Saturday, January 21, 2012

Optimal Health

Hello,
This week I will be addressing the questions asked by my instructor.  This includes rating my level of physical well-being, spiritual well-being, and psychological well-being.  In areas that I find myself lacking I am to develop a plan help improve.
Spiritually and psychologically I would say that I at least an eight.  I am a well rounded and balanced person whose joy is not dependant on the opinions or existence of another, yet I am able to find joy with and in other people.  I am honest about any of my short comings, I can take harsh criticism and I don’t hesitate to give an honest opinion when asked.  Sometimes my friends say I am a bit harsh, but I don’t believe that.  There are times that the truth is the best way to help; it is just how you deliver it.  You can always offer a friend a peppermint instead of saying that their breath was bad. 
Now psychically, I have to say that I am about 7.  I’m at a good weight, I don’t have any major illness, but I do suffer greatly from allergies and lately respiratory infections due to a mold infection I contracted a few years ago.  Honestly my doctor treated me for everything else, and a resident from New Orleans (NO) told me that I sounded like her father who had returned to NO, and contracted a mold infection.  That’s when I remembered that I had gotten sick while I was visiting a friend in NO and I could smell the mold spores in the air. 
For my spiritual and psychological well-being I continue to read/study the Bible, meditate, and listen to relaxation tapes.  I also get one or two massages a month to pamper myself.  I have started a new walking and swim program with the local YMCA and do deep breathing exercises several times a day.  I will be listening to a new exercise: The Crime of the Century.  My next blog will address that.
Teal

2 comments:

  1. Way to go Teal!
    You sound like you are on the path and living the dream (all except the getting sick part). Best wishes on that. I have no idea what sort of health issues I have developed over the years do to surface mold growing in my bedroom (my dad just thought I was exaggerating and he thinks I'm a hypochondriac,....not even close to being one lol). I too have started going to work out regularly. just some days we need a little more motivation than other eh?

    Cassy

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  2. Teal,

    It is nice that you can take criticism. That is one of my weaknesses. I hate criticism. My husband says there is no such thing as constructive criticism that all criticism is destructive. I started to write that some criticism may be helpful but after I thought about it I could not really come up with any beneficial criticism examples. It does seem to be destructive to me as well.

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