Unit 10

Psychological I rate myself a 5... I feel this is an area I need a lot of work in ... Throughout my life my relationships and well being have always been unhealthy.I place people in my life that take advantage of me and cause me so much stress. I always thought to myself that this is my life and I became use to it, but since this course, I have learned that this is not normal. I have been trying to make sure at night that I watch a comedy or something that makes me laugh, when I watch something sad I seem to reflect on negative emotions. The loving kindness exercise helped me to release some negative emotions that I have held onto for so many years for people from my past that hurt me. I have learned through my spiritual development that I must forgive that person for my well being not for the other person. I have always been the type of person who has done for others before even thinking about myself, and I have stopped to realize that I need to think of "me" every once and a while.. I had let myself go.. forgot what mattered to me.. who I was ... and when life wasn't so chaotic I was bored? it was because my body was so use to be stressed, overwhelmed and exhausted that I didn't know what normal felt like... I felt weird lol.. I think my scores have changed some since I started the course but I would like to see this score increase over time. Physical I rate myself an 8.. I have always been active and ate a healthy diet.. In the past year I have lost over 20 lbs. ... I can't believe how much this changed my life.. I have so much more self esteem and just to be able to fit in normal clothes and wear stuff I haven't been able to wear in a long time .. make me so happy. I don't think there is much I would change here except that I want to continue what I am doing.Spiritual I rate myself an 7... Throughout some of the most difficult times in my life... it brought me a lot closer to god.. there were times that things were happening in my life and I caught myself repeating scriptures in my head or my heart that made me stay calm. I even do a daily spiritual devotion and keep a journal of what I learned to help me reflect on what that scripture means to me or what part of my life it applies too... I have improved a lot in this area and it seems the more that happens the more I seek religion. I feel I have made a lot of progress by taking this course... There is so much I have learned and I was able to do some self exploration of myself of what I need to fix and in 10 weeks I have realized there is a lot.. I will never be perfect but there were things that I have been dealing with that I should not have been dealing with .. years of unwanted stress and drama. My goals are set and I am working toward them... I would have to say that out of all the classes I took from Kaplan .. this one has focused on "me" and fixing things in my life that before I did not even realize was a problem. I believe over all I have improved a whole lot even though I lack in one area.... My goal is to continue to implement the exercises that I learned in this course and focus on overall health and well being