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Wellness

Wellness. Maintaining emotional equilibrium for a healthy personal and professional life. Wellness. The process of living at one’s highest possible level as a whole person and promoting the same for others. Wellness is:.

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Wellness

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  1. Wellness Maintaining emotional equilibrium for a healthy personal and professional life

  2. Wellness • The process of living at one’s highest possible level as a whole person and promoting the same for others.

  3. Wellness is: • An ongoing, dynamic, fluid process through time (a continuing challenge that can fluctuate over time). • Functioning at one’s highest possible level • The whole person – mind, body and behaviour • Promoting the same for others. Promoting the well being of others. Attending to the effects of one’s moods and behaviour on others

  4. Wellness lifestyle includes: • Note: all of these are interrelated – positive progress in one area will usually influence another area

  5. Environmental wellness habits • Environmental awareness • Your effect on the environment

  6. Intellectual wellness habits • Ability to think clearly, recall • Thinking independently and critically • Basic skills of reasoning • Being open to new ideas

  7. Emotional wellness habits • Awareness of one’s emotions • Maintaining relative control over one’s emotions • Being more positive than negative

  8. Spiritual wellness habits • Issues of meaning, value and purpose • Very individual

  9. Physical wellness habits • Nutrition • Exercise • Sleep • Non-substance abuse • Using seatbelts, helmets • Safe sex

  10. Social wellness habits • Friendships • Group memberships • Practicing empathy and active listening • Caring for others and being open to others caring for you • Commitment to the common good of the community

  11. Time wellness habits • A pace of life that is within one’s comfort zone • Maintaining relative control over one’s time • Balance work, home, relationships and solitude • Balance chronic hurry versus boredom

  12. Stress and wellness Stress relates to wellness in 2 ways: • Constructive, adaptive stress habits will contribute to wellness • Living a wellness lifestyle will minimize distress • Developing a wellness lifestyle is influenced by both social environment and personal choice • Part of a wellness lifestyle, and part of managing stress effectively, is maintaining daily practices and attitudes that promote and sustain one’s energy level. Being truly well is to have energy available when needed

  13. Stress and energy • The key to stress and energy is how you handle stress. Whether you can manage the stress or allow it to handle you • Energy involves endurance and intensity

  14. Types of stress • Anticipatory stress: stimulated by an expected stressor (tension before a test) • Current stress: stress during the experience (running a cardiac arrest) • Residual stress: after the experience has passed (difficulty sleeping after winning a game)

  15. Coping • Constantly changing cognitive and behavioural efforts to mange specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing or exceeding the resources of the person (Lazarus and Folkman) • What you think and do as you deal with demands (Schafer)

  16. Stages of coping • Primary appraisal of the stressor: is this worth being concerned about • Secondary appraisal of the stressor: assess your resources for dealing with the stressor • Coping: take whatever actions are appropriate

  17. Two types of coping • Adaptive: helping the individual deal effectively with stressful events and minimizing distress • Maladaptive: results in unnecessary distress for self and others. Erodes wellness

  18. Common adaptive coping strategies • Solitude • Exercise • Professional help • Hobbies • Deep relaxation • Play • Prayer, meditation • friendship

  19. Common maladaptive coping strategies • Alcohol and drugs • Smoking • Overeating • Physical and verbal abuse • Blaming others • Overwork • Denial • Escapism

  20. EMS and stress • Administrative: waiting for calls, shift work, off load delay • Scene related: violent and abusive people, gory sights, noises • Emotional and physical: fear, demanding bystanders, frustration, exhaustion, hunger and thirst, lifting • Environmental: sirens, bad weather, infectious diseases

  21. In order to manage these stressors you need to learn: Your personal stressors • Each person has their own list • What is stressful to you may be enjoyable to others • What is stressful last year may not be this year and what wasn’t stressful this year may be next year

  22. The amount of stress you can take before it becomes a problem • You need to know your limitations • You need to know the signs for you of when stress is mounting

  23. Stress management strategies that work for you • For personal well-being you need to find appropriate personal stress management strategies

  24. Benefits of wellness • Minimum frequency of illness • Low illness risk • Maximum energy for daily living • Enjoyment of daily life • Continual development of abilities • Contribution of well-being to those around you

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