What is Your definition of well-being?
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As a health and well-being coach, I am constantly exploring different ways of defining what well-being is. Oxford dictionary defines it as “the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.” Wikipedia points out that it is very personal for everybody — only you know what makes you be and feel well.
Hence is my question — what is your definition of well-being?
I used to look at well-being as simply a synonym for being physically healthy: no pain, no fever, or worrisome blood test results.
If you ask me today what well-being is, I would have to echo many scientists, psychologists, and therapists saying that it is so freaking much broader than physicality. It comes as a package filled with much softer, elusive qualities of trust, safety, purpose, generosity, love, mind-body connection, relationships, and environment.
Many of these qualities belong to mental health. Mental health, to me, is our capacity to live life while meeting all its ups and downs with an open, loving heart.
A state of well-being is rarely about just YOU. It’s about YOU, others, and the world around. Your mental health acts like software enabling you to connect with yourself, others, and the world.
I invite you to reflect on your definition of well-being.
If you had to pack a well-being backpack, what would you make sure to have?
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