Introduction:

                Health and Wellness professionals have the unique role of working in a field that is contently changing in all aspects. This would include in study, treatment and progression. Psychologically the professional needs to stay on top of new studies and materials that are being published and breakthroughs are occurring in on a daily basis. This information could help in the treatment of patients and the critically thinking of the professional. Spiritually these people need to be strong and fulfilled to be able to deal with an open heart with the mew problems they will face on a daily basis concerning their patients. Physically needing to be fit and stay as healthily as possible in order to treat and experience treatments that could help their clients. The areas of most concern for me would be psychologically and physically because there are always new things to learn on a daily basis. Physically because optimal health is a ever changing goal that needs to be exercised and practiced every day, it is also something that may take a minute or lifetime to achieve.

Assessment:

                Assessments are an important part of daily life and are something that we do within most moments of the day, realizing it or not. When assessing myself I look at many different aspects including the goals that I have set, the routes of progression that I have taken to further myself in each area and the lessons that I have learned from each step or “bump in the road”. This is important for me because I set goals for all aspects of my life. If a goal has not been set then there is nothing to be working towards or for. The options that each one has on how to achieve these goals can be very different, trying to find the right way is important and can be completely different for each scenario. Learning form mistakes is the most important lesion I believe in life, this is because human life is about making mistakes no one is perfect. I feel my assessment has changed somewhat from our unit three assignment. Back then I felt that spiritually was my highest score however, since then I have seen that no one is perfect in gods eyes and improvements needs to happen on a daily basis to be a better christen. I now see myself around a 5 trying to be the best person overall that I could be. Psychologically I see myself now being still around a si this being because I still lead a very hectic life working as many hours as I do, trying to be the best family man that I can be and still but getting ever closer to finishing up my school work and earning my degree. Physically I feel much better about myself, would rate it about a 6 or 6.5, because I have done things, and made improvements to my lifestyle including getting healthier.

Goal Development:

                I have started many goals for myself since beginning this class. One physical goal that I have set for myself at the beginning was to get healthier. I have since started a running regimen and now have set a goal to run in my first 5k. Psychological goals I feel are harder to obtain then others because of the variables that are surrounding them. For me at the beginning it was to figure out the best way to deal with the workload that I have put on myself. Now it is to find time for myself to meditate or visualize because I have found these actions keep my mind healthy and myself on point and sane. Spiritually I have found that my goals from 8 weeks ago have not changed very much. I still try to find any time that I can to have a personal conversation with the “big man upstairs”. However, now I feel that instead of a personal conversation I try to have that connection within a group because “being a fisher of men” (Luke 12, (1-25) is the way that the lord has taught us to communicate with him as disciples of god.

Practices for Personal Health:

                “Practice makes perfect” is what my father has instilled in me since a child and it is a lesson that I am trying to instill in my children. Physically I have started to exercise, this includes running at least three times a week around three miles and each time trying to better my time then the run before. I have also started to use the employee gym. Working on a cross training program with a coworker that I am going to participate in my first 5k run with coming up in two months. Psychological exercises I have learned are just as important as physical exercises and are important to keeping mental health. I have learned through this course that meditation and visualization are two ways that I feel comfortable and that have helped me gain my mental composure. Spiritually I want to share my two favorite exercises, the first is to participate in prayer every day. The second would be participate in Christian fellowship at least once a week, this would include using my time to counsel other member of our church or members of the community that are having general issues including their faith, abuses of all sorts and mental issues such as compassion and or comprehension of life activities.

Commitment:

                I feel that assessments need to be consistent otherwise; it is very hard to judge withier the progress is being made or not in any aspect. So in 6 months I will asses myself the same as I did in this assessment with the first being what goals did I set and have I completed these goals. Second taking a long look at either what path I took to accomplish my goal or what went wrong on that path that prevented me from completing my goals. Third would be to look at the lessons that I am taking from this journey. Are they the right lessons to be taking? Are they important to my goal or goals of the future? What I could learn for future paths and goals from this goal? By assessing myself in this way, I can conjure what is important and learn the appropriate lessons from these goals.

 

 

 

 

 

References

                Dacher, E. (2006) Integral Health- The Path to Human Flourishing, Basic Health Publications, Laguna Beach, Cal.

                New Testament (NA) The Holy Bible, Saint James editions, retreved from http://biblescripture.net/Bible.html