Health

- Complete, physical,mental and socialwell being

- Not only to limited to absence or presence of disease

Dimensions of health

Physical - Your body

- Processes and structures of your body and how it performs work
- Over physicality
- Whole functions of your body
- Physically fit- lot of energy
Mental fitness - Your mind
- How well you process info
- “ introspection”
Spiritual fitness - Your spirit
- How you perceive existence in environment
- Principles, values, beliefs
- Being aware
- “ extrospection” how you examine and observe things that are external
from your mind

 All combined- “ OPTIMAL HEALTH”

o Continuously become aware of

Factors that affect health

Lifestyle How you consciously chooseto live and manage your well being
Genes/ Preventive and being pro active
hereditary traits
Environment External surroundings
Affects your wwhole being and how you go about your daily dealings
Human ecologic How you relate and react to factors within your environment
interactions

Wellness

- Having an optimal health and vitality

- Continuous process of aware and making choices towards successful existence

Dimensions of wellness

Physical - Focused on how well you eat, exercise, rest, avoid harmful habits
- You being aware
Emotional - How constantly monitor and explore feelings
wellness - How you find solutions to solve any obstacles
- How you should take full responsibility for all actions that you are doing
 Mental wellness - How to maintain an active mind and also about how you continuously
seek new challenges and experiences that would help you develop your
critical thinking and creativity
- Continuously striving to eyour knowledge and skills will lead you to new
discoveries about yourself and how you can positively affect others in
your environment
Spiritual wellness - Guiding beliefs, principles and values
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Interpersonal and - Ability to build good relationships with others
social wellness - How well you establish good communication with thepeople around you
- The more you are aware of your importance in society, the better your
impact will be to your environment
Environmental/ - Where you learn to protect yourself with he hazards of the environment
plantetary - Safe and protected, the ultimate effect is that you would have the
wellness opportunity to protect the welfare
- Lifestyle that is respectful and harmonious with the environment as a
whole
Effects of mediation on the brain

- Increases amt of gray matter in neurons.

- Decreased stress, depression, anxiety, pain, insomnia and an increased in a person’s quality of
life

Wellness wheel

- - environmental, emotional, intellectual, physical, social, spiritiual

Behaviors that contribute to wellness

- Regular physical activity

- Healthy diet
- Maintain healthy body weight
- Manage stress effectively
o Find recreational activities that would take your mind off of things
- Stay away from bad habits
- Protect yourself from diseases or injuries

Physical fitness

- Ability to meet daily routines without undue fatigue and still have extra energy left for leisure,
recreational activites and emergency situations

2 components of physical fitness

- Health related fitness componnets

- Skill related fitness components

Physical activity vs exercise

Physical activity Bodily movements produced by skeletal muscles.

 What you do on daily basis that require movement of your whole body
Exercise Physical activity that requires planned, structured and repetitive bodily
movements with the objective of improving one’s physical fitness
Extra effort and rigorous training

CHOICE