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.