Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing

Introduction: The importance of health and wellness professionals developing psychologically, spiritually, and physically leads to a healthy individual offering guidance to their clients. Psychologically a health and wellness professional should have a conscious and trained mind to offer objective solutions. A trained mind is also focused and calm. This individual would not be moved by situations offered pertaining to client's. Being psychologically developed will create unity in the mind and body along with shaping their pattern of thinking. Being developed spiritually is the driving force for our consciousness. The spiritual aspects of human development drives the physical to endure past the limitations. A person's drive and determination is nutured by its spiritural development. Physical develop manifest endurance in the body that strengths the mind. Endurance has to be fed by your psyche and spiritual ability.  Meditation allow me to stay focused psychologically. I have learned to continously train my mind stay calm and relax in tense situations. Spiritually I understand their is a higher power and all things happen for a reason. It is very important to look for the good in every situation. Exercise is something that I do at least 5 days a week. When I am physicially active I can relax mentally due to the endorphins that are released. Exercise releases a peace in my spirit that allows me to clear my head and focus. Stress and anxiety is something I work to keep to a minimal. Keeping your body constantly developing physically will control the stress, anxiety and anxiousness in your day to day activities. I need to develop my spirituality part of life to achieve some of the goals that I have set in place. In order to do this more time needs to be set aside for meditating and developing your inner self. I am so easily consumed with the pressures of the day that I often forget to take that time for myself.

Assessment: When I try to assess myself in all areas it causes a little uncertainty in how I see myself. I am very hard on myself for present and past situations. I know my weak area is spiritual but my strength lies in psychological and physical areas. I think because of past experiences concerning spirituality I can be bit apprehensive. However, I am trying to grow into a more well rounded spiritual person. Psychologically I understand life and what is has to offer. I try to spend my days looking at life as being a half full glass and not a half empty glass. Since I have been in school it has boosted my opinion on how life should be to each individual. In saying that, the choices and decisions we make throughout life belong to us as individuals. That is why is important to live your life to the fullest according to your needs and goals. My goals are very important and I am determined to complete them. One day soon I am going to run my first 5k and complete the race. I have never been a runner but now that I am training everyday towards that goal I am so excited about working out.

Goal Development: Developing my goals have taught me patience and understanding. I am 50 years young it is very easy have a feeling of urgency. However, I have more than enough time to complete the goals I have set forth. I try to be very realistic in what I set for me to achieve. I have a host of support from family and friends and that makes it much easier for to see my way. My goal pyschologically is to not be a critical of others. I need to keep my mind focused on not being consumed in trying to save the world, mostly my family. Now that I am taking care of my needs and goals my family has come on board with they are trying to be of help. My goal for my spiritual part of life is to spend more time with my inner life. My spirit needs nurturing to create peace and harmony in my life. To achieve I need to calm my mind and still the atmosphere around me a prescribed times. My mind is always racing and I am learning to close my eyes and calm my spirit at any given time. It takes a lot of self control to accomplish this and so I understand that is an area for me to work. My goal for physical  development is to continue to push myself during my workout sessions. I know what it is needed to participate in running a 5k and I will continue to work towards that goal. I will continue to incorporate  strength training to make my legs strong and durable.

Practices for Personal Health: The main thing is to prepare your mind to change. Once you start to implement change it is not always comfortable. Physically I can push myself harder and add different programs to my regiment, psychologically I can control my emotions more and be more understanding of others and spiriturally I can meditate and pray more. Each change will take time and effort. I can help myself by educating myself in each area. I read quite a bit now but there is always information out there to help my change.

Commitment: I will assess my progress by keeping a journal and exercise log. I will also continue to blog over the next six months. The strategies necessary are to undertand that all the changes will be lifestyle changes. That means they will be permanent and I will have to continue to evolve my life.

Unit 8 Optimal Well-Being

The Subtle mind has been one of the most beneficial practices because an open mind promotes healing. Having a high anxiety level I really need to practice achieving a stabilized mind incorporating a complete stillness in thought. Learning to achieve a peaceful state of mind will help with preventing disease in the body and lowering your stress level. Meditation has been beneficial in bringing the mind and body closer together. Creating harmony with your mind and body will allow an atmosphere of well being to flow in your life. Meditation works together with the subtle mind practice because the goals are very similar. Calming the mind will allow unity of the mind and body. Practicing meditation brings your inner self into that realm of peace. The body reacts naturally to the mind.

I travel quite a bit during the day and I am lots of traffic. I can implement these two practices when I am sitting in traffic and my anxiety level begins to rise. I then can practice meditating at home to accomplish a calm effect. Doing this will allow me to focus and my inner self will relax.

Meditating Exercise Unit 7 "Meeting Aesclepius"

This meditating exercise was very relaxing. However, what really stuck with me was at the end it was suggested that you have to continue to practice these exercises to become proficient. Practice is very important for me because of my personality. I am naturally very anxious and aggressive. These exercises have allowed me to learn to relax and try to calm my mind. The mind is the main factor in meditating. If the mind continuous to be overly active it will draw your thoughts away from what you are meditating about. Meditating and mindfulness has created a different perspective on how to deal with stress and mental activity in my immediate surroundings. I draw from my spirituality more and that helps to calm my inner spirit. I can continue to practice these exercises because I will continue to train my mind to send the correct signals to my body. Hopefully these will be signs of peace, love, happiness, harmony and well being. The body will continue to flourish in a healthy and positive way if the mind is in a healthy and positive state.

The statement " One can not lead another where one has not gone himself" simply means if you have not experienced certain things in your lifetime it would be hard to give advice to someone else concerning these things. This will apply to health and wellness professionals because people are looking for positive examples. Integral Health is a far reaching entity that will heal the body, mind and spirit. Not like most traditional medicines where the person can see treatments you are  offering, the individual has to believe that they can be healed by understanding that the mind, body and spirit are connected. We all know that "Experience is often the best teacher", and having experienced or learned much about the mind, body and spirit will give health and wellness professional information to regurgitate to the person in need of healing.

You have a very serious obligation to develop and nurture you own health psychologically, physically and spiritually. If you have a client in need of Integral health healing, the wellness professional should be on a competent level in all areas to offer the help needed. Psychological and spiritual growth in my life has already started by taking this course. I have implemented meditation more and the process of looking deep within my own consciousness to cultivate a better atmosphere for my mental state. I am learning more and more each day how to still the mind. If your mind is in a calm and peaceful place you can hear what is going on around you. Sometimes we are so consumed with our own situations we miss important things that are in our immediate circles.