Unit 10 Progress and Reflection

1. Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being. Reflect on these areas . How did you score yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? How do you score yourself now? Has the score changed? Why or why not?

     In unit three, I scored myself a 6 on my psychological wellbeing, a 5 on my physical wellbeing, and a 5 on my spiritual wellbeing. I would now  score myself a 7 in my psychological wellbeing, a 6 in my physical wellbeing, and a 6 in my spiritual wellbeing. My scores may not have gone up a ton, but that’s because I have set high goals for myself. The fact that my score has changed at all in this short period of time, shows me that I have been working very hard at sticking to the exercises I have set for myself during the week.

2. Review the goals and activities you set for yourself in each area. Have you made progress toward the goals? Explain.

    In unit three, I set a goal to workout at least twice per week, while mixing cardio and strength training together. I am now finding myself doing some sort of workout three times per week, sometimes four. I was also able to combine strength training and cardio by doing things like yoga, and tae bo. I set myself a goal of not giving up on meditation for my spiritual wellbeing. I still have not given up and actually find it more invigorating and much easier that I did in unit three. I set a goal of  finding a way to step back, think, and observe my thoughts for my psychological wellbeing. I wanted to be able to decide which ones I wanted to focus my energy into. I have made a huge leap in progress with that, just but studying the witnessing mind and doing things like the subtle mind exercise.

3. Have you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the three areas? Explain.

  I chose yoga, pilates, and tae bo to help boost my physical wellbeing and I surprisingly stuck to them, and was able to implement them into my busy schedule. I chose continuing to meditate for my spiritual practice since I was so new to it. I tried to do some sort of daily exercise regarding meditation. I was able to do this as well, and plan on continuing. The activity I chose for psychological wellbeing was flat out practice, and acknowledging the situations I was in. That was something I easily implemented by doing witnessing mind activities. I progressed from witnessing to learning what to do with the good thoughts I invest my energy in.

4. Summarize your personal experience throughout this course. Have you developed improved well-being? What has been rewarding? What has been difficult? How will this experience improve your ability to assist others?

    As you can see by my increased ratings on myself, and the fact that I was able to implement the activities I planned to, my overall wellbeing has increased. I may have not reached my goals yet, but I plan to! So many things have been rewarding. The increased inner peace is the biggest one for me. I feel like I woke up from a bad dream and finally started living an amazing life. My life wasn’t bad before, but the negativity and unnecessary self torture made it seem so much worse than it was. It has been difficult for me to fit all the exercises in that I want to do, but I keep doing it because I know it will continue to pay off. My experience in this course will give me the ability to understand the journey and hard work it takes to reach integral health. This understanding will help me to better guide and assist others on their own healing paths. Not only that, but this course has given me the ability to do it with joy, love, and a positive outlook. Good luck to everyone on your journey and I hope you all reach your integral health goals! :)