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
