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Achieving Total Wellness: The Balance of Health Square

Learn about the 4 key components of health - physical, mental, emotional, social - and how to balance them for overall wellness. Discover tips for maintaining each aspect, including sleep, nutrition, stress management, and social interactions. Explore influences on health like heredity, environment, and relationships. Make informed choices about your health and lifestyle, practice life skills for better health outcomes, and assess your progress regularly. Find out how life skills can enhance your well-being and work together synergistically. Take charge of your health and well-being by incorporating these strategies into your daily life.

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Achieving Total Wellness: The Balance of Health Square

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  1. Ch. 1 Health and Wellness Health – Condition of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. Wellness – Having all four sides of Health Square balanced. Health Assessment- Set of questions used to evaluate each of the four parts of health.

  2. 4 Parts of Health • Physical • Mental • Emotional • Social • All four sides need to be in balance!

  3. Physical Health • Get 8 hours of sleep a night • Eat a balanced and nutritious diet • Get plenty of physical activity • Practice good hygiene - Hygiene: Practice of keeping clean. • Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

  4. Mental Health • Has to do with the mind. How you deal with life’s demands. • Being mentally healthy means you can…. - Recognize and deal with stress in a positive way. - Accept new ideas. - Effectively solve problems.

  5. Emotional Health • The way you recognize and deal with your feelings. • Suggestions to maintain your emotional Health: -Express your emotions in words rather than acting them out. - Accept your strengths and weaknesses, and RESPECT yourself. - Deal with sadness correctly and in a timely manner.

  6. Social Health • How well you get along and interact with others. • Ways to improve your Social Health… - Being considerate of others - Show respect to others - Be dependable - But yourself in their “shoes” - Ask for help when you need it!

  7. Influences on Health/Wellness • Heredity – The passing down of traits from a parent to a child. Trait-Characteristic of a person • Environmental- Everything around you, including things we can NOT see. • Relationships – Family, friends, ect. - Peers: Someone who is the same age or same grade and who has similar interests. • Other Culture – the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group. Attitude Behavior Media Technology

  8. Making Choices about Your Health

  9. Life Style • Lifestyle: set of behaviors by which you live. • Attitude: The way you act, think, or feel that causes you to make one choice over another. • Preventative Healthcare: Taking the steps needed to prevent illness or accidents.

  10. Using Life Skills to improve Health • Life Skills- skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health. * Assessing your health * Making good decisions * Being a wise consumer * Communicating effectively * Setting Goals * Using refusal skills (ways to say NO) * Coping

  11. Using life skills cont. • Practicing Life Skills- “PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT” • Evaluating your skills - Do I periodically evaluate my square? - Am I making good decisions? - Am I setting and meeting my goals? - Do I use refusal skills?

  12. Staying Healthy and Well • Ticket Out the door: List four ways that life skills work together to improve your health.

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