Hello Everyone!! So, I have taken the time to assess my own life and health and to make choices of improvement. This is my plan!!
I. Introduction
To have Integral Health is to love and give attention to every aspect of your life, psychologically, spiritually and physically. Having integrated health in all aspects of our human body gives us a sense of wholeness and pleasure. With my notion, this is why I feel its particularly important for health and wellness professionals to use these practices, so they in turn can teach others how it is done.
Personally, I myself feel its important for my to render into all aspects of the human body focusing on each of them as a prized possession. My physical, spiritual and psychological aspects are all prized possessions to me, they are mine, I can do whatever I please with these aspects; I choose to use the aspects that I own in creating wholeness and a healthy lifestyle.
II. Assessment
Looking at my own domain of how I have assessed each of my aspects has been overjoyed in some areas, while I feel it has been a bit unfair in other areas. In wholeness, I am a very spiritual person connecting myself with the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus and I have a very close relationship and I take great pride in knowing Jesus everyday of my life-having this sense of spiritualism gives me my own calmness and peace. Physically, I am beginning to work on this particular aspect more-I ran a ½ marathon last fall, in which I am registered for another one in May, I start training soon. Otherwise my physical aspect has been ignored the last 2 months, only because the training I had to go through for my race in the fall was very intense, but nutritionally I do keep a good diet. Mentally, or psychologically I do have a peaceful mind and a sense of calmness due to my spiritualism-at times of stress I do place myself in a quite setting and focus on my breathing, which I had borrowed from the subtle mind exercise of Elliott Dacher’s book.
III. Goal Development
Goals I have planned for myself in each aspect of my life would have to be easily distributed and would have to be realistic. Physically, instead of having to intense parts of the year where I am constantly running, and than putting off vigorous exercise for a while-I need to maintain vigorous and moderate exercise throughout the year. Spiritually, I could start trying to love others more, showing love to them-such as strangers. I have a problem that I am still working on and still praying for, which is my patience. I am a nurse out in the health care field, at times I will have to make silly phone calls to insurance agents to approve a patients MRI or Cat Scan, which at times can be a headache. I need to work on staying calm through these types of phone calls, and to not show impatience over the phone, instead to show love. My goals realistically for psychological health would have to be more meditation time; I seriously would love to involve meditation into my life, sitting peacefully clearing my mind. I have attempted this exercise a few times, and I cannot sit for more than 5 minutes, I need to learn that the stuff I have to do will get done, maybe just not right now.
IV. Practices for personal health
Practicing my personal health as of now spiritually is easy for me, because I have found time in my day where I can have my one on one with Christ and not have to be bothered. During my spiritual exercises, if that’s what you want to call them, I take the time in doing them in my car while I am driving. I also take time in practicing my spiritualism when I lay down in bed at night before I go to sleep. Taking time out of my day to render the physical aspect of my body would probably, realistically, getting up in the wee hours of the morning to go out for a jog. Also while I am at work, which is mostly all the time, I can take steps to get my heart rate going like taking 2 minutes to run up and down the stairs. Last, to find time in practicing on my mental health, that I perhaps need to focus on the most, would be during my work day hours, I can find a quite place such as one of the exam rooms in our clinic and clear my mind. Also when I get home from work is when I am the most relieved of my day, and when I feel the most sense of calmness-this would be a good time to sit, close my eyes and focus on one thing that was good during my day; this would make me feel like I have completed my main goal, which is to show love.
V. Commitment
Well I have already started accessing my physical aspect, by running 4 times a week for at least 20-30 minutes at a time. I am healthy physically, I eat the right foods, I monitor my portions and maintain my moderation with food intake. After the month of May, I will no longer have to train for a running race, so I will try to access my exercise more efficiently by taking 30 minutes a day to at least walk or go to a fitness class. I have already accessed my spiritualism, as I already have a great relationship with Jesus Christ, but to have a more abundant understanding of what my spiritualism is all about, I need to take time in showing others what Jesus’ love is all about and showing His immense gift of love-in which I will work on getting better at this everyday. Mentally, I see my psychological aspect in the next 6 months as perhaps honestly staying the same as it is now. I tell myself I want to improve with this aspect by taking time twice a day just to meditate for 5 minutes, but I do not know for sure if this will happen. I need to take it each and everyday, day by day, to remind myself to do the meditation exercise, but I couldn’t tell you 6 months from now if I will have the same kind of stamina.
Hope my ideas have given you great ideas-but its so important to focus on every aspect of you life to maintain health and wholeness. Yeah, you might eat right and work out all the time to stay healthy, but you could be a stress bomb waiting to explode-and your insides are just pleading for you to be calm, so they don't explode too. It happens....everyday-cancers, diseases, illnesses. Take care, and enjoy the health that you have by maintaining it, or preventing other 'stuff' from happening. Enjoy you wonderful day! Good luck to all!
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