Unit 3: Wellness and Crime of the century

This is hard for me to admit, but my physical well-being is between 4-5.  After giving birth, I waited three months before resuming physical activity…so one can imagine how out of shape I was! It’s been over a month since I started and I am starting to feel better, physically.  I’ve probably only lost about 2 lbs., so far, but I am ok with losing it slowly, but surely.  I am aiming to lose about 10 lbs., and to attain this goal, I plan on increasing my workout days to 4-5/week when my husband returns in a month.  Additionally, I will incorporate more strength training into my routine.

I can always use an improvement in my spiritual well-being.  Right now, it is about 6.  It fluctuates often, not because I am scrupulous, but because there are times when I neglect my spirituality.  Since I am Catholic and we are in Lenten season, I especially feel that there is more that I could do, aside from sacrificing favorite foods, during this holy time.  I wish I had time to visit the Blessed Sacrament, but with my children, I just can’t.  The only people I trust to watch my children seem to always be so busy, that I have to schedule things way in advance – I don’t function that way.  I am truly at a lost as to how I might improve upon this aspect.

It seems that my psychological well-being suffers the least at this time.  I would say it is between 7-8.  I am giving myself a ton of credit for being able to enhance my calm during stressful moments (which seems like many).  I’ve notice a significant difference in my patience, compared to about 6 months ago – this is a big deal to me because I’d been praying for this the past several years.  Nevertheless, there is much room for improvement.  Since I’ve been fairly consistent with maintaining a positive outlook and not giving in to anxiety as much, I feel an overall sense of contentment with my psychological well-being. 

As for this week's exercise, I've done it before, and it is definitely one I can do repeatedly. I enjoyed the affirmations used in connection with a color of the rainbow and a body part.  I found myself yawning, which actually helped me breathe better. Whenever I was distracted by wandering thoughts or noise from my children, I regained focus by concentrating on my breathing. I started to feel a little emotional, but in a positive way.  This exercise would have been more effective, if I had done it while my children were asleep, but because I wanted to complete my blog fairly early tonight, I didn’t really have a choice. By the way, whi is the exercise called Crime of the Century???