Happy Trails To Everyone

Introduction

            In today’s world it is important for health and wellness professional to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically. For many reasons being people are beginning to look inward for healing and treatments. No longer trusting totally in convention medicines, which have adverse side effects. For health and wellness professional this means we need to be the beacons of light to guide people on their psychological, spiritual, and physical voyage. To be there at their beginning to explain what they may encounter and to offer assist in these times of awakenings. To never prescribe any psychologically, spiritual or physical treatment .That we haven’t experienced ourselves. For me I think my psychological health needs more developing and nurturing. To do this working on my resilience to make it where when stressful things happen I don’t live there. To recognize it and recover quicker than the last time to  have the  capacity to recognize my  emotions and express them appropriately will help me avoid getting stuck in depression, anxiety, or other negative mood states. Another factor I will develop is to have a strong support network. Surround myself with people I can turn to for encouragement and support will boost my resilience in tough times.  

Assessment

For me spiritually I feel this will be an ongoing learning for life I don’t think I will ever reach a point to where I just say I reached my ended. To score myself now I feel I am on the right path at this point and time in my life. Spiritually I feel more awake to my inner self and gathering a better understand of who I am the true me not just the father me , the son me, and the husband me but the understanding spiritually that they all are parts of me that make of the whole me. My physical strength has always been there growing up on a farm like environment you had to be strong or develop it quickly. Even now I hike work out and do a lot of physical activities, so for the most part my physical assessment would be good. Now as previously stated before my psychologically assessment needs more developing. I learning as I get older my strength is still there but my mental drive is starting suffer and I have learned from this class that the mind is the body and the body is the mind. So I’m only going to advance so far with just brute strength alone so I will have to train and develop my psychological strength to match my physical and spiritual strengths.

Goal Development

Physical

The one goal that I want to achieve physically is to hike the entire Appalachian Trail all 2,180 miles.

Psychological

 The one goal I want to achieve psychologically is to stop feeling guilty. I learned in this class that quilt is a wasted emotion that has always held me back. Feeling guilty for being blessed with opportunities that others don’t have is and will be a thing of my past.

Spiritually

The one of my many goals to do spiritually is to spend 3 months in a Tibet monastery just to learn and observe first hand.

Practices for personal Health

 Some practices for my personal health I would incorporate for physical health would be to train my body to deal with different altitudes and to train myself to live with less. Why I said this is for me to one day hike the entire Appalachian Trail I’m going to need to be physically strong as well as even more mentally strong to spend so much of that time alone. Learning to meditate on a deeper level before I leave on this journey would help in the success of completion. Putting myself in some controlled stress situation, like extreme hiking events or signing up for one of the Spartan warrior’s events. Will help me develop my mental abilities as well as my body and could also help me spiritually.   

Commitment

 To help me keep track of my development I think for me the best way is to keep a journal of my everyday events. Write down all the things that happen, how I felt at the time it happen and why did I have those feelings. This will help me to better understand my trigger points and refocus me on the goals I set out for myself to achieve. It would be like a day to day standard work instruction to start out then once it becomes second nature enhance it with more goals and challenges. I have learned in this class true health and happiness is something you not will quickly acquire it but is attainable threw perseverance and hard work. One has to realize the time is going to pass anyways what is important is what it is spent on and the fruits of your labor.