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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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Intellectual wellness

Recognizes creative abilities and encourages us to find ways to expand our knowledge and skills. Intellectual wellness can be developed through personal and professional development, cultural involvement, community involvement, and personal hobbies.
Ways to improve intellectual wellness:
  • Play brain-boosting games
  • Read
  • Try new things
  • Learn a foreign language
  • Be creative
  • Make time for self-reflection
  • Take care of your body
  • Boost your brain power
  1. No matter how you choose to work on your intellectual wellness, chances are you’re doing a few things already that are helping your mind function at an optimal level.
  2. Continue to be curious about new activities and ideas, giving yourself the opportunity to increase that all too important neuroplasticity. This will help you feel younger, no matter what your age may be, and allow you to live life a little more fully.
  3. Intellectual wellness is just one part of creating a healthy lifestyle for yourself. But it’s not about getting to a certain destination or meeting strict benchmarks. When you have an attitude that’s open to learning, you’re already on the right path.

What is spiritual wellness and why is it important?

Spiritual wellness means achieving harmony with one's surroundings and balancing one's personal needs with the needs of others: Harmony with one's surroundings is achieved when one's actions and intentions align agreeably with the environment to the benefit of all within it
Examples:
  • join a church if that's your thing or if you think it could be
  • join groups on Facebook that center around your like-minded spiritual beliefs
  • spend time with nature
  • spend time alone to reflect
  • be aware of the footprint you leave on the world
  • be open to learning new ways to achieve harmony
  • be open to learning new experiences and new environments

What is the importance of social wellness?

The reason why social wellness is so important is that people who have healthy relationships, and a strong social network tend to live longer and respond better to stress. This reduction in stress and anxiety results in a healthier endocrine system, healthier cardiovascular functioning, and an enhanced immune system.
Examples:
  • Reflecting on yourself and your social needs. ...
  • Making an effort to keep in touch with supportive friends, family, and mentors.
  • Participating in group discussions and practicing active listening. ( hmmm)
  • Joining a club or organization.
  • Participating in study groups.
  • Volunteering in the community

Some Physical Self-Care Examples:

THAT COSTS $0 EXTRA TO PARTAKE IN these are physical ways to care for yourself:
  • Eat healthy meals, you need veggies and vitamins!
  • Engage in exercise --you don't need a gym, 'youtube' at-home exercises!
  • Go for a walk even if just around the block.
  • Drink water every day.
  • Practice good sleep hygiene, there are tons of ways to get help or help yourself with better sleep!
  • Have a cup of tea, or your favorite healthy-ish drink ( not alcohol )
  • Sit in the sunlight ( don't forget your facial sunscreen every single day)
  • Take a shower or bath

EMOTIONAL SELF-CARE

Emotional Wellbeing – To thrive and have a meaningful life, we must harness positive emotions, to obtain peace, tranquility, happiness, harmony, and balance; in order to overcome stress, low mood, and negativity.
Learning to understand yourself and your emotions better through emotional self-care allows you to truly love and accept yourself. Emotional self-care can help you to cope and manage your feelings better when faced with challenges, as well as improve self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Emotional self-care activities include:
  • setting healthy and clear boundaries to protect your energy
  • Spending time by yourself with no distractions
  • Journaling your feelings
  • Having a good cry
  • Practicing self-love
  • Writing down positive affirmations and saying mantras
  • Speaking to a therapist
  • Asking for help
  • be solution-oriented
  • morning and evening routines ( even if its a 2 min thing)
  • be honest and let people know you need time for yourself
  • start small it doesn't need to be an hour
  • be present in the moment instead of fearing over what hasn't happened
  • know who you are, really do not stray away from all the nooks and crannies of yourself
Self-care may be defined by the term itself – caring for yourself. Self-care includes anything you do to keep yourself healthy – physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Although prioritizing self-care may sound like common sense, especially if you’re considering longevity, it’s often the first thing to go when we find ourselves in challenging situations, whether because of bad health, a financial crisis, job loss, divorce, in our current situation, the COVID-19 pandemic.
  1. Some people have this terrible false ideology of self-care thinking it means spending loads of money, self-care for the most part is free.
  2. This is why it is important to keep it top of mind and not an after-thought, especially when we find ourselves in challenging times.
  3. "Engaging in a self-care routine has been clinically proven to reduce or eliminate anxiety and depression,
  • reduce stress,
  • improve concentration,
  • minimize frustration and anger,
  • increase happiness,
  • improve energy,
  • and more.
From a physical health perspective, self-care has been clinically proven to reduce heart disease, stroke, and cancer. Spiritually, it may help keep us in tune with our higher power as well as realize our meaning in life."
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