Wellness
Wellness is an active process. Wellness is taking action in managing your mental and physical health impacted by your nutrition, exercise, substance use, and how you interact with others. Your wellness is based on your physical health, emotional health, social health, mental health, environmental health, and spiritual health.
Physical Health: Healthy exercise, substance use, preventative healthcare, and healthy nutrition impact your well-being.
Emotional Health: Being able to accept and cope with emotions and thoughts you experience.
Social Health: How you interact with others. Your ability to form healthy relationships, and how you listen and respond to those in your environment.
Mental Health: Includes our emotional responses, psychological processing, and social wellbeing. MH is influenced by how we handle stressors, relate to others, and make decisions. How we handle stress, relate to others, and make decisions. Thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Environmental Health: Your interaction with your environment, and your environments impact on you. Your environment impacts wellness. Spiritual Health: What you feel to be your meaning in life
Keys to Wellness
One of the things that contributes to your wellness is to make a commitment to your wellness providing yourself with education and tools to look after your body and mind. We have outlined some impactful ways to make the most out of this journey and help get your body and mind in an optimal state to make changes you are seeking to make.
1. Start Small: Change doesn’t always happen overnight, and setting small and manageable goals for yourself leads to sustainable change. (Try using SMART Goals format – Make your goals SPECIFIC, MANAGABLE, ATTAINABLE, RELEVANT, TIME SENSITIVE)
2. Track your Gratitude: Keep a journal or list of what you are grateful for. Looking at the things you do have can help return focus to the positives rather than overamplifying your struggles. This isn’t minimizing your struggles, rather it is look at your life taking into account the positives.
3. Use your Strengths: You have good qualities. Recruiting those will help your problems become less of a problem. For example, if you are struggling with feeling anxious in social situations and one of your strengths is listening, try asking questions that get others talking to reduce the pressure of you being the focus.
4. Get Better Sleep: Temperature and comfort have a huge role in sleep quality. Set out to find that optimal temperature and try to sleep comfortably. Try Sleep Hygiene to find tools and strategies to go to sleep in a healthy way.
5. Practice Forgiveness: Being able to forgive people has been shown to have a significant impact to mental health. Harboring resentments and grudges only drags you down.
6. Enjoy the Sunshine: Vitamin D has been shown to be a mood elevator, which you get from sunshine because sunshine synthesizes in it your body.
7. Practice the Smile: When you are stressed, try not acting like it and smiling. This has been shown to send hormones throughout the body signaling contentment and safety.
8. Get Moving: Physical exercise reduces depression, anxiety, stress, and has numerous health benefits. A healthy body is a happy body. SOUNDRESILIENCEHEALTH.COM
9. Use Scents: The nasal cavity contains many receptors that send signals to your brain. Oil diffusors during sleep, at work, or simply stopping to smell the roses can bring relief and lead to improved mood.
10. Try New Things: Write a poem or haiku, paint, try a new exercise, read a book, go to a new place, or reconnect with old interests. Switching up your routine creates new pathways in your brain which has been shown to elevate mood.
11. Be Kind: Healthy and close relationships have been shown to elevate mood leading to long lasting impacts.
12. Help Others: Helping others has been shown to have significant impacts on mood and feelings of self-worth. Even if it is just holding a door or buying a friend coffee, you are doing things healthy people do.
13. Write About It: Is something somebody said bothering you? Write out your thoughts and emotions focusing on them as simply your thoughts and emotions. They are not YOU, they are simply your reactions to your environment. Getting them out can help you process them and move forward.
14. Laugh about it: Spending time with a funny friend, watching a comedy, or watching videos online can lead to laughter, which has been shown to improve mood.
15. Healthy Nutrition: Food is what fuels our body and mind to perform our best. Research foods that are healthy and see what you can do to improve your nutrition. Try preparing food at home rather than eating out at during lunch at work.
16. Get and Stay Hydrated: Water keeps our body working optimally. Every organ in your body is dependent on H20, and healthy hydration keeps your brain working well. Healthy hydration levels promote healthy organ function. Think more clearly, improve your strength, and function your best with healthy hydration. Try this: Carry around a water bottle and track your water throughout the day to form a healthy habit with hydration.
17. Do Things You Enjoy: Sometimes when people struggle, they disconnect with things they enjoy in life. Get back into what you enjoy to get your life back on track.