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MODULE -1
Good Health and It's Balance for Positive Mindset

What is Health, Why Health is very important Now? What influences your Health? Health and Behavior, Health
beliefs and advertisements, Advantages of good health (Short term and long-term benefits), Health and Society, Health
and family, Health and Personality - Profession. Health and behavior, Disparities of health in different vulnerable
groups. Health and psychology, Methods to improve good psychological health. Psychological disorders (Stress and
Health - Stress management), how to maintain good health, Mindfulness for Spiritual and Intellectual health, Changing
health habits for good health. Health and personality.

1.1. What is health?

• The term health is frequently used by most of us in our day-to-day life.
• We all wish to live a long, healthy and a prosperous life.
• To remain healthy and physically active is one of the major goals in a person's life.
• The majority of us feel that being healthy simply means not having any diseases or illnesses in our bodies.
• But this is a very narrow viewpoint of health.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as "a condition of complete physical, mental, and social well-
being, rather than only the absence of sickness and physical issues."
• The above definition of health is a wide perspective of health, It includes the mental and social wellbeing of an
individual determining the health of a person.

1.2. Why health is important?

• We all know health is very important to us, our life depends on our body, we can study well and work hard if
we have a good physical condition.
• Modern times enormous information regarding the benefits of regular exercising and maintaining a health
promoting routine is available on internet and is accessible to everyone.
• This has created a realization that 'health is important'

1.3. Well-being
• Well-being is a noun that means good health and good fortune.
• The ability to actively participate in a thriving community, culture, and environment. To build your overall well-

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being, you have to make sure all of these types are functioning to an extent.
•Well-being is defined as a sense of health and vitality that arises from thoughts, emotions, actions, and experiences.
• When we have well-being, we feel happy, healthy, socially connected, and purposeful most of the time.
• We can improve our well-being by building a certain set of skills.
By keeping in mind, it takes time and effort to build any new skill. But building a new skill will always help in well-
being.

1.4. Dimensions of well-being

Well-being has 8 dimensions
1. Emotional well-being,
2. Physical well-being,
3. Occupational well-being,
4. Social well-being,
5. Spiritual well-being,
6. Intellectual well-being,
7. Environment well-being,
8. Financial well-being.

1.4.1. Emotional Well-Being: (Feel Happy)

The ability to practice stress management techniques, be resilient, and generate the emotions that lead to good
feelings.
Develop emotional skills like positive thinking, resilience, and mindfulness,
• These skills help us to cope with stress, regulate our emotions in the face of challenges, and quickly recover from
upsets so that we can continue pursuing our goals and think about our lives.
• When we have developed our emotional well-being, we feel happier.

1.4.2. Physical Well-Being: (Feel Healthy)

• The ability to improve the functioning of our body through healthy eating, good exercise habits, and other healthy
habits.
• To develop our physical well-being, we need to increase our understanding of diet, nutrition, and exercise so that
we can develop healthy strategies in our daily lives.

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• Our insights help us to eat healthfully, prevent many diseases, and engage in other behaviors that keep our bodies
functioning and pain-free life, to feel healthier.

1.4.3. Occupational Well-Being: (Feel Fulfilled at Work)

• The ability to pursue your interests, skills, and purpose at working Order to gain meaning, happiness, and
enrichment in your work life.
• To develop work place well-being, we need to build de professional skills like pursuing our purpose, living
our value, and maintaining work-life balance.
• These skills help us enjoy our work more, helping us to stay focused, motivated, and successful at work.
• When we have developed workplace well-being, our work fag more fulfilling and stress free.
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1.4.4. Social Well-Being: (Feel Connected)
. The ability to communicate, develop intimacy with others, and create a support network that helps you overcome
loneliness.
• To develop our social well-being, we need to build our social skills like gratitude, kindness, and communication.
• These skills lead others to value their interactions with us, helping us to feel less lonely, insecure, or disconnected.
• When we have developed our social well-being, we feel more meaningfully connected to others.

1.4.5. Spiritual Well-Being:

Spiritual wellbeing is a deeply personal dimension of wellbeing, and can be something different to each and every
individual.
7 Powerful Tips to Improve
Our Spiritual Well-being believe in the act of giving. The most important aspect of spiritual well-being is believing in
the aspect of giving rather than expecting.
1. Live in the present.
2. Forgive and let go.
3. Develop gratitude.
4. Love and care unconditionally.
5. Practice yoga and meditation.
6. Think positively.
7. Final thoughts.

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The best way to keep yourself stable is to keep a positive attitude towards any person or situation. And stop
thinking negatively. This will help in reducing stress and negativity in life.

1.4.6. Intellectual Wellness:

Wellness is being open to new ideas, thinking critically and finding ways to be creative.
Here are some tips on improving intellectual well-being,
• Learn meaningful activities.
•Write poetry or a journal.
• Reading, making artwork/doodling, playing puzzles & games.
•Exploring different hobbies.
• Finding opportunities to socialize, pursuing stimulating conversations with others.
• Exercising, and finding excitement in pursuing new knowledge/ skills.
• Limit television & computer, screen time at home.

1.4.7. Environmental well-being (Feel a Sense of Community):

• The ability to actively participate in creating a growing community, culture, and environment. To develop societal
well-being, we need to build skills that make us feel interconnected-
skills like supporting our environment, building stronger local communities, and fostering a culture of compassion,
fairs, and supportive relations.
• These skills help us create and be part of developing communities that care about one another and the world at
large. When we cultivate societal well-being, we feel like we are a part or something bigger than just ourselves.
• Conclusion: creating a solid plan. It'll be easier to stay on track je you create a plan that helps you focus on the
right skills for you.

1.4.8. Financial Well-Being

• Financial well-being is an ever-changing, personal state that typically includes factors such as satisfactorily
managing one's current financial situation; the ability to exercise choice and feel in control of finances; and the
outlook for future prospects.
• In the Personal Finance Ecosystem, financial well-being is self-defined by the individual.
• Tips are always helpful when it comes to achieving financial stability, but they won't always help you create
healthy habits that will sustain you in the long run. Instead of looking for a quick fix to your financial issues, try
and establish regular habits that will help turn around your financial wellbeing.
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1.5. What influences our health?

• Both internal (personal) and external(outside) factors affect our health.
• The factors affect our health are
• Heredity,
• physical environment,
• Media,
• cultural background, and
• family traditions.
• Each of these has a positive and negative influence on health.
Some factors will be in our control, while others are not.
• Making healthy choices means, understanding and accepting what is beyond our control and making the most of
those you can control.

1.5.1. Heredity:
• A sum including all biological health through which certain qualities are passed from one generation to the next.
• Physical features like hair and eye color, nose, and shape of the ear, as well as physique type and size of the
body, are inherited.
• And acquire basic cognitive skills as well as a tendency for some diseases.

1.5.2. Environmental Factors:

Environment, including your family, where you grew up, where you currently reside, and many of your
experiences.
• It also encompasses your culture as well as the things in life.
• Parks, jogging trails, recreation centers, medical centers, and low crime are examples of positive environmental
benefits.
• Pollutants including smog and smoke, higher crime rates, limited access to medical care, and disease exposure
are all examples of negative environments.

1.5.3. Media
•We are social animals and we require the company of others members to succeed in life, and the intensity of those
bonds has a significant influence on our psychological health and wellbeing.
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• Having socially, linked with other people can help you manage with the stress, cope with worry, and also,
depression, increase one's self-esteem, bring peace and happiness to mind, prevent isolation, or aid to increase the
life span.
. On the other side of the coin, absence of active social relationships shall put one's mental wellbeing at risk.
Research has shown needless social media usage increased the risk of anxiety, sadness, isolation, ego, and also
suicidal thoughts.

1.5.4. Cultural background

• Medicines like exotic animal feces and gladiator blood were claimed to promote strength, and a piece of a
dolphin's penis was thought to increase virility; these so-called medicines have been employed in various cultures
at various times but have no clear medicinal (active) factors.
• Furthermore, interventions such as bleeding with leeches to reduce fever or visiting holy sites including Lourdes
to ameliorate symptoms have persisted across time with little apparent comprehension of the processes.
• It's also plausible that some of this treatment's efficacy can be explained in terms of contemporary placebos.

1.5.4.1. What is a placebo effect?

A therapy or drug that is administered for the psychological benefit of the patient rather than either physiological
consequence.
The term "placebo" is defined as follows:
• Symptom-relieving drugs that are inert. (For example, 'After taking a sugar tablet, my headache went away").
• Recently, placebos have been investigated in more depth, and they have been discovered to have a wide
range of effects.
(For example, placebos have been shown to improve cognitive ability, as well as to be useful in lower anxiety and
stress).

1.5.5. Family traditions:

People establish and sustain traditions because they give worthiness to festivities and foster specific bonds.
• More important, traditions promote a family's bond and give a sense of belonging, results in great memories and
experiences for individuals.
• Family relationships, such as those among both mother and the child, father and son, and siblings, are the first
relations we shape in our lives.
• We create and maintain family values that provide love and importance to each other as humans improve our
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family ties and increase willing to take responsibility and considerate children.
• Positive interaction with siblings and parents aids a child mental, emotional, and physical development, whereas
bad relationships can have long-term consequences.

1.6. How does health affect behavior?

• Biological, psychological, and social variables can all contribute to illness.
• The internal environment of a person effects his/her behavior towards the society and to his/her self.
• Internal environment means the person's blood pressure, blood sugar levels, water balance in the body.
• If a person feels more comfort and relax from in-side he/she can perform well with others and manage the
situation in a calm and composed manner.
• Individual behavior affects health consequences as well.
• A person can decrease heart discase is significantly if he/she quit smoking.
Example: Individual behavior such as substance misuse, food, and physical activities are the focus of many
communities" health and health-care program.

1.7. What is the health psychology means?

• Health psychology- A branch of psychology deals with psychological, social as well as biological factors that
interact to influence human health.
• "In order to fully understand how the body and mind are relates in term of healing or sickness, health psychology
investigates the psychological roots of illnesses."
• Anxiety, obesity, depression, smoking cessation, and lowering dangerous health-related sexual behavior are the
common topics managed through health psychologists.
• Health psychologist assist the people in transforming harmful behaviors in to acceptable behavior and also
increase their complete happiness and health.

1.8. How do you maintain health?

Here we have 10 ways to our good health, mentally and physically:
1. Enough sleep,
2. Eat healthy,
3. Exercise regularly,
4. Interact with people,
5. Train your brain,
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6. Learn new skills,

7. Do something for other.
8. Manage stress and focus on the positive side,
9. Laugh,
10. Avoid alcohol and smoking.

1.9. Changing habits for good health:

• Changing your behaviors and adopting new, healthier ones might aid you in avoiding serious health issues like
diabetes and obesity.
• Developing good habits, like constant physical activity and healthy food and, can aid you to gain energy and lose
weight.
• If you continue these habits for a considerable period of time, they will become a regular routine in your life.
Contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance are the four steps of altering a health behavior.
• Take a walk.
• Listen to your favorite music.
• Spend 15min alone in silence.

1.10. Mindfulness for spiritual and intellectual health

• Mindfulness is just paying intentional, nonjudgmental attention to what is happening.
• Being attentive, or examining one's environment in the present situation.
• Our wish for higher significance in our life is confirmed through spiritual wellbeing.
• We feel connectedness, not only to a greater power and also to present situations around us if we are
well spiritually.
• When it come to make our daily decisions then we have higher clarity, our actions will be more congruent with
our values any
• We think that our whole health necessitates not only physical bus also mental and spiritual care.
• Spiritual well-being is critical to our overall health.
• Prayer, introspection, and mindfulness are spiritual activities that not only help us feel good - and even sometimes
recover quicker
- but also help us grow as individuals.
• Meditation and relaxation practices are ways to pay attention to what is happening using practices like meditating,
breathing, and
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yoga.
• Training helps people become aware of their thought, emotions, and physical sensations so that they may better
manage them rather than being overwhelmed by them.
• Mindfulness is advised as a treatment for those people who are suffering from typical mental health issues
including stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as those who just wish to enhance overall mental health and
wellness.
• Children, teenagers, and adults may all benefit from learning and practicing mindfulness.
• Mindfulness can help us to think/ take a decision intellectually.

1.11. Stress and health - stress management

• Stress is a response to an event that are threatening or challenging.
• Stress is "a part of our life" which we can't avoid it, but you can manage it.
• When one sense a severe issue or a threat, hormones and chemicals flow throughout one's body, triggering a
physiologic response known as stress.
• Stress activates us to fight-or-flight, that tells our body either to fight or leave from the stressful situations /
persons.
• After this response our body usually relax, as too much persistent tension can harmful to our long-term health.

1.11.1. Different types of stress

• Physical stress
• Psychological stress
• Psychosocial stress
• Psychospiritual stress

1.11.2. Stress management techniques:

• Eliminate the stressor
• Change your perspective
• Keep a to do list (organize your tasks)
• Relaxation

1.11.3. Eliminate the stressors:

Eliminate the following to reduce stress
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• Procrastination
• Laziness
• Attractions
• Negligence
• Ego.

1.11.3.1. PROCRASTINATION:
The action of delaying or postponing something which you have to do, procrastination is an act of unnecessary
delay. In most of situations, people who procrastinate, know that they will not benefit from delay or postponement,
but they do it (Don't postpone any work or anything in your life. Learn the value of time].
Types of procrastination
• Anxious procrastination
• Fun procrastination
• Plenty of time procrastination
• The dreamer
• The avoider
• The crisis-maker
• The busy procrastinator.

1.11.3.2. Laziness:
The quality of being unwilling to do work or use energy; idleness.
Depression, fear, or stress are some of the hidden causes of laziness.
• Laziness due to procrastination
• Laziness due to inferiority
• Laziness due to negative actions.

1.11.3.3. Attractions
• Expecting more in a short period of time.
• Imagination.
• Over excitement.
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• Following others blindly.

• Not set reasonable standards for yourself.
• Can't stick to the written budget, money problem is one of the most common causes of stress.

1.11.3.4. Negligence
• It's usually defined as the failure to use the care that a normally careful person would in a given situation.
• Not using the time properly, last minute rush.

1.11.3.5. Ego.
• The ego is the voice in our heads that not only wants things but wants them to be in a certain way. Some of us
deal with this voice by simply giving into it (even if it drives us into debt or requires us to work around the clock).
•Any situation, external or internal, that challenges the individual and produces stress.
• Don't take anything personally, think with open minded.

A SMALL STORY ABOUT HARD WORK:

As we know Ants, they walk one after one in a row if we put any object on their way, what they will do? either
they climb that object and continue their walk towards their destination or they take diversion and then go to their
destination.
But in our life if we found any obstacle in our way, we feel stress and we leave that task there and blame others
for that or we blame God.
MORAL OF THE SENTENCE IS:
Stick to your goals and work hard to accomplish your goals. Be mindful with your thoughts and do your work.

1.12. Psychological disorder

• There are a variety of mental illnesses, but they are all defined by a mix of disordered thought process, perception,
emotions, attitude, and interpersonal connections.
• Examples of mental disorders are Depression, bipolar illness, schizophrenic other psychoses, Alzheimer, and
developmental diseases like autism.
1.13. Some more Mental disorders include: -
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adults)
• Bipolar Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
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• Child and Adolescent Disorders

• Chronic or Persistent Pain
• Depression
• Eating Disorders and Obesity
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Insomnia
• Mixed Anxiety
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Illnesses
• Social Phobia and Public Speaking Anxiety
• Specific Phobias (e.g., animals, heights, blood, needles, dental)
• Substance and Alcohol Use Disorders.

1.14. Methods to improve good psychological health

There are various things we can do in order to maintain our psychological health, including:
1. Relaxation techniques.
2. Meditation.
3. Developing coping skills
4. Practicing gratitude
5. Developing a meaning and purpose of our life
6. Think positive
7. Connecting with people
8. Taking care of our physical health
9. Most important one is, talk about your feeling, share your feeling, ask for help.

1.15. Advantage of good health short term and long-term benefits

• If a person is healthy, he/she can be active and improve the quality of life.
• In short term they can be happy and active in each and every situation and can handle the situation or people in
calm and composed manner.
• In long term they can avoid long term diseases like heart attack, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, maintain
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blood sugar levels and pressure, cholesterol levels.

1.16. Health beliefs and advertisements

• What a person thinks about health?
• How they feel?
• What they believe as the source of the disease?
• How to treat an illness?
• Naturally, these ideas are based on our culture, and all these joins together to make an expansive
health belief system.
• Different cultures define what makes health as well as what causes disease individually.
• Our attitude, assumptions, expectations, and actions are formed by our ideas and emotions, which shape
whether individuals adapt to life events and what we believe is feasible.
These underlying belief systems govern our behavior. Health attitudes also have an impact on health habits and
results.
Advertising from food industry target children and teenagers.
• They are been linked to increase of obesity in early ages.
Other sectors' advertisements regularly objectify women and girls, contributing the negative body image, eating
disorders, low self-esteem, and despair.

1.17. Health and family

Family bonding give tools to help a people to manage with stress, engage in healthy habits, and enhance their self-
esteem. These are contributing in improving feel of well-being.
Poor living conditions, a poor nutrition, and a lack of health care facilities just are a few of the possible causes.
• A person's Positive experiences in the family his/her behavior towards society and toward him/her self will be
happy and socially acceptable.
• His/her healthy behavior depends upon his/her family conditions.
A SMALL STORY ABOUT "love wealth and success":
Three monks.
One day a women saw three monks in front of her house, she requested them to come into her house and have
some food, the three monks replied, we're hungry but we have a rule that we don't go into a house together.

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The women asked why like that? They explained, pointing to one monk they said his name is wealth, and the
second one is success, and the third one is love. We won't go to any house together, so go inside and ask your
family which one of us they want in your home.
The women went inside the house and told her husband about what monks said. The husband of that lady was over
joyed and said, in that case go and invite wealth. But she said, why don't we invite suc-cess? If success comes
automatically money will come. But husband was stick to invite wealth, and wife was stick to invite success, they
had argument in between.
Then their 10 years old child said mom and dad why don't we invite love into our house. Then we all can live
together with love and affection. Husband and wife like that suggestion of their daughter. The women went out
and ask the monks which one of you is love? Please, come and be our guest.
Love got up and started walking towards the house, success also got up and started following love, as soon as
success got up and started following love the wealth also got up and started following success.
The women were surprise and she asked "I invited love, then why are you both coming in?" the three monks
replied together, "if you had invited wealth and success" the other two of us would stay out but since you invited
love, we have to follow him, wherever he goes, we go with him.
Because wherever there is love there is success and wealth.
MORAL OF THE STORY IS:
This shows that when we do something with pleasure, we get success in it and ultimately, we get wealth too. So,
don't try to chase money, instead chase your passion and success and wealth will automatically
follow.

1.18. Health and society

• People fit into community are likely to be happier, results in better physically and psychologically better.
• To a maximum extent, factors such as place, where we live, the state of our surrounding, heredity, our financial
situation and education, and our relations with friends and family all have considerable impact on our health.
• Being involved in your community, the capacity to form and retain connections, and the ability to set limits in
friendships and partnerships are all signs of good social health. Having a strong support system of friends and
family.
• In our daily life we face many challenges and, Chronic illness (diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, etc.)
are now more common than ever.
• They are not fixable and can only be treated and monitored, 40% of population has a chronic condition.
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1.19. Health and Personality

Chronic sickness can affect the persons having disabilities and also health because of an additional restriction to
physical activities.
When people having chronic diseases with no symptoms. They often believe that they are free from the sickness.
Nonetheless, the nonappearance of symptoms may not imply the absence of ailments always.
The right thing would be that these chronic illnesses can be managed or avoided by eating healthy and balanced
diet having routine physical activities, avoiding consuming of excessive alcohol and no smoking.
• Health conditions also effect a person, personality.
• In all age groups and in both sexes.
• Good health is considered as a personality asset and poor health condition is liability
• Physical appearance, like obese he/she may feel shy and they can't move easily with others they become
introverts.
• Physically handicap people feel high anxiety, they are found to be quiet, tender minded and somewhat tense with
their defect.
• Even though some physically handicapped are showing miracles.
• They feel low with compared to others.

1.20. Disparities of health in different vulnerable: -

The financially deprived, the elderly, members of minority groups, the unemployed, children of low-income family
members, identity non-conforming, HIV, people with serious mental and behavioral health illnesses, a homeless,
refugees, and others are among those who are particularly vulnerable to poor health, chronic illness, disability, and
early death. These people are more likely attract diseases and spread them in the society.

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