The End

Well guys, this is my last post for this class!  Let me start off by saying I’ve had a great semester with all of you, and definitely some extra cool points for the Professor because this is the first time I’ve had a blog where the students can interact on their own time and terms and become more intimate just like we would in a real face-to-face class.  Since my final project hit on many of the points for this blog assignment, I’ll refer you to my previous post for my comparison to my previously rated psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being and what I feel that I currently am.  I’m not perfect, but then again I’m pretty sure no one is, so my numbers are real and honest and just because this class is over doesn’t mean I’m done evaluating myself. 

My goals are also listed above, as these have no changed.  I did have my first physical therapy session today and I’m right on track.  I can flex my knee up to a 100 degrees where I only needed to be able to achieve 90 degrees at this two week point.  I will adjust my goals and say that I hope to actually be running by this summer so I can compete in my second Color Run, along with a Mud Run that’s going to take place here in Anchorage, Alaska.  After my appointment today I know this goal is more possible than I originally thought. 

As for implementing these into my life, it’s only the beginning.  Now that this class has come to an end, I have to balance my life, with my physical therapy two hours a day, along with working out and doing homework, and of course Recruiting once I get back to that in February.  Time management has always been my down fall, but if it’s one thing this course has taught me it’s that if you WANT something to happen, you’ll always find a way to make sure that it does.  Everything is just what it sounds like, an excuse, and there are no excuses in success.

I can honestly say that I have no developed improved well-being throughout this course, instead found the tools to create that healthy lifestyle in which I’ll be battling with over the next few months.  The most rewarding aspects of this course have been the personal blogs where can be individuals on the same track yet personal enough to incorporate our own successes and failures and hopefully find out from a fellow classmate how to improve as well as the meditation sessions.  Meditation has always been my biggest hurdle within my religion, so to have a mandatory reason to sit down for a half hour each week and be guided through a peaceful space, was just amazing.  All the bull in the world just faded away and I was left to myself and the Goddess, where my mental and spiritual healing took place simultaneously.  Some of the harder parts were the reading when I just didn’t want to do much of anything!  I feel that after this course I have developed a better sense of myself that I can continue to work on, which will in turn make me a better people person.  I’ve already started to stop being I speak, and make sure what I was going to say wasn’t going to be rude or hurt someone, which is something I never used to.  Overall this course has given me great knowledge and I hope to be able to apply it in my everyday life with continued practice.

Thanks for a great class!

-Jess