Introduction
As
a health and wellness professional it is important to understanding
psychological health because this can be the foundation of understanding an
individual and gaining insight. Building and developing from the inside
at the inner core of a person will shine through to the outside. For an
individual to portray strong and healthy outside behavior, working from the
inside first is necessary (Dacher M.D., 2006, p.59). Spiritual health is important because it
takes more than medicine to be healthy you must believe in a higher power of
some type to help heel you and make you better. You must be able to focus on
your minds thoughts and clear them of any negative thoughts to become
healthy. As wellness professional you
need to be spiritually in tune with yourself before you can help other become
spiritually in tune with their selves. It is important to be physically healthy
because your body controls so much of your thoughts and feelings. Being
physically healthy also helps with being psychologically healthy. You must be
physically healthy in the Wellness field or others are not going to trust your
advice on them becoming physically healthy.
I really need to develop my spiritual health in order for me to reach
the goals I have for myself. I need to be able to clear my mind and get rid of
all the negative thoughts in my head that are currently there. It has been a
rough three months for me and I need to get back to focusing and I need to
return to church and leave a lot of stress in the hands of God.
Assessment
I have assessed myself in each domain by figuring out how
I am dealing with my psychological health, my spiritual health and my physical
health on a daily basis. Do I feel that
I psychologically deal with things with a clear mind or am I being un-logical
about certain things and situations. I assess my spiritual state by asking
myself do I have a clear mind am I able to remove my negative thoughts and
replace them with positive ones. I also ask am I connected to God do I feel I
have a relationship with him. I assess
my physical health by saying am I healthy, do I feel good. Do I look physically
healthy? On a scale form one to ten I score myself in my Psychological health
at about an 8. I feel I deal with life on a psychological level pretty well.
Ion the same scale for spiritual health I give myself about a 4.5. I do not
feel my spiritual health is where it needs to be. I feel that I am missing
something and that I need to learn how to just stop and relax and how to remove
the negative thoughts with positive thoughts. I also need to figure out how to
reconnect with God and stop feeling like he is after me to make my life
miserable. I would give my physical
health a 9.5 I am in great health and in great shape I work out at least 2
hours a day if not more and I physically feel wonderful.
Goal
development
My psychological goal
is to get things in order a little more. I need to look inside myself a bit
deeper and figure out what I really want in life. I also need to learn how to
deal with my mother without losing my temper on her. She is a very difficult
women to deal with she is not exactly kind and she never gives without
expecting something in return. She is one of those people who lack
loving-kindness. I psychologically need to figure out how to have a normal
relationship with this woman without having the feeling of frustration and
anger every time I speak to her. My
spiritual goal is to get back to church. With summer being over and things
going back to the regularly scheduled program I am will be able to get back in
touch with my spiritual self. I need set time aside daily to just think and
remove the negative thoughts. I also am hoping that going back to church and
meeting with the pastor again that I can game some faith in God. I was always
taught God will never give you more than you can handle but lately I am losing
faith in that belief. He has a plan I
just can’t figure out what it is and I need to sit back and figure out what
that plan is. My physical goal is to
lose some more body fat and become more physically fit. To do this I must go
back to the gym and start lifting weights 5 days a week again. I only lifted 3
days a week in the summer. I also need to change my eating habits. I have added 2 more classes to my fitness
teaching schedule so I am hoping these two classes will also help me accomplish
my goals of losing some of my body fat percentage.
Practices
for Personal Health
In my psychological
growth I should read more. I subscribe to quite a few news letters about health
and wellness and growth and development. These are things I should actually sit
down and read. I have always been interested
in psychology and the way the mind works. I my also go and see a professional
psychologist so that she can help me to see things a bit clearer. So that she
is able to get me on the right path psychologically dealing with my mother and
also dealing with my child who has not had the perfect life and who stresses
about things she should not stress about.
In my spiritual growth I will do the practice of going to church. Going
to church and listening to the pastor speak and often times meeting with the
pastor one on one will help me reconnect with God and figure out what path he
is trying to take me on. I will also try
and start practicing my meditation skills that I was professional trained to do
years ago. For my physical health I will continue to teach my nine plus classes
a week and go to the gym and lift weights 5 days a week. I will also try and
stretch more because I have many muscles that are very tight. I will also start looking for healthier
recipes to make and watch what I am eating.
I often slack on this because I exercise so much that what I eat really
does not matter that much as long as it is not high in fat and in sugar.
Commitment
I will asses myself in
the next six months by asking myself questions.
I will need to ask myself have the goals I made in each aspect of health
been met. For example have I started to
have a “normal” relationship with my mother or do I still get irritated every
time I speak to her? Another example for spiritual health is have I started to
go to church more than once every few months. Do I go at least every other
weekend? My physical health question would be has my body fat percentage
dropped or have I lost any weight? I am
a person that if I set my mind to it and make the goals to do it I will do it.
A good strategy I use is that if I don’t accomplish my goal I usually find some
way to punish myself. I am very hard on myself and not accomplishing a goal
makes me more determined. I will also use the strategy of my daughters school
keeps track of how many times we go to church a quarter. This will let me know
if I have come close to the every other weekend goal. I don’t have a strategy for my physical goal
because it is something I just do as a daily routine. The fact that I get paid to do a lot of it is
great motivation and does not really give me much of an option. It is my job to
be physically fit and I am not in a position where I can quit that job.
References
Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral
health: the path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health
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