Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas. How did you score yourself 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, I scored myself as: Physical- 6 Spiritual-8 Psychological-8. Looking back now and having the knowledge we gained from the course, I think I may have to change them a bit. I still think my physical is about a 6 but would probably change the psychological to a 6 or 7 and the spiritual to a 5. While I thought I had a good grasp on the psychological and spiritual pieces after taking this class, I realized I still had a lot to learn and a lot of growth that I needed to work on. Thanks to this class, I feel I now have some tools that will help me achieve a higher level of psychological and spiritual growth.
Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.
Physical- I will continue to work on myself physically and while the overall goal is to achieve weight loss, I also want to be able to say I am fit and healthy. I don’t want to be skinny and I have no intentions of being a body builder or a swimsuit model someday.
Psychological- I will continue to try and “train my brain” to focus more on the positive than the negative
Spiritual- I am not a religious person and don’t necessarily look to a specific deity for prayer or guidance, I do believe in a higher power and I do think that faith and spirituality are important in human flourishing. My goal here is to give myself time to meditate, visualize and become one with something greater than myself.
Since we just made the goals last week as part of the final project, I have not really made a lot of progress in those just yet but I am working on it and will continue to be a work in progress as I grow and develop.
Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.
I have made some additional changes to my diet and exercise to change it up a bit and get over a plateau I have been on for a while. I am finding it easier, but still not on auto pilot yet to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. I am still working on trying to find the time to meditate but have been able to do short little breathing or visualization exercises throughout the day even if for just a few minutes.
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 have really enjoyed this class and the interactions with both classmates and the professor. I learned a lot of really wonderful information and also learned a lot about myself. I this this whole class has been rewarding and wish it would have been a longer course. I think the difficult part was realizing things about myself and then knowing it was time to put these things into practice. I think this ability will help me assist others because I know what it’s like. When you have to tell someone something they need to change about themselves, it helps to know that you also made those changes, to know they work, they are effective, to know the positive and negative outcomes of those changes and who they affect.
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