Sunday, July 21, 2013

My overall Well being


Hello all!
With all the hustle and bustle of life, marriage, children, school, work... it is sometimes hard to reflect of take stock of your spiritual, psychological and physical life, but I did!
I did this today, as I am alone at home by myself with no 3 little prying eyes ( my babies), able to listen to the exercise ( meditation). Now, to score me, on a scale of 1-10 ( ten being the ultimate wellbeing? I would say my spiritual life is 6, my physical would be 4 and psychological? I guess I will be looking at a 6 also.  One might wonder, but why my physical life is graded 4? This is because I barely exercise, I get tired too often and have bad sleep pattern, although I work in pediatric clinic, I am constantly on the go and when I get home I still have the task of taking care of my responsibilities as a wife, a mother and then a do my school work which is tasking, so the little time I have is spent sleeping.

My spiritual life cannot take a second place in my life, it has to be first ( God first before anything). Once a man of God told me that " there has to be a balance in life and in whatever we do, one cannot outweighed the other, or something will suffer"
My head and thought process must be in a good place all the time, look at it this way, imagine those people in the psych ward? they were once sane and something triggered them and they lost their sanity, so I believe that there is a thin line between sane and insanity, so my psychological wellbeing must be healthy enough for me to function.

My goal is to be have a healthy eating habit, not stress over little things that I can't control, establish an exercise, a 30 minutes walk around my neighborhood after work to de-stress myself. I find that when I am stressed I tend to get angry very quick and then I recoil to my shelf. Secondly, having a quiet time and spending time in silence to hear what the spirit of God is saying concerning a thing and spending time in reading my bible. Lastly, doing things that can boost my memory and mental wellbeing. There is a saying " the mind is a terrible thing to waste".

After listening to the exercise " the crime of the century" I would it was a little beneficial to me,  in the past I was attending  Krishna Temple and we basically do some yoga and meditation and many years had past, so this exercise somewhat reminded me of what I used to do them, at first it was difficult concentrating, because my mind was all over the place, I was not focused. It is something that I can practice more often at least 20mins twice a week.

Lastly, this blogging is really good!  What is your view on this?

3 comments:

  1. It sounds like you are on the right track to finding balance. Working towards a whole foods diet is a good step in reducing anxiety and stress. My life sounded similar to yours when my children were young and changes in my diet & exercise changed my life...If your schedule allows, I've found that walking in the early morning as the birds are waking gives me energy to start the day as well as time to reflect on my upcoming day. Have fun this week trying out new things on your journey!

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  2. I agree it does sound like you are on a good path to finding your balance. I agree sometimes life gets hectic but it seems you have set some good goals for yourself and are on the right track to achieving them.

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  3. I am glad you like blogging! You do a great job!

    Ann

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