Saturday, March 31, 2012


Unit 9: Personal Application of the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Healing…(final Project)

  





Dacher states the integral practitioner must attune with each other so the presence of an open heart, the clear and unconditional mind to welcome their patients within their physical settings. (Dacher, 2006, pg. 171)





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Assessment:
How have you assessed your health in each domain? How do you score your wellness spiritually, physically, and psychologically?
The assessment within each of the domains that I have with my practitioner and myself is an awesome relationship that he understands and know when I am in serve pain and when I am ok but not feeling good. Our relationship became more spiritual as the years go by due to the extensive care I have been responsible for the last twelve years. My doctor has been very supportive of me. My health he keep me inform of what I need to stay focus on.
Dacher states “The healer and the healee is a joined healing community who are seeking the truth of the person life for the purpose of alleviating suffering at its source and promoting human flourishing”. (Dacher, 2006, pg. 169)
In the last two years I can truly say my score is working up towards a ten towards wellness spiritually, physically and psychologically. This class has really enlighten me on how these areas wellness spiritual, physical and psychological relates to the healing partnership between the individual and the practitioner should have to “alleviate the suffering and promote human flourishing”.
“The seven essential aspects to an integral practice”:
  1. The integral map
  2. The healer
  3. The healee
  4. The integral relationship
  5. The integral diagnosis
  6. The integral prescription
  7. The setting
I will use these seven essential aspects towards an integral practice as a guideline on the experience I should receive from the practitioner’s office to determine if I am comfort with him or her based how he or she listen to me and treat me when I address my problems so we can come to an agreement on how the various methods, remedies or therapies will be integrated to evolve an approach to improve my health and allow me to reach my full potential.
The “Five Guiding Principle, Holistic, Evolutionary, Intentional, Person-Centered, and Dynamic”, has been my personal health map that I used as guideline to empower me start being in charge of my life. (Dacher, 2006, pg.166-167)
Goal development
List at least one goal you have for yourself in each area, Physical, Psychological (mental health) and Spiritual.
My physical goals I have started and maintain the following:
Ø remove all starchy foods from my diet, less fried foods and more baked foods
Ø work out with my physical trainer 1 hour two days a week
Ø routine workout sessions three times a week in my local gym
Ø Zumba dance classes 2 nights a week
My spiritual goals I practice:
Ø maintain my daily prayer session every morning
Ø attain bible classes every Wednesday at my church
Ø practice every day maintaining peace in my life
My psychological goals I practice:
I employ these mind exercises I have learned through mediation and find them very helpful to me - medication tapes: (sublte mind, meeting Aesclepius  and visualization)

Practices for personal health:
What strategies can you implement to foster growth in each of the following domains; Physical, Psychological, and Spiritual. Provide at least two examples of exercises or practices in each domain. Explain how you will implement each example.
The strategies I plan to foster my growth towards the physical, psychological and spiritual stay in tune with my body, maintain my diet, see my doctors on a regular basis, performed any form of exercises daily than I like to do so I can keep reducing my weight.
The two mediation mp3 I enjoyed doing were subtle mind and aesclepian meeting. These mind exercises really relaxes me. The subtle mind put my mind at ease and my body was totally relaxed by allowing my mind to become still and clear of any and all things so I could experience the mental activity of clear thoughts, creative images and enjoying the feelings of being lifeless. (Dacher, 2006, pg. 71).
The aesclepian meeting is an exercise I will do when I had a hard day at work. This exercise allowed my mind to travel and mentally take me to another place in time where good time and fun helped me remove the stress and the anxiety immediately.
These two mediation exercises I will employ in my daily routine.   

Commitment:
How will you assess your progress or lack of progress in the next six months? What strategies can you use to assist in maintaining your long-term practices for health and wellness? 
My commitment to myself  in the next six months lose my weight empower myself with other health groups to keep me knowledgeable and aware of the health so I can begin again of enjoying my life without less pain and live well.
The outcome of me doing the things will encourage me to obtain my weight lost goal of 160 lbs by maintaining no starch foods, train with my physical trainer once a week, work out  three times a week, enjoy dancing doing Zumba fitness two nights a week, and employ these mind exercises I am learning within this class. I find them very helpful to me - medication tapes: (sublte mind,  Aesclepius meeting, and visualization)

2 comments:

  1. Dorothy,
    Thank you for your blog, it looks like you have a grasp on the topics taught during this class. In your goals you mentioned nutrition and exercise, which happen to be two very important topics in a person health. A personal trainer is a good way to go for motivation, variety and direction. I don’t know much about the area you live, out are you able to take your exercise to the outdoors and into nature? It’s a different feel. Sometimes a hike doesn’t feel like exercise at all; however, you get the same results and something for you mind and spirit. I like the choice in practices you made, meeting Aesclepius, its one I find solace. All these years I been told to turn inward let your feelings out, all the while I have been looking inward to make since of what I was going through. Having the a guide to call on was and is beneficial.
    I wish you well in all that you do.
    Kevin W.

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  2. Dorthy,

    Great Blog. I like that you added in the pictures that was a nice touch. Overall it seemed like you had a good idea of what is going on. My only suggestion is to add learning about other faiths in your spiritual goals. If you do not know what someone else believes than how can you respect it, let alone relate to it. A lot of people who practice natural health do NOT follow a path that is considered Christian and will be offended if you do not take the time to understand their faith. I am not saying you should change yours. Just learn about other faiths too. It makes you easier to trust and more marketable.

    ---Anita Rachel Scott (Goehring)

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