Wellness, as a person centered orientation, relies heavily on the concept that the individual is aware of his/her strengths and needs. However there is often little encouragement or expectation for the individual to self-reflect or take a holistic personal inventory or to convey their awareness with their health practitioner.
- Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your A-physical wellbeing, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why?
A, 8 (I thought of four positive, and two negative, so I took the difference from 10). B, 6 (I would like to know myself better and be more in control). C, 5 (Same as the spiritual, but I think if I knew my inner working better and how to enhance positive and not dwell on negative stressors, I could be happier and more fulfilled).
- Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).
Goals: Physical: Have a healthy weight gain throughout my pregnancy and wear my glasses when I’m supposed to. Spiritual: Have more faith in myself and stop second-guessing my intuition! Psychological: Decrease one distress or do away with it completely.
- What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?
Implements: Physical: Eat more vegetables, fruit, and watch portion sizes. Spiritual: Ask myself why more; do some research into my own thoughts. Ex. Why did I come to this place, thought process, decision? Psychological: Make more lists and give more time to complete them. Stop procrastinating so much!
- Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century. Describe your experience. (What it beneficial? Frustrating? etc.)
I liked the exercise at the beginning. I began to relax. The guy said to envision a window at the base of my spine and imagine the color red coming from it. I repeated that I was grounded. Then, he said make another window at the spine across from your belly button- THE SHAPE OF A CIRCLE! Who thinks of windows as circles?! Threw my whole thing off. It’s always something stupid that ruins it for me. But I listened to the whole thing, tried to reconnect and relax, then the guy said at the end, you’re not sleepy, you’re energized! WHAT?! Heck no guy, it’s 11:00pm and I want to go to bed. I was so ticked off. Talk about frustrating.
OMG Staci...I absolutely loved reading your blog. That last paragraph had my whole face hurting...and I'm still laughing. You certainly explained your frustration. I think it might be a good idea to try the exercise early morning prior to the beginning of your day. You pic of Turtle is too cute. Good luck to you Staci.
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I'm glad my anger humors you! LOL :)
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ReplyDeleteSounds like really good goals. I like the one about decreasing one distress or even doing away it. That is hard to do sometimes, but a great idea. I am going to go for my Masters degree after I obtain this Bachelors degree in May, so being able to share with my clients how important eliminating certain stressors in their life will help them during therapy. One thing that helps me in those relaxation exercises is placing more focus on my breathing and not so much the visualizations that the person is giving. Sorry, you got frustrated in the exercise. Thanks for sharing your post! Have a good week!!
Angela Fagan
Hey Staci, I'm sorry that you thought and felt that I was laughing at your frustration (I was not). To me, I read it from a humorous perspective instead of a sensitivity one and for that I do apologize.
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I still think turtle is cute :)
Anita