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Total Wellness: What is it and Why is it Important
Social
Total wellness includes being healthy in all areas of wellness: mental/emtional, physical, and social. This is important to have a healthy and happy lifestyle, and to maintain it. Mental/emotional wellness refers to being comfortable with the people around you and your environment, as well as how you react to events in life. When you feel mental/emotional tension, you are experiencing stress, which can drastically effect your mental/emotional wellness. Physical wellness refers to how you maintain your physical health, such as eating healthy, exercising, and staying mentally healthy. Social wellness is the ability to listen and interact with others often and well. As a whole, your total wellness can affect the way you live your life, and how healthy you are while you do it.
Mental/Emotional
Physical
Physical Wellness and Setting Goals
Physical wellness is important to keep our bodies functioning properly, and setting goals can keep our physical wellness sustained. To have good physical wellness, you have to find a balance between physical activity and good nutrition. To find this balance setting SMART goals can be an easy way to achieve that. SMART goals are goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. This provides and easy way to set goals that you can realistcally achieve. Some health-related components of physical wellness are body-fat composition, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and cardiovascular endurance which you should maintain to get benefits such as a longer life, less risk of disease, and more energy. As you can see, physical wellness and setting goals affects all parts of our life, not just our appearance and how we want to look.