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Healthy behaviours involving exercise, nutrition, and avoidance of unhealthy habits. Overall, this means looking after your physical body. This will include many variations of:

• Food options and portions
• Exercise
• Rest
• Hydration
• Implementing “Good” and reducing “Bad” habits
• Recovery/stretching/massage.

We are born with the potential for all emotions, but we are not born with the skills to handle or regulate them. Being able to self-reflect on emotions and not allow them to control you is key to healthy emotional wellbeing. Permission to feel emotions is neglected as men and we often pressure ourselves to supress them in fear of looking weak. For example, as men, we are made to feel we should not have or express anger. Allowing ourselves to feel the anger/emotion and release it appropriately is healthy. Emotional health can include:

• Self-reflection tools
• Identifying areas of influence
• Talking/sharing thoughts/feelings
• Developing support networks

Reflects how well you are interacting with those around you at different levels and how well you are meeting the demands of the various roles and responsibilities you have in life.

• Cultivating healthy relationships
• Engaging in social activities
• Volunteering your skills to the communities around you
• Having a positive influence on those around you

Environmental wellbeing can mean anything from the global environment or as simple as the spaces in which we spend the most time. When we are healthier, and our wellbeing is in a better place we are tidier, cleaner and show greater concerns for the environments we live and walk around in daily. We know sayings like “tidy desk, tidy mind” or we know how it feels to have fresh bed sheets on. This all effects our environmental wellbeing. This could look like:

• Cleaning/housework
• Recycling
• Lowering your carbon footprint i.e. walk or cycle rather than drive.
• Decorating
• Planting trees or cultivating nature

In short, a way to describe occupational wellbeing could be, finding something you do in life that brings you joy and satisfaction, then, monetising it, to provide an income for yourself.

• What gives you joy in life?
• Having a vision/goal.
• Understanding your skills talents and using them for work.
• Having a positive impact in the workplace
• Bringing innovation and ideas

Like it or not money is an important part of society. Differing lifestyles require differing budgets. Being financially healthy is not necessarily about having more money but budgeting and managing the money you have and not living beyond your means. Having a healthy relationship with money in an increasingly materialistic culture is difficult as there is more pressure to live a financially unhealthy life.

• Budgeting
• Learning how to save
• Eliminating debt
• Education on money and finances
• Learning to give to those with less or in need.

Encourages creative and stimulating activities that foster a sense of curiosity and personal growth. A healthy child learns and develops at a staggering rate in its first few years of life. Learning new skills daily, learning a new language in just a few years. All through play, observations, conversations and asking questions like “why”? An “intellectually well” person continues to learn and use the available resources to expand knowledge and improve skills.

• Reading
• Enrolling on a course
• Learning from other people’s expertise
• Learn/developing a new skill.
• Problem solving

If you believe we are spiritual beings, then understanding your spiritual well-being is important to overall health. Having a belief in something and a sense of purpose and a “greater good” holds everything else together. This in turns builds faith and hope for the future. There are various spiritual practices you could undertake:

• Understanding and adhering to your core values
• Gratitude/Thankfulness
• Meditation/Mindfulness
• Prayer
• Demonstrating love
• Learning and understanding other world views.