Can't believe we all made it through the term. I have learned a lot about this course and by reading other peers' blogs. It was very interesting to see that some of you already implemented meditation daily. Even though, I did not have much changes toward my health and wellness, but I'm looking forward to keep on trying to implement some practices if not all. With just a slight experience that I had, I love the relaxation feelings and be able to take control. I've been stressed out for so long, it is time for me to experience integral health.
I guess like the time when I was doing my MA internship; it was an amazing experience that I could not explain. It was a feeling that I never felt before. I finally, found a career that I love waking up to go and excited to meat new faces and learn new things. When I was left alone to start taking patient back to an exam room, it was like a feeling that I was meant to do the job, helping the sick and helpless. When I'm their helping them, I had no worries and think of nothing but caring for the patients. It felt like I had taken a big load off my shoulders. I mean, could that have been me experiencing integral health?
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Health and Wellness
Introduction:
It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically because of what they have to encounter each day trying to treat and help others in developing their psychological, spiritual, and physical well being. To be a successful healer they must follow what they teach and preach. I need to develop spiritually and physically towards achieving my goals. The lack of exercise is making me feel depress about my appearances and at the same time bringing down my spiritual experiences.
Assessment:
I assessed my health in each domain by evaluating my feeling towards them. What I’m feeling each day gives me an insight on what I need to work on. From the score of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worse and 10 being the best, this how I rank wellness: Spiritually, I give it a 3, because at least I have the thoughts of wanting to help others and my career as a Medical Assistant proves that. I know that I need to be more motivated to pursuing what I have planned. Physical well being, I give it a 4 because I did made the effort to changing my diet by eating healthier and not eating late. I have also cut down on alcohol by occasionally drinking. I might have changed my diet but I still need to work on exercising. I’m going on my third week with this cough, which is preventing me from working out. I score my psychological well being to be a 8 because I cannot commit myself to implementing the other two practices. As much stress as I’m going through, I managed to move on. As much time as I have to hear my family making fun of my weight, I managed to ignored them and turn the other way. Believe me, sometimes I want to respond back, but I kept my mind straight and just say “it’s not worth it, I will show them that I can lose this weight.”
Goal Development:
My physical goal is to lose weight by the time summer gets here. I want to at least fit into my size five jeans again or return to my normal 95 lb weight. Psychologically, my goal is to pass my CMA certification. My spiritual goal is to implement meditation as part of my daily routine.
Practices for Personal Health:
Physical, I tend to walk on the treadmill three times a day for at least 30 minutes and continue eating healthy. In addition, I’m taking a diet supplement to enhance my energy level. Psychological, I will make the effort to finding a job that I will enjoy doing and continue my education later in the future. Spiritual, I need to attend church and implement meditation. Perhaps, I should join a volunteer team in order to get my spiritual up.
Commitment:
To assess my progress or lack of progress, I will probably keep a log book handy. I will record each day, by time, what needs to be done and then I would check it off. If for any reasons, I did not complete a certain task, I would either find a way to complete that tasks before the day is over or just double up on the work the following day.
It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically because of what they have to encounter each day trying to treat and help others in developing their psychological, spiritual, and physical well being. To be a successful healer they must follow what they teach and preach. I need to develop spiritually and physically towards achieving my goals. The lack of exercise is making me feel depress about my appearances and at the same time bringing down my spiritual experiences.
Assessment:
I assessed my health in each domain by evaluating my feeling towards them. What I’m feeling each day gives me an insight on what I need to work on. From the score of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worse and 10 being the best, this how I rank wellness: Spiritually, I give it a 3, because at least I have the thoughts of wanting to help others and my career as a Medical Assistant proves that. I know that I need to be more motivated to pursuing what I have planned. Physical well being, I give it a 4 because I did made the effort to changing my diet by eating healthier and not eating late. I have also cut down on alcohol by occasionally drinking. I might have changed my diet but I still need to work on exercising. I’m going on my third week with this cough, which is preventing me from working out. I score my psychological well being to be a 8 because I cannot commit myself to implementing the other two practices. As much stress as I’m going through, I managed to move on. As much time as I have to hear my family making fun of my weight, I managed to ignored them and turn the other way. Believe me, sometimes I want to respond back, but I kept my mind straight and just say “it’s not worth it, I will show them that I can lose this weight.”
Goal Development:
My physical goal is to lose weight by the time summer gets here. I want to at least fit into my size five jeans again or return to my normal 95 lb weight. Psychologically, my goal is to pass my CMA certification. My spiritual goal is to implement meditation as part of my daily routine.
Practices for Personal Health:
Physical, I tend to walk on the treadmill three times a day for at least 30 minutes and continue eating healthy. In addition, I’m taking a diet supplement to enhance my energy level. Psychological, I will make the effort to finding a job that I will enjoy doing and continue my education later in the future. Spiritual, I need to attend church and implement meditation. Perhaps, I should join a volunteer team in order to get my spiritual up.
Commitment:
To assess my progress or lack of progress, I will probably keep a log book handy. I will record each day, by time, what needs to be done and then I would check it off. If for any reasons, I did not complete a certain task, I would either find a way to complete that tasks before the day is over or just double up on the work the following day.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Contemplative Practices
Hi everyone!
Because I have not been trying hard enough to practice these exercises, I could not find one that works best for me. When in distress, the only method I've used was "creative visualization". This helps me to pursue my dreams and get what I desire most. At the beginning I do found them to be beneficial but I could never completely go through with the whole practice and be able to experience its power. However, I will not stop trying and I would like to find more soothing sounds to help me continue practicing these exercises.
I think right now I'm going through, what they call a seasonal depression. I'm ready for these cold, gloomy weather to be over with. Because I'm not working and feel no reasons to wake up early, I want to be stuck in bed under the warm covers. The only reasons I had to get up for are school work, laundry, cook for my kids, and use the restroom. I was babysitting my baby niece, but since her mom was unable to keep a job down, she has not been coming. At least she kept me busy for a while there. I planned on joining a volunteer team, but have not come around to start that either because of transportation issue.
I want to be able to at least accomplish some of these practices if not all. I've decided after completing my bachelor, I want to discontinue my education and find work so I can build up my financial stability. If things goes as plan, I will continue my education.
Because I have not been trying hard enough to practice these exercises, I could not find one that works best for me. When in distress, the only method I've used was "creative visualization". This helps me to pursue my dreams and get what I desire most. At the beginning I do found them to be beneficial but I could never completely go through with the whole practice and be able to experience its power. However, I will not stop trying and I would like to find more soothing sounds to help me continue practicing these exercises.
I think right now I'm going through, what they call a seasonal depression. I'm ready for these cold, gloomy weather to be over with. Because I'm not working and feel no reasons to wake up early, I want to be stuck in bed under the warm covers. The only reasons I had to get up for are school work, laundry, cook for my kids, and use the restroom. I was babysitting my baby niece, but since her mom was unable to keep a job down, she has not been coming. At least she kept me busy for a while there. I planned on joining a volunteer team, but have not come around to start that either because of transportation issue.
I want to be able to at least accomplish some of these practices if not all. I've decided after completing my bachelor, I want to discontinue my education and find work so I can build up my financial stability. If things goes as plan, I will continue my education.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Life as Practice
We become who we are, according to what we feed our mind and body.
I've been down lately and I could sure use these exercise to change my mood. I just find it hard to practice them because every time I was able to get my mind into it someone comes knocking or shouting in front of my door. I just enjoy the soothing sound that was played at the beginning of each session. I found it very relaxing and it could put me easily to sleep. I'm going to make it an effort to practice these exercises as part of my daily routine. I never meditate before so this is going to be quite a challenge for me. By making this my priority, I believe my health and wellness will improve greatly.
The saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", is like saying how can you teach and preach others when you, don't practice them yourself. This saying applies to health and wellness greatly. If I was the patient, I would rather have someone who knows what their doing tells me what needs to be done. If a health care worker was to teach and educate me about a health plan process, then it is best that they do practice the same plan. It is like going to a restaurant and seeing an overweight person putting in a huge order, but asked for a diet drink. How much difference can that one diet drink do for the body versus the huge order of food?
I don't think I should feel obligated to want my clients to develop the same well-being. A person can only do so much to help someone. It has to work both ways for the practitioners and clients. The practitioners should do all that they can to the extent they were taught and the clients should be willing to comply with instructions. As a Medical Assistant, I could only do so much to help my patient.
I think I have been implementing psychological development daily. My brain has been put to work from the time I wake up until I rest at night. Yet, I still need to work harder on my spiritual development. I think the reason I have been down is because I lack this development in my life. Lately I just don't have the energy or wanting to do anything.
I've been down lately and I could sure use these exercise to change my mood. I just find it hard to practice them because every time I was able to get my mind into it someone comes knocking or shouting in front of my door. I just enjoy the soothing sound that was played at the beginning of each session. I found it very relaxing and it could put me easily to sleep. I'm going to make it an effort to practice these exercises as part of my daily routine. I never meditate before so this is going to be quite a challenge for me. By making this my priority, I believe my health and wellness will improve greatly.
The saying "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself", is like saying how can you teach and preach others when you, don't practice them yourself. This saying applies to health and wellness greatly. If I was the patient, I would rather have someone who knows what their doing tells me what needs to be done. If a health care worker was to teach and educate me about a health plan process, then it is best that they do practice the same plan. It is like going to a restaurant and seeing an overweight person putting in a huge order, but asked for a diet drink. How much difference can that one diet drink do for the body versus the huge order of food?
I don't think I should feel obligated to want my clients to develop the same well-being. A person can only do so much to help someone. It has to work both ways for the practitioners and clients. The practitioners should do all that they can to the extent they were taught and the clients should be willing to comply with instructions. As a Medical Assistant, I could only do so much to help my patient.
I think I have been implementing psychological development daily. My brain has been put to work from the time I wake up until I rest at night. Yet, I still need to work harder on my spiritual development. I think the reason I have been down is because I lack this development in my life. Lately I just don't have the energy or wanting to do anything.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Universal Loving Kindness/Integral Assessment
After viewing these contemplative practices, I discover that they already exist within me. It seems like these practices would benefit those who do not experience such feelings. If I was to use the audio as a stress management, it would benefit me in another way. But if these exercises are meant for me to experience health, happiness, and wholeness, I'm not feeling that I have accomplished these wisdom. Even when I truly know that I'm someone who have a big heart, open minded, love, and compassion.
That is why nursing have always been my career of choice. I remember, when I first heard how I would have to go out to externship in order to pass the MA course; I was afraid at first, but the staff at the clinic, where I was at made me felt welcomed and I grew to love my job and enjoy serving the people. You can say, what I was doing gave me the sense of health, happiness, and wholeness. It was a feeling that I never felt before. Having those feelings, tells me, that is the job for me.
Psychospiritual development is essential to growth and development. It expands our consciousness by strengthening our capacity for attention, focusing our intention, revealing a penetrating wisdom, opening our heart, and brings to life the qualities of human flourishing. Even if we can achieve some or none of these wisdom, we can still grow in our own ways and flourish.
Reference:
Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Page 106. Laguna Beach, CA. Basic Health Publications, Inc.
That is why nursing have always been my career of choice. I remember, when I first heard how I would have to go out to externship in order to pass the MA course; I was afraid at first, but the staff at the clinic, where I was at made me felt welcomed and I grew to love my job and enjoy serving the people. You can say, what I was doing gave me the sense of health, happiness, and wholeness. It was a feeling that I never felt before. Having those feelings, tells me, that is the job for me.
Psychospiritual development is essential to growth and development. It expands our consciousness by strengthening our capacity for attention, focusing our intention, revealing a penetrating wisdom, opening our heart, and brings to life the qualities of human flourishing. Even if we can achieve some or none of these wisdom, we can still grow in our own ways and flourish.
Reference:
Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Page 106. Laguna Beach, CA. Basic Health Publications, Inc.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Subtle Mind
With so many things going on at the same time in my life, I need to try to apply these exercise as part of my routine. I was not even half way done with the exercise, I got a nasty static on my CD that I could not complete the exercise. It nearly blew my ear drum out. My MA certification exam is in March and I need to study for that along with keeping up with my school work. I think I could sure use some kind of relaxation right now.
Spiritual, mental, and physical well-being have connections toward one another in some ways. First, lets start with our mind, our mental capability allows us to control what we want to do and achieve in life. We set goals to assist us in pointing to the right direction. Spiritually, our mind asks us how bad we want to achieve this goal and to what extent we will go to get there? This will give us motivation and will power towards our spiritual well being. Physically, we have to maintain a good health, so we can be strong enough to reach our goals. So, it begins with our mind to control each one of these well being. It is like a connection, I need to do this to get there, and if this doesn't happen then I won't reach my destination. As I'm explaining this, this is the way how they are manifested in my personal life.
Spiritual, mental, and physical well-being have connections toward one another in some ways. First, lets start with our mind, our mental capability allows us to control what we want to do and achieve in life. We set goals to assist us in pointing to the right direction. Spiritually, our mind asks us how bad we want to achieve this goal and to what extent we will go to get there? This will give us motivation and will power towards our spiritual well being. Physically, we have to maintain a good health, so we can be strong enough to reach our goals. So, it begins with our mind to control each one of these well being. It is like a connection, I need to do this to get there, and if this doesn't happen then I won't reach my destination. As I'm explaining this, this is the way how they are manifested in my personal life.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sharing Love & Kindness
It was hard for me to practice loving-kindness exercise, when it is already part of my personality. For those who treated me wrong; I don't hate them, I'm not mad at them, and I don't hold any grudges against them. My feeling towards them just stays still in silence. I have nothing to say to them as long as they leave me alone. It is pointless to hold any grudges, why waste your life on something not worth it. I did try the exercise, where you take in the bad things of a love one and release it. When doing this, I thought of my sisters. I wanted to be able to take those pain away from them but all I can do is be supportive towards any decisions that they make for themselves or their kids.
The concepts of mental workout is somewhat like physical exercise. Your body needs to stay in balance and fit. When you treat your body right, in return you gain energy, good health, and great figure. Like your brain, it needs to be feed with many positive thoughts, relax so it won't overload, and equilibrium. Exercising your mind through meditation is a good method. It is like organizing your thinking, that way you can better look at things and be clear with what you want to achieve in life.
Mental training can transform the mind by disturbing emotions that cause anger, hatred, fear, worry, confusion, and doubt while enhancing positive emotions such as patience, loving-kindness, openness, acceptance, and happiness. Even though these contemplative practice does not work on me; I would love to try them on others. Maybe beginning with my boyfriend, he can sure use them in his life. Is it even possible that some on these good deeds would rub off from me and pass on to him?
The concepts of mental workout is somewhat like physical exercise. Your body needs to stay in balance and fit. When you treat your body right, in return you gain energy, good health, and great figure. Like your brain, it needs to be feed with many positive thoughts, relax so it won't overload, and equilibrium. Exercising your mind through meditation is a good method. It is like organizing your thinking, that way you can better look at things and be clear with what you want to achieve in life.
Mental training can transform the mind by disturbing emotions that cause anger, hatred, fear, worry, confusion, and doubt while enhancing positive emotions such as patience, loving-kindness, openness, acceptance, and happiness. Even though these contemplative practice does not work on me; I would love to try them on others. Maybe beginning with my boyfriend, he can sure use them in his life. Is it even possible that some on these good deeds would rub off from me and pass on to him?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Health and Wellness
I am aware that my physical well being (1) is unbalance. I'm constantly feeling tired that I have no motivation to getting things done as I have them prioritize. Then I would rush myself at the last minute getting my school work done. For as long as I remember, I never had breakfast or lunch, towards the end of the day I would stuff myself and go to sleep on a full stomach. Even though I hate doing it, I could not change my habit. Ever since my lay off, I have been sleeping late and would not wake up until late afternoon. I keep telling myself I need to loose this weight by summer but keep holding off on exercising. The more weight I gain the more miserable and irritated I become.
I have the thoughts of wanting to get involve with the community and helping others, but like always my spiritual well being (3) does not give me enough inspiration to make me take any actions upon accomplishing theses goals. I remember once when I was a teenager, I volunteered at a church for the foods on wheel charity. We would deliver hot meals to homeless people, even through rainy days. By doing that I had the sense of happiness and wholeness.
Through these chaotic time, I would give myself a 5 on psychological well being. From the last treatment I had back in 2007 for depression, I have not had any nervous breakdown yet and I'm refusing to take any medications. At some points my depression would get so bad that crazy thoughts would float around in my head. Yes, even though I'm aware of this I still refuse further treatment. Everything that I do now, I'm reflecting it upon my kids. After my divorce, they are all I got, so they are my medicine towards healing.
My goals so far for these aspects are as follow: slim down by summer and be more energetic; have more selective healthy foods; be more motivated and supportive; become a volunteer at one of the local hospital; and get involve with the community more often. To move toward these goals, I plan on joining the YMCA along with my children or start using the treadmill 3 times a day. I will change my eating and sleeping habits. I should implement some relaxation techniques and stress management methods to raise my self esteem higher and maintain positivity. I honestly believe I can achieve these goals once I get myself on the right track.
I have the thoughts of wanting to get involve with the community and helping others, but like always my spiritual well being (3) does not give me enough inspiration to make me take any actions upon accomplishing theses goals. I remember once when I was a teenager, I volunteered at a church for the foods on wheel charity. We would deliver hot meals to homeless people, even through rainy days. By doing that I had the sense of happiness and wholeness.
Through these chaotic time, I would give myself a 5 on psychological well being. From the last treatment I had back in 2007 for depression, I have not had any nervous breakdown yet and I'm refusing to take any medications. At some points my depression would get so bad that crazy thoughts would float around in my head. Yes, even though I'm aware of this I still refuse further treatment. Everything that I do now, I'm reflecting it upon my kids. After my divorce, they are all I got, so they are my medicine towards healing.
My goals so far for these aspects are as follow: slim down by summer and be more energetic; have more selective healthy foods; be more motivated and supportive; become a volunteer at one of the local hospital; and get involve with the community more often. To move toward these goals, I plan on joining the YMCA along with my children or start using the treadmill 3 times a day. I will change my eating and sleeping habits. I should implement some relaxation techniques and stress management methods to raise my self esteem higher and maintain positivity. I honestly believe I can achieve these goals once I get myself on the right track.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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Welcome, to Day Dream 2011. I hope that everyone is doing well so far and ready to make any life changes in order to balance their mind, body, and spirit. My new year resolution were to make these changes as well. So far it has been an on and off duty because I could not get myself motivated enough to get the job done. I've noticed I have not been consuming any alcohol as much as I used to. I completely cut myself off from the energy drink (NOS) because it would give me rapid heart rate and I feel at time that I would forget to breathe. I'm not only trying to make changes for myself but for my 13 year old daughter, who had been diagnosed with diabetese type II. We have made progress to change our eating habitats by eating more healthier food and cut down on portion size. I know I have not been good at motivating her to exercise because I'm not doing it myself.
My experienced with the Journey On relaxation exercise was amazing. I actually love the light beat and found that the commanding voice to be affective in helping me through the process. I was amazed that I could feel the difference before and after the exercise. It did felt as if I was in a hypnotic state of mind. I was able to control my blood flow an felt how heavy my arms got and how I felt after coming out of the trans. It was a bit difficult because I had my daughter and niece inside the room polishing their nails, while I was doing the exercise. I was about to give up as the smell got to my nose but I carried on and successfully went through the whole process. Now all I need to do is implement this process more often.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments.
My experienced with the Journey On relaxation exercise was amazing. I actually love the light beat and found that the commanding voice to be affective in helping me through the process. I was amazed that I could feel the difference before and after the exercise. It did felt as if I was in a hypnotic state of mind. I was able to control my blood flow an felt how heavy my arms got and how I felt after coming out of the trans. It was a bit difficult because I had my daughter and niece inside the room polishing their nails, while I was doing the exercise. I was about to give up as the smell got to my nose but I carried on and successfully went through the whole process. Now all I need to do is implement this process more often.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Creating Wellness HW420-02
Hello fellow classmates and professor,
This is my first time blogging, please respond if my blog is working correctly. I'm looking forward to this new adventurous term. I hope everyone are excited as well. My last term was so over whelm but I passed. It seem like, I faces new challenge with each term. I guess each professor has their own potential way to teach. So far two of my seminar classes are not graded, which is a huge relief that I can spend more time on my school project and family as well. Looking forward to chatting with you all.
This is my first time blogging, please respond if my blog is working correctly. I'm looking forward to this new adventurous term. I hope everyone are excited as well. My last term was so over whelm but I passed. It seem like, I faces new challenge with each term. I guess each professor has their own potential way to teach. So far two of my seminar classes are not graded, which is a huge relief that I can spend more time on my school project and family as well. Looking forward to chatting with you all.
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