To improve health, you must establish a basis from where you are starting. You must be honest in your evaluations of yourself and be willing to place the time and effort into changing and improving your health. Physical health encompasses more that what people see on the outside. It is internal and can be analyzed with the use of labs, dignostics, hygiene, and weight management. As for myself, I would grade my physical helath a 7-8 out of 10. Overall, I have a healthy body mass index (BMI), a tool used to determine health based on eliciting someone's height and weight and using an equation to find a percentage of body fat. My BMI is 19 which is normal for my height and weight. In addition to having a healthy BMI, I work as a nurse walking long distances on the floor each day and my lab results, from a year ago, show perfect health. The only area I am lacking in is learning to relax and stretch my muscles. I injured my knee in sports and I have constant tension in my neck and back. One goal for myself to improve my physical health would be to allot 15 minutes everyday to stretching in the am before work or any daily activities. Included in this goal would be another 15 minute stretch before bed so my muscles relax as I sleep. By accomplishing this goal, my physical health should improve to 9 or 10/10.
Spiritually I would rate my health a 9/10. I feel very connected to my greater power, God. My husband and I both attend church each week, pray each day, "wait on the Lord" several times a week, and worship often. I feel all these things help me to establish my spiritual well-being. One goal, however, that I can implement to improve my spiritual well-being is to dedicate set times to focusing on "waiting on the Lord" and worshipping. It would be less of a struggle I believe to accomplish these goals with pre-established times to accomplish them.
Lastly, my psychological well-being would be rated 7/10. I am a constant thinker and analyzer. However, I allow this to interrupt my daily activities at times and feel very drained at the end of day. I have an amazing husband and family but my OCD personality at work and goal for perfection make stress a huge factor in my life. One priority goal for improving my psychological health is to establish one goal per day at work that I will accomplish and focus on perfecting that. By dissecting my goals for perfection into obtainable challeneges I feel my stress level will decrease significantly.
Overall, I would rate my holistic health 8/10. A "B" average is not bad but I want on the "A" list of health! :)
Just moved to Murphy Texas. Looking for work and hoping to move to Austin. Have plans to move back to Wahington in the next 2 years. Nice to know that I'm not the only one to be experiencing culture shock. My daughter says it's not culture shock its just that Texas doesn't have any culture, lol.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have everything pretty much together. I like your idea to spend time each day to stretch. I am a physical therapist assistant so I preach that to people until I am blue in the face, but I don't know how much it helps. Stretching is a necessity for your body, just like breathting. Not to that extreme of course, but it is important. Stretching daily can: improve flexibility, decrease chance of injury to muscle or joint, provide a source of relaxation and stress/muscle tension release. The body needs it! My lacking area of the 3 I think would be the spiritual. I have my spirituality, that I practice on my own or when I go to church with my family. But I would like to set aside more "me time" when it comes to spirituality. Any suggestions? I know taking time to reflect is good, but do you have any good ways to do that?
ReplyDeleteMelanie