Four Agreements Essay

When identifying uses and meanings of ‘self-care’, I first looked in a dictionary. The concept was defined in the Shorter Oxford dicitonary as, “Self-care (noun) taking care of one-self; self-interested behavior.” I searched the internet to get a generalized view of how the concept was being used and it was defined on Wikipedia as, “Self-care refers to actions and attitudes which contribute to the maintenance of well-being, personal health, and promotion of human developent.” I searched data bases for scholary peer reviewed articlew and retrieved limited amount of English articles on self-care. Key word searches consisted of self-care, self-care maintenance, and self-management. The definitions and uses of the concept were fairly broad. I narrowed the search to post-op patients and self-care. The two uses for the concept in the post op patient would be self-care of the post op patient and also supportive care to promote self-care of the post-op patient. The supportive care could be from a nursing system or a family member.

The novel The Pact which was read over the summer by Penn State students was considered interesting to some and dull to others. I personally enjoyed the book since I could relate to the book in more ways than one. The story takes pace in an inner city setting with three young men who become doctors and plan to give back to the community in any way they possibly can. The three young men are known as Sam, George and Rameck. Each of these characters posses a different personality which contributes to the book as a whole.

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstanding, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Some of the things that Rameck, Sam, and George, the three boys in The Pact, were tempted with have occurred with my friend named Paul. Things such as temptations involving drugs, family issues, and the ways of life of the family. Paul's parents both dealt and did drugs, this made it hard for Paul to deviate from this kind of life. As time progressed he soon picked up the “family business” and started heading down the wrong path in life. These temptations to follow in the path of Paul's parents footsteps were very much the same as the temptation in which George, Rameck, and Sam had, which were the constant pressure from society and family.

Self care is essential to the nursing profession because it is a reflection on the quality of health care nurses provide to their patients, it portrays an image to the patients on what’s necessary towards healthy living and can help nurses battle with stress and personal health. Self care can be expressed as taking care of ones self’s health and overall wellbeing. This can be shown through eating healthy, exercising daily, getting enough sleep and completing weekly activities to reduce stress. Improving your overall health can benefit nurses from overworking themselves and help minimize the affects certain stressors can have on them. By doing so, the overall atmosphere in the workplace and the quality of healthcare provided to the patients will be greatly improved.

Sub-Point a:According to CDC.gov in there June, 2015 issue on physical activity, Regular physical activity can help you keep your thinking and judge mental skills sharp. Research shows that doing aerobic exercises can give you great mental benefits. Some scientific evidence also have shown even if you were to do lower levels of exercise it still will be beneficial to you.

Don’t make assumptions is the 3rd agreement in Ruiz’s book, The Four Agreements. This talks about the problem of our everyday assumptions. We believe they are the truth and could swear they are real even though we have no idea. We make assumptions about others on what they are doing and thinking and take it personally. They often end up causing problems and hurting relationships. We make assumptions more than we think, even about ourselves. On our way to class we open the door and expect to see our classroom and other students rather than a black hole. Ruiz isn’t talking about these when he says don’t make assumptions; you can expect not to fall through every door you open. He is talking about when we are texting and someone isn’t replying

“Do not be concerned about the future; keep your attention on today, and stay in the present moment. Just live one day at a time. Always do your best to keep these agreements, and soon it will be easy for you. Today is the beginning of a new dream.”

"The current federal system of government in the United States is failing to meet its social contract obligations to the American people." There is nothing closer to the truth than this statement. While some may argue that the government is following the guidelines of a social contract, many aspects of the government have outgrown their britches and taken over.

In the books The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, both authors imply similar morals. Coelho and Ruiz share four ways of living, or agreements, in their books. Two of the agreements, do not take anything personally and do not make assumptions played huge roles on helping Santiago with his journey and treasure.

At Living Well, they go into a lot more detail when it comes to talking about which mindfulness exercises you can complete and what the benefit of each is. You’ll see the difference between the mindfulness activities and activities that do you no good. Then, there are plenty of links to direct you towards mindfulness activities to

Even though there are several things on my self-care worksheet that I am looking over I will give it my all. What better way to be a good social worker? Starting the process of self-care now will hopefully lessen future problems that I could come up. I embrace this skill to create more self-love within me. Starting with a determination and with a clear understanding of my care plan which will create the motivation that I do need to complete all my goals for caring for myself. Therefore knowing how I am, I will need to take this one day at a time. If I do forget a task, instead of giving myself a hard time like I usually do I will commit to that care plan the following day. It’s not so much doing the plan that I have concerns with, because

I found the the book of The Four Agreements by Ruiz’s to be a good read and could relate to his explanation of having an open mind and ensuring our minds are open and fertile to growing the good seeds we choose to grow and nurture. Most meaningful for me was probably having an understanding of our own “domestication” and the beliefs which were instilled in us brings us to realize this is simply our opinions from our instilled views and our programed “book of laws”. This awareness, helps to better understand the fear and courage it takes to challenge our own core beliefs, but also helps in our ability to do just that, challenge our beliefs. As far as the four agreements themselves, I found them to be a good reinforcement of good core habits

When I first started reading the four agreements, it allowed me to see the world in a whole new perspective. In the beginning of the book the writer tells us our life is just a dream made by someone else. This got me thinking, could my life really be based on a dream? The writer quotes that everyone is fed with different rituals and beliefs. All my friends are Christians. They go to church and they thank the lord for everything he has given them. I followed what everyone else did because I thought it was the right thing to do not because I enjoyed it. The four agreements got me to realize it was all just an agreement of practice passed onto me.

The quality of your individual life would greatly improve in utopia. The burdens you face from corporate monopolies, the overwhelming weight of the devaluation of your currency and the lack of faith in your neighbors to achieve a civilization of peace and mutual respect has taken its toll for too long. Although this sounds as if it was taken directly from George Orwell’s book (1984) itself, the propaganda of a utopian government rule and the current everlasting war breathes as it’s on self-reliant organization today. Weary of the multiple political parties that are emerging every three seconds, we are faced with a question that has been proposed since the beginning of logical thinking. Is it