Wednesday, September 9, 2009

An Inventory of My Wellness

A) Physical Well-being: 8 Physically I feel pretty good. I try to walk or do some form of exercise (at least 5 days a week), I go to bed early (around 10pm) and usually sleep pretty well and I generally don't feel any pain on a regular basis. I know that when I am mentally distracted or stressed I tend to hurt myself and that happens often.

B) Spiritual Well-being: 9 Spiritually I am very happy. I have unwavering faith and what I consider to be a good set of morals and values. I try very hard not to judge others and am learning how to forgive others (and myself) as we are all on our own journey at our own pace. I am also learning to trust my intuition which I've discovered has never been wrong yet. Intuition is a gift we all have but do not pay attention to. I believe that we are where we are supposed to be right now even though we may not understand why. My spiritual growth has helped me to get through alot of psychological pain. It is an evolution. I know there's still so much more to learn.

C) Psychological Well-being: 6 Psychologically I rate myself the lowest of the three catagories. It has been an interesting journey for me to discover why I have struggles in this particular area. I am a co-dependent and tried to get my value from pleasing others for most of my life. Nobody was ever really pleased including myself. It took some hardknock life lessons to finally realize that I was not being "real" or authentic with myself (and therefore others as well). I wanted to be authentic with myself and others so I educated myself and learned that it was a choice, my choice. Its a challenge to train myself to think positively after using negative self-talk for over 35 years. I am still learning, but I've come along way!

2 comments:

  1. I can really understand your psych eval. I too struggled with negative sayings being told to me by my mother all of my life-you can't do anything right. I nearly lost my family and husband because i was doing so much at work-it was the only place I felt like I could do anything correct. It is still a struggle for me too but I know we will get through this.

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  2. Very deep and detailed analysis of yourself Susan. I think you set a very good example for people like me that struggle to know our innerselves and express ourselves to others. Thanks for enlightening me.

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