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5 Components of Health and Overall Wellness

5 Components of Health and Overall Wellness. Health Mrs Farver. What is health?. Take a couple of minutes to write down all the words you associate with the word health and think of someone in the public eye that you think is healthy? Why do you consider them healthy?. Physical Health

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5 Components of Health and Overall Wellness

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  1. 5 Components of Health and Overall Wellness Health Mrs Farver

  2. What is health? Take a couple of minutes to write down all the words you associate with the word health and think of someone in the public eye that you think is healthy? Why do you consider them healthy?

  3. Physical Health Emotional Health Social Health Mental Health Spiritual Health Health Defined: The 5 Components of Health

  4. Component 1: Physical Health • Participate in regular exercise • Maintain proper nutrition by eating right • Maintain a healthy weight • Being free of disease and sickness

  5. Component 2: Emotional Health • Expressing emotions in a positive and non-destructive way • Copes with unpleasant emotions and does not get overwhelmed by them • Knows where to get emotional support

  6. Component 3: Social Health • The quality of your relationships with friends, family, teachers, and others you come in contact with • Respects others • Avoids those who do not treat him or her with respect and tolerance • Being popular does not necessarily mean you are “socially healthy”

  7. Component 4: Mental Health • The ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of daily life • Having high self-esteem (feeling comfortable and happy with yourself) • Strongly influenced by state of emotional health • Sometimes intensely troubling times develop mental illnesses

  8. Component 5: Spiritual Health • Having spiritual direction and purpose • Maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things • Living according to one’s ethics, morals, and values • Values = a strong belief or ideal

  9. Wellness • Achieving a person’s best in all 5 components of health • Must find a balance for all 5 components

  10. Influences on Your HealthHANDOUT • Heredity • Environment • Culture • Attitude • Behavior • Media • Technology

  11. Heredity • Biological traits/genes that you inherit from your parents • You can NOT change your heredity!

  12. Culture Values, beliefs, and practices shared by a group of people that share a common background You have some control over this

  13. Environment • Your surroundings. • The area where you live and everything you may come into contact with. • Can you control this? • Sometimes…

  14. Attitude A person’s way of thinking (how they think and feel in different situations) You have COMPLETE control over this

  15. Behavior • Actions people take • You have complete control over this • Or do you?

  16. Media • Any public form of communication • What are these forms? • You have some control over this

  17. Technology Anything created to improve the quality of life or increase efficiency You have some control over this Is technology positive or negative on our health?

  18. Overall Wellness Continuum • Why a continuum? • It can always change and there is a wide range

  19. Overall Wellness • How do I figure out my overall wellness? • Look at each component of health and score 1 to 10. • Add up those six number and divide it by 60. • Example: Physical Health = 8, Mental Health= 7, Emotional Health= 8, Social Health= 8, Spiritual Health = 7, Environmental Health= 6. Total Health = 8+7+8+8+7+6 = 44. Wellness= 44/60= .7333 or 73% This is average (like having a C grade

  20. Assignment: My Health and Wellness Matrix Complete the handout to find out how “well” you are

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