The End - Complete Health and Wellnesss

1. Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas . How did you score yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? How do you score yourself now? Has the score changed? Why or why not?

Unit 3:

Psychological – rated a 6

Physical – rated a 6

Spiritual – rated a 8

Unit 10

Psychological – rated a 9

Put what I’ve learn in this course to work for me, by mediation and prayer and coming to realize that my health and wellness is for the most part, in my own hands.  I can make a difference in my own and others wellness!

Physical – rated a 6

This is still a work in progress…finding the time is my problems and I am all to willing to put that workout on the back burner.  This is still and area that I must learn to make high on my “to do” list.

Spiritual – rated a 9

There is always room to grow closer to my God.  There is always something he can show me and I’m must be willing to be open to he will.

2. Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.

I have made progress in all areas.  But as I’ve note above there is always room for improvement.

3. Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.

The goals set in Unit 3 are:

Psychological – “Learn to be still and become more grateful, forgiving, and thankful.  Yes, I have learned to be still and it is truly a beautiful thing, my life has improved greatly just by becoming more grateful, even through the tough times. 

Physical – To workout 5-6 days a week- No I haven’t made it to 5-6 time a week but I have continued to workout at least 3 time a week for longer periods of time.  (From 15 minutes to 30).

Spiritual – To continue to grow in Christ – Yes, with the learning to be still I have also gain the time needed to be with Christ daily.

4. Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. Have you developed improved well-being? What has been rewarding? What has been difficult? How will this experience improve your ability to assist others?

My personal experience throughout this course is one of gaining peace of mind and a wonderful sense of empowerment.  Knowing that I’m in control of much of my health and healing is quiet a sense of freedom.  Some of the mediation practices were difficult and first but just because they were unfamiliar and at times my mind was unwilling to focus, but I suppose that everyone has to start from somewhere.  I think that when I deal with others information that I have gained in the course will become even more important as I deal with my own health and helping them gain their own.

Thanks to everyone for their help in my gaining true peace.

Darlene

Human Flourishing

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Thanks,
Darlene

"Mental Fitness"

Hello Everyone:

Has I begin to think of the different exercises and practice sessions that I’ve completed in this course and try to choose only two of them that I’ve profited from, it was hard to choose because I’ve gained much from each one.  But sense I have to choose just two I would have to say that “The Loving-Kindness” and “Integral Practice-Life-as-Practice” has taught me the most.  Learning how to set realistic goals and reaching for them, and knowing that it is the action of running the race, not winning the race that counts.  One may not always reach the goals, one set, but making the effort to reach them with intent, which becomes most important.  If I do not reach my set goals maybe I set the bar to high, or not high enough, that is were the reassessment comes in;  learn for my mistakes and see them as chances for my personal growth and not a mountain I can’t climb.

I have chosen to use these in my goals to loose weight and stop smoking.  These both could be overwhelming goals to overcome, when I’ve had them in my life for a long time, but by setting small goals and making sure to “pat myself” on the back for each small goals reached I insure my success.  I’ve begin with the “I can” statement instead of a “I can’t statement.”  “I can eat more vegetables.”  I can do a fast-paced walk for 15 minutes a day.”  “I can smoke 5 less cigarette a day.” 

What do you guys think?

Thanks,

Darlene

“Mind: A Waterfall or Lazy-River?”

    While doing the "Meeting Asciepius" I chose to view Jesus, He is the only person I choose meditate on.  He is my healer, my teacher, my savoir and my friend.  I choose to love my neighbor and my enemies as he tell us to and walk as he walk in love.  Most days I try to begin my day with this meditation just before I’m fully awake and at the end of my day, right before I go to sleep.  I have found that in doing this my day and sleep are much more peaceful.  And I tend to be less hateful to those around me, because if Jesus loves me and I choose to walk as He walked…I must learn to forgive and love other as well.

     Mindfulness has fostered a great calming effect on my whole person.  I’m much less crabby and judgmental of others and I’m a much more giving person.  I can now give more to others because I have more to give because I can never give more than Jesus has given to me.

      How can I show someone else how to get to the place of love, and peace if I haven’t been there?  If I have never been sad, lost, unhappy, how could I relate to those who are going through these things.  I know that in my profession as a Health and Wellness life coach I will be able to help other with weight issues because I’ve been there, I can help people with a lot of mental issues because I know where their coming from. 

Thanks,

Darlene

The Integral Assessment - Flourishing

Loving-Kindness:

I’m finding the more that I practice this meditation exercise the easier it is.  I coming to understand that practicing this is more helpful in my daily relationships and the very day task that use to be boring or unfulfilling have meaning.  As I’m cooking, and cleaning, working out and shopping---my day is more focused on others and finding ways to “do” things for others.  Hold that door for the next person coming through, grabbing the shopping cart to put away for the lady who seems to be in a rush, saying a prayer for the cabby guy in the line in front of me at the post office.  I can truly state that my road rage has come down bunches!  ;-)

Integral Assessment:

This was very exciting for me!  I loved this exercise; I love lists and order so this is right up my ally.  I’m always making mini-wish-lists for the areas of my life I’m feeling “empty” in. 

This assessment is highly personal and very changing depending on what is going on in one’s life.  We use our understanding of the four quadrants, lines and levels of development to begin a formal assessment of one self.  What can we do to improve the four quadrants, psychospiritual, and biological, interpersonal and worldly –how can we further develop the lines into higher levels of being.

What do we need to improve and/or change? 

As I practice this new program I found that I was indeed lacking in my worldly quadrant.  I founded that I can improve in my biological area and my psychospiritual and interpersonal quadrants are now being improved.  The exercises that I could do to improve in my biological area are:  Self-regulation went it come to fitness and continue to maintain a healthy diet and quit smoking.  The exercises that I could do to improve my worldly area is become more involved social activism.

I know this list will change and grow as I learn to “see” inward and view others as the precious being that that are and come to know myself as someone who is becoming.

Love and Peace to all:

Darlene

Mental Fitness Power Point Presentation Unit 5

A Subtle Mind

Hello To All:

            As I compare the Loving Kindness exercise and the Subtle mind exercise I find that I liked the Subtle mind exercise better than the Loving Kindness.  It was easier for me to stay focused by using my breath and the ocean sound was nice and relaxing.  It could be that I’m becoming more accustomed to meditation in this form, but I found the Subtle mind was easier to follow.

            Even before this class the realization that everything is connected was true for me, if I was off in any one area of my wellness I wasn’t complete in all of them.  I believe that we are a spirit, we have a mind, and we live in a body, if one area is off balance than it will so up in one or both of the others.

Thanks,

Darlene