Health and Wellness professionals need to have not only knowledge but an enriched life of psychological, spiritual, and physical. It is very difficult for a health and wellness professional to be entrusted by their client if they do not practice the activities as well. Psychologically, I need to work more towards knowing myself and my mind. I need to continue to work on mind control and staying focused. Spiritually, well I need to completely find my spiritual side. I have started to let “life” take over my heart and I need the spiritual side of me come out more. Physically, I think I am on the right path here. There is always work to be done, so I really need to get on a more regular exercise program.
My goal for my psychological wellness is to work on more practices such as loving/kindness and yoga. I need to connect my lifestyle with my mental health. There really needs to be “me” time in my life…on a daily basis. The long term goal here is to give myself 30 minutes a day for me to work on my mental health. My 30 minutes will be spending pampering myself with some quiet time alone with yoga or tai chi.
My spiritual goal is to learn to control my mind more and really allow myself to relax in some deep meditation. I currently do not give myself the time that is needed to do all of this. My long term outlook is to meditate on a regular basis (like everyday). These meditations will allow me to focus on the serenity and peacefulness of myself. I also feel that going back to church will help increase my spiritual side. I look forward to getting back to my religious roots. Going to church is very therapeutic and I am working towards making it a weekly habit again.
I am in continual conflict with my body in the frame of physical fitness. I work hard to run with my kids on all of their activities. This is from soccer to baseball, wrestling and basketball. However, I need to work a little harder on my own personal fitness. There are a couple of things that I have started. First I am working on toning and conditioning my body. This is being done my stretching and learning yoga. The next is endurance. I have started walking every morning before work. Right now I am only walking for about 30 minutes. I would like to see this increase to about 60 minutes of brisk walking everyday. Also, to keep my body in the correct form, I have started visiting a Chiropractor. I have just started this practice but I am looking forward to the benefits of better movements and a healthier nervous system.
The next six months are going to be my test. I will look back over these goals to see what I have accomplished and what I haven’t. For the ones that I have hit the goals I will turn these up a notch. The ones that I haven’t reached I will know that I need to work harder, and maybe finding some additional help will be needed.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Mental Fitness
Okay...here we are again. What a week!!!! Mental fitness is so needed for me right now. When it rains it pours as the saying goes! First off...this is a blog so I have to say I don't know what else could go wrong! haha I find out tomorrow if I have a thyroid problem, Lyme Disease, or if there is something else going on. And on top of that...I somehow managed to sprain my wrist this weekend. Not by doing anything fun...I was cleaning the house and well lets just say I am working on a "fun" story. LOL
These events bring me to our topic for the week...2 exercises that are of help to me. First I would have to say visualization works wonders. It really helps me get into a "safe" place. I can relax and let go of all the wonders that are sitting out there. As much as guided visualizations work, I really like to take the extra time to get myself to a place on my own and visualize my "special place". Okay...I will share parts of it with you. My special place is on a deserted beach with crystal clear water. Dolphins are swimming around and I am in the water swimming and playing with them.
This brings me to my next favorite exercise. This would be animal therapy. Yesterday morning I woke up before my kids and came out to the kitchen, looked out the window and there in my back yard was 2 deer and about 5 rabbits. I bet I stood and watched them for a good 15-20 minutes. Their lives just seem to be so simple. In the house I have 2 dogs and 3 cats. The therapy they give me is so great. With everything that has been thrown at me within the past few months I have to say my little critters have managed to keep me calm and really are a huge help.
Between my kitty cat sitting on my lap and visualizing my special place with the dolphins I can get the sense to reconnect with me and somehow get the strength to carry on. It's very therapeutic and much needed. This to me is the total mental fitness.
These events bring me to our topic for the week...2 exercises that are of help to me. First I would have to say visualization works wonders. It really helps me get into a "safe" place. I can relax and let go of all the wonders that are sitting out there. As much as guided visualizations work, I really like to take the extra time to get myself to a place on my own and visualize my "special place". Okay...I will share parts of it with you. My special place is on a deserted beach with crystal clear water. Dolphins are swimming around and I am in the water swimming and playing with them.
This brings me to my next favorite exercise. This would be animal therapy. Yesterday morning I woke up before my kids and came out to the kitchen, looked out the window and there in my back yard was 2 deer and about 5 rabbits. I bet I stood and watched them for a good 15-20 minutes. Their lives just seem to be so simple. In the house I have 2 dogs and 3 cats. The therapy they give me is so great. With everything that has been thrown at me within the past few months I have to say my little critters have managed to keep me calm and really are a huge help.
Between my kitty cat sitting on my lap and visualizing my special place with the dolphins I can get the sense to reconnect with me and somehow get the strength to carry on. It's very therapeutic and much needed. This to me is the total mental fitness.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Meeting Asciepius
Well this meditation wasn't the best for me. I have to admit, there is a lot going on around me right now and I am moving like a freight train trying to stay at float with everything. I decided that meditating might work wonders on the headache I was enduring (for the last 2 weeks)...I got all ready to go and within the first couple of minutes I found myself stuck in thoughts and I couldn't focus. I tried to do this exercise a couple of times and none were very successful. I usually am such an imaginary person and thought this exercise was going to be "the one", but I guess not.
"One cannot lead another where one had not gone himself." This saying is probably one of the best out there. It simply means that you have to experience life in order to teach it. This totally fits into the health and wellness profession. Think of it this way...if you are trying to get a client to start using yoga in their lives and you don't know how to yoga, the person isn't going to find what you are saying very successful. As a health and wellness successor, you want to endorse lifestyles that you have tried and believe in. This works in all different ways so if you are someone that is religious you would want to help teach your clients on to incorporate prayer into their daily activities.
"One cannot lead another where one had not gone himself." This saying is probably one of the best out there. It simply means that you have to experience life in order to teach it. This totally fits into the health and wellness profession. Think of it this way...if you are trying to get a client to start using yoga in their lives and you don't know how to yoga, the person isn't going to find what you are saying very successful. As a health and wellness successor, you want to endorse lifestyles that you have tried and believe in. This works in all different ways so if you are someone that is religious you would want to help teach your clients on to incorporate prayer into their daily activities.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Subtle Minds
I have to say...this week has been a little different for me. I have been really relaxed and pretty much all to myself. But then it came time to work on my exercises and such, and I just could not get my mind to stay focused.
Subtle Minds seemed to be a great meditation and liked the voice and the music, but I could not sit still long enough to get a good control over my mind. I was really disappointed by this. I figured I would wait a few more days and I would try it again. I did go back and do the Loving-Kindness exercise and again it was beneficial to me. I was able to channel my thoughts and grip my focus.
My biggest struggle has always been my spiritual wellness. This class is helping a great deal. I try everyday to stay focused on what I am doing and what is right in front of me or I guess I should say beside me. The present is the time I am living it, but my mind like to go to the future or back to the past. I am quiet the dreamer, night and day. My goal is to have the exercises more mastered and for my mind to be more under my control. I know there are always going to be times to "drift" off, but I need to have more control of them.
Subtle Minds seemed to be a great meditation and liked the voice and the music, but I could not sit still long enough to get a good control over my mind. I was really disappointed by this. I figured I would wait a few more days and I would try it again. I did go back and do the Loving-Kindness exercise and again it was beneficial to me. I was able to channel my thoughts and grip my focus.
My biggest struggle has always been my spiritual wellness. This class is helping a great deal. I try everyday to stay focused on what I am doing and what is right in front of me or I guess I should say beside me. The present is the time I am living it, but my mind like to go to the future or back to the past. I am quiet the dreamer, night and day. My goal is to have the exercises more mastered and for my mind to be more under my control. I know there are always going to be times to "drift" off, but I need to have more control of them.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Loving: Kindness
Let me start by saying this was a good exercise. It was just what I needed after a day like today. I live in a tourist town so summer times are very busy and filled with a lot of people. Just so you know more of where I am on this, the population in the winter months is about 4000 and in the summer is about 20,000. Now I know to a big city that isn't much, but our town is pretty small and there are only a few places to go, so you see all these people constantly!
After doing this exercise I was relaxed and felt like I was at my favorite spot...which happens to be a sandy beach at sunset....no one is around...and the only noise you can hear is the water rolling up on the rocks and shore. The exercise did seem a little flaud in the aspect with the speaking wasn't consistent. Oh well...I was still completely into it.
Mental Workout:
To me, a mental workout is when you make yourself gain control of your mind. This is done by allowing "life" to slip out and a push of focus to your inner-self. I think Mental workouts are very much needed in everyday life. Doing this will help you control your stress levels and energy levels.
After doing this exercise I was relaxed and felt like I was at my favorite spot...which happens to be a sandy beach at sunset....no one is around...and the only noise you can hear is the water rolling up on the rocks and shore. The exercise did seem a little flaud in the aspect with the speaking wasn't consistent. Oh well...I was still completely into it.
Mental Workout:
To me, a mental workout is when you make yourself gain control of your mind. This is done by allowing "life" to slip out and a push of focus to your inner-self. I think Mental workouts are very much needed in everyday life. Doing this will help you control your stress levels and energy levels.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Wellness
So....when I look at my personal wellness I know there are many of areas that really need a lot of work. Let me just start by rating them.
Physical wellness is at about a 4 out of 10.
Spiritual wellness is at about an 8 out of 10.
Psychological wellness is at about a 6 out of 10.
I know physically there is so much more that I should be doing. I tend to get myself completely evolved in my work and school and home life that I don't take the time to get anything done for me. My new physical goal is going to be giving myself 30 minutes a day for a walk or some other type of activity just for me. I would also like to learn yoga. From all the research I have done, I think this activity will help me in all three stages of wellness.
I also think it is important to add different things into your life. I think this is possible just by changing direction in your walk of the day, or adding skipping and hopping into my walks. Remember when we were little kids and we didn't even think about exercise and how to incorporate it into our lives??? That is what I want to get back to. Run out in the yard, skip down the street, dance goofy around the house. Of course, now I think I will make sure all the shades are shut and the kids aren't home....don't want to embarrass them.
Physical wellness is at about a 4 out of 10.
Spiritual wellness is at about an 8 out of 10.
Psychological wellness is at about a 6 out of 10.
I know physically there is so much more that I should be doing. I tend to get myself completely evolved in my work and school and home life that I don't take the time to get anything done for me. My new physical goal is going to be giving myself 30 minutes a day for a walk or some other type of activity just for me. I would also like to learn yoga. From all the research I have done, I think this activity will help me in all three stages of wellness.
I also think it is important to add different things into your life. I think this is possible just by changing direction in your walk of the day, or adding skipping and hopping into my walks. Remember when we were little kids and we didn't even think about exercise and how to incorporate it into our lives??? That is what I want to get back to. Run out in the yard, skip down the street, dance goofy around the house. Of course, now I think I will make sure all the shades are shut and the kids aren't home....don't want to embarrass them.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Journey On Meditation
Wow...I have to start by saying it's awesome to be able to get that relaxed! Guided meditation really works to make things simple. I love the way it works...just close your eyes and listen and before you know it your body is so relaxed. If you haven't tried this yet...really go do it! Journey On was very relaxing and a great "escape".
I truly believe that meditation is a daily need in everyone's lives. I started to meditate at night and it really helps. I have been doing this for just about a month now and since I have started I can really tell a difference in my daily life at work and my sleeping patterns are getting better. Just my opinion, but it really helps.
There are many websites out there that offer free guided meditations. I chose something different all the time. Since I have just started I haven't found "the one" yet. It's amazing what your mind goes through.
I truly believe that meditation is a daily need in everyone's lives. I started to meditate at night and it really helps. I have been doing this for just about a month now and since I have started I can really tell a difference in my daily life at work and my sleeping patterns are getting better. Just my opinion, but it really helps.
There are many websites out there that offer free guided meditations. I chose something different all the time. Since I have just started I haven't found "the one" yet. It's amazing what your mind goes through.
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