There are many factors that affect well-being. It is a complex ecosystem, simultaneously influenced by several aspects, each with a certain weight. It is a widely used term in everyday life. However, we don’t always know what it means to be “good. “often we don’t know, we have no idea how to look good.
What we call well-being includes at least six variables: emotional, intellectual, professional, physical, social and spiritual, all these factors can improve or worsen our lives, so they are all related to well-being.
- Even if we don’t realize it.
- All these variables are put into play every day.
- In that sense.
- Eye!Sometimes we think that well-being only focuses on one of them.
- Because it is the most worrying or rewarding.
- However.
- They all work simultaneously.
- Together.
- They make it easier or difficult to maintain a full life.
- We will analyze each variable in more detail below.
“Being happy means you’ve realized that you have what you were looking for. -Alan Cohen-
It’s about recognizing and accepting your own emotions and feelings, which involves the ability to reason coherently about yourself, as well as the ability to be aware of your own limitations and strengths.
Emotional well-being manifests itself in the ability to express feelings and understand others, as well as in the ability to perform reasonable self-assessments. Similarly, it is expressed in the form of self-affirmation and proactivity.
Intellectual well-being is linked to the ability to perform creative mental actions, use what is learned and treated to solve everyday or greater problems, it also involves the ability to detect contradictions and how to solve them.
There is well-being in the intellectual aspect when curiosity and desire to learn are present, as well as the interest of testing new solutions, researching and being able to evaluate different intellectual attitudes.
We talk about well-being at work when we are satisfied with the work we do, that is, when there is a good attitude towards work, which implies the ability to find a job that favors us.
Well-being at work is manifested by the ability to develop new skills at work or profession that develops on a day-to-day life, but also by associating work with personal values and a desire for improvement.
Another factor that affects well-being is health care and appearance, which requires the ability to recognize nutritional and exercise needs, adopt or abandon habits that favor or harm the body.
Physical well-being translates into the interest and care of the body itself. Healthy hygiene habits and adequate personal presentation. Someone is physically well when actions aim to preserve life.
Social is linked to the ability to create harmonious and cooperative environments, the ability to build constructive relationships with others, and also to abandon relationships of all kinds that cause harm or discomfort.
Social welfare is manifested in strong and stable support networks based on mutual help and understanding. Respect is also an expression of social welfare, as well as the ability to set limits with others.
This has to do with the component of transcendence that is given to life, it is intimately related to the meaning given to personal existence, spirituality develops when you are able to see the facts from a long-term perspective, and also when they are interested in adopting a model of value and are able to be consistent with it.
This implies the ability to identify and adhere to universal values. Also the ability to actively reach and participate in just causes. Spiritual well-being would be the sum of all other ways of being good.
As you can see, well-being is a word that encompasses many realities, as we said at the beginning, all the factors that affect well-being are at stake all the time, sometimes we lose sight of it because we are especially sensitive to only one of these dimensions.
It is always important to remember that human beings have many facets, so our wellness ecosystem is complex, it is important not to lose sight of any of its facets, they are interdependent, so when one is bad, the other goes well can balance.