Health Unit

In our unit we explored different aspects of health such as mental, emotional, spiritual, moral, and physical. I've realized after thinking about it and I think all this and they are all connected very strongly, in ways we don't even realize sometimes. In the beginning of the unit, we had alot of fun exercise. The rolling was alot of fun. I guess its shows us how being physically healthy ties in with being emotionally healthy. Whether being physical would help with depression is up to question. But it probably helps, at least a little bit. I think being physically healthy affects your overall mood, because exercise boosts your endorphins, which in turn boosts your mood. I liked running and exercising and getting to interact with other people while doing it. Maybe that's the part of myself that's animal/human. When we had to research therapies I chose existential. One part of it that made sense to me was that courage was to be able move ahead with full dedication but paradoxically be aware that we may be wrong. For me that means that to go with what you think even though you might be wrong and being flexible enough to change if you are.

I think alot of interesting questions cropped up, one was whether we could be moral without religion and I think we can. As humans, I think we developed morality even before we developed religion. Some people think that without religion there would be nothing to "stop us" or help us restrain ourselves from doing horrible things, but I believe that we could. I believe we developed as we did because we're able to. Also recently we've been talking about moral health and what that meant. Yesterday, on Friday, we were on the roof and Andy told us the story about the woman on the train and how one of the workers bargained oral sex in exchange for her passage way. I think he was taking advantage of her, because he was bargaining something that he knew she needed and for something that was very intimate. I don't know, its kind of strange to me, because I don't understand it, what the point is in having that kind of a trade. Its meaningless and degrades sex by turning it into something you can buy. That inevitably turned the conversation to prostitution. Even if by choice, it doesn't seem to be something that can lead to anything good, despite what the movie "Pretty Woman" shows. I think most people who do something like that don't enjoy it, because they're selling themselves, they're selling something that is intimate...I think that leads to emotional health, its not emotionally healthy for you to do something like that. I think when they sell sex like that, afterwards their self confidence is lowered because its hard to come out doing something like that whole, and emotionally healthy. It just plummets because its not with someone who cares about you, its with someone who has paid for you, and that means nothing. Alot of prostitutes do drugs, to numb themselves just to get through the act. It was strange for me to learn that something like that may happening near where I lived. Just now, I'm wondering what kind of people would do that, pay for sex and I think...they are probably people who are missing something and they're trying to fill that through sex. But I don't think it really does though. I think without a good moral health, its hard to have a good mental health, which makes it hard for us to have a good emotional health. Like psychopaths have no moral health, they don't care about about right or wrong, and their mental health is probably "off", even if they are smart. Their emotional health is limited because they really have no empathy.