5 Key Elements for Wellbeing
In my view, there are 5 key components to living a healthy balanced life and enhancing your wellbeing and quality of life :
1. Exercise (to a reasonable degree)
2. Eating Healthily (this includes modifying or avoiding unhealthy or excessive eating or drinking habits and avoiding ingesting other harmful substances - such as nicotine or harmful drugs)
3. Meditation/Mindfulness
4. Balanced Thinking
5. Setting and Following Achievable Goals
How to Live a Balanced Purposeful Life
In the table below, I give some additional comments & suggestions regarding how to implement each of the key elements above:-
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Key Element:
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Comments/Suggestions
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Exercise
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"In medicine if you could prescribe one thing that could improve everybody's health then that thing would be exercise"- Dr Kevin Fong (Horizon, BBC2, 12 August 2013). Exercise helps your body to stay fit and healthy and releases endorphins which help you to feel better and more relaxed. Set yourself achievable goals for what exercise you are going to do and when. Also you can try exercising if you are feeling low or stressed and want to give your mind a break from your stressful thoughts. |
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Eating & Drinking Healthily
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This is about being sensible and conscious
of what you let into your body, not just for the benefit of
your physical health but also because mind and body are
closely related. Obesity,excessive alcohol use and smoking
are among the biggest health and lifestyle problems facing
modern society. Substances such as caffeine can have some
positive uses but can also heighten anxiety or have other
significant negative effects. Under eating, or avoiding too
many foods, can also create problems. Further information on
eating healthily is contained in my kindle ebook article: AWAKE from Food Addiction - 5 Essential
Tips, to help you eat and drink in a moderate, healthy
sensible way if this is an issue for you.
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Meditation/Mindfulness
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Life is full of pressures. Meditation and mindfulness help you live in the present. For some initial information about mindfulness and how it can help with managing anxiety and stress, go to: Mindfulness. For a basic meditation exercise go to: Meditation. |
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Balanced Thinking
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Balanced thinking involves dealing with
negative or counterproductive thoughts in a sensible way and
keeping them in perspective. Here the principles of CBT
(cognitive behavioural therapy) to help - For more
information see CBT- Introduction.
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Setting and Following Achievable
Goals
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Goal Setting is a core element of life
coaching. It helps you to have a focus and an aim. In
business-speak the acronym SMART goals is sometimes used to
describe helpful ingredients of goals (see SMART Goals). To keep things simple as
a first step I just say try to set achievable
goals (the 'A' of the SMART acronym). The rest may come
later!
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