Monday, April 20, 2009

HUMANISTIC PHSYCOLOGY

We were asked to research an approach at healthy emotional health. The type of psycology i pickes was humanistic physcology. I looked it up on wikipedia and found out it is "Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It is explicitly concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the development of psychological theory"

as for my understanding of the psycology, i cant lie i dont really understand it. i beleive it means something about analyzing ones behavior and traits in order to understand how they are healthy. Im not sure if i can fully create an agreement statemeant or any other statement on it, but i think it is an interesting idea at psycology

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Break homework

At what points do you feel emotionally healthiest?

Over vacation i feel as if i was emotionally healthiest when i was socializing with people. I felt healthiest also when i expressed my emotions towards others, and i shared my feelings. With doing that it fealt healthy because you are letting your emotions go and having someone listen to them and receive those emotions.

Least healthy?

I fealt least emotionally healthy as i attended a funeral and i felt as if i had many emotions in one spot in which i was attempting to hide from everyone to support them.

What's going on that affects your emotional health? What actions can you take to support your own emotional well-being?

when negative things aproach my life, my emotional health lowers. In order to support my emotional well being i would have to say it would be best if i just keep my mind positive, and put myself in poisitve good positions

HEALTH THINGS

1. What is the most common and reasonable explanation of being healthy?

If i had to guess a most common or reasonable explanation to being healthy i would have to say a healthy person is a person who is downt to earth, and in touch with themselves and others, physically spiritually and mentally.

2. Why is it important to be healthy?

I think that it is important to be healthy because if you are unhealthy life wont be as enjoyable. Going through different aspects of being unhealthy one will find flaws. When being mentally unhealthy one will probably not have people around them. This causes a mentally unhealthy person to not be social, and in touch with others. If you are physically unhealthy it may cause physical health risks, such as certain diseases. Most people who are obese and overweight have different health risks than other smaller people. If you are spiritually unhealthy, im not even sure what would be the affect. (i will add when i find out)

3. Does spirituality affect your health?

I beleive spirituality does affect peoples lives, im just unsure of what spirituality will be to people. If i had to guess what spirituality was i would probably say having faith and beleiving in things such as religion. With this many people often do beleive that religion helps them stay healthy. I remember seeing something on tv about a female who runs a diet church, that through prayer and eating right members of the church lose weight.

4. How can you tell the difference between a healthy and unhealthy relationship?

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP:
-trust eachother
-listen to eachother
-understand eachother
-have fun with eachother
-enjoy seeing eachother
-have personal privacy
-have little or small conflicts, all which can be resolved
-arent forcefull, or pressuring on eachother
-can communicate in multiple ways, not always sexually
-have multiple things in common (some healthy relationships may also been found in total opposites, like the ying yang thing)
-positive influences on eachother
-helpfull to eachother

UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP:
- Hurt eachother (physically or mentally)
- forcefull upon eachother
- not on the same page
- vulgar towards eachother, in a non joking way
- argue too much, without finding an even resolve
- unable to listen to eachother
- attempting to be controlling
- doesnt think of anothers feelings
- threatening
- one who attempts to control and manipulate the others life
- disregard of privacy
- not encouraging

5. Can someone be healthy and get no sleep?

If someone gets no sleep i beleive it is not healthy in a physical way because people need sleep to replenish their bodies. without sleep one may become physically unable to do certain tasks. Also one can pass out leading to unhealthy things with there body