For the unit
three blog we were asked to take a moment to reflect on your own level of wellness;
physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of
1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical
wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?
A.
When
it comes to my physical well-being I would rate it a 6.5. I say this because I really
don’t have good habits when it comes to my diet. I went to the doctor a few
days ago and I was told that I shouldn’t weigh as much as I do for my age. I try
to eat healthy but it’s just hard seeing that I’m not at home I’m always at
work so it’s just easier to go and grab some fast food. The one thing that I am
doing well with though is eating a lot of chips and candy and drinking soda, I have
cut back on those items. Also I don’t really get much physical activity. Before
I started working I used to go outside and walk around from the time I went out
to the time I came back in, since there wasn’t anything else to do but walk and
talk. Now I don’t even get to walk for an hour if thirty minutes.
B.
When
it comes to my spiritual well-being I would rate it at an 8. I do believe in a
higher power. I love going to church, but when I started working I barely got Sundays
off for me to go to church any more. Then I moved to Mississippi with my
boyfriend and he doesn’t go so when I do get a Sunday off I still do not get a
chance to go to church. To help with that though I will go to my gospel station
on Pandora and just listen to that all day. I also pray but I need to do that
more often though I don’t do it as much as I would want to. Over all I am a strong believer when it comes
to spirituality when I am having problems I put it in gods hand because I have
faith in him and I believe that the will help me through any and everything.
C.
My
psychological well being would be rated a 5. I have come to find myself being
stressed out a lot with so many things on my mind. To help with the stress
though I do try to write about in a notebook that I have just for that purpose.
I do try to find time to be alone and have quiet time to just relax and get
things off my mind, but it is hard to do that when staying with somebody who
wants to have company a lot. On the other hand though I do many puzzles like
playing ruzzle, word search, and what’s the word. I do keep myself thinking a
lot though so I keep my brain active with some positives things.
I put the
next two questions together: develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological) and what
activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving
toward each goal
A.
My goal for my
physical well-being is to lose some weight (50 pounds for now). I want to be
able to find time to do some type of physical activity. I was just talking to a
friend last night and I told him I wanted to start going to a gym and he said
that he would go with me. When I talked to him again today he asked when we
were going to start going so I think he is going to help me out with that goal.
My next goal is to start eating better.
B.
My goal for my
spiritual well-being is to start going back to church real soon even if that
means waking my boyfriend up on Sunday mornings and requesting Sundays off at
work.
C.
My goal for my
psychological well-being is to stay stress free as much as I can. I can do this
by writing in my notebook more when something is bothering me and finding me a
quiet place to just go and meditate even if that means to go sit in the car.
The last thing to
be done was to complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. Describe
your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.).
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I love doing these
relaxation exercises but this I just couldn’t concentrate. I’m sick so it’s
already hard for me to breathe so I couldn’t really relax and get into the exercise
the way that I wanted to. Also my phone was on vibrate and it kept ringing so
it was distracting me. I am going to have to try this exercise again when I am
not sick because the last two that I actually got to do I enjoyed them and I was
really able to relax.
Margaret,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger, I suffered from these night terrors. My doctor at the time was kind of one of these holistic sort of doctors. I wasn't young enough to really understand what that meant, but he gave me a cassette that had two sides of two exercises that you could do awake or sleeping. He told me to do them while I was sleeping. One side was a boring garden story, where you imagined being different species in a garden - much as this one had us imagine rainbows flinging out of us. The other side was a space story. You visited three planets. It's really amazing. I was young enough that the flutter of what I needed to do during the time I was doing these exercises didn't interrupt me, and since I did it right before bed, I was able to drift into a solid sleep that eventually chased away my terrors because I was able to create my own scenario consciously in the beginning.
Like you, this week (and last week) I couldn't focus. I had way too much going on to just pay attention - even though nothing was pushed. I have this issue where if I "stop" during the day, my mind reminds me what else I COULD be doing. Which is what happened yesterday when I was doing this relaxation exercise.
It made me think about my cassette and when I listened to it. I wonder if we listen to it at night before we go to sleep if we won't not only benefit from a relaxed sleep, but if we might be able to focus on it better since at the end of the day, we're done anyway?
Hi Margaret, I have decided to use a journal this past week. It sounds like a great way to set your stress and frustrations free from your mind. I use to keep a note pad or journal beside my bed at night when I had insomnia. Whatever was keeping me from going to sleep and was rattling around in my head I would write down so I did not have to think about it anymore and I would sleep like a baby afterwards.
ReplyDeleteMy home is filled with so many people, my daughter and her spouse, her children (19 month old grand-daughter and my sweet little 4 year old grandson...he is autistic and a little loud in the house, my 18 year son, my husband and myself. This home is not necessarily conducive to relaxation exercises and I have found I will need to do these exercises when no one is home. Trying to finagle that is really going to be hard! I read Sommer's post above and I have to agree that maybe the only time I might be able to succeed at this is when it is time to go to bed!
Hi Margaret, I had just one quick comment on one of your goals. I have done the weight loss thing. At one time I use to weigh in at 230 pounds and then lost about 103 pounds. This took me over ten years to do and I just wanted to mention that because I made that a goal and broke it up into blocks of achievable targets. Mind you I still have to work at it and it seems my weight issues are cyclical and it probably has a lot to do with my endocrine issues, however if you set your mind up to do something important you can achieve anything your mind believes it can do!
ReplyDeleteHello Margaret,
ReplyDeleteI noticed that you are not super thrilled with your physical being may I suggest taking up a sport or activity you enjoy? It may be that you will find a public class that you enjoy- you may even help lower your stress! I also write in a notebook from time to time and zone out listening to music when I am filling super overwhelmed singing praise helps me refocus.
Brandy (=
Hello Margaret! I really enjoyed reading your ratings. I think you have some very good goals that you can accomplish.Like most of us, we almost always have so much on our mind and so many tasks to get accomplished, we barely take time out for ourselves. I believe you are going in the right direction by writing in your journal about your feelings that you had for the day. Its probably a good stress reliever, and this is something I think I might try to relieve stress.
ReplyDeleteHey There Margaret
ReplyDeleteI am pleased to meet you I have been reading some of your post and it seems to me you are much like myself, some times it is hard to pull your mind into one place , This unit 8 on visualization and meditation is a place most people find very difficult to imagine should I say good things in life that bring you to Human Flourishing that sudstain you in Health, Happiness, and Wholeness.that bring the mind to experience a sense of wholenes, oneness, connection, and to flow in it is a true challenge. You are doing Great :)