Integral Health Plan

1.                  It is important for health and wellness professionals to develop psychologically, spiritually, and physically to be able to maintain health and wellness in multiple aspects of life. Many times health and wellness is only observed and focused on the physical domains of the body and appearance. We must focus on the mind, body, and spirit to achieve optimum health. If one of these areas are lacking it may negatively affect the other area. I personally like to strengthen my psychological and spiritual self. I have many goals in terms of physical fitness and personal development, and I feel I can achieve those goals by focusing on areas in my psychological self and spirit. I can strength my mind and spirit by consciously focusing on areas I want to improve and practice them every day.

2.                  After doing many of the exercises in this class and assignments in other health classes I have seen my strengths and weaknesses in the areas of physical, psychological, and spiritual. Physical tests have consisted of body fat, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, VO2 max, strength, speed, and many others. I have tested high in many of the physical testing areas. Being able to assess the psychological and the spirit are a little harder than assessing the physical. Assessing these areas requires more of a personal assessment and after doing some of the meditation and spiritual exercises in this class I can see that my spiritual aspect of my life could use some strengthening. I will continue to practice to exercise my mind and spiritual mind.

3.                  In terms of goals in my physical, psychological, and spiritual areas of my life. I have goals in each area that can be short term or long-term development. My physical goal is in regards to strength. I am an avid crossfit athlete, and I want to become more competitive, so one of my goals is to become stronger in my Olympic lifts in particular my back squat and deadlift. I want back squat 300 plus pounds and be able to deadlift 400 plus pounds. When talking about a psychological goal, I want to strength my positive attitude and increase my focus and intensity. These areas take a conscious effort and will require practice and dedication. This would be a long-term goal as it can never be too strong. My spiritual goal is to maintain my religion and pray when I or someone else needs help.

4.                  The strategies I could use to achieve my physical goals could include increasing the frequency of my exercise and or increase the intensity of workouts. To achieve my psychological goals will have to include making a conscious effort of when I would like to utilize the ideals. To strength my spiritual health I can go to church more often, and pray more often when I need to.

5.                  In order to assess the areas of physical, psychological, and spiritual in the next 6 months I could do another personal assessment of physical areas, psychological mind, and spiritual mind. I can ask myself if the goals I established have been completed, and if they haven’t been completed I could assess what stage of progress I am in. I will need to answer once again how to get closer to my goals once the time comes. A could strategy to use to be able to achieve my goals would be to write them down, and make little reminders on what I need to do to achieve those goals. Also, I can make smaller goals to actually achieve the bigger goals. This will make the task easier and also will be able to make measurable progress.