I think that meditation has allowed me to become more aware of myself. When I am practicing these exercise I feel less stressed. However I have not had the best of times with the exercises but it is slowly coming along. I think that if I continue to practice such exercises that my spiritual wellness will improve.
As health and wellness professionals when are absolutely obligated to be developing our health psychologically,physically and spiritually. First, if we expect to be compensated for our time we better put out a good product. Second if we are not getting better than we are getting worse. We are a walking billboard for ourselves. We need to show our clients that are not perfect and that progression is key to integral wellness.
Physically I understand what I have to do to become better, but it is harder for me psychological and spiritually. I think that the best way for me to go psychologically and spiritually is to continue to learn, read and ask questions. With anything that we want to accomplish we don't have to do it ourselves. If we have someone else to help/educate us, we can start to understand different perspectives.
One thing I would keep in mind is that you don't know what's going on in the overweight personal trainer's life. I've heard of many people who have gotten into personal training and/or started teaching exercise classes while they were on their own weight loss journey. Just because they haven't reached their goals yet doesn't mean they lack the knowledge and don't know what they are doing. They may be doing all of the right things and just need more time like everyone else to reach their goal weight. But I understand what you are saying. That's actually what I am afraid of because I am not at even close to my weight loss goals and want to help people with their weight too. I graduate in July so I have until then to make some more headway, but I still feel like I have a long way to go. I'm afraid to try and get into the business without having the physical appearance that people expect of health and wellness professionals. Some people have told me that they would rather I help them than a skinny person because I would understand what they are going through. But I think more often people would judge me based on my looks rather than my knowledge and lifestyle. But in any case I know I was led down this path for a reason and I can't let prejudice hold me back! All I can do is to encourage people not to judge others by appearance alone. Have a great day!
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