6 Health Dimension Bullet Point Summary

By Jorge A Cevallos, MD

30/01/2022

Physical

• Maintaining or reaching our optimum weight.

• Having a nutritional plan in place.

• Regular exercise routine with the right emphasis set up.

• Adequate sleep hygiene.

• Regular physician check-ups and preventive medicine.

• Knowledge of hereditary risks for disease.

Cognitive

• Awareness of our own strengths, weaknesses, abilities, likes and dislikes.

• Skills to deal with stress from and every day level to crisis level.

• Identification of personal values and virtues.

• Habit of planning and setting goals.

• Decision making skills.

Spiritual

• Our relation to an ultimate power, energy and/or higher purpose that pervades in all things.

• Faith and will to live.

• Personal journey to answer: Why are we here? What is our purpose? How shall I live? Where did the universe come from?

• Interlinked with religion.

• Expands into family, naturalism, community, and God.

Emotional

• Emotions are in the intersection of cognition, neurotransmitters and hormones that spring us into action.

• Word derived from Latin "movere" or to move.

• Dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and more.

• Influenced by our personal history and experiences.

• Interlinked with socioeconomic, psychological, and up-bringing factors.

• Our understanding of each emotion.

• Our way to deal with each emotion and the emotions of others.

• Understanding of the psycho-somatic connection.

• Dealing constructively with emotions and using them for our benefit.

Social

• Our ability to create and maintain positive, nurturing, and meaningful relationships.

• Our capacity to positively adapt to diverse social situations.

• Strongly interlinked with emotional, cognitive and physical health.

• Strong social networks have a positive correlation with longevity and happiness.

• Community engagement.

• Communication skills.

• Social integration.

• Interdependence.

• Social time management.

• Social contribution.

• Having someone to talk to when we are down.

• A strong social network is positively correlated with longevity and happiness.

Resources

• How we obtain and manage the resources necessary for our healthcare maintenance and promotion.

• Subdivided into financial, environmental, and professional.

• Financial health relates to our relationship with money, financial literacy; with the aim to use our financial resources in a strategic manner in a purposeful way towards our health, goals and dreams.

• The environmental subdivision deals with our surroundings; where we live, work, and engage in leisure activities. It is important that these environments support us and we support the maintenance of them.

• The professional subdivision deals with engaging in a line of purposeful activity that provides value to society and fulfillment to out hearts and minds; the choice of activities that resonate with out values and sense of purpose in life.

• It involves continuing education, and a growth/challenge mindset to keep growing and be better for ourselves and for our communities.