Achieving Goals of Health and Wellness

Creating Health and Wellness

It is vital that any and all health and wellness professionals develop psychologically, spiritually and physically. We have a promise to uphold and a humanity to respect as well as superior quality of care to provide to our patients. Medical providers have to not think just outside the box, but place themselves inside it and break it down so it can be used over and over again. Mind-body techniques and their theories are vital to all professionals in the health and wellness field because if they do not have a sound body and mind, they will not be able to educate, counsel, or support patients in behavioral and mental development by way of positive thoughts and feelings. Physical fitness and proper nutrition are the blocks to building a firm and sensible mind-body relationship. Healthcare professionals live in a world covered with stress when handling patients with various illness and diseases and to keep composure and never let them become altered by the environment surrounding them, maintenance of optimal health and wellness is crucial.  

As Dacher stated, Integral Health is created and nurtured from within one’s own self. It guides to an all-embracing, universal, in-depth therapy of the physical body, mentality, and a soul that is resistant to life’s misfortunes, incorporating illness, phases of age, and demise. Authentic Happiness surfaces from the inside and is costly, strong, loving, and impervious by the occurrences of day-to-day living. Genuine wholeness entwines encounters of all components of life, a unified presence and an unremitting solidarity that is collectively joined by comfort, contentment, compassion, kindheartedness, and a weightlessness of coexisting. To reach health, happiness, and wholeness, health and wellness needs to be established. Believing, comprehending, and managing life to its fullest capability by encompassing respect for one another, creating memories, being attentive to individual sentiments, and sharing optimism in a copious fashion throughout the lifetime evolving at hand are ways in which medical professionals, or any person for that matter, can develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically.

I have indeed assessed my health in each domain of psychological, spiritual, and physical health and have determined which areas need further developing in order to achieve my goals.  Primarily, my physical and spiritual states of health are lacking the mind-body connection when I am having physical ailments such as Fibromyalgia flare ups and because of the pain I recognize my anxiety and depression is on the rise. When I take care of my physical well-being I am aware that my psychological and spiritual health are in a phase of restoration and desire even more of the drug-like addiction feeling.

 I have rated my physical wellbeing a 6-7/10 on the scale of optimal wellbeing. When I think physical I am thinking about my body and whether or not it is physically fit. I have been working on improving my physical health over a long period of time and have made great strides to a healthier lifestyle. Ten years ago I weighed 408 lbs. on the day that I gave birth to my first child (son). Today, I weight 260 lbs. after shedding 50-60 lbs. on my own and undergoing a weight loss surgical procedure in September 2013. I am continuing to lose weight but have endured various changes throughout (physically, mentally, and emotionally). I can jog a short distance in between my long walks now and it makes me feel great because that is something that I was not able to do before. I now have two children that I am trying to teach about physical wellbeing so that they do not have to spend half of their life reversing what they originally became like I did. Overall, despite having been morbid obese I was of great health without co-morbidities like most people (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea).

I rated my spiritual wellbeing an 8/10 on the scale of optimal wellbeing. I am very in touch with my surroundings and ways that I can center myself when I feel off track. At times it is difficult to task when various distractions are occurring at the same time. There is always room to improve. I am trying to alter my connections in relationships to a positive level and fade out the negative links that are not of any beneficial gains. My personal values are in place and my purpose in life is strong-willed. Furthering my education, working on my personal health, ensuring that my children and mother are safe and well-supported and maintaining a shelter (my home) are important pieces of my life.

I rated my psychological wellbeing a 6/10. I have struggled with an anxiety disorder and depression and have been trying to gain control over the symptoms during all of my mental, emotional, and physical changes since my weight loss. This was a huge life change not just for me but for my children and mother (they are my only family). Each day I coach myself to think in a positive manner and cut out anything (including things like social drinking) that may be the slightest of negativity in my physical and mental wellbeing.

Utilization of your psyche can modify a physical workout to a mind-body workout in which the mind allows for enhancement in the results of the work out. The physical exercise of the physical well-being is manipulated for psychological training. During workouts, we have the ability to envision the escalation in power, adaptability, and perseverance (Dacher, 2006).

We have to shift gears and sanction the mind to support us in accomplishing our goals. We can be tentative to the way we breathe and how breathing engages actions and if our concentration wanders, we can reverse its direction and guide into focus. When disturbances evolve, we need to permit the disorder to evaporate intuitively. As we become motionlessness and begin to relax, we need to let cognizance and consciousness to encounter all things but connect to nothing. Moving forward, we must maintain the accessible, compulsory perception (Dacher, 2006).

The mind-body functioning as a complete unit will help to merge physical activities and meditative training as a connection for the mind-body communication and exchange. Examples of activities that are energy orientated and join the mind-body connection are yoga, palates, healing meditation, tai chi, and martial arts.

Paying attention to your atmosphere, the surroundings, and the people in it are important, but at the same time, we have to learn to channel the white noise out of the picture and locate our flow of air, blood, and senses. Using the imagination by recalling mental imagery will wipe the slate clean and initiate a fresh foundation with each breath, step, and momentum. Energy amongst all can foster a mental-spiritual work out in which the mind-body are united.

Monitoring my physical exercise, journaling my psychological encounters, and watching for a spiritual connection are basic ways in which I can assess my progress or lack of progress in the next six months of fostering a great health and wellness. Life responsibilities will continue to collect as I head life head first into my nursing education, cutting down on work hours, and maintaining shelter, food, and clothing for myself and my children. I work in family practice and it is essential that I create coping mechanisms to assist in maintaining my long-term practices for health and wellness.

Reference

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral health: The path to human flourishing. Laguna
Beach, CA: Basic Health.