~One Final "required" hoorah.... :)

One last required post to this blog within the scope of the Creating Wellness, the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing Course from Kaplan University and then it is up to me to follow through or trail off into the sunset.  It is my hopes to add an update to my own personal journey every now and then......we'll see.....

To all my fellow peers...it is with all sincerity that I wish for each and every one of you a life of peace, hope, and true happiness in every aspect of your lives.  Whether you find this defined place of "flourishing" or simply your idea of the life you want to live and are content with that, only you can judge or justify.  Never compare yourself or your life by the definitions from others....Live, Love, Learn and Grow at your pace, and within your own personal definition.      All My Respect and Love!      Sandy  

In response to the following course questions.....

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?

In week three of this course we assessed our well-being in three areas (look back, it’s there J ), at this time I believe I would still rate my psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being at a 6 yet my understanding of what to do about it is now about a 7 or 8 where then it would have been about a 4.  The journey to integral health is not an okay I’ve arrived place to be….it is a journey throughout a lifetime, so therefore I have taken only baby steps within this past 10 weeks into a life that obviously cannot, with any intention or intelligence, be attained just that quickly.  One step forward and two steps sideways…. J   I am enjoying the path and am not arrogant enough to think I have found the finish line.  While participating in the practices that this course has led me to, I will research everything else I can find regarding integral health and healing and move forward with the natural progression of someone that is intent on actually growing wiser and healthier.

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

I do believe I have made progress with all the goals I have set for myself in regards to the journey to live a life positive and intentional towards integral health in that I am actually plotting the course instead of just reading and thinking about it still.  This is all a process and will take longer than the span of a 10 week course.

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

I continue to exercise and eat better yet I have not begun the Tai Chi or Yoga classes as of yet and I continue to work on my spiritual being in the ways that I have been without looking into a course regarding spirituality as of yet.  My psychospiritual/psychological areas I have worked with the contemplative exercise practices on and will continue.

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?

 I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and feel I am better off because of taking it, yet it is still all new and I do not feel that I can guide others (my clients) to this way of life just yet (outside of knowing now that there is more and that I will someday be able to explain it better).  It is very hard to teach, re-train or change the mind of a lifetime of thinking and believing overnight with the information of just one course.  I think everyone expects the excitement of a new student to drip over into their private lives and career without anyone really taking them seriously yet so…..I will continue to research this path and live the example. Then when others want to know or actively seek out the secret, I can explain to them what it is I Know that they do not.  Of course I will use the portion of the course that has taught me to listen to each and every person with more intent yet, I do not want to try and talk anyone into this way of thinking, I want them to seek it out, appreciate its teachings and resonate in their beings which will make them want it even more.