Unit 9- Final project

Personal Application of Psychologically, Spiritually and Physical Domains: Final Project 
 

            In order for health and wellness professional to help others, they need to be psychologically, spiritually, and physically developed. This is important since it is the professional who guides their clients into wholeness. Additionally, the professional should lead by example, as guiding others to wellness can enhance the professional’s well-being (Dacher, 2006). Personally, I feel as I am on the path to wholeness when it comes to psychological and physical development, as I have the will to seek change and care for my physic. The area that I would like to further develop is my spirituality. I feel as though I need to further develop my spirituality as I want to continue to reach a deeper awareness. I would want to reach great levels of inner calmness; therefore, it is important that I continue mediation.

Assessment

            As everyone has different needs, the assessments of our development should take into account our differences. Personally, I would utilized assessment, cited in Dacher (2006), as the integral assessment, helps the individual create an understanding of each domain. Additionally, I would utilize others methods to assess each domain. First and foremost, I would create goals for myself, which will be uses as an assessment tool. For the domain of spirituality, I would assess the different levels of inner peace that I feel. As I am not aware of the maximum level of inner peace, I would assess my development in term of how I am able to deal with situations. According to Dacher (2006), an individual who has inner peace, is better able to deal with difficult situations, as he/she feels a sense of calmness. As I am still developing my inner self, I would score my spiritually levels as beginner, since it can take make years to develop greater levels of consciousness.

            Physically, I feel that I am very well developed, as I do take all the proper steps to take care of myself. Additionally, I am not satisfied with being average in this domain; therefore, I always push myself and strive for greater physical health. In this domain, I would assess my development by the ability to continually push myself to achieve greater. In order to do this, I would take my performance on competitions, such as 5k’s and the Spartan race, as an assessment tool. I would score my physical health as advance; however, there is always room to grow.

            As far as my psychological development is concerned, I feel as though I things that I would like to work on; however, I am well advance compared to a few years ago. As the mind is such an important factor in order to reach greater levels of consciousness, as negative thoughts and beliefs can enable one’s development, I need to address factors such as stress. I will assess the physiological domain, by assessing levels of stress. I feels as though I can tend to fluctuate when it comes to stress management; therefore, affecting my psychological development.

Goal development

            As we strive for wholeness, we must remember that integral health is not about the full development of all areas of life, rather then development of the areas needed in certain stages of life (Dacher, 2006). Hence, my current goal of each domain is based on my current need. Concerning my physical health, my goal is to keep myself at my current level of physical fitness, as I am quite content. In the psychological domain, I would like reduce stress levels in my life. My goal in this domain is to consistently be able to handle stress. Even though, I may act as though difficult situations do not bother me to the outside world, I tend to bottle these feelings inside, which is what is inhibiting me from achieving wholeness. My goal for the last domain, spiritually, is not only reach greater levels of awareness, but also to help other achieve the same. Touching the lives of others will help me receive greater levels of fulfillment. Undoubtedly, wholeness is something that should be shared with others (Dacher).

Practices for personal health

            In order to foster growth it is important to implement exercises and practice while enhancing physical, psychological, and spiritual development. Some exercises that I will use to foster growth in my physical development are kickboxing and other types of cardiovascular training. Both exercises do not only help my physical being, but also assist with stress management, as practice in one domain can affect another (Dacher, 2006). I implement kickboxing in my training routine, two to three times a week; as far as the other types of cardiovascular training is concerned, I implement them five to six times a week.  

            Exercises that will foster the psychological domain, which I will implement is the Subtle mind practice. This practice will help to reduce “noise”, as it will remove negative thoughts that can hinder growth (Dacher, 2006). I will incorporate this practice a couple of times a week, and if possible, everyday. Another practice that I will implement to train the mind would be to do puzzles or activities such as Sudoku; I would implement these activities throughout the week as often as possible.

            Lastly, in order to enhance my spiritual development, I will incorporate the practice of mediation on a daily bases. This practice will be implemented early in the day, in order to better prepare as the day passes. Another practice that I will implement that will enhance my spiritual development is yoga. I have a difficult time implementing this type of exercise, as it is not my exercise of choice; however, the benefits motivate me to try. I will start off implementing this type of exercise on a weekly base, and eventually plan to incorporate it more to my routine. I will also try to go with my wife when she takes yoga classes, in order to have further motivation to commit to the practice.

Commitment

            In order to asses my progression six months from now, I will utilize Dacher (2006) integral assessment. Alongside, I will asses if all of my personal goals have been met and set new ones for myself as I progress forward. Therefore, I will utilize my consistency with the exercise and practice setting-up for each domain, as another way to asses my progression. In order to properly document my progression, I will use a journal to record my progression. The journal will not only help my track my progression, but the lack of progression, as it allows me to see any fall-outs.

   

Reference

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