Mind-Body Connection Blog

On a scale of 1-10 I would rate my physical well being about an 8. I am not ashamed of my body but I do believe that our body's are God's temples and that we should treat them as such. I am always looking for ways of improving my body because I think staying active not only affects your physical appearance, but also our mental and social aspects as well. I would rate my spiritual well being about a 9. I think that I can always improve on my spiritual well being and that there will always be room for improvement but I will always keep a strong faith. I would rate my psychological well being about an 8. I think that for everything I have been through in the past few years, I am handling it rather well. I have an amazing life and I have never had anything too tragic happen but just a lot of changes and good byes. I have had to learn to do a lot on my own and I am learning to be a stronger person and Christian because of it. I think I am stable in my psychological state of being but I also will take any advice on how to become stronger or remain this way.

A goal for me physically would be to continue to exercise on a regular basis and start eating healthier. I think that our bodies need fuel but healthy fuel. I also think that eating right isn't going to do the trick itself. I think exercise, even if short periods of it, also helps to make us stronger within ourselves. Spiritually I want to become more committed to my time as a Follower of Christ and become a more faithful Christian and less of a materialistic and sinful human. Psychologically I would like to become stronger within myself and realize that through my weaknesses there is a light at the end of the dark tunnel. I tend to blow situations out of proportion sometimes and I want to be able to not do that and calmly and rationally fix whatever situations are occurring.

I can go on daily walks and continue with the exercises I am doing now. I can slowly add new and healthy nutrition to our diet we have right now. I can go to church more often, pray more often and spend more time with God. And I can take a few minutes everyday to relfect on all of the amazing blessings I have in my life and know that the bad shall pass. I think that by taking a few minutes to ourselves and taking some deep breaths, we can learn to handle situations a lot better.

When I listened to The Crime of the Century, I felt very relaxed. I loved how he took several different body parts, with the different colors and made you realize different positive aspects about yourself. I like seeing everything broken up and telling myself all of these positive things. At the end whenever it was over and I was supposed to be gathering myself up, I did feel like going to sleep which was not supposed to happen. I was supposed to feel energized and be able to go on with my days activities but I did feel sleepy. I think this did help me to relieve some stress and I would do it again but towards the latter part of the day and not early in the morning.