The Many Facets of

Living Healthier and Happier

Physical Wellness

• Actively attain and maintain a healthy way of life to improve your quality of life if possible.
• Realize you are in control of your own behavior, impulses and actions.
• Know that you can impact your wellness in a positive way by adopting healthful habits.
• Focus on healthy nutrition, exercise, and relaxation.
• Maintain routine doctor’s visits.
• Avoid destructive habits like smoking, alcohol in excess, and illegal drugs.

Internal Wellness – Inner Awareness

• Emotional

  • Learn to understand yourself.
  • Learn to find ways to cope with the challenges life can bring.
  • Learn to recognize and share internal feelings (like sadness, anger, happiness, joy).
  • Learn to recognize stress and find ways to relieve it.

 

• Social

  • Learn to relate to and connect with other people in your environment.
  • Learn to form and maintain positive relationships with others.

 

• Spiritual

  • Find ways to establish peace and harmony in your life.
  • Recognize your personal path through life.
  • Find a common purpose, a sense of unity or higher purpose that binds creation together.

Wellness of our Environment

• Realize as stewards of this planet, we have a responsibility to tend to our environment.
• Become aware that we are responsible for our world, for the quality of the air, water, flora, fauna and the land we inhabit.
• Recognize that we have have an impact on our environment — good and/or bad.
• Know that the health of our planet ultimately means our own wellness too.

 

Personal Fulfillment

• Occupational

  • Feel a sense of fulfillment from our chosen line of work, may it be your chosen career, tending to loved ones, or take part in volunteer work.
  • Recognize that most of us like to feel part of something meaningful.
  • Feel satisfaction by contributing to society.
  • Have a positive impact on the world around you.

 

• Intellectual

  • Allow your expression of self through your openness of mind.
  • Feel free to expand on your knowledge.
  • Seek challenges.
  • Expand your horizons.
  • Pursue life-long learning.

 

• Financial

  • Seek to find stability and satisfaction with your financial state.
  • Pay down bills.
  • Learn to budget.
  • Save and invest in your future.
  • Spend wisely.