Goals Before and Now

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?

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

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

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?

 

I scored myself remarkably high in these areas, mainly because I didn’t really feel that I was in the bottom of these aspects but I didn’t know the possibility of what meditation gave me. Rating physical wellbeing as a 7/10 is about right, but this is because of my injury in my wrists, but now I have a higher score of about 8.5/10 because of new exercise techniques that concentrate on the same areas of concern has now activated that muscle and given back its strength. Spiritual well being is rated as a 9/10 but now that I look back at the development and improvement in my meditations, I am sure that it was a 7/10 and improved to a 9/10 today. Lastly is my psychological well being which was also overrated to a 9/10 but after reading the description it is really multidimensional perspective that has flourished with good decision making. The positive vision incorporated in my daily activities has brought me to a warm and trustful place. As you can s, my scores have changed but I overrated myself in the beginning of this 10 weeks only to find certain areas that were improved with the class.

Physically my goals were met; I achieved new ways of working my inactive muscles and learned how to keep my injury safe without giving up. Spiritually I flourished with relaxation techniques, and I am particularly anxious to fit one in this weekend in order to stay connected with my challenges of balance and loving kindness. I do feel the control of my emotions in check, and it is important to make sense of all the things I am going through. Psychologically I know it takes time and that my goal was to adapt and adjust to certain situation with ease and clarity as well as speed and efficiency. It is still improving, and it is only a matter of time, like I said before, when I will feel even more confident with all my aspects of life as I tackle one goal at a time.

The activities I implemented in my life to assist in each of these goals have been achieved. I have tried the exercise of cross over strings to work my chest without aggravating my wrist injuries. I have done the spiritual growth exercises of meditation as describes so well in Dacher’s book, Integral Health. Psychologically I have not tried yoga on a regular basis, but I have been building my positivity in my life and look forward to some sessions in yoga/stretching in the near future to help achieve that last goal.

As most of us know, this class has been a blessing and should be taught to everyone in college regardless of degree. These books teach a great degree of inner strength that can be practiced over time and bring a great deal of happiness to those who seek inner guidance. The positive perspectives I learned in this class have given me a path towards success. It has been rewarding and difficult but I have chosen to push through this difficulty and succeed. The commitment I have put in this class has given me a guideline to life and other classes. Development through meditation has been determined to strengthen myself but has been challenging to find that inner peace, that time to meditate and the commitment to avoid negativity. Through all of this, I have learned to give the inner strength of positivity to others, to show that it is important to love yourself in order to trust and relate to others. It is a common bond that connects all of us who help strengthen one another with different perspectives and relationships.