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Assessing the Health and Wellness of Others

Toni L. Price
Kaplan University

HW420
Creating Wellness
Dr. Hart

Final Project 1

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Final Project 2

Assessing the Health and Wellness of Others

This paper will go over the views of how one sees their health and wellness, how it impacts their
life, and how improvements can be done to improve the quality of life. The paper will help to
show the impact of spirituality on the psychological area of health and wellness. Attached to this
paper is an example of a health and wellness plan based on questions asked. The health and
wellbeing of a person is important because; it helps us to function more productively, ads in
managing stress and illness as well as anxiety and depression, and can improve our overall
quality of life and what we are able to enjoy in our lives daily.

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Final Project 3

Assessing the Health and Wellness of Others

This part of the paper will including a sheet of questions that are directed to how one feels
on their own health and wellness. These questions will help to give an understanding of how the
person feels internal wise on their own health and wellness.
10 Questions That Help to Explore Your Health and Wellness
1) How is your sleeping: Good Bad Fair Great
a) How many hours a night on average?
b) Do you wake often, if so how many times?
c) Do you feel rested when you wake up?
2) When does stress seem to set in?
a) What do you feel causes your stress?
b) Do you go to bed feeling stressed?
c) How do you handle stress?
3) How do you feel about yourself?
a) How do you feel about your hair?
b) How do you feel about your weight?
c) How do you feel about your smile (do you like to smile)?
4) How do you like exercise?
a) What is your favorite exercise?
b) Do you like to have an exercise buddy?
c) How often do you exercise?

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5) Have you ever done meditation?

a) Would you try new meditation activities?
b) What do you think is your favorite way to calm your mind?
6) Do you suffer from headaches?
a) How often are you ill?
b) How do you feel when you are ill?
c) How long to recover from an illness (flu, headache)?
7) Do you find yourself interacting with others often?
a) Do you like to be alone?
b) What do you do in free time?
c) How often do you have free time?
8) Would you like to design a relaxation day?
a) Where would you go?
b) Would you go alone?
c) How long would it last?
9) Do you feel that you are an optimist or a pessimist person?
a) On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 greatest) how often do you try to be positive?
b) Do you feel that those around you are optimist or pessimist?
c) Do you feel bad things happen in your life or life is full of learning experiences?
10) If asked to pick three words that describe you, what would they be?
My wrap up is; and finally how do you feel after answering the questions? Do any of them
stick in your mind and why?

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Final Project 5

Reasons for Questions Picked

The above reasons for the questions picked are as follows; sleep is vital to our recovery
system. When we are not sleeping well our bodies are not at rest, and our mind and body suffer.
Also, a bad sleeping pattern can reveal other issues going on such as chronic stress, illness,
nutrition needs. Knowing when stress sets in gives us a better understanding of when we allow
things to affect us and a better understanding of our environment and triggers.
How someone feels about themselves can really open up a complete understanding of
their health and wellness, often how someone feels about themselves goes along with how they
exercise, how they eat and their nutritional habits, how often they are ill, if they are big on
socializing, who is in their friends circle, and if they find time to relax and enjoy relaxing by
meditation and just enjoying themselves. This helps to see if they put any self-interest in
themselves or if they are more focused on others.
Being a positive thinker also helps to display qualities of good health and wellness habits.
We have a tendency to try harder for better outcomes in health and happiness. Designing a
relaxing day helps to see what the person sees as relaxing, do they prefer to be alone, is it quiet
or loud, and how long is it shows how long they need to feel satisfied.

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Final Project 6

Interview and Findings

Age: 54

Sex: Female

Occupation of participant: Director of TSA

Answers to questions 1-10 with summary

1) Fair, 5 hours a night, wake 3-4 times, and wake in the am not feeling rested
2) Stress sets in at any time, no reason or rhyme, cause is people, work, overactive mind,
sometimes goes to bed feeling stressed, and to handle it I try to work through it mostly.
3) Ok with hair, could use less gray, fat and need to lose it, smiling I am ok with and like
to think I smile a lot, dont like to show teeth. Had dentures since 16 because parents
did not do oral care or teach me oral care.
4) Exercise-use to do it a lot, walking everywhere, jump roped all the time, still like
walking, no buddy to walk with, at least once a week I fit in walking.
5) Use to do meditation long time ago, had a little area set up with candles, stool, incense
and would take like 30 minutes a day to clear my head ,yes I would try new meditation
activities love music and candles.
6) Headaches daily sinus and allergy, ill more often than I like to acknowledge, dont go to
the doctors often because of no insurance, how I feel when ill, depressed, overwhelmed,
because as you know life goes on, I stay sick for a few days with the flu and bugs,
headaches depends on meds available. I have fibromyalgia and something called
granulomatous disease.
7) Interaction with others is often, through work, church, sometimes like to be alone but I
like to control my alone time, go walking in the woods, computer, family, I do not get
nearly enough alone time, but trying to get more in my life.

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8) Sure I would love to design my own relaxation day one can dream right? It would be a
grassy meadow surrounded by trees with a lake or pond, umbrella and gentle breeze I
would want someone to talk to and it would last a day or two.
9) Optimistic/Pessimistic approach. I honestly think I am both. I often try to think for the
worst case - because then I am more prepared for the worse thing that can happen and
then can celebrate earnestly when the good thing happens. That is my inner thought
process - on the outside - I always look for the best for others more-so than myself, I
am a 9 on a scale of 10 in thinking positive when it comes to others and a 3 when it is
me personally. About 50/50 on whom I hang out with on the optimistic/pessimistic side
of things. Bad things happen because of bad choices. Everything in life is a learning
experience, every up and down, success and failure. You just got to make the most of it.
10) Three words that describe me are empathetic, helpful, and supportive.
Followupfeelings:you made me think - lol makes me want to go to that meadow. I know deep
down what I need to do to relax and calm my body, what I need to do to lose weight, de-stress,
however life has a way of throwing the book at you when you least expect it.

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Final Project 8

Plan of Action
The results from the participant allowed me as a practitioner to develop a plan of
action to help improve the persons awareness of ones thoughts, feelings, habits, desires, and
setbacks. The first introductory to the patient would be meditation. Since the participant use to
meditate in the past, and is up to learning meditation again, what would be implemented is a
form or two of meditation that is not time consuming, yet allows the participant to feel
connected, in control, relaxed, and renewed in the mind-body-spirit.
The mind craves balance as we learned in our reading in Health of the Human Spirit:
Spiritual Dimensions for Personal Health, 2nd Ed. (Seaward, 2013, P 204). With the answers
given, we know that the person thinks of others before themselves, has sleep disturbance, mixed
emotional feelings of ones predictions in life, has a religion belief, suffers from headaches,
illness that last longer than they would like, has medical problems, enjoys walking when
available and has company, needs more balance with positive influence around them, unhappy
with weight, has a self-image that can benefit from positive self-talk, lives with stress that hits
spontaneously and can last into bedtime and has studied and practiced meditation before with
music and props, and loves nature as a relaxing image. Meditation daily once in the am and once
before bed would be my recommendation. In the am I would recommend exclusive mediation
(focus on breathing, perhaps use calm.com to start setting up timed meditations 2 minutes and
growing from there). At bedtime inclusive meditation would be recommended to just go over
thoughts, feelings, what is eating at ones emotions and to just acknowledge and let go of before
bed. Learning to also practice mindfulness meditation can help with daily stress on the job, to
help draw attention to themselves and their current surroundings to limit worries and mind
drifting.

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Final Project 9

Plan of Action Continued

The participant would benefit from imagery meditation based on their exploring of selfimagery relaxation in question (9). Learning to visualize and setting a short time limit of calm
visualization would help to balance the body in stress and wellness. Going over the steps of
meditation to help formularizes any changes from when the participant did the act before would
be done as well as adding a pad and paper for writing down thoughts so that the mind can let go
of some things.
Learning to use mindfulness meditation when walking twice a week would be
suggested once mindfulness meditation was practiced. This would help the body-mind-spirit to
benefit from exercise and relaxation greater while boosting self-esteem of reaching an exercise
goal. I also recommend Urban Rebounding (Does it really work, 2015) because this person has
granulomatous disease and by using a rebounder they would be able to work their lymphatic
system cleaning toxins out of the body while relieving stress, and getting exercise that is easy on
their joints and would help to provide relief for their fibromyalgia pain. This exercise would also
help to balance out the body and provide for better balance, self-awareness, and total body
strength as the person ages.
With the participants job, learning to do exercise while at the office would help with
fibromyalgia pain and tightness of the body. I would recommend doing chair exercises every 45
minutes for 5-10 minutes depending on time available. Watching a guided video would help to
teach activities until participant was able to recall them on their own.

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Final Project 10

Plan of Action Continued

Learning to take time for ones own inner well-being needs to be worked into the
schedule with easy accomplishable goals. Focusing on self-talk (Cederberg, M. 2014) will help
to improve ones positives, bring more optimistic views into their day will allow for stress to
affect their mind less. Learning to implement self-talk at bedtime can help to relax the mind and
think positive for a better relaxing sleep.
Finally, a look into the nutritional side of things, such as eating foods that help the body
to detox itself can help with health conditions. Looking at eating habits and patterns can also
help with weight loss, body feeling better, bodys ability to handle stress, and better overall total
body care for the mind-body-spirit. I would add a meditation activity to this area (Voth, R. 2012).
One where the participant is required to become calm, aware, and slow down to enjoy what they
are doing, eating, and to be one with their senses of taste, smell, touch, sound, and connect with
their body.
There is no greater reward that one can do than to learn the language of their own inner
self. We each speak our own inner body communication. What one person enjoys on one level
another may enjoy on a different level. By taking time to say I love my body allows us to learn
what makes us so unique from everyone else. These activities are designed to help the participant
take time to love themselves as much as they love to help others. These activities are designed to
help the participant to stop the feeling of being overwhelmed and to connect to ones inner
strengths that are uniquely designed just for them.
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Final Project 11

Plan of Action Continued

Discovering your calm helps to re-energize your being and keeps you functioning at your
best as well as feeling, looking, and being healthy One who is in tune with themselves and loves
themselves can find peace and happiness daily to help manage stress and live a happier more
productive lifestyle.
For additions I would offer rebounding courses as I am getting certified in it to help them
learn an activity that they may enjoy on many levels. I would not take away any areas but
suggest adjustment goals to include more positives in their life.
Since I will be trained in Reiki, adding that into the plan can also be addressed to the
participant to see if that would be an interest. Information on Reiki would be addressed before
action was taken to insure that the participant has a clear understanding of the activity.
Additions or Subtractions to Inventory
I have added a few sites to my inventory as far as learning about meditation and the
effects on the body with meditation as well as information on granulomatous disease in case I
come across someone with this condition again.
Thank you for taking the time to read my assessment and views. This experience has
taught me a lot about my own knowledge and what I lean to for helping someone improve their
total wellbeing. I have also been able to increase my resource base as well for future help with
others.
Toni Price

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References
Calm (2015). Discover the power of meditation. Retrieved from: http://www.calm.com/

Cederberg, M. (2014) Work-Life-Energy Now. Self-talk tips to help you exercise positive
thinking. Retrieved from: http://www.michellecederberg.com/wpcontent/uploads/2010/10/Self-talk-Tips-to-Help-you-Exercise-Positive-Thinking3.pdf

Does It Really Work (2015). Does the Urban Rebounder Really Work? Retrieved from:
http://doesitreallywork.org/urban-rebounder-review/comment-page-1/#comment1460833

The Guided Meditation Site (2015). How long to meditate & how often to meditate. Retrieved
from: http://www.the-guided-meditation-site.com/how-long-to-meditate.html

Petersen, H. J., & Smith, A. M. (2013). The role of the innate immune system in granulomatous
disorders, Frontiers in Immunology, 41-11. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00120. Retrieved
from: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.lib.kaplan.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=de8a92cc60ca-4913-be47-c900d0e741cd%40sessionmgr4005&vid=3&hid=4208

Reiki.org. what is Reiki? The international center for reiki training. Retrieved from:
http://www.reiki.org/faq/whatisreiki.html

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References continued
Seaward, B. L. (2013). Health of the Human Spirit: Spiritual Dimensions for Personal Health 2nd
Ed. Burlington, MA. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. Retrieved from:
http://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781284090444/pages/232373025

Voth, R. Dr. (2012). How to Practice Mindful Eating. Retrieved from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_biwz8qZ2qQ