Unit 9 Final Project

Human Flourishing in the Professional

Lisa McGee-Shields

Professor Montgomery

                                                                 HW 420-01                                                                       March 29, 2013

                   I.                        Introduction:
The importance of psychologically development for any professional, in particular the health care professional is a sound mind inhibits a sound body and good health practices.  Without psychological development one can not have the ability to move on spiritually to create wellness and physically. I came through over 20 years ago a mentally abusive marriage, it took no physician or counselor to tell me that I had been broken; that I was not the person that God made me to be.  It is at the point of realization that one seeks help for a condition.  Born with a profound spirit and raised with incredible faith in God that he would see me through, faith guided me to Japanese psychiatrist.  First sessions went on for months, of just speaking of occurrences in the marriage and how it came about; how I felt about things; and how I dealt with things.  Two years later, the process of healing of the mind, spirit and body had taken place and I had become the person I once was.  My new innocence had arrived; today I stay tuned to his teachings.

                II.                         Assessment:
Scoring my wellness at the new 30 is quite easy an overall; 10 if we do so on a scale of 1-10.  Psychical health comprises of Absences seizures received after an automobile accident in 2002, no other health modalities exist.  Spiritually, my faith is what has kept me grounded; it is what continues to make me grateful, kind at heart, love my fellow man as I love myself, and forgive all injustices.  Mentally, always takes me back to Dr. Wu, we go over mental fitness from time to time.  Buy doing so assurances, that I am still on a healthy path and understanding of awakening a being integrated daily.  These meetings may occur every three years or so, and are more often reunions to assure growth outcomes.  What is generally found is that more people have been helped by my teachings because of his work with me.

             III.                        Goal development:
At this point most if not all goal have been met.  The continuations to practice the changes that have come about and not to allow any person, place, or thing destroy what you are the struggle once you have acquired your awakening of psychological, spiritual, and mental health.  Most certainly knowing that with this you will begin to shine a different type of light, which others will not understand.  When a light shines brighter than one can imagine, some want to retrieve that light because they do not have, nor do they know how to obtain it.  This condition of thinking sets the different person out to take your flourishing light.  In the most basic of terms when you flourish you will acquire enemies.  Positive meets negative because you are light.

             IV.                        Practices for personal health:
For my physical health my diet is very important, the recommendations from the food pyramid are not for everyone.  My stomach is small and could not hold half of what they recommend.  I eat fruits in the morning and vegetable and 5 ounces of meat in the evening; everything must be organic and fresh.  I do Tai’ Chi’, walk and run three to four time per week, I always take stairs.  For my psychological wellness, I read my bible and stay prayed up and over, meditation several hours per day is a must.  My routine combines the mental and spiritual, because you can not have one without the other.  The calm-abiding mind, must meditate, as with the witnessing mind, to come to come to spiritual peace (Dacher, 2006).

                V.                        Commitment:
I will continue to stay on the healing path that I have practiced for about 20 years.  The awakening model is the same model as the Integral Health model, however with a different name.  Each night at bedtime I will still recap my day to assure that I was the best person that I could be; and had caused no harm to another or myself.  I will request forgiveness for any sins known and unknown, and forgive those that have wronged me.  I will continue to donate, contribute to, and work with causes for the betterment of mankind.  I will look out for those that need my help and do what I can, exercise, eat well, meditate, be forever grateful, forgiving, and kind to all living things.  This is my commitment to life.  I can continue to use Dr. Wu’s strategy to stay focused, as it has worked very well when I feel as though I may be falling.  Namaste

                                                               Reference

Dacher, E. (2006). Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publication, Inc

Loving My Life

Unit 8- Loving-Kindness and Meditation

   Loving-Kindness is something that seems to be always with me without even thinking about it.  Monday, I needed to go downtown Kansa City, for all you sports fan we are having basketball chaos so that means no parking.  I chose to take the city bus, I live on what is known here as a Max (quick) route.  On my way back the bus stopped and picked up a gentleman with a cane and a heavy grocery bag, I instantly got up and gave him my seat and began to speak with him.  It was then that he told me his exit was at my stop, he was riding to Kansas.  I took his bag and carried it across two streets for him and not one thought came to my mind.  He was speaking of how angry he was about his leg; I turned to him and said “but you have been blessed with an awesome rest of your life, and it counts”. 

   The guy said “I never thought of that”,  I crossed two streets and walked through the light and a woman on the bus stop going east said to me, “As small as you are, you carried that heavy bag, it sure was nice of you”, I “ replied “No just right of me”.  I proceeded to walk the next block home and thought no more of it until now.  Acts of loving-kindness are not to be boasted about, because by then they come not by your heart, and it is as if an award you expect.  They are silent acts, just as meditation.  I think that is why I so enjoy them.  One may do it and move on and keep it to ones own self.  Like donating money in private anonymously, your secret.  What I enjoy best is that nothing has to change; this can stay the same in my life because it works well, and helps others around me to grow and flourish to greater potential.  Namaste

A Happy Life

Mindful Meditation- Unit 7 Blog

  

   This was a very long and tedious week, as we lead up to the final weeks of the term, more demands are put on us as students to prove what we have learned.  For some students the ability to prove what our brains have obtained may not be measured in a test, nor written in a paper, it must be extrapolated by some other means.  With this process of purging information that has been processed, digested, and now regurgitated, one must meditate the mind back into the original state of being.  Being is not self inflicted but rather a peace of uninterrupted space that belongs to you without interference.  This allows for a greater peace of the whole you, the peace that allows others to ask, “Are you tuning me out”, while you answer “No, I am tuning me in”.  You are physically well because your mind only harnesses positive emotion; you have purged the negative thoughts and allowed you to move forward.

   The saying “One can not lead another where one has not yet gone himself”, simply states that you can not teach Integral Health, if you are unhealthy in your mind, spirit, and body.  I can not speak to drug addiction, because I know not of it.  You can not teach or tell a patient about something you know nothing of first hand, it is not best practice, and yes we are obligate to client to be psychologically, physically and spiritually sound.  It is imperative that we practice what we preach; the sick under no circumstance can heal the sick.  It is our inherit duty to be well in every facet of life, seek ye and it shall be answered.  Namaste

The last of human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. ~Dr. Victor Frankl

In Life

Today Walking in another Mans Shoes

   Today, I had a great deal of school work to complete. I made a list of test, blog postings, and reading that needed to be completed so that I could move on to assignments that are due in the weeks leading up to finals.  Noone likes the stress of Finals, to beat that stress I found that completed assingments by Sunday every week alleviates the Finals stress, and allows students to keep up with weekly work.  Today I was side tracked-Oh boy found an obstacle.  One person had posted a blog other than myself.  Dear sweet Vinnie, I am unable to blog you guys if you are not here.  Look forward to reading any blog before Monday or Tuesday.

To Save My Life

        Unit 5- Subtle Mind

   We are being asked to compare and contrast the Loving-Kindness and Subtle Mind mp3 benefits, frustrations.  Before taking this class, I attended another similar class offered by Kaplan; Stress- Critical Issues in Management and Prevention.  This class had been a choice, because I felt it would help me to help the patient base, focus on managing stressful issues.  Therefore being better at what I chose to do, but it did not, the class instead focused on my stress and how to deal with my stress.  I guess one might say ”you could have bought me for a nickel”, I had many problems in the class, I could not comprehend very well what the Professor was presenting to the class, nor could I answer any of the test questions.  However, I did pass with an “A”.

   Everything in life is not a perfect fit to everyone, and not everyone stresses over mess, large or small.  If I had to compare the two mp3 recordings I would have the same reaction to both.  I have be taught by the very nature of my being to exist in the comfort of light, I can live alone, be alone, speak with no one and have conversations so delightful and peaceful that my soul stands still.  I am at peace with my mind, spirit, body and all that surround me in my space, loving-kindness is not something you should be conscious of doing; one should just be doing it and not speaking of their good works.  To meditate, by all intent means that you have come to and found that inner peace, to love, forgive, forget. And go inside yourself and have inner peace with YOU.   Consequently, before I could get here I had to have a long hard cry, a purging of sorts, a cleansing of all that hurt in my heart.  We must first love and forgive us, but we must also let all the hurt out of our hearts.