The 6 Dimensions of Health Table

Table 1. Concise description of each of the six dimensions of health.

Dimension	Description
Physical	Weight, nutrition, exercise, sleep, preventive medicine, and early diagnosis.
Cognitive	SWOT* awareness, stress and time management skills, planning, goal setting, and decision making.
Emotional	Identify, understand, process and use emotions in our favor with intelligence, and the understanding of the mind-body connection.
Social	Our ability to create and maintain strong social support networks with positive, nurturing, meaningful relationships and cultivate friendships, families, and communities.
Resources	Financial literacy and skills to best manage the economic retribution from our occupational and professional endeavors to reach our goals and aspirations, and a state of well-being that allows the rest.
Spiritual	Our personal relationship with an ultimate power/energy, our faith, and our journey to answer existential questions in the search for a higher purpose and greater meaning of life.

* SWOT: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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