Evaluations and Reflections

Here we are at the close of an excellent class. This health and wellness class has helped shape an improvement plan to improve the health of my mind, body, and soul. Earlier in this course, we assessed the physical, spiritual, and psychological well being. While my physical well being has not improved just yet, I do have an action plan that I want to stick to. The spiritual and psychological areas of my health have improved some, but I still need to do more with removing some of the activities and chaos in my life.

One of my goals was to lessen the activities and remove some of the riff raff in my life. This has been improved some, but could use some more work. I plan on continuing to lessen this in the up and coming months.

I have implemented many of the activities we have learned in the course such as the relaxation, subtle mind, and loving kindness exercises. They have provided me a great benefit in my spiritual and psychological aspects of my life.

The rewards that I have experienced in this course have been a renewed well being where I now have an outlet to reduce or eliminate stress and anxieties. My brother actually just came over today and heard about some of the things we have had to face with the kids and the fact that our house was flooded right after the start of this class (they still do not have all the repairs done!). My brother commented on how I was handling it and was like, "wow, I just don't know how you handle it so well" and he was glad that given everything going on I was doing well. He noticed I was not all tense like I used to be. This class has helped me more than I knew. He was right. I was not as tense as I used to be.

The most difficult things for me is just having enough time and money to address the physical aspects. Healthcare is not cheap with a high deductible health care plan and being able to make it to appointments to follow up on my physical health can be difficult working in a call center where you can only get time off (that you have available to take off) two moths out. Most days are taken and waiting two months is not ideal in some situations. I will get through it though.

This class has helped me to understand that in order to help others I have to be open and accepting of the changes myself. With having the benefits of making the changes in my own life, then others will be more likely to accept my recommendations because they can see that I have benefitted from the changes. Also, I will be more familiar with the challenges facing them as well. If nothing else, others around me can benefit from my positive outlook and moods.

I can only hope that others can see the benefits and can learn to be open to the ideas we covered over this course and our lives going forward. If they can embrace what we did during this course then they will have the same benefits of a whole, happy, and fulfilled life of wellness and have a total healthy mind, body, and soul.