This document discusses holistic health and wellness. It defines holistic health as achieving balance across multiple dimensions of health, including physical, mental, emotional, social, and moral-spiritual well-being. Each of these dimensions is described in further detail. The goal of holistic health is overall wellness that encompasses the entire person rather than just the absence of disease. Living a healthy, balanced lifestyle requires taking responsibility for one's health and practicing positive health habits.
6. Something to ponder on
• When you were younger, you did not have
to think much about your health. Your
parents, teachers, and other caring adults
looked out for your health. They made
sure that you ate right foods, had regular
medical check up and immunizations and
other health practices.
7. Something to ponder on
• As an adolescent, your personal health now
becomes your responsibility. It is, therefore,
your responsibility to use health information
wisely to guide your day-to-day activities.
Living a healthy and a happy life must start
early in life. Your health habits and practices
today as well as in the past will greatly affect
the status of your future health
8. Nowadays, health focuses on wellness. It is
a positive approach that includes all the
dimensions of health: physical, mental,
emotional social and moral-spiritual. Health
is the well-being of your body, mind and your
relationship.
9. On the other hand, wellness means striving
to live your life to achieve your fullest
potential, making decisions and acting in
healthy ways. It is practicing positive health
behaviors-based knowledge and healthy
attitudes. You are likely to have high degree
of wellness if you have a balanced life.
10. Being healthy means having a balance in the
dimension of health. This results in attaining
holistic health. Holistic concepts of health and
maintaining good health as requiring more than
just taking care of the various singular
components that make up the physical body,
additionally incorporating aspects such as
mental, emotional, social, spiritual-moral and
environmental well-being
11. The goal is a wellness that encompasses the
entire person, rather than just the lack of
physical pain or disease. It is important to
know how to live happily and healthily. The
following discusses the different approaches
to a holistic life:
12. Physical Health
It means how well your body
functions. It includes being physically
fit, eating nutritious food, and
getting adequate rest and sleep.
13. Mental or Intellectual Health
It refers to the ability of an individual
to think and improve his skills in life.
A mentally healthy person is open to
new ideas about life, family, and
environment.
14. Emotional Health
It is the ability to accept failures, adapt
with the environment and consider the
feeling of others. It refers to how well
one meets the demands of daily life and
how well she or he adjusts to a new
situation.
15. Social Health
It refers to how well a person builds
relationship and interacts with the people
in the community. It also relates to one’s
ability to adapt comfortably to different
social situations and react appropriately
in relation to those.
17. Environmental Health
It is the ability of the person to
recognize the impact of environmental
hazards to life and to find ways how to
protect oneself and the ecological
systems from these hazards.