1. Your physical well-being is affected by what you do everyday based on your lifestyle habits. I manage stress remotely well by taking deep breathes when I get anxiety, and try to calm down my mind and body tension. I also try to maintain good sleeping habits by finishing my work earlier at night and reading book’s to fall asleep. I eat Sattvic, Tamasic, and Rajasic type of foods, which is shown to improve flexibility and physical well-being. I rarely drink alcohol, and when I do it is not a large amount. I do smoke occasionally, but I am trying my very best to quit completely. I am very physically active during the summer and spring, doing activities such as swimming, cycling, jogging, running and more. I try my best to go to the gym during winter, but I find it difficult to be motivated during the school year and bad weather conditions. When reflecting on my lifestyle habits, I think I am in good physical health, but improvements can be made.
2. Regarding my emotional and spiritual well-being, I believe I am balanced. I have a belief system in g-d and a mixture of beliefs from the Christian and Jewish religions because of my multicultural background. I try to stay positive when it comes to my thought processes, and maintain an open mind to other and my surroundings. My cultures consist of being half Southern Italian and half Russian. From this mixture I am able to experience different customs and traditions, which I really enjoy. I am close to certain family members like my mom, dad, cousins and sister. I have many friends but I have a few best friends whom I am very close with and confide to about any problems I am facing.
3. On the “Eating for Yoga” questionnaire, I scored 4 yes’s resulting in the rating of “Where East Meets West”. This means I have a mixed diet, with influences of unhealthy commercialized Western culture foods and healthy traditional Eastern culture foods. I have a few health benefits in my diet, but there is still