Week 3 Already! :) Physical, Spiritual, and Psychological Well-Being

1.        Based on your reflections, and on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being optimal wellbeing), where do you rate your:

A-physical wellbeing = (2) My physical wellbeing is poor. 10 years ago I was diagnosed with Paget’s disease. The diagnosis is so rare for patients of my age that I can even go into a doctor’s office for a runny nose without them asking me a million questions on the diagnosis. Really??? I just went in for a sinus cold!

 B-spiritual well-being = (3) I do not routinely practice any form of specified religion. I have spent a number of years living in the mid-west and I can’t image any human, nonhuman, or higher power letting people suffer in the ways that I have seen in the past. When I was younger my spiritual well-being was much higher, but as I have aged it has become progressively worse.

 C-psychological well-being = (7) this is where I can say that I compensate for my physical and spiritual well-being (or lack thereof). I call it my “compensational Umbrella”. My psychological health is both poor and good. The stressors of life seem to keep this internal wheel going. This has brought much prosperity and good into my life.

    However, being that I lack so much in both of the other categories it catches up to me sometimes.

2.        Develop a goal for yourself in each area (physical, spiritual, psychological).

Physical – be more optimistic about my diagnosis. It’s been 10 years and I am still angry at my genetics (there is some serious projection going on here!) “Blame the genetics”. Wow, let’s analyze that……

Spiritual – I have not really come up with a good solution to find a good source of spirituality again. In ways I wish I would have never seen how other countries live and thrive. On the other hand – I would not trade that experience for the world. I will try to be more open minded everyday and not see things from my personal perspective, but a perspective that encourages open-mindedness and compassion.

Psychological – Hmmmmm? Were to begin? The goal that I will attempt to integrate into my life encompassing my psychological health is……drum roll please? …….. “I will try to not be mad at the genetics that I have acquired”.  

3.        What activities or exercise can you implement in your life to assist in moving toward each goal?

    For the time being I am going to keep researching these concepts more in depth through the time of this course. Until recently I was not aware that these factors could influence so many aspects within our lives. This means that if I can learn to be more spiritual, more positive, more expressive, more loving, maybe my psychological and physical body can become more – Healthy. I am going to learn about me for the time being and attempt to right some of the major wrongs.

4.        Complete the relaxation exercise The Crime of the Century.

This exercise was very frustrating to me. I could not get the program to open even after sitting in front of my computer for over thirty minutes. I was so frustrated with the program that I honestly did not have enough patients to open it. Later that evening I went back to the computer and tried again. It worked. My home is very hectic – so trying to complete the exercise in full was virtually impossible. I think that if I were in the right environment that it would have been less frustrating. However, this was not the case yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the new experience more than I.