Unit 10

      1. At the beginning of this unit I scored my physical well-being as an 8. I felt that I did a good job in exercising and eating fairly healthy. I felt that to improve my physical well-being that I should make exercise more of a daily routine and shop for healthier foods. I found my spiritual well-being to be a 7. I had started going to church more often and using meditation to help me connect with my inner self. I knew that I still needed to improve my spiritual well-being by using meditation and prayer more often. I found my psychological well-being to be a 7. I have learned how to cope better with stress and how to communicate better with others. I know that there is always room to improve.

      Now I would still rate my physical well-being as an 8. As much as I want to make exercise a routine, and plan to in the near future, there is a lot going on in my life right now. We are in the process of moving and my husband and I just got new jobs. I hope once we get settled again to make exercise a daily routine and buy healthier foods. I would rate my spiritual well-being as an 8. I feel that I have slightly improved here because of everything going on in our lives I know that none of this could be possible without God. Too many things had to fall into place for this move to work out. I pray and read the bible more often. I have an app on my phone in which I read a daily scripture. It really helps me to connect to myself and relate to others. I would rate my psychological well-being as an 8. I feel that I have slightly improved here as well. With many changes going on in my life I just keep looking at all of the positives. For some reason looking at the positives in my life makes all of the negatives just disappear. I can’t even think of anything negative that has happened since I haven’t been looking for them. Thinking positive thoughts really does lead to positive actions, behaviors, and words.

    2. I do not feel that I have reached my physical goals. I wanted to exercise more often and eat less pasta. I do not feel that I have been able to do either. I hope to continue to work on this. I do feel that I have reached my spiritual goals. I have really started to believe in myself and the power of God. I have been able to have more faith in God and believe that he will keep me on the right path. I feel that I have reached my psychological goal in thinking more positively. The power of positive thoughts is amazing. I did not think that this would help me as much as it has. I feel that everything just seems better when you look at the positive in a situation. This leads to positive thoughts, behaviors, and emotions as well as a positive life.

   3. I tried to implement daily exercise by setting a reminder on my phone. Although this did remind me it didn’t help me as much as I thought because I was busy doing other things. I feel that I should try to set aside more time specifically for exercise. I implemented praying and reading scriptures into my life. This just seemed to fit right in. With an app on my phone I can read scriptures from the bible at any time. I wanted to use meditation to help me to relax and connect with my inner self, but I have not found the time. I hope to implement this in the near future. I did implement positive thinking into my daily life. I found this to be very helpful in being happy with myself and others.

    4. Throughout this course I have tried different types of meditation and learned a lot about myself. The meditation exercises were great and allowed me to see that meditation can really help me in reducing my stress and coping with situations. I feel that this course has helped me to better my overall well-being: physically, spiritually, and psychologically. This course helped to put my life into perspective and showed me what was really important in my life. Health is connected to our entire being not just our physical being. To be healthy we must have a physical, spiritual, and psychological wellness. I think that learning about myself and learning different meditation exercises has been very rewarding in my personal life. It has been difficult realizing what I need to change in my life and finding the time to do it. Although you can sit down and make plans of how to better yourself and your health, if you don’t follow through it doesn’t benefit you. Being able to connect with my inner self, using meditation to reduce stress, using prayer and scripture to finding a deeper meaning to life will help me to help others. I hope that seeing how these things have affected my life in such a short period of time will allow me to pass my knowledge onto others. I also think that this will allow me to look at patients differently. I will treat the patient not the symptoms.