Hello Class & Professor,
These past 10 weeks have flown by! I have truly enjoyed reading all of your blogs and thank you for reading mine.
1) Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas. How did you score on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? How do you score yourself now? Has the score changed? Why or why not?
In unit 3 the following were my personal assessment scores in psychological (8), physical (9), and spiritual (5) areas. I wasn’t surprised on how I scored each area during that time. Now its a few weeks later and I was happy to figure out that my scores in all areas did improve. Today, I would rate my scores as the following: psychological (9), physical (10), and spiritual (8). I have was not surprised by my new scores due to the fact I had some goals set in place and have been working toward them.
2) Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.
The goals and activities I set for my physical well-being, which for me is closely related to my psychological well-being was to workout 5 – 6 days a week and eat a balance diet. I actually decided to change my workouts to 3 -4 days of vigorous workouts and 1 -2 days of light to moderate workouts. I found that when I was doing 5 days of vigorous workouts I was getting burnt out and too tired to enjoy my days off. I gave myself the permission to slow down a bit and so far it’s been wonderful! Also, I have been placing very close attention to my eating and have actually lost a few pounds. Physically and psychologically I feel great!
Furthermore, I have been practicing the exercises such as loving-kindness, visualization, and subtle mind that we have learned in this class. I find them to be extremely helpful in my spiritual growth and will continue to implement them more often in my daily life.
3) Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.
Yes, I have implemented the activities I have chosen to flourish my well-being. I am making sure I get enough, but not overdoing it with my physical activity, eating a well-balance diet, talking with a close friend when I have a problem instead of trying to fix and do everything myself, and taking time daily to practice my spiritual exercise. I truly feel I am on my way a newer inner and outer me!
4) Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. Have you developed improved well-being? What has been rewarding? What has been difficult? How will this experience improve your ability to assist others?
I absolutely loved this class! The text books were amazing and I actually plan on reading them over again and share with my friends what I have learned. Because of this course I am taking a closer look at all the aspects of my life such and addressing the areas that were lacking.
Most importantly, I know that because of this course I am becoming a wise healer that will make me and my future clients successful in achieving optimum health. I really don’t feel any part of this course was difficult simply because I enjoyed everything we learned.
Lastly, I want to thank Professor and my fellow classmates for a wonderful 10 weeks and wish you all the very best of luck in life! :)
Sincerely,
Teri Fournier
Terilea,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on improving your score in all areas. I am much like you when it comes to working out and always choose the high impact/high intensity classes. I think we also need the balance of the slower paced activities for our physical and mental well-being. I think that it not only benefitted you by adjusting your outlook on exercise but helped you lose weight since your body did not know what was going on and so did not conserve calories as it does when it gets used to a routine. Good luck in the future!
TeriLea,
ReplyDeleteThis has been a remarkable 10 weeks and like you I am looking forward to re-reading the books. I am sure I will be forever grateful to DrD for sharing this wonderful insight with me and others. I hope this human flourishing will spread like wildfire with all of our classmates and the professor doing our part to see it through. Our world needs a jolt of loving-kindness in hopes of ending hatred, angry or fear causing people to hurt and kill one another. World peace is my desire and many others around me.
I met some wonderful “Occupy Wall Street” members going from Chicago, to DC through Tennessee and back to Chicago spreading their message of love and peace. These folks want peace and to put a stop to the madness within our government; they are doing peaceful demonstrations. What I noticed while spending time driving them to the library in Monteagle, TN and spending the day with them they were all full of love for their (our) country and the people in this country. They were sickened by the trash in which people throw out throughout their walk and especially in Tennessee. The rural areas of Tennessee have free trash location with some recycle option but yet they choose to throw trash in the low-lying areas. It is sickening and saddening that people do not respect what a beautiful world we live in.
Our destruction will come to an end one day with this behavior; sooner rather than later. They themselves may not realize they are being affected by bad water and pollution but their children will most definitely! Do they not care even about their own children? I just for the life of me cannot understand this behavior; destroying nature...
I guess it really all boils down to love…love for ourselves, others and our world!
I have enjoyed interacting with you throughout this term and hope in the future to have more classes with you. You have a great head on your shoulders and the world by the tail…
Best wishes to you on your continued journey and let’s go and help others reach their own personal journeys so that we can have a better planet; one filled with peace and loving-kindness.
Happy Journey,
Sandi :)
Congrats on your continued improvement! I agree with you that the texts for this class were great, very useful and will definitely be a great reference for the future. Best of luck to you in the future!
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ReplyDeleteWow! You have made improvements in your life. I am working hard on changing a quite a few things in my life. I enjoyed this class very much! It has made me realize just how important it is to take care my physical, psychological, and spiritual areas of my life. I am more aware of what I need to do, but sometimes, I do not even know where to start. Thanks for you blog, it was very encouraging. Have a great week!!!
Angela Fagan