  

Unit 7 Mindfulness Meditation

My meditation for this week was a little longer than before I was able to focus longer and I was more aware of the times that was better for me to meditate; like right now for example is about 6:14 am in the morning and is still dark outside but is the only time that I have of absolute silence that I am able to completely focus on my spiritual awareness. The new exercise for this week was very interesting I was able to focus, and walked with my favor person to a better place a relaxing walk at the beach with Jesus; It was a great meditation time because it was different than what I was used to do; my relationship with Jesus is always been about prayer or asking for a miracle to happen in my life but this time we just walked, I didn’t request anything I just follow the exercise with him next to me in a long walk at the beach. I can and I should continue this practices to be able to find peace and healing not only biological healing but integral healing within me; the peace and relaxation that we can find within ourselves is without limits our mind can take us to places that we have never imagine if we can only focus on the right objectives of our life’s and learn to feed our soul with positive and refreshing memories is a matter of time that our body and soul would experience the healing that we are all looking for.

The saying one cannot lead another where one has not gone himself it applies to many things in life but on health, and wellness as professionals healers or helpers of our community as mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers all comes down to the obligation that we all share to help one another ; responsibility will fall into the person who is mentoring others, and as the responsible provider is your responsibility to guide others to the right path however, you most be walking on it to be able to lead the way. The way to implement health and wellness into your life is by practice by taking the time to know who you are and where are you going; in reality we all need to have hopes, dreams, and goals to feel with a purpose once you find your drive or motivation embraced it, and use the main key to accomplish your goals, the knowledge of integral healing.

Unit 6 Integral Assessment

After reading and doing my integral assessment I think that I need to work on all areas of my life. I feel that some weeks I am very good (biological) I eat right and exercise, and then after a couple of months I just let myself go, and concentrate in other areas; whether is work, or school or spiritual growth;  I realized by doing this exercise that is very hard for me to find  balance in my life. I get overwhelmed when I work all areas of my life at the same time, don’t know why but more often than not I am just able to work in one area at a time; Later when I realized that I need to attend another areas I just let everything go again and concentrate in what I left unattended; I don’t know if I am making myself clear is very hard to explain but I feel that I can’t have all areas in balance is always something that I constantly have to work on. The exercises that I could implement in my life is to dedicate more time to meditation; thought meditation I can calm myself down of all the stressors around and look more at the big picture to be able to find better solutions.

Unit 5 The Subtle Mind

Using this exercise really help me to relax and reached a different level of peace in my heart and soul. What I found difficult is stopping my wondering mind and bring it back to tack, I think I will probably get better as I practice more. The breathing exercises were very helpful because it helps the mind to focus in something that has no correlation with any emotional attachment, therefore it embrace good feeling and a stable the mind.  The love and forgiveness exercise I found that is very similar it does bring you peace and with the sound of ocean is even more relaxing, some people might find challenges if your mind is not ready to forgive, however I do believed that forgiveness is a choice and is up to the individual to release that bad emotion.