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is associated with being healthy. It is the ability of oneself to promote proper care of our physical health for optimum development and proper management of health problems. To be
considered physically well individual, you must be physically active, has proper nutrition, engage in regular exercise program, maintain ideal body weight, practice safe sex, get enough sleep, nonuse of illegal drugs, avoid alcohol drinking, lessen exposure to environmental pollutants, and seeks medical care if necessary. Moreover, physically well people also display good health-related fitness level.
Physical wellness
contains awareness and acceptance of your own feelings. It is the ability to accept limitations, attain emotional stability, express emotions appropriately, cope up with stress, accept and adjust to changes, and appreciate life even with failures and regrets. An emotionally well individual has the ability to respond positively by making best decisions and moving forward during failures or crisis. Emotional wellness empowers you to move forward with confidence and motivation instead of spending most of the time and effort worrying about your problems. It also
entails happiness, which provides meaning and joy to your life. Though there is no single formula for achieving happiness, according to studies, happiness can be achieved mainly through family love and support
Emotional wellness
entails that; you can apply and share the knowledge and skills you learned with others engage in innovative and mentally-stimulating works and create more opportunities to grow and learn. Individuals who are mentally fit are open-minded for new ideas and accept mistakes committed by others. Because of curiosity, they are motivated to learn more and explore new concepts and understandings. To have optimal level of intellectual wellness, it stimulates exploration. In this way, it provides you to know and discover some issues that constitute critical thinking, problem solving, creativity and innovation. Through academics, personal hobbies, and cultural and community involvement, you can develop
Intellectual wellness, or mental wellness
refers to our relationships with others and how we interact with them. One of the trademarks of social wellness is the ability to interact to others with harmony, both within and outside our family. Moreover, with positive self-esteem it gives you the comfort and confidence to be open, friendly, and warm to others. Social wellness entails building healthy relationships and genuine connection with people around you. It also comprises on how to balance the unique needs of romantic relationships with other parts of your life as well as your social life with your professional or academic lives.
Social wellness
refers to the impact of our environment on our wellbeing. It indicates a lifestyle that promotes and protects healthy environment. The main principle of environmental wellness is respect for our environment including wildlife and its ecosystem. It does not require you to join environmental activities or join in any environmental organization but to practice good habits to preserve and promote a healthy environment like Leave No Trace (LNT) principle while travelling and four R’s (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) principle. These are more realistic and good enough. Always remember that our health is negatively affected if we are living in a polluted and unsafe environment. A good example is when you are living in an environment like a squatter or slam areas and which your health is at stake due to unhealthy environment brought by different kinds of pollution and over population
Environmental wellness
provides a unifying power that integrates all dimensions of wellness. Basic characteristics of spiritual people include a sense of meaning and direction in life and a relationship to a higher being. Pursuing these avenues may lead to personal freedom, including prayer, faith, love, closeness to others, peace, joy, fulfillment, and unselfishness.
Spiritual wellness
contains the process of learning how to successfully manage financial expenditures. It entails the ability to have financial resources to provide essential needs and financial literacy on how to manage personal and family expenses. Money is very significant in everybody’s lives, for without it, it will largely affects your way of living mainly your health and academic endeavor. More often, financial stress usually leads as one of the causes of stress in college students. Budgeting financial resources for projects, on the job training, thesis, transportation and food allowance, and other academic works are some of the important things to deal with in college life. Thus, learning how to maximize your financial resources
Financial Wellness
motivates us to go for work in which we will gain personal development and satisfaction. It gives us career options and encouragement to pursue opportunities to grow more and enjoy what we love most. This dimension of wellness acknowledges the importance of fulfillment, personal development and sense of meaning through work. It is not always about high salary, top position or remarkable working conditions. Any work can bring occupational wellness if it provides any kind of supports that are very much important to the individual. Salary might be the top priority or most important factor to consider for others, but others might give greater value on opportunity for development, recognition for achievement, and/or good working relationship with boss and co-workers. Individuals who are occupationally well have their own “ideal” job, which permits them to strive harder to succeed.
Occupational wellness
