Do You Remember the Seven Dimensions of Wellness?

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Do You Remember the Seven Dimensions ofWellness?
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Are you making decisions to be WELL?
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RememberHEALTH VS. WELLNESS

• Being healthy is simply not being physically
  sick..
• Wellness is a PROCESS of balancing 7 dimensions
  in a persons life that will allow them to live a
  long life, feel happy with that life and be
  successful during that life!

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Lets quickly review our 7 dimensions of
wellness
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Social Wellness

• The process of making and keeping healthy
  RELATIONSHIPS with people in our lives.

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Emotional Wellness

• The process of accepting yourself for who you
  are, sharing your feelings,
• maintaining a positive attitude, and keeping a
  high
• self-esteem.

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Physical Wellness

• The process of making choices to get in shape,
• be flexible, be fit , remain energetic and
  develop strong bodies. It is the decisions we
  make related to exercise, nutrition, rest and
  sleep, stress management, sexual activity,
  alcohol use and the abuse of drugs.

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School/Career Wellness

• The process of making choices related to
  school/learning which might help you with your
  career/job someday.

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Intellectual Wellness

• The process of using our minds to understand
  ourselves and the world around us while
  maintaining that mind so we can continually
  learn until we die!

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Environmental Wellness

• The process of making choices which will
  contribute or improve the quality of our personal
  living space, neighborhood, community, and larger
  aspects of the earth including air, water, land.

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Spiritual Wellness

• The process of discovering meaning and purpose in
  life and having values/beliefs that allow us to
  act in healthy ways.

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If you are sick in each dimension of
wellness.That usually results in very poor
health and/or death!
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All seven dimensions have to be healthy and
balanced for you to be WELL!!!!!!
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To remember the 7

• Remember
• S.P.E.C.I.E.S

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How do you know if you are well based on these
seven dimensions?
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Re-take the inventory, graph your results, and
write a S.M.A.R.T. GOAL for each dimension
thatll remind you to be more WELL!