Varthur, Bangalore
Karnataka, India
Intellectual wellness is all about recognizing our creative abilities and applying that in situations
where there will be scope for expanding our knowledge and self-skills. We can seek intellectual
wellness through our personal and professional development, our cultural and community
involvement, and by developing our personal hobbies.
Brahma the Creator or the representation of creations is an illustration for intellectual wellness
since the creative thinking to explore various ideas and issues are the essence of intellectual
wellness.
Intellectual wellness encourages relying more on rational thinking than the emotional influence
to analyze and sort issues; inspires to consistently explore intellectual growth possibilities by
creatively observing the life around.
Practicing intellectual wellness has multiple benefits like an improved self-tolerance level,
listening and respecting others sentiments and their values by which a sense of dignity and
belonging is derived in us. Our memory power gets enhanced, our expressions and speeches
will be refined, our communications will be precise, and all these will add a sense of purpose
and self-confidence in us.
The active methods of seeking intellectual wellness are
Consistently reading and learning
Learning and practicing new skills
Traveling and exploring native histories
Regular physical and meditation exercises
Curiosity driven activities
Exploring new ideas and understanding a variety of subjects makes us more mindful and a well-balanced person. Our constant search to gain new knowledge and the desire to seek for new
experiences will expand our intellectual wellness.
A common person will glance at the creeper plant and move on, an intellectual person will
study the creeper and how it is managing to climb the tree trunk to survive. The difference is in
the curiosity level which drives the intellectual person to innovate and the common person to
follow the innovation.
Curiosity and logical thinking are the qualities that might be resting inside us and let us practice
the intellectual wellness guidance to source these qualities and be an intellectual.
Emotional wellness is the ability to control and manage our subjective strong emotional feelings such as love, anger, sorrow, fear, joy, hate, etc which are caused by our thought process under the external stimuli of peer influencing and circumstantial situations.
The floodgates of the dam must be opened in time to save the dam from bursting and flooding. Similarly, the surging emotional feelings must be controlled in time to save the person from bursting out and ruining relationships.
Recognizing, realizing and accepting our emotional feelings and learning to balance the resultant outcome is emotional wellness practicing. Life often throws challenges in all walks of life, to face and overcome these obstacles to sustain in life is an art that is part of emotional wellness programmers.
An emotionally charged person will lack the self control to restrain themselves from escalating the situations by forcibly expressing their feelings. The resultant guilt will linger for a long time and can impact the self-confidence level too.
An emotionally healthy state is attained when we build the self-control to suppress the surging subjective emotional feelings experiences to equate with the objective emotional experiences as per the standards.
An iron rod requires to be heated to form shapes; we require self-control exercises to shape our thoughts and actions to best suit the healthy living conditions in our society.
We must bring a change in our lifestyle to gracefully accept others’ emotions, focus on the positive aspects of life, adapt to any changes in living conditions, brave the tough times & strive to overcome to find the joyin the moments of our life by following the guidelines of emotional wellness.
Occupational Wellness is all about how well we achieve a balance between work and leisure time, addressing workplace stress and building relationships with co-workers. Occupational wellness encourages us to focus on our search for the right career and inspires us to explore various career options and find our right fit.
Our ability to derive satisfaction from the job, get enriched as we progress in our career, and find a sense of fulfillment in our job performance are the core values of occupational wellness.
The self-check parameters of occupational wellness by asking self-analyzing the following
Am I optimizing my skills and talents to perform positively?
Am I enjoying my job and workspace?
Am I finding the purpose in my job, am I focused?
Am I up-skilling and progressing?
Am I organized to handle the work space stress?
Am I able to balance work and leisure times?
Am I good at upkeeping the relationships?
Socrates’ (socrota) life time search was “to know him”, he in the process of finding an answer to this self-question finally had found that “humans were always in the constant search for happiness”.
Our happiness in what we are doing will keep us in a healthy state of our mind and body. Our occupation (career) should be chosen to give us job satisfaction, meaning in our job performance, the drive to work optimally and positively.
We should be able to find the right balance between work and leisure times to avoid getting stressed. Cordial and productive relationships in our work environment are the key factor for career growth.
Occupational wellness guides us to seek consistent learning opportunities and skill improvement programs either as part of our professional training or as our self growth steps. There are bound to be situations in the course of our career which would call for our balanced approach to avoid escalation and to find a viable solution. This would require our mind to be in a calm state to build our balanced approach and for that controlling our emotions are the basic criteria.
Single is alone, two is company and three is crowd is a popular one-liner. In life and career, we must adapt to all the three and as well expand to four, five and more. In a career we are a single person focusing on our career building, we are two as companions to share and care for, we are a team as coworkers to unite in performance and we are a large group as a company to find the purpose and meaning in our profession.
“The joy of working is in the job satisfaction”. It is wise to follow the occupational wellness program to find your happiness and job satisfaction.
Intellectual wellness is all about recognizing our creative abilities and applying that in situations
where there will be scope for expanding our knowledge and self-skills. We can seek intellectual
wellness through our personal and professional development, our cultural and community
involvement, and by developing our personal hobbies.
Brahma the Creator or the representation of creations is an illustration for intellectual wellness
since the creative thinking to explore various ideas and issues are the essence of intellectual
wellness.
Intellectual wellness encourages relying more on rational thinking than the emotional influence
to analyze and sort issues; inspires to consistently explore intellectual growth possibilities by
creatively observing the life around.
Practicing intellectual wellness has multiple benefits like an improved self-tolerance level,
listening and respecting others sentiments and their values by which a sense of dignity and
belonging is derived in us. Our memory power gets enhanced, our expressions and speeches
will be refined, our communications will be precise, and all these will add a sense of purpose
and self-confidence in us.
The active methods of seeking intellectual wellness are
Consistently reading and learning
Learning and practicing new skills
Traveling and exploring native histories
Regular physical and meditation exercises
Curiosity driven activities
Exploring new ideas and understanding a variety of subjects makes us more mindful and a well-balanced person. Our constant search to gain new knowledge and the desire to seek for new
experiences will expand our intellectual wellness.
A common person will glance at the creeper plant and move on, an intellectual person will
study the creeper and how it is managing to climb the tree trunk to survive. The difference is in
the curiosity level which drives the intellectual person to innovate and the common person to
follow the innovation.
Curiosity and logical thinking are the qualities that might be resting inside us and let us practice
the intellectual wellness guidance to source these qualities and be an intellectual.
Social wellness guides us to maintain a healthy relationship with our nears, dears and
connections by interacting in a healthy manner, being supportive and genuine in our
approach with others. Social wellness involves us to build and nurture healthy relations,
make sincere efforts to expand our human connectivity and genuinely care for the
welfare of others in our contact circle.
Chanakya was known as a bright, smart and shrewd scholar who believed and lived to
establish the equality among all humans irrespective of their status. He genuinely cared
for others’ welfare and strived to maintain a healthy relationship with all his contacts.
By nature, we do not prefer to remain in a solitary state for long hours rather we seek to
connect with others to spend valuable times which would give us a sense of belonging
and purpose. Our sincere approach and supportive nature will nourish us to build
healthy relationships which would reveal to us as to who we are and how well we fit in
the worldly contacts.
Our genuine intention to connect with those around us and the way we treasure these
connections will strengthen our relationships over the period of time. By maintaining a
solid social support system, we can derive the pleasures of human interactions which
will increase our positive outlook on life and actions. Socially active people are proven
to be healthier with an improved immune system and cardiovascular functioning.
Virtual connections and interactions have become the way of life which enables us to
connect at any convenient hour, grow our contacts and network at a faster pace.
Virtually connected, we can reach out to anyone across the globe in a fraction of
seconds and build our human connections. There are multiple online platforms that
support virtual meetings and interactions which technology we must put to good use for
and grow our network.
We can foster social wellness by following these steps
Be genuine and share your feelings honestly
Recognize the depth in the relationship and try to feel others influence on us
Be clear and conscious while interacting with others
Never judge others and listen intently
Be respectful when disagreeing with others’ views and opinions
Control your temper and be courteous in conversations
Ever since our birth it is the relationships that guide us to navigate in this world, teaches
us to interact in a healthy manner with others and supports us to express effectively.
Positive social habits will build a supportive system around us which will keep us
healthy both physically as well mentally.
Social wellness is a habit which will care for our wellness and of others in our
relationships.