Growth and health spiritually, physically, and psychologically in my personal life.

It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically for the practitioner to be able to flourish a healthy mind, body and spirit to integrate his/her practice with a positive bound with employees and patients, hence, transmitting happiness, truthfulness, knowledge, and legitimate integral health care.

The main goal to be able to achieve a higher quality of life is to conquer a positive attitude toward life working for their personal accomplishment and fully potential for wellness, and happiness.

I personally need to work on stress management for my optimal wellness.

I have assessed my health in each domain by analyzing each of the six dimensions of wellness, which are, physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, and spiritual (Dacher (2006).

My score spiritually is 9. For me spirituality is not just being part of a religion, is to be compassionated toward all species that live in our planet including humans, is to have faith, is to believe in the love of human being, is to respect nature, is to not harm others, is to help others; to be able to be spiritual we must be holistic thinkers, open minded, and open heart. I think that I cannot score to ten because we are always evolutionizing in any aspect and I still need to learn how to forgive; this is a very important part of spirituality.

Physically I score an 8. Unfortunately, in the present time I am suffering of uticaria (allergy to some type of food), and I believe this uticaria targets when I am in high stress levels.

Nutritionally due to my allergies I score 9. I still need to work in incrementing more fiber to my diet and avoid some foods that help the reaction in my body like bread (I love bread), lactose, food that contain gluten, and some grains. So I feel sometimes that I am very limited nutritionally.

Psychologically I score 8 because I still need to learn to deal with stress, and this point is primordial for my health over all, so for me to practice subtle mind, meditation, and exercising in regular basis is the key to achieve wellness and happiness in my life.

My spiritual goal is to work more in forgiveness. I need to understand that to practice forgiveness is not going to help directly the other person, but me (mentally, spiritually, psychologically, and physically). Work every day on inner reflection will help me to achieve this goal and others to keep growing spiritually with open mind and heart.

In my physical health I need to emphases in my nutrition (eating more fruits and vegetables, and diminish food that harm my health). More over, I need to increment meditation and exercise in my life to be able to manage my stress.

In my psychological aspect my goal is to wake up everyday with a positive attitude to any door that opens on my way, positive or negative to conquer every step, one by one with a healthy mind. Additionally, training the mind to withstand daily stressful challenges will be a great combination to fulfill my goal.

Overall, to be able to assess my progress or not I will need to analyze if there is any difference in the area of problem. To ask my self every time I needed, How do I feel spiritually, mentally, physically from the moment I desired to change, or I desired to be happy. Every day I can assess my progress by just feeling my heart (if I am happy it means that is working).

I think that one of the ways that assist me to maintain long term practices for health and wellness is to have a type of dairy to write down my feeling, my goals, my strategies, my progress. When I write down my thoughts is like praying, or meditating; my mind flows and I just write thing that amazed me every time I read them back. It is like if my soul is the one that writes not me.

Reference:

Dacher, E.S. (2006). Integral healing: The path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publication, Inc

Visualization and Meditation

Visualization and meditation are for me the most beneficial practice section that could help me to achieve wellness in my life.
Visualization keeps me focus and positive. I am trying to wake up every morning with optimism and I start thanking for all great thinks I have in my life. Then, I start visualizing my day (my family, my job, my health, my life in general) in the most positive ways. This opens up my mind and my heart and I feel and see things in a different perspective.
Meditation is what I wish I could integrate in my life to help me deal with stressful situation that are normal in everyday life. I think that meditation is not just for stress, but to connect my mind, body and spirit; to learn about my inner me, to pray, to feel our energy, to go to other dimensions. I know that is just a matter of determination. To start little by little incrementing meditation as a daily basis (5 minutes in the morning). I need to condition my mind to take time for meditation and not excuses for not doing it.

Integral Assesment

Focusing in what aspect of my life needs attention I found that the interpersonal is critic at this moment for my mind health. I found that my ego is managing my mind and is not letting me to fluid in the relation with my husband's family. I do not want to have excuses, I just would love to be more receptive about positive circumstances and not so in the negatives. I would like to think that someone needs to give the first step, and that is me. Maybe working more with loving kindness will help me to be more open mind and open heart with people that has done harm in my personal life, but that at the end, they are important persons in my life because they are part of my husband and he is my life.

 

Loving Kindness

This is a great exercise to empower the mind, body and spirit. For me has been very helpful because it lets me feel calm, relax, beloved, fulfill, and most important with my heart open to others. While I am doing the exercise I always imaging my father. I imaging how pure and kind he was with others and I transmit this sense to myself.
The only part that has been hard for me to focus is when I bring my mother in law to the exercise, I think I do not want to bring her to my life, so I block my self to the exercise. She is a person that has a lot of hate in her heart and her life is just that. I try think how she suffers, how alone she is, how her quality of life is poor to try to understand and be compassionate, but as soon as I see her reaction when I am around her, I back up.
So I know that it is going to take long to be able to open my heart to her. I think that I need to desired first. Now I am not.

Deep Reflexion

I want to be very honest with me because will be the only way to know how, when , where and with whom to improve in my life.

A.  My physical well being is know in scale 7. I am not happy about it, but I can tell that I have improved compare to 2 years ago, which I didn't know how I would be physically when I get my 40's. I used to cry because everyday I used to feel a new pain, plus I develop a chronic allergy (uticaria) that I still have but in a less grade. I know that for long period of time in my life a was  under high stress in my life because of family situations with my husband family. It is a very difficult family and my husband has been very affected by that and by consequence me. It was very frustrated until I started changing my way of thinking (not to pay attention to them and try to get my mind out of them).
Know I feel much better and I know that I will improve in my health.

B. My Spiritual well being is in a 9 and I am very pleased with that. I feel peace inside me, God is my everything, I am very sensitive in a positive way to all species in nature, including human being ( I do not know if I said that well), I am thankful for mother nature and respect it. I feel GREAT about that. Every day I wake up and think in all good things that surround me and try to be a better person every day, thanks to GOD. I know that all of us have lived difficult, thoughts times, but faith is what makes the difference.

C. My psychological well being is growing in scale, now I am in an 8. I feel mentally more strong since I wanted to be strong. I am focusing my energy in positive thing, and what do not bring to my life positivism I just let it go. I do the same with my thinking, when I have a negative though, I just Bless in the name of God the though with faith and it changes to good frequency. I am working a lot with the law of attraction which worksssssss big time.

2. MY GOALS

A. In my physical well being I need to start exercising more, this is key for my health; as well as to be more conscious of what I eat; I know that some food triggers my allergies as bread, and lactose, so I need to avoid them. I need to increase eating more fiber to help with my colon problems.
I know I am going to do it. I am working on it.

B. In my spiritual well being my goal will be to keep growing as a person, from inside out. If I respect what God has create , I will respect him. My goal in scale is to get to a 100 and keep going.

C. Psychologically my goal is to be naturally a positive thinker that will make it all. I need to improve on my meditations more, I need to learn how to let go my body of thoughs and get relax.

This time with the relaxation exercise I was very frustrated, I could get relax. Actually, is hard for me to get relax when I force myself; like with this exercise, I knew it was something I need it to do, not just because I had the necessity, time, or mind for it. All dogs barked at the moment, my kids were laugh, my husband had questions every moment, my door ring ( I got frustrated and stop)

Meditation experience

Wow, this is my second time I experience such strange sensation. I was focusing in my breathing, letting me go with the music. I stated to feel any sound of the music as in 3D, and i was feeling it in each part of my body. Suddenly, I start feeling like electricity from my brain to all my body; it was crazy and a lot of movement, colors, forms in my brain. It was like if I was plugged. It was a crazy but great sensation.

I can tell that the first time that happens to me, I was trying to meditate with DNA music and this sensation got me scare in that moment. So, every time after that I was trying to meditate I was blocked because of my fear. I am glad I felt it again. I do not know is this is suppose to happen in a meditation stage, but I do not think is a bad thing, actually was great!