I am not sure anyone can truly confess to being a perfect ten on the well-being scale. I would say for the most part my physically well-being is maybe an 8.5 (there is always room for improvement). However, my mental and spirit well-being may be a different story. Mentally, I tend to worry a lot, and because of that I get stressed, and like Twain said "I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true." Because of my propensity to worry I would say my mental well-being is at a 7. I will say this: I am able to make myself happy whenever I want. As for my spiritual well-being, that is very difficult for me to say. I do not exactly know what spiritual well-being encompasses. If we are talking about spirit in a religious sense, then I am totally lost. However, if we are talking about spirit in the sense of someone being in high spirits, then I would have to give my spiritual well-being an 8. I say this because I believe I am an all around life lover. By that I mean I enjoy life to the fullest and never have an inherent negative demeanor.
Some goals I can try to help me become more healthy in these three areas would be trying new exercises in the gym, working harder on body parts that I tend to slack on, trying to eliminate the mental obstacles that keep me from inner-peace, and trying to keep the company of people who are in an overall better place both mentally and spiritually.Besides that I need to want to accomplish these goals. So, with that being said, I must become the change in the world I want to see.
After listening to the relaxation audio, Crime of the century, I felt anxious. I don't know if it's me or what, but everytime I listen to one of these tracks I feel like I am wasting my time. I feel like there are a million other things I would rather be doing with my time. I never like the slow, monotone voice of the speaker, and the background music is always kind of creepy. The voice of the narrator itself makes me feel sleepy and annoyed. In fact, the entire audio segment feels fake to me. Perhaps it is due to the fact that I listened to it while at work and in a less than relaxed mood. I found none of what the narrator said to be beneficial. Like I have said in previous posts I believe the best way to relax is to lay down in silence.
Your outlook on the rating scale is almost identical to mine, where I believe that there is always room for improvement as well. At one point in my navy career, about 2-3 years ago, I was at optimal physical health, and after returning from deployment I really have just embraced being home and kept a little weight on. It is sometimes like a confession on blogs, very informal and like casual fridays. The fact that you are truthful makes your blog that much more powerful. The Twain quote is well put, and I appreciate the sharing. I think they are describing spiritual well being as high spirits, but if you want to add religion you may. "Life is Good" is one of my favorite mottos, and I love the clothing line as so does my family.
ReplyDeleteThe one difference I found was that the relaxation exercise, Crime of the Century, was not an anxious time for me. I usually chose to do this when there is no emotions or negative energy present. In other words, when I am half asleep from working so hard and when it is completely mute throughout the house. This is effective. I did find myself opening my eyes every now and then and that just affects the session, so my goal for next time is to keep my eyes shut and to focus on positive energy.
Sean I agree that we all have room for improvement some where in our lives. No one is prefect and we all know this. We may be very high on one scale but the other we might be pretty low. I do think being able to recognize and be truthful with yourself on the scaling of your wellbeing can help and map out goals for yourself. Like the book stated if we talk long enough we will eventually spell out what our problem is and how we want to fix it. So as crazy as it sounds if we just verbally express ourselves, whether it is to a person or a pet or whatever we will tell ourselves what we need to fix and how we need to fix it. Example here recently I was faced with an issue I felt strongly about but for some reason I felt the need to explain myself. After talking to a few friends and just hearing myself talk I was able to clearly see what I needed to do to fix the issue. I woke up this morning and did what I needed to do and the problem is fixed now. Sometimes we do need to hear ourselves talk just so we can clearly hear the message our mind and body are trying to tell us.
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