Update on my current development

Psychological: I’m doing better in this area too, but not as well as I would like because I’m still living with my parents, and my ADHD child is to hyperactive for me to handle in such a reduced space. I’m working on relaxing and letting my mind be stress less by meditating and praying, and its helping!

My current goals and how I plan to achieve them based on my current situation are as follows:

Physical: Since I lost 10 lbs in a month by eating healthier and exercising, my goal is to lose 10 lbs per month, by continue eating healthier and exercising. What I would like to add now that spring is here and summer is approaching is taking long walks with my child that has ADHD, this way she can use the energy walking with me while we talk and build a better relationship!

Spiritual: My spiritual goal is to keep on practicing: “Let go and Let God”. Also I would like to find and online group about the law of attraction and how to live a happy positive life because this way I can benefit my spiritual and psychological life. Also I want to some biblical studies that might help know more about God and religion itself.

Psychological: My goal is to keep on working on my stress and anxiety levels (without medication). I want to be able to sit and think about the best way to solve these two issues without getting angry or anxious. I want to meditated, take walks by myself (when possible), take long baths and listen to soothing music, and/or talk to someone that will listen to me without judgment and assumptions.

This is how my current situation looks like, I'm determined to continue until I reach my goals! Good luck all of you in achieving your goals!

My Journey: Then, Now, Tomorrow

Success in life can be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy spiritual, physical and psychological goals.  There are many aspects and goal levels in which in other to achieve we must first obtain wholeness. Success is a journey not a destination. Success includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, and the sense of well-being completely.

          Success through wholeness is much easier than what many people might think.  Through wholeness our ability to fulfill our desires with effortless ease is much more likely to happen. The beauty to obtain success in our spiritual, physical and psychological life is the power that resides there – The power of our inner being the power of our mind and spirit which will show on our physical well being.

          Any professional in the health and wellness field must obtain success first in their spiritual, psychological, and physical life through obtaining wholeness because this way they can teach and guide individuals that are seeking wholeness. Professional must be able to use each individual pure potential to help them success through the process. For some this process might be long and hard, for other will be easy and short it all depends in how well the professional is trained and prepared to assist the individual in hi/her journey to find wholeness. Everyone’s journey and destination is different, but the beginning is the same – we all start by wanting to achieve WHOLENESS!

  As every individual who seeks change and the goal to achieve wholeness I need to develop my own personal goals to achieve them. My journey to change and achieve wholeness has started, but yet I have not reached my most pure potential through wholeness just yet, but I know that eventually I will achieve it. Back in March 22, 2011 this is how my physical, spiritual, and psychological being was based on a scale of 1-10 (10 being optimal well being):

First Assessment

          Physical: I was a 7, the reason why I scored myself a 7 was because I was 30 pounds overweight, which I gained due to stressful life events.

          Spiritual: I was an 8; because I back then I felt that even though I believe in God, I still needed to build a deeper relationship with him. Back then I recognized the need of spirituality in my life.

          Psychological: I scored myself a 6! on this one.  It was hard and painful to accept the psychologically I was not where I needed to be specially being a mother of three and being a 34 year old adult. Many factors played a role in my psychological state back in March, for example a separation, not a place of my own, a child diagnosed with ADHD,  no job, and some others.

          Back in March when I did this short assessment, I set some goals for these three areas:

          Physical: My goal was to lose 40 lbs, by the end August. Losing 10 pounds per month the goal is doable.

          Spiritual: Seek spiritual help and learn more about God. Going to church and stop judging others and forgiving others as well was the first step towards achieving my goal.

        Psychological: the goal was to ease my mental tension, by working on my anxiety and stress levels.

Current Assessment, Goal Development and Practices for Personal Health

My current situation on these three areas has changed. The change is a positive and encouraging one. Because of the assessment in March, I have been able to record and evaluate and even modify my goals to achieve success! My current situation is as follows:

          Physical: I have lost 10 lbs!!! I’m so happy because that means that I’m on the right track to achieve my goal of losing 40 lbs by the end of August. The way that I was able to lose these 10 lbs was by eating less junk, for example sweets, sodas, fried food, bread, and not eating after 6 pm unless is a small fruit or a cup of green veggies. Also, I started an exercise program called “Insanity” which is really insane! It’s hard but I’m doing it, even though I don’t do it like them I’m doing my best because I know that one day I will do it just like them!

Spiritual: I feel like I have been doing much better about judging other and even forgiving! Before I judge I try to put myself in the other person’s shoes and think how would I react, feel and think if the same was happening to me? This has been really helpful. Every time someone says something that hurts me I just pray for me and I let go and let God! I pray for them to stop being that way too!...=). I now pray more often and go to church as well.

Psychological: I’m doing better in this area too, but not as well as I would like because I’m still living with my parents, and my ADHD child is to hyperactive for me to handle in such a reduced space. I’m working on relaxing and letting my mind be stress less by meditating and praying, and its helping!

My current goals and how I plan to achieve them based on my current situation are as follows:

Physical: Since I lost 10 lbs in a month by eating healthier and exercising, my goal is to lose 10 lbs per month, by continue eating healthier and exercising. What I would like to add now that spring is here and summer is approaching is taking long walks with my child that has ADHD, this way she can use the energy walking with me while we talk and build a better relationship!

Spiritual: My spiritual goal is to keep on practicing: “Let go and Let God”. Also I would like to find and online group about the law of attraction and how to live a happy positive life because this way I can benefit my spiritual and psychological life. Also I want to some biblical studies that might help know more about God and religion itself.

Psychological: My goal is to keep on working on my stress and anxiety levels (without medication). I want to be able to sit and think about the best way to solve these two issues without getting angry or anxious. I want to meditated, take walks by myself (when possible), take long baths and listen to soothing music, and/or talk to someone that will listen to me without judgment and assumptions.

Commitment

          Even though I won’t be a health and wellness professional, I think that if I adhere to the guidelines that an integral practitioner, I can achieve my goals and may be help other later in life.

          I will continue my process of self-development. I will make changes to my life and my goals as necessary to achieve wholeness. I will make sure that I study, fully understand and practice an integral vision and its principles and practices into my personal and daily life. I will continue to visualize health and healing whose final goal is health, happiness and wholeness. I will recognize that I’m the ultimate source for my health, healing and the author of my own life (Dacher, 2006).

I will hold all life as unique and precious! (Dacher, 2006).

         
Reference:

Dacher, E. S. (2006). Integral health: the path to human flourishing . CA : Basic Health Publications, Inc. .

Visualizing "The Wise One"

This week's exercise was easier than the other ones because even though I have not seen Jesus face to face I have the image that as a child I used to see at church. I focused on His face, His eyes, and I felt so much peace. I think this was due because at this moment one of my love ones is going through a very hard time and doing this exercise help me to lift prayers at a higher level. Many people don't believe in God or Jesus, but I do, I refuse to believe that I'm a decendent of a monkey. I decent from something big, bigger than any of us can ever imagine. I respect others believes and honor their honesty and sincerity. I think this was the best exercise because is like letting the soul meet its creator.

The phrase "one cannot lead another where one has not gone him or herself"  this to me that I can't lead by example when I have not experienced or lived what I'm preaching or trying to teach. For example, I can't go and try to be a marriage counselor when my relationship is about to end due to misunderstanding and constant fighting. I think we have the experience and have overcome those bad or good experiences in order to tell others about them in a form of advice.

Meditation

Meditation:

This mini-practice was a very nice experience for me because I was able to open my mind and my heart just by thinking about good and positive things. Wishing freedom from suffering, health, happiness, and wholeness to everyone not just my love ones or my enemies is much easier and sincere than focusing in one particular group. This is a great exercise that I would be doing more often. I really enjoyed doing. 

At this time of my life the aspects of my life that are a sources of difficulty are my biological, interpersonal, because of my weight, current living situation as well as my relationship situation. I feel that I’m connected with God, and that helps me a lot to let go and let God. =)

The area that I would like to focus on at this time is my worldly situation and interpersonal situation, because I need to move on in life and I know that by doing this I can focus more in my eating habits and work out a bit more. I hope that by developing one area at time I can move to the next one until I reach my wholeness.

Have a great week!

Rosa

Subtle Mind

The subtle mind exercise was a lot easier for me to do than the love and kindness one, I think because it the focus point was the breathing. The background music also helped a lot in focusing in my breathing I really enjoy soothing sounds. This exercise was focused in calming and the stillness of the mind to eventually reach Unity Unconsciousness.

The connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness is that these three are connected to complete the health of the wholeness (body-mind-spirit). I think there’s a stronger connection between mind and spirit than spirit and body. I think that often we feel (spiritually) what we think and think about what we feel (spiritually). When I lay down and think about my feeling towards my love ones, I use my mind and my soul not my body (physical action), I see the interconnection between these two more clearly.

Have a Great Week!

Love and Kindness

Hello Everyone,

Love and kindness is something that we suppose to practice every day especially if we call ourselves Christians, but it a very hard thing to do when we don’t have the knowledge, guidance, time, patient and willingness to do it. I had a hard time trying to breath in all of the suffering of the people that I don’t really care for, I felt somewhat fake because even though I don’t wish them bad, I don’t wish them well either. I don’t hate them I just simply don’t care about them.

I think that we should start by being loving and kind with ourselves and our families and then move onto other people. I love my family (all of them) but sometimes my siblings or parents tend to make me lose my patience and this is when I have to practice love and kindness with the ones that I love and when I have mastered this then I think that I’ll have the knowledge and willingness to do it for the people I don’t care for.

I think that mental workout is something that we should incorporate in our daily lives because this will give us the practice to master our minds. To have control of our minds is having control in how we act and feel. I think we should focus in the positive and not the negative!

My strenghs and needs

Hello everyone!

If I have to rate myself on a scale of 1-10 (10 being optimal well being), in the following areas: A - physical well-being, B- spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being, I woudl rate myself as follow:

A- Physical: I'm currently a 7, because I'm healthy but I'm about 30 pounds over weight. I have gained 20 pounds in the last 5 months due to stress.
B- Spiritual: I'm currently an 8, because I have been trying to build my relationship with God, and I really feel that need for spiritual food. I think that I can do better, and eventually I know I will.
C-Psychological: On this one is hard and painful to say that I think I'm a 6, because of my current life situation which is that I've been living with my parents for the last 5 months and this causes a lot of tension and stress, because I have my two youngest kids with me and it's hard not to have a place of my own to have more freedom and more peace. I think anxiety and sometimes depression is caused by the current living situation. Hopefully, I will be back in WY by June and my life will go back to what it was or better yet to what I have always wanted to be.

Some goals that I will like to achieve in the following areas are:
A-Physical: My goal is to loose 40 pounds before by the end of August. I think if I can loose between 8-10 pounds a month this goal is doable.
B-Spiritual: My goal is to find a church where I can feel welcome and I can learn how to connect with God. I want to learn to forgive others and not judge others. I also want to be more kind and loving towards everyone.
C-Psychological: My goal is to relieve all my mental tension. I also would like to work on my anxiety and stress levels. I think by doing this I can control my behavior toward myself and others.

I think that going on a healthy diet and start walking at least 1 hour a day could help me loose the with the I need to loose. Going to church and reading the bible as well as other spiritual books will help me become more spiritual. Moving back to Wyoming, and getting a place of my own will help me greatly in controlling my anxiety and stress levels.

I think that the relaxation exercise is a good exercise, if we know how to quite our minds and our surroundings. I tried to do it but there was to much noise around  inside the house as well as outside. My mind couldn't focus. I think I will have to try this exercise another time. But I think this could be a very beneficial exercise for people like me who wants to learn how to meditate.