Have you ever wondered what you must do to make sure you are an all rounded human being? Are all aspects of your persona are totally healthy? Well, all reside in your general well-being. Body mind and spirituality all in sync and well fed with their respective ‘foods’. You must make sure you have a high level of well-being to live a satisfactory life. This means that your sense, emotions and perspectives are positive. Low well-being results to negative incidences. So to avoid negative happenings which normally come for lack of a general well-being make sure to practice positivity in all you involve yourself with.
Important Ways of Supporting Well-Being
There are several practical approaches that you can take to support your own well-being. Each is important in itself, while all of them together contribute an important balance that is not there if any is missed omitted. Using the easy techniques that you can learn, so you can follow each approach, need take very little extra time. This is very important to busy people.
Approaches to six areas are needed. The areas are:
- rest & relaxation exercise good nutrition
- integrating, and balancing thoughts and feelings
- making and evolving decisions
- goal-setting, manifestation and one-pointedness
- living rhythmically
- meditation
Rest & Relaxation
Virtually everyone needs to take regular rests on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Having an effective technique for relaxing at any time is very useful. It is necessary in the modern world to be able to stop and let go, so our systems can recharge, integrate experience and mobilise our restorative and healing resources. The Relaxation Meditation is ideal for this. You can learn to relax easily and naturally using this method. As you learn, you can find it easier and easier to relax. This is of great assistance when we face many demands, or when we only have a few seconds to concentrate on relaxation before applying full attention again to what we are doing. Also, our general styles of living can become a relaxed. We can experience everything in a relaxed, open and accepting manner.
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Our mental abilities are very prime to our daily activities. We therefore need to take maximum care of our mental faculties or we will be deemed incoherent and not reasonable. So how do we ensure we have a healthy mentality that all the time without fail serves us right? Below is a remedy that answers the question and offers all the ingredients needed to have a healthy mental faculty for our healthy general well-being.
- Connect– connect with the people around you: your family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. Spend time developing these relationships. Learn more in Connect for mental wellbeing.
- Be active– you don’t have to go to the gym. Take a walk, go cycling or play a game of football. Find an activity that you enjoy and make it a part of your life. Learn more in Get active for mental wellbeing.
- Keep learning – learning new skills can give you a sense of achievement and a new confidence. So why not sign up for that cooking course, start learning to play a musical instrument, or figure out how to fix your bike? Find out more in Learn for mental wellbeing.
- Give to others– even the smallest act can count, whether it’s a smile, a thank you or a kind word. Larger acts, such as volunteering at your local community centre, can improve your mental wellbeing and help you build new social networks. Learn more in Give for mental wellbeing.
- Be mindful– be more aware of the present moment, including your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you. Some people call this awareness “mindfulness”. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges. Learn more in Mindfulness for mental wellbeing
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How to you know that you have a healthy general well-being? It is simple, self-assessment. But how do you asses yourself? Don’t worry below are the steps you can use. Good general well-being leads to happiness which is feeling good most of the time and working well in terms of your daily chores and activities and how your body functions.
Wellbeing self-assessment
This tool uses WEMWBS (The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale) to measure your mental wellbeing. WEMWBS was created by mental wellbeing experts, and is often used by scientists and psychologists.
QUESTIONS
- I’ve been feeling optimistic about the future
- a) None of the time (1 point)
- b) Rarely (2 points)
- c) Some of the time (3 points)
- d) Often (4 points)
- e) All of the time (5 points)
- I’ve been feeling useful
- a) None of the time (1 point)
- b) Rarely (2 points)
- c) Some of the time (3 points)
- d) Often (4 points)
- e) All of the time (5 points)
- I’ve been feeling relaxed
- a) None of the time (1 point)
- b) Rarely (2 points)
- c) Some of the time (3 points)
- d) Often (4 points)
- e) All of the time (5 points)
Most people have a score between 41 and 59. You may want to begin by talking to a friend or health professional about how you can start to address this.
Sourced form: http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Documents/Wellbeing%20self-assessment.htm