Creating Health and Wellness Final

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My Balanced Life
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9/3/2011
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2. It is important to develop all aspects of wellness when one is in the health and wellness field.
People who are expecting to have someone help them with their integral health and healing
would want to have that practitioner be an example of good health psychologically, spiritually,
and physically. Having someone there for them that is already well and can not only tell them
how to reach their goals but show them how is crucial. Everyone is always evolving in life. We
all go through many different stages and learning experiences. Sometimes practitioners can grow
from the experiences of their clients or patients. No one ever has all the answers but being in a
healthy state in all three aspects can really make the difference for someone who is in a learning
stage of their own.
I need to improve on all aspects of integral health, mostly my physical being. I truly believe
that what we look like on the outside portrays what we are on the inside. If we are not spiritually
or psychologically well we cannot be physically well and sometimes biologically well. I have
been working on my spirit and my mental health for about three years now and have come a long
way. I feel I can incorporate physical well being at this point and be successful. I need to do it for
me first but also my family and potential future clients.
I have a second class this term in stress management and there are many labs we had to do to
assess the different aspects of our lives. Although I have been working really hard on my stress
levels for the past couple of years I still scored quite high for a stressful person overall.
Spiritually, I have come a long way and have finally come to peace with my old enemies and
most of all myself. I have been working on the psychological aspect of my life and am more than
half way to my goal of being healthy and being able to catch any personality conflicts I may have
with my spirituality. The physical aspect is the one I need the most work on. I was ill for a few

3. years and am still figuring out what is going on with me. I do notice that the better my spiritual
and psychological health gets the easier it gets for me to work on the physical aspect of it.
The goals I have set for myself change order and sometimes the goals themselves may change
a bit. Physically, for me is the hardest component to change. I set goals for myself to be more
active than the week before. I have changed my diet significantly over the past five years. I eat
many organic foods and whole foods; I rarely eat out of a can or box. I want to become stronger
and healthier. My psychological wellness goals are to rid myself of any baggage I may have left
from growing up in an alcoholic family. I have spent much of my adult life trying to evolve and
grow into a well rounded, mature, and insightful being. Spiritually, my main goal is to calm my
life down. I live with a lot of stress in life but fortunately, I cause my own stress. I can easily rid
myself of much of my stressors and have a calmer spirit.
I have decided to implement good diet, jogging, dance, yoga, weight lifting, and play time
with my girls into my daily regimen. I feel that implementing these techniques will be beneficial
in all aspects of growth. A good diet is important for physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Eating the right foods at the right times can improve workouts, brain function, and in turn cause
calmness for my spirit. Eating the wrong foods and at the wrong times can cause fatigue,
irritability, depression, symptoms similar to ADHD, the list goes on and on. Processed foods are
something I eliminated or rarely eat in my diet. Food definitely affects our physical wellbeing
and moods but I really feel it affects the spirit as well. I have heard many saying about food
feeding the soul and think that there is truth to that.
Jogging, dance, yoga, and weight lifting are all good for the mind, body, and spirit as well.
Jogging has always helped me solve problems I have been working on and makes me feel a

4. sense of accomplishment. Dancing is something I can do in my own home with my favorite
music to move to. Dancing is just a feel good, mood lifting experience. I get my heart rate up as
in jogging but it is much more fun and I get my kids involved with it as well. Yoga is definitely
something that calms my nerves and makes me feel empowered by improving my flexibility.
Yoga massages my organs as well and makes me physically feel well. Mentally, yoga just sets
my mind at ease and makes my spirit feel whole. In yoga, I can let go of everything from the day
and just be. With weight lifting I feel so strong and powerful. I can get all my stress out on the
heavy weights and by the end of a workout I feel spent and renewed at once. Playing with my
girls gets us all moving and creates good habits for them. It makes me feel good to know that I
am setting them up for health and success in life. We can dance together and do yoga poses.
They both love to do tree pose and see who can hold it the longest. We usually do this before bed
time to relax them and wind them down for bed time. I notice they go to sleep quicker for me
when we do this.
Over the next six months I plan on making major changes to my physical body. I have
changed my diet, exercise habits, and life habits enough now that I need to focus mainly on the
physical aspect but am choosing activities that I think will encourage good balance and health in
all aspects of my life. I will keep track of my progress by journaling. I like to use this method
because seeing what I eat and how I feel on paper gives me a truthful look at what I do daily. I
like journaling because you can track your calories, moods, exercise, and all you feelings in one
place. I also like to set up small term goals that lead up to bigger goals. I try to be more active
than the week before by adding minutes to workouts or do some extra walking or chores around
the house. If I jog a mile one day I will increase it to two miles by the next week. I also like
reminding myself how important my family is to me. Raising my children differently that I was

5. raised is very important to me. I feel as long as I set an example for them they will take some
good habits into adulthood with them. Most importantly, I feel that keeping a good sense of
humor and lightheartedness about themselves is what will take them far in life and happiness.
Whenever I want to give up or stop moving forward I think of these things and it helps me keep
going. I also believe that in the health and wellness profession we need to walk the talk and make
sure that we are physically and mentally as close to balanced as possible for our clients’ sakes.
We all have our own paths and journeys to follow but having good tools along the way can make
it easier and more fruitful for people to be able to get where they want to be.