This week’s assignment is
to reflect
on my overall Spiritual, Psychological, and Physical wellness
and rate it from
1-10, 10 being optimal.
Personally, I am not really sure how
to answer that….
Optimal...compared to whom?
To me....I am relatively okay. I believe I am a well rounded
individual who is closer to my God now than ever before, I have no real health
problems yet could stand to improve physically, and although not without my
bumps and bruises from life’s lessons over the years, I remain sitting firmly on this side of the
rubber room, so overall I’m thinking a solid 6. HaHa
However I think the question is
trying to go a bit deeper and I just do not have it in me to dig at this time.
Over the last few years I have been on a personal journey of
transformation. I am gaining knowledge through the courses I take at Kaplan in many different areas and am gaining personal and professional
insights and wisdom through my career as well as personal life (both of which
are submerged in human services). Developing
my knowledge in the areas of psychology, behavior (others’ as well as my own), spiritual
growth, well being, fitness, aging, happiness and many more are helping me grow
as an individual which in turn helps me help others.
My goal for psychological,
spiritual, and physical wellness is to continue on my educational path of
knowledge and growth. I believe the knowledge I am gaining helps my
confidence and self esteem which in turn improves my overall psychological
wellbeing as well as my physical and spiritual wellbeing seeing that the mind,
body, and spirit are interconnected. I work out regularly and plan to continue
and even increase my physical fitness training over the next few months. I struggle with my spiritual growth yet have
increased prayer and overall time I spend in search of a relationship with
God over the past few years. I have to become more intentional and
plan to add meditation or time to “be still” to my day with the intention of
growing in this area.
I am going to be intentional in my
desire for integral health and be conscious and mindful to acknowledge that my life
is unique, precious, and worthy and that human life in general holds unique and precious
opportunities. I am going to cultivate
an attitude of loving-kindness everyday (I believe this is one area where my
reactive awareness shows up and shows out regularly). Although I display loving-kindness to all
people respectfully and regularly I still react poorly to life’s “bumps” and
the poor behaviors of others which then in turn puts me back in a bad place
within my personal growth and integral health. I plan on working harder to not be
reactive conscious and strive harder for unity consciousness and finally I will
find time daily to sit in silence and contemplate life and love, peace, and
joy, and integral health and healing to increase my life experience and level
of consciousness.
Participating in the relaxation
exercise for class this week was enjoyable and peaceful. The title “The Crime of the Century” left me
bewildered. I am not really sure I
understand the title, hmmm I wonder now if I was in the correct place at all…oh
well, the good thing about relaxation is that is tends to (at least for the
moment) give you a sense of “who cares, I’m relaxed and at peace with it” J Regardless of
whether I was in the correct exercise or not, the relaxation exercise that I
participated in was successful in helping me focus my energy, to think positive
affirming thoughts about myself and to relax my spirit which in turn helps me
to return to the responsibilities of my life with a renewed sense of peace and
joy which is the purpose of meditation, relaxations, and focusing energy to begin with.
I am on a journey....
and the exciting part about it is that it can go in a wonderfully new direction and change daily, and that the power is in my thoughts and actions to make it do so.
