Unit 9

Introductions:

Health and Wellness is the basics of human life.  Many people strive to achieve this complete health and wellness, throughout their lives.  For a professional in the health and wellness field the need to practices the areas of psychological, spiritual, and physical.  This creates a relationship between professional and client.  A relationship of trust, a bond of understanding, and respect. 

I believe that I will need to continue on this path for the rest of my life.  That each day learning more about me and those around me will create my own happiness and my own peace.  Participating in yoga classes, meditation sessions, physical exercises, and nutritional consciousness. 

Assessment:

My own health in each of these domains, I would score at a 5 (on a scale of 1 to 10).  I say this because I know I need to grow in each of the categories (psychological, spiritual and physical).  I feel as though we never really done learning about ourselves, our lives, and our bodies.  There is always room for improvement. 

Goals:

Physical:  To become physically fit and finally lose the weight I have struggled with for the last 10 years.

Psychological:  Continue to flourish.  To develop into a women who I and my family can be proud of. 

Spiritual:  To become in touch with my Angels, who are guiding me down this path of wellness.  To learn how to see to the signs and messages they provide to me.  To pass those messages along to who they belong to.

Practices and Personal Health:

I want to begin running again.  I enjoy being alone out in the park with just my thoughts (and my ipod).  Seeing my physical accomplishments as each day I run a little longer a little further.  Creating a clean eating environment will help to cleanse my body of processed foods and unwanted chemicals.  Participating in yoga classes, allows my mind and body to sync together.  Stopping and seeing the beauty of the day and how glorious it truly beautiful this Earth is.

Commitment:

Over the next six months I plain on taking it one week at a time.  Scheduling time alone for me.  Alone meaning, my time at the gym, or my time in the kitchen (baking healthy treats), or my time at the park.  Accepting that it is ok for “me” time.  Excepting that I am not “super women”, that I cannot do ever all I have placed on my own plate.  Sometimes less is more.      

Week 8!

I have to say that the practices that we have tried, that I find to be beneficial are Loving Kindness and Subtle Mind.  For me it is easy to do the Loving Kindness.  I am the person and smiles at you at the grocery store.  Perhaps its to make you wonder why I am smiling at you, or make you wonder what I am up too.  Here in New Jersey, people don't often smile without a reason.  So I guess its just me screwing with others minds (LOL).  But maybe they will pay it forward, and smile at the next person.  As for Subtle mind, I have a little harder time doing, but I do it.  It just doesn't come naturally.  But I continue to think positive, and try to make all things have a positive outlook.

I know that I have changed since starting this class.  Yesterday afternoon, my car broke down. Of course I was 40 mins from home, husband at work, and the kids needed picked up from school.  Rather then have a complete stress meltdown. I called the husband, who was able to come and rescue me, I text my oldest who was planning on walking home from school anyway (our district doesn't provide bus service), and he was more then happy to walk to his sister school, and bring her home for me.  Everything fell into place.  Prior to this I would have cried and screams, and been all sorts of depressed.  Amazing how much a person can grow is such a short amount of time.