Unit 9 - Final Project

            It is extremely important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically because it will not only help themselves, but also their patients. For health and wellness professionals, they work with various groups of individuals and to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically will definitely make a strong connection between the professional and the patient as well. To develop psychologically, the health and wellness professional should have social, emotional, intellectual, and cognitive skills. To develop physically, the health and wellness professional should be living a healthy lifestyle, who follows a nutritious diet and engages in physical activity. To develop spiritually, the health and wellness professional should be knowledgeable in the spiritual aspects of health. I believe the professional should be well experienced in every different health situation so they can fully understand what the patient is going through. The area I need to develop would be my spiritual aspect. Doing this would help me achieve my goal of having faith which will also help me succeed in different areas of my health.

            In each domain of spirituality, physically, and psychologically, I would say I improved in all three. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my spirituality at a 7. I would definitely say that I am a religious person since I do pray, but still haven’t found the motivation to go to church on Sundays. Physically, I would rate myself at a 9. I am currently healthy and engage in physically activity on a daily basis. Psychologically, I would rate myself at a 9. My psychological well-being wasn’t always great, but it has definitely improved ever since I started doing yoga and being physically active a few years ago. There are still times when I have my “angry moments” and still get stressed, but it’s nothing compared to how I used to be in the previous years.

            My physical goals include continuing to exercise, do yoga, take daily walks, and add more healthy foods to my diet. My psychological goal would be to try to get the negativity out of my life and start living my life with a more positive aspect. My spiritual goal would be to go to church every Sunday so I can have a better connection with god.

            To foster growth physically, I would like to eventually take other classes at my gym besides yoga. I absolutely love doing yoga and would never give it up, but at my local gym, there are lots of different workout classes that I would like to try to make myself grow physically. I also want to add more healthy meals to my diet. I must admit, even though I am healthy, I still eat junk food and fast food at times. It would be best for me to completely eliminate those bad foods and substitute them with more healthy and nutritious foods. To foster growth psychologically, I should stay away from the negative people and things in my life and stay around the positive people and things instead. I can also add more meditation exercises in my daily routine since the benefits of the meditation exercises done in this class have helped me tremendously with my psychological well-being. To foster growth spiritually, I would have to get back into the habit of going to church every Sunday. To do this, I can make sure I don’t make any plans on Sunday mornings so it’ll be easier for me to go to church.

            I can assess my progress in the next 6 months by keeping a journal. In the journal, I will list all of my goals. I will also write in it each day explaining what I did, who I was with, what I ate/drank, what I was feeling, etc. I believe I will maintain and progress in my goals to achieve optimal health and wellness.