Holistic/Integral Plan

Introduction:

It is very important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychological, spiritually and physically because each element supports the other which addresses the mind-body as a whole. The psychological component addresses the mental and emotional state and when developed appropriately, one can adjust to change, handle life’s challenges and frustrations, and cope with stress in a healthy way. This also allows the professional to work effectively with clients. Spiritually, the professional is able to develop and enhance their values and beliefs to strive for a state of harmony for themselves which will reflect in the way that they conduct themselves professionally. The physical component addresses ones ability to pay attention to illnesses and how to treat them, nutritional dieting, and exercise which will build physical endurance to support the building of self-esteem that is connected to emotional growth. The area that needs attention for growth for me is spiritual health. I feel that there are feelings of anger that require a spiritual awareness in order to not allow my blood pressure to rise or allow negative thoughts to consume thoughts that waste good psychological time throughout the day or for a specific time. The goal is take more time to develop and enhance my spiritual awareness and connection with the god of my understanding to allow me recognize when negative thoughts are interfering with my positive thought pattern and not be consumed by personal biases.

Assessment:

I have assessed my health psychologically, spiritually, and physically by the way I handle life situations. I handle life situations personally and professionally with a high level of appropriate psychological responses. Physically I would score high due to my ability to pay attention to my health by way of nutrition, exercise and physical illnesses. I spiritually, I would score medium because thus I have connection with the god of my understanding, I have the tendency to allow biases and negative thoughts consume mind space which angers me and if I had a better spiritual connection, then I would be able to let go and let the god of my understanding handle life situations that I’m powerless of. The assessment will have to been down in intervals in order to ensure that each component is being addressed appropriately and development is on going to achieve optimum health.

Goal Development:

My psychological goal is to have an optimistic approach to life situations without forming a negative bias. My spiritual goal is to enhance my connection with the god of my understanding in order to offset negative thoughts and feelings. My physical goal is to give more attention to physical exercise.

Practices for Personal health:

To foster psychologically growth, I will make personal decisions and choices based on feelings, behaviors, insight, belief and factual statements or events. I will also foster psychologically growth by seeking support and expressing my feelings in an appropriate manner. I will ask family and friends for advice and suggestions to foster psychological growth. To foster spiritual growth, I will enhance my compassion, love for self and others, and enjoy my fulfillment of life.  I will also continue to practice meditation, prayer, discussing and expressing my connection to my higher power. Reading the bible or going to church is how I will implement ways of fostering spiritual growth. To foster physical growth, I will make sure that I get enough sleep and exercise and appropriate nutrition. I will also foster physical growth by getting yearly physical my physician to ensure and maintain optimum health.

Commitment:

I assess my progress or lack of progress by formulating a chart that consists of psychological, spiritual and physical components. I will develop objectives for each component and monitor my results and responses every month. After 6 months I will see if there any changes to my responses and after a year I will either continue the goal of each component or make a new goal. This method will ensure that I’m being proactive and giving attention as well as awareness to my psychological, spiritual and physical health and to what needs improvement or what success I have made. I will also ask my friends, family and physician about improvements they have observed which will be added to my chart as additional information to better assess my progress.

Reference:

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral health the path to human flourishing.

Subtle-Mind Practice

I prefer the subtle-mind practice as a means of stress reduction and to feel a sense of spiritual awakening. This practice is most helpful to me as it gives me an expedited guide to serenity and a stillness within my mind body and spirit. This process is essential to obtaining and maintaining optimum mind-body health. This practice needs to be conducted on a consistent basis in order to achieve the desire level of interpersonal flourishing. Allowing time out of the day to be ablel to conduct this practice will give me the opportunity to pursue integral health.

Visualization

The human flourishing practive of visualization is most helpful to me. This practice allows me to think about a happy time or event in my life to reestablish inner kindness, appreciation and love myself and others. This practice gives me the feeling of joy and comfort within myself as well as a deep sense of serenity. Thoughts of a happy moment in my life will also allow me to maintain optimum health in regards to blood pressure and stress reduction. One days that appear to murphys law or filled with angish, i can utilize the visualization practive as means of finding peace within my spirit. The results will demonstrate and reflect in my attitude towards life and others.

Unit 7

The saying implies that one must experience an event in order to know of the experience. I agree that you must walk in my shoes in order to know to discuss certain life situations. Experience is the best teacher. This applies to the health professional because a professional should not lead a client into a discussion that themselves know nothing about because a client might ask questions that the professional is not able to answer leaving the client more confused. You have an obligation to yourself not to your clients but improving your health psychologically, spiritually and physically will give the professional leverage to assist the client with some experiences that might have transpired in their life. In my personal life, i strengthen my spiritual and psychological growth by utilizing positive outlets such as mediation, music therapy and faith building.

Unit 7

My meditative practices throughout the week produced a more indepth state of awareness of my inner spirit and ability to let go of some confusions. Meditation has given me a sense of controlness with my life as a whole because i address the mind body and spirit for healing. I feel the need to reach a level of serenity within myself in pursuit of flourishing my inner spirit as a guide to freedom as oppose to relaxation. This process needs to be consistent in order to achieve the maximum healing.

Integral Assessment

The integral assessment exercise allowed me to do some introspecting on how i treat others and what i need to do in regards to letting go biases. I sometimes have a hard time anger towards a certain person. I don't let the thoughts of anger stagnate my life but spiritually i should be letting go all biases and judgements. This exercise needs to be conducted several times before it can be successful in the my life regarding worldly elements.

Universal Loving-Kindness Meditation

The universal loving-kindness meditation exercise allowed me to think more instrospectively about how i treat and deal with others from family members, friends and strangers. It's hard to wish someone the best when they have done you wrong especially physically and as we speak i need to forgive someone for an act against me and with this exercise it can assist me with nurturing the thought of removing negative thoughts geared towards a certain individual. This exercise is based on the wishing the best for your fellow man or women and this is an exercise that has to be practiced on a consistent basis in order to be successful with loving everyone universally.

Spiritual, Mental, Physical Connection

The connection between the spirit, mental and physical state is the result of wholeness. The mind has the power to heal the body and the body has the power to promote spiritual energy. In my personal life I utilize positive outlets such as music to produce relaxation in my body which allows me to connect with my spirituality. I take long walks to focus on the my inner being and produce motivation to reflect and discover new ways that my spiritual higher power can use me to advance in life.

Subtle Mind vs Loving- Kindness

The loving kindness exercise was very long with each step leading you more into a state of relaxation which eventually resulted in a sense of inner rejoice as oppose with the subtle mind exercise which was much more direct with guiding you into a realm of inner peace and serenity. The are just to many steps with the loving kindness exercise which allows wandering thoughts to enter because so much time lapse before you get to the spiritual calmness. The benefit to the subtle mind exercise is the expedited results of getting you to the stillness and serenity realm.

Mental workout

Mental workout is conducting a comtemplative practice. This involves the loving kindness exercise that reminds you to move away from self-centerness and move towards compassion and concern from others. The other part of a mental work out is to get to a subtle mind. This requires you to diminsh the ceaseless movements of mental thoughts, feelings, and images resulting in a witnessing consciousness. The benefits of a mental workout bring you to a state of peace and calm, ease and delight, creativity and wisdom as it revitalize your mind body and spirit as a complete whole.

Taking time out of my day to devote to conducting a mental workout each day can promote psychological health resulting in complete comfort within myself as it relates to mind body and spirit.

Loving kindness

The loving kindness exercise was beneficial to me because it allowed me to relax to a state of complete calmness and allow me to get intuned with my inner soul. It also gave me another outlet to channel my negative thoughts or at least offset them. I would recommend the loving kindness exercise to others due to its ability to allow someone to find the path to their inner soul and restore their mind and body as whole to a state of unselfishness. Positive breeds positive.

Journey to Relaxation

The journey to relaxation audio was very useful and gratifying. It allowed me to become more in tuned with my inner spirit and think deeply about maintaining a calm and composed environment. This exercise i intend to utilize when i come home from work because it will give me the serenity of quietness within me and a spiritual connection with my higher power.

The Inner soul of Jus Music

My life revolves around music as it brings me the ultimate inner strength and serenity that life has to offer.