High-Value Mindset: Understanding Yourself and The 8 Dimensions of Wellness

A mindset focused on fulfilling the eight dimensions of wellness is crucial in your journey to becoming a better version of yourself. 

Wellness refers to your overall health rather than only physical health. Wellness includes:

• Having a purpose in life.
• Being emotionally well
• and physically well.
• Having meaningful relationships.
• Being happy.

It encompasses more than just being disease-free. It is an active process of development and change.

One’s health, well-being, and quality of life will suffer if one of these dimensions is neglected over time. A well-rounded balance of various wellness characteristics provides a holistic harmony to one’s well-being.

Balanced well-being involves the body, mind, and spirit, just as a balanced diet is necessary for good health. This multifaceted approach to wellness emphasizes the value of optimism and constant inspiration for encouraging healthy behaviors to raise one’s quality of life.

Physical

When we think of “health,” our physical state typically comes to mind first. This dimension encompasses the elements that directly affect our physical health. Arguably the foundational dimension of well-being because your physical state influences the other dimension.

Physical wellness consists of taking care of your body to live a long, healthy, and active life. This aspect of well-being necessitates developing healthy behaviors and maintaining them over time.

• Nutrition

Healthful nutrition is essential for our bodies to function. The nutrients in healthy foods, such as spinach or broccoli, are like building blocks our bodies need to repair and generate healthy tissue.

• Exercise

Get regular exercise appropriate for your lifestyle, age, and fitness level. Your heart is a muscle, and regular exercise strengthens it.

• Weight Management

Maintaining a healthy BMI is essential for maintaining good physical fitness. High amounts of adipose tissue (fat) negatively affect one’s health, leading to severe health conditions, including diabetes and heart disease.

• Hygiene

Having adequate hygiene is essential for physical health, including brushing teeth, flossing, and showering.

• Sleep

Sleeping 7 – 9 hours each night allows your body to repair damage and keeps you sharp!

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Emotional

Developing awareness and acceptance of your feelings, behaviors, values, and attitudes is a critical component of emotional wellness. It also entails controlling your emotions and respecting others’ sentiments.

It takes practice to become emotionally aware, yet developing this ability can help us take control and recover from challenges in life. Our emotional wellness and general resilience can be improved by regularly practicing self-care, setting reasonable expectations, adopting constructive and healthy coping mechanisms, and nurturing relationships with others.

Emotional wellness includes:

• Having and maintaining healthy relationships

• Expressing your feeling to those your trust

• Having a positive self-image

• Being aware of your feelings.

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Social

Making a positive impact on society, connecting with your community, and developing positive relationships with others are all aspects of social wellness. Being conscious of your tastes and background is the first step in achieving this aspect of wellness.

Feelings of belonging and social welfare can be influenced by taking pleasure in social interaction, making enduring friendships, and maintaining good interpersonal relationships. We must respect diversity, be receptive to the social and cultural backgrounds of others and be sensitive to be socially well. This means that we need to be aware of and accepting of diversity.

Social Wellness Includes:

• Maintaining social connection by keeping in touch with others

• Being able to interact with a diverse group of people

• Being able to draw boundaries with yourself and others

• Having good communication skills

• Developing positive relationships

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Intellectual

Developing abilities like critical thinking, objective reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making is related to being intellectually robust. Healthy curiosity, enthusiasm for learning, and a positive attitude toward intellectual difficulties are characteristics of intellectual well-being.

Intellectually strong people are lifelong learners. They seek opportunities to advance their education, careers, and personal lives. Engaging in imaginative, artistic, or creative pursuits is crucial for maintaining good mental health. This aspect of well-being is further strengthened by information sharing through mentoring or teaching others.

Intellectual Wellness Includes:

• Being a lifelong learner
• Learning new skills
• Exercising critical thinking skills
• Challenging yourself mentally
• Having a positive self-image

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Financial

Financial wellness involves being able to afford the lifestyle you are living. Budgeting and learning to live within your means are essential components of financial wellness.
You may satisfy short- and long-term demands, fulfill financial commitments, and accomplish reasonable financial goals with sound money management techniques.

The values, beliefs, upbringing, culture, and a host of other characteristics a person possesses can all impact how they feel about money.

Remember that everyone has different financial demands and situations. Financial wellness is more about developing valuable skills and taking action that fits your goals than it is about having money.

Financial wellness involves:

• Being financially literate
• Being financially responsible
• Monitor spending habits

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Occupational

Being gainfully employed is a beneficial undertaking because it allows you to support your lifestyle and survival. Although meeting your basic needs for food, water, and shelter is crucial, occupational well-being goes beyond these. It has to do with feeling good about how well you’re doing at work and how far you’ve come.

Aim for career choices that you are passionate about and get ready (through school and work experience) to engage in work that makes meaningful and gratifying use of your abilities and gifts in your judgment.

Occupational wellness includes:

• Developing good work habits and job-related skills
• Setting a career goal that aligns with your desires
• Learning from mistakes and moving forward
• Having a balance of work and leisure

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Spiritual

Spiritual well-being can be characterized as looking for motivation, contemplating the meaning of life, or leading a purposeful, intentional existence. This is a private endeavor based on a person’s values and beliefs.

It might or might not involve worship, religious observance, the notion of a higher power, holy rituals, or cultural customs. Some people achieve serenity through mindfulness, yoga, or meditation.

Spiritual Wellness Includes:

• Discovering your values, principles, and beliefs
• Having a greater purpose
• Exploring personal values
• Searching for meaning in your life

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Environmental

Consider how your environment affects your well-being and how your presence may impact it. To comprehend environmental wellness, we must consider all the areas we use and appreciate.

This dimension includes the physical environment, social climates, and built environments that shape our daily lives. Your ability to form views and perceptions about the world may be influenced by the interactions between various environments and particular facets of your life.

Environment Wellness Includes:

• Being environmentally aware
• Living in a de-cluttered home
• Having a peaceful home environment
• Being more eco-friendly
• Community Involvement