Chapter 1-3

Chapter 1

During this chapter there were a couple different factors that are important in my life and there are some that I learned from. One of them was that I learned from was the spiritual health from the dimensions. When I think of spiritual, I think it’s about a person’s religion and beliefs. When you look at it more, you learn more about a person purpose of life of meaning, understand, and expressing their life. The second one is the preparation for a smart goal and physical health. The goals could be anything for a person that they make for themselves. For me I would make goals for exercising more than I do. I go to the gym a couple days a week and want to spend longer time there than I do now. There are times that I don’t get the chance do cause of my crazy schedule of work, babysitting, and school. When I don’t get the chance to go, I get very stressed out and at times tired and cranky. When this happens, I have to set a goal and free time to get to the gym to make my life healthy. When I set the goal to go to the gym more, I will add working out long there for example instead of working out for about 45 minutes doing about an hour a half while at the gym. Another one I would want to add to my goal in exercising is running a 5k again I did one before over a year ago and it was a huge accomplishment for me. The last one is the social health. All my life I have had trouble with socializing with being shy when I’m involved with new people in my life. Over the years I have gotten much better for interacting with other people and ways to communication with them. When I was a young teenage is when the shyness was really not a part of me when I started working. From being this way, I have not had a huge friend group thought school and college. Over my work experience and college, I have made a few new friends over that time which to me has shown how over many years your can change as a person and I changed by not being shy like I was when I was a young child.

Chapter 2

In chapter 2 the ones I liked reading about where the support system. When a person has a good support system it will help people figure out their lives. I have a big support system from my family and few friends I have. My parents all my life have support me for the person I am today. A year’s ago, when I joined the gym my mom supports me that she joined, and we would actually go to together. Which was nice to have someone with you who was on board and help working out with you. Since then she is not a member of a gym anymore and even thought I go to the gym but at times don’t have time she will support me to go back to the gym and encourage me to find time to go to the gym. Whenever I talked with my parents about anything involved in my life, they are always supported of me.  My friends are the same way with supporting me with what I do with my life. The second one is information that I learned from the studies that were done of the physical benefits of “33,000 adults found that indicators of social capital such as visiting friends & family. Attending church, belonging to meeting…. Improved biomarkers such as cholesterol and blood pressure”. This helped my learn that when being involved with something like this in your life will help with your physical and mental health. From those two ones there are others that are involved like social health with interacting with other people.  The last one which is part of physical benefits for the spiritual health important. Is the statics of the first-year college student meaning and purpose for life is three out of five students. When I was looking at college, I was planning on studies bakery because I did that in high school. The summer before starting college I changed my mind on what I wanted to do. I decide I would be better fit with studying early childhood education. Which was the best decision of changing before getting involved in something I didn’t want to do as a career. From this happen show a purpose to my life and what would help me find the career I would love to do which is working with young children. There are many college students who have a hard time figuring out what they want to do. My experience shows that you want to go for one thing than change over time. When I changed to what I wanted to do it helped me understand my meaning and purpose of life that I wanted to have.

Chapter 3

During chapter three the important parts to better my health is stress in my life, effects of stress and sleep. When you look at stress there are many reasons between it that are mental and physical to a person. When it comes to stress for myself, I stress too much about little things in life. I have some plans on ways to improve my health when it comes done to stress by two different ways. One can be by asking myself if is worthy to stress about. The second will be is there something or anything I can do to not stress about it. I stress a lot when it comes to school work/test that I’m not going to do good I have done this all my life. Before I would take a test, I would say I’m not going to do good once I take the test it is fine, and I get a good grade. Even years of doing this I shouldn’t think that way, but I still do a times. I have gotten better over the years thought. The second important part is the effects stress has on my body. When I stressed out about anything in my life at the time. One effect that happens to me is I break out with acne on my face in different spots. When this happens, I know I need to stop stressing out and the effects of this will not happen to me. The last one is sleep and making sure you get the right amount of sleep every night to have good health in your mental and physical life. I’m the type of person on the weekends to go to bed and wake up whenever. I don’t have to wake up at certain time for work or anything on the weekends. I also go to bed most week day at 11 and wake up between 7:00-7:45. From learning this information my plan to improve with my health is by going to bed a little early maybe 10 instead of 11. The other plan is to not have a free for all on times to go to bed and wake up on the weekends.