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How is your Emotional Fitness?
Naturopath Susan Gianevsky shares helpful tips on how to improve your emotional wellbeing, resilience and balance.
Positive definition Emotional wellbeing may be defined as a positive state of mind and body, where one feels safe and connected to other people, the community and the wider environment. Being able to enjoy optimal emotional health and fitness informs our capacity to manage, communicate and interpret events, as well as to form and sustain relationships. When emotional wellbeing is balanced, we can relish every moment, rather than feel overwhelmed and sluggish, which over time will derail
At school, I was called a ‘worry wart’ – I did not understand how to control my emotions and I thought it was normal to struggle with nerves and be unable to sleep the night before a test. Later on, when I was a school teacher in my 20s, I observed that confident and relaxed students moved through the curriculum with ease, whereas those who were more sensitive and timid found school difficult. At that time, there was little focus on how to build emotional wellbeing and resilience, and I became keen to learn more about this topic.
our physical health. Emotional wellbeing is the key which enables us to progress in our lives; it also determines our physical health, because negative emotions put the body under stress, which in turn compromises immunity and may trigger behaviour which harms physical health, such as overindulgence in alcohol or risk- taking behaviour. The key signs of emotional stress include: trouble sleeping or oversleeping, racing thoughts or constant worry, anger and irritability, restlessness, feeling
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