Session 1, The good life. Welcome to the 6 part series,
Your Best Self A Guide to Achieving a Balanced Well-Being. In this series you
will learn practical exercises that will help you create a personal blueprint to
be your best self. Undergoing a life of meaning, vitality, and purpose. To obtain
the best experience from this series please view each session in
chronological order as we will build upon each lesson. If you find this
program interesting and wish for some additional resources there is an
excellent book entitled the road to wellness that is published by WELCOA,
the Wellness Council of America, and located on their website for purchase. So
let's get started with Session 1, The Good Life. Today we are going to provide
an overview of the series The Path to Well-Being, The Four Aspects of Wellness,
Things That Get in the Way of our Optimal Well-Being and How to Get
Started on Your Personal Journey. Join us on this journey of well-being. Learn
practical tips and exercises and leave with an action plan. Let's get started
What is optimal wellness or well-being? Perhaps it can be summed up as
"wellness is an expression of life's vitality". We tend to focus on physical wellness like
weight, vital statistics such as blood pressure cholesterol, physical activity
levels. In this series we will be talking about a holistic approach to
wellness, well-being, and optimal energy. When you see this quote does anyone come
to mind? Maybe a coach, pastor, friend or relative. You may have been hearing about
this holistic approach to well-being in the media as well. Here are three recent
best-selling books that talk about this way of living. In Thrive, author Arianna
Huffington redefines what it means to be successful. In a commencement address
Arianna gave at Smith College she likened our drive for money and power to
two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily but sooner or
later were going to topple over. We need a third leg a third metric for defining
success in order to live a healthy, balanced and meaningful life. That third
metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our
intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion
and giving. Are you fully charged? this book is about renewing ourselves in the
fullest sense. Drawing on his extensive research, Tom Rath provides us with the
three key pillars that can help create a life of more meaning and perspective.
Being part of something larger than ourselves, valuing people and experiences
over mere stuff, and understanding that looking after our own well-being is a
first step to doing more for others. Flourish builds on Dr. Seligman, aka the
father of positive psychology, game-changing work on optimism,
motivation, and character to show how to get the most out of life. Unveiling an
electrifying new theory of what makes a good life for individuals,
for communities, and Nations. It explores the understanding of happiness, as well
as a tool for getting the most out of life. Let's look at what the good life
may mean. It's personal to each person. An uncompromising attitude to live a
responsible well-balanced life. A process, not a state of being. A direction, not a
destination. The mindset of the good life begins with optimal wellness.
Let's look at the Four Aspects of Well-Being. First the physical or body.
This means optimal functioning of all systems. This aspect is not limited to
exercising and eating healthy. How are all your other systems? What about your
digestive system, immune, neuromuscular. To the mental state or mind the ability to
gather, process, recall, and communicate information. Do you make time for
creative activities? Do you balance your busy mental time with quite mental time?
Perhaps some of your favorite creative activities, such as painting or coloring.
When we look at three, emotional, this is the ability to feel, express, and control
the full range of emotions. Do we take time to tune into our emotions and
actually feel them? Or do we have a tendency to stuff them down so we don't
feel their discomfort? Or perhaps we react to circumstances rather than
respond in a positive way. Emotional wellness includes being able to feel and
identify our emotions, acknowledge them and respond in a healthy way. Things
like anger, guilt, shame, fear, blame all weigh heavily on us and take a toll on
our well-being. Lastly, when we look at number four, spiritual health, these are
our relationships, values, and meaning and purpose. Often this aspect takes a
backseat as we are so busy doing versus just being. It is hard to hear our inner
guidance when we were always in go mode. Do your values align with your behaviors?
Do you do work that is aligned with what is meaningful and purposeful for you?
Here's another way that we will be looking at the state of well-being or
vitality across these four dimensions. This model is from the Human Performance
Institute and came up out based on their work with top performing athletes. They
found that athletes that consistently performed at the top of their game were
experts at managing their energy across the domains. You can see in this model
how energy when well made allows us to be physically energized,
emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned. We'll be coming
back to all these things throughout the series. Let's take a closer look at our
present state of well-being on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being high, how would you
rate your present level of vitality? Would you like to improve your score?
When are we all like to experience a greater level of vitality? Let's look at
some statistics regarding the typical American. 1 of 3 are prescribed
antidepressants. Greater than 50% claim to get a poor night's sleep. Eats one or
more meals outside their homes daily. Consumes their body weight in refined
sugar each year. Receives 50 to 100 emails a day and countless text messages.
Increasingly is considered either overweight or obese. And lastly spends
95% of their day indoors.
In today's culture what are some barriers and challenges that impact our
optimal well-being both individually and as a society? Some possible answers; low
exposure to sunlight, sedentary jobs, technology, stress, internet addictions,
toxic chemical exposure, or the rising chronic diseases such as cancer or
diabetes. Can you think of others? What our wellness robbers? These are things
that steal our ability to experience optimal well-being. They fall into
categories. Things we can control and things we cannot. Experts recommend we
start with those things we can control. Let's look at some things that robbed us
of our optimal wellness physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
What are some examples of wellness robbers that are not in our control. A
disease may be physical or mental. A person, a family, a co-worker, a friend, a
life event such as a death or a loss of job or divorce. What are examples of
wellness robbers that are in our control? An unhealthy diet. Not enough or poor
sleep. Not moving enough, too much screen time. Excessive alcohol, stress, and
smoking. Take a minute to think about wellness robbers in your life. Which ones
can you control and those not in your control. If you are going to tackle one
thing that is robbing you of your optimal wellness what might it be? How
ready do you feel to do this? On a scale of one to ten, how confident do you feel
that you are ready to do this and be successful? With 10 being totally
confident in one being not at all sure think about your writing this number.
Anyone have a seven or lower? What might it take to get that number up to an
eight or nine. We are most likely to be successful if our number is higher than
a 7. If 7 or lower that's okay it just means that the timing may not be right
to take on that too. Or you may need more support in making
that change. Your wellness blueprint is where you will set your goal
specifically and measurably. So how to proceed? Will you follow a program? Do it
in your own way? Or do you need more information or resources? Perhaps a book
or instruction? Or perhaps lessons. For example, cooking lessons to improve your
cooking skills. Do you have support ?Maybe a friend, a mentor, a coach, or support
group? What will you do to reward yourself along the way for your small
accomplishments? As you can see making a change is a process, not an event.
we have been doing certain things the same way for a long time and it takes
the time to learn, fine-tune, and process a new way. in our next session we'll talk
more about this process and how to set ourselves up for success. Let's talk
about creating your wellness blueprint by using goal-setting techniques. First,
be specific. For example, I am eating five to seven servings of fruits and
vegetables three days a week. Versus just saying I am eating healthier. State your
goal. I am versus I will. I am going to bed at 10 p.m. every night. Add a mental
visual image to your goal to give your unconscious and extra prompt. Be
persistent. Stay committed for the long haul and keep taking small steps in the
direction of your goal. This takes patience and practice. Take it one day at
a time. Repeat your goal. Try to repeat your goal
out loud every day this will have a positive influence on your behaviors. Get
back on track. Setbacks, slip-ups are not failures but opportunities to learn and
tweak. When you have a setback, as we all do, evaluate what went wrong and learn
from that lesson. Maybe you need to make an adjustment of some sort. Like the time
of day, social setting, etc. Make the adjustment and get right back on track.
Think progress, not perfection. And leave any guilt
behind wasted energy and doesn't need to accompany you on the rest of your
journey. To summarize today's session, we talked about a holistic concept of
optimal well-being. We looked at a model of energy and peak performance. We
identified our current level of well-being and wellness robber's that
may be getting in the way of us experiencing vitality. And then talked
about how to create a blueprint to help us begin our journey of well-being.
Here's a quote that summarizes how to proceed. " Learn from the past, set vivid
details and goals for the future, and live in the only moment of which you
have control." Now we'll also be talking more about this idea living in the
present moment as that is where we have the most power. This series is about
coming into your full power physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
For the next session identify your wellness robbers, reflect on your
wellness blueprint. What do you want to get out of this program? And setting at
least one goal. The next session will be on creating healthy boundaries. Thank you
for joining us today in revealing session 1 ,The Good Life, of the series
Your Best Self; A Guide to Achieving a Balanced Well-Being.
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