It is important for healthcare
professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and
physically so that they can be the best teachers and healers that they can be for their patients and
clients. We have to be good role models to be able to convince others that what we have learned and
achieved ourselves is worth the time and effort for others to follow to also achieve integral health,
authentic happiness, and genuine wholeness. I hope to someday be a great role model for others to
follow, but I have a ways to go before I can help them. I feel that I am making great strides in mind,
body, and spirit, but not enough to be a great teacher for others, as of yet. I am still developing in all
three areas as far as my personal goals are concerned.
In assessing my health, I would say I
am above average. I am about a 7/10 in all three areas
because I feel that I am becoming more proactive about my well-being, by slowly starting to get on
the right track in the past two years or so. I have been consistent with my workouts lately, improved
eating habits, taking vitamins and flaxseed oil daily, quit smoking two years ago, trying to focus more
on meditation and deep breathing exercises, reading versus in the Bible throughout the week, and
changing my attitude towards people and stressful situations that I come acrossed throughout the day.
I feel I have improved in all of these areas lately and I owe most of it to this class and what I have
learned from it.
My goals for each area are physically,
to lose 10 lbs in the next month and to keep improving on
my energy by continuing to be physically active. Mentally, to improve on my attitude by focusing on
the positive of any and every thing and situation and evolve in my ways to lower stress levels when
stressful situations arise by practicing deep breathing exercises and meditation even more in the next
month. The spiritual part is the most difficult for me, but I would like to start praying every evening
by giving thanks for all of the things that I do have in my life and to begin feeling a stronger
connection in a religious sense. I also want to continue to read passages from the Bible more on a
daily basis instead of just randomly throughout the week by keeping it beside my bed.
The strategies that I will be using to
keep me on track for improving my personal health are to
keep a record of my walking and to stick with my routine. We have a program at work that I started
last week called the “Mile Mover” and you record how many miles you walk each month and at the
end of the month you turn it the paper and are entered for a chance to win a monthly raffle. This is
giving me an incentive to walk everyday after work. I also take a pair of shorts with me to work and
change after I clock out and go to the track that is across the street before I go home. This has been
working out quite nicely. I perform upper body strength training as part of my job, so that part is
easy for me. While I am walking I take in nature, by listening to the birds. Part of the track is by the
creek so it is a nice after work stress reliever. Sometimes I will see deer, rabbits, etc. while I am
walking. This also contributes to my mental flourishing with the deep breathing and meditative state I
am in with the natural setting. I then come home and get a shower and then I put on some nature
sounds or music and stretch and sometimes just sit and deep breathe again with the room dimly lit.
The spiritual part is still a work in progress, but when I am walking I do think about how beautiful
everything is outside and how wonderful and intelligent God is for creating all of it, so as you can
see, the walking is very beneficial for me physically, mentally, and spiritually. So, physically the
exercises are walking and upper strength training, psychologically would be meditation and deep
breathing exercises, and spiritually are reading the Bible and prayer.
I will assess my progress in all three
areas by keeping a journal and writing in it on a weekly
basis to keep track of my strengths and weaknesses and focus the following week on improving in
these areas. The strategies I will use will be to keep up my journaling and working on ways to
improve and evolve my mind, body, and spirit until I feel ready to teach others and share my journals
so they can see how I came to be the qualified health and wellness professional that I hope to be
someday.
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