Spiritual, mental, and physical wellness

Discuss the connection of the spiritual wellness to mental and physical wellness. Explain how the connection is manifested in your personal life. When we have good mental and physical wellness, we can further our minds into a more spiritual side. This happens when we explore a deeper state of mind. Our mental ability progresses when we become more connected with others. "The spiritual process aims at penttrating the deeper layers of the mind to uncover the natural wisdom, inner peace, and loving-kindness tha are the pivitoal causes of a sustained well-being of body, mind, and spirit." (Dacher, E.S 2006) This has helped me to get to know who I really am and where I need to be in all aspects of wellness. I realize that it can be a long process, but one worth every minute.

Subtle Mind vs Loving Kindness

I found this to be a wonderful experience. I love the deep breathing as apposed to trying to concentrate on another person. This is my favorite one now. I love the ocean waves and the silence to just breathe. The loving kindness exercise was beneficial to me, but it was too long and it was hard to concentrate sometimes. I do breathing exercises regularly to calm me down. The music in the background was very soothing and refreshing. I think that I like this more than the rainbow exercise. I didn't find this to be long at all. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to relieve stress. I think that this is also a great way to just concentrate on breathe instead of other things that we always think about.

Mental Work out

What is the concept of �Mental Workout? What does the research indicate are the proven benefits of a Mental Work Out? How can you implement mental workouts to foster your psychological health? A person must practice what they want to learn and obtain. You have to persevere if you want to accomplish anything. The book stated that we should do two types of practices. The first one is loving-kindness. This not to focus entirely on ourselves, but to enhance concern and compassion for others. We have loving kindness we get it back. Its almost like karma. The second one is subtle mind. This practice requires wisdom. This can happen when we tame our minds by exploring the nature of mind and our experiences. After mastering this we can still the mind and progress toward a more stable and peaceful self. I will implement this by trying this little by little most days of the week until they become second nature. These mental workouts will give me the ability to overcome many obstacles in my life.

Loving Kindness

I found this exercise to be very beneficial. I loved the woman's voice and the background of the waves. I feel that to have loving kindness we must focus on our emotions , whether negative or positive, and then we can project positive energy onto others. This is a great exercise to experience all of our emotions and deal with them so that we can create a more positive outlook on life. I honestly can say that when I have a negative outlook, I feel that no one wants to be around me. I have learned to change my outlook in the past few years. It took a lot of soul searching to do this. People want to be around me more often now than not. I always want to show compassion and love for others. I feel that my job also helps my outlook. Being a personal trainer, I have to always look out for the best interest of my client. This involves listening and accepting all the differences of my clients. Loving kindness happens when you have true compassion for who a person is.

Relaxation exercise.

I really enjoy this exercise. It has become my favorite way to meditate. I love how all of the colors mean something different and positive. I feel that color is a really great way to relax in my mind. It makes me think of flowers and their beauty.

Assisting my goals

3. What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal? For my physical goal I could try to prioritize my time better so that I could make more time to work on my physical goals. For my psychological goal I could keep pushing even when things are very mental challenging such as mental Olympic training. This would be my biggest challenge since I have so much going on in my life. I try my best to keep pushing, but sometimes I don't have the energy. For my spiritual goal I will make time to meditate. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while, but sometimes get side tracked when I am busy.

Goals for self.

2. Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological). My physical goal is to do cardio 5 times per week for 30 min-1 hour with a variety of exercises. I also want to lift weights 4-5 times per week for 1 hour-1&1/2 hours with a variety of exercises. My spiritual goal is to meditate everyday for at least 10 minutes. This will take place when I wake up, after exercise, or before going to bed. My psychological goal is to become more calm, happier, and stop worrying about small things.

Reflections of well-being

1. Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal well-being), where do you rate your A-physical well-being, B-spiritual well-being, C-psychological well-being? Why? My physical well-being is at 9. I want it to become a 10. I work very hard on my physical well-being. I do 3-4 days of cardio per week along with 4-5 days of resistance training. I also practice yoga once a week. I think that there can always be improvement on physical well-being. My spiritual well-being is about a 5. I don't practice this often enough. Sometimes I feel like I don't have much time. I meditate about 3-4 times per week and do yoga once a week. My psychological well-being is at about 6-7. There are many things that I need to work on for this to be higher.

Reflection on relaxation exercise

I was very pleased with this exercise. I had no idea that 80% of our blood stayed in our abdominal cavity. When doing this exercise, I was surprised that my body felt the way he was describing in the exercise. My arms did feel warm and heavy and they were hard to move when he asked us to move them. This goes to show how powerful the mind is and how it affects our bodies with each thought we have.