Wellness Tips
As we embark on our journey to wellness, here are a few tips to consider:
Obtaining Emotional Wellness
The ability to sustain this emotional health and well-being is what we call emotional wellness. These positive characteristics allow us to actively engage in life and enjoy meaningful, productive activities and foster healthy, positive relationships. These capacities help us to cope with stress and anxiety when we are faced with life’s challenges.
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It’s the ability to be flexible and have a willing- ness to learn new things and adapt to change. It’s having the capacity to create balance be- tween work, play, rest, activity, and the ability to build and maintain fulfilling and satisfying relationships.
Obtaining Emotional Wellness
Our ability to utilize the tools necessary for coping with adversity while maintaining a healthy outlook and positive attitude is in fact our resilience for people of color.
African-Americans have inherited the capacity for “emotional resilience” in our mental and emo- tional health as a result of our ancestors, fore mothers and fathers ability to survive enslave- ment through transcending suffering, brutality, inhumanity, familial loss, and the loss of freedom. Emotional health essentially means that we have the ability to spring back from adversity, trauma, and stress.
As a spiritual people and community of faith, our greatest gift is our life. What better way to show and demonstrate our appreciation and love to our higher power and beloved deity by honoring our physical body temple and being proactive in taking care of our emotional and physical health. Let’s take care of our family, friends, and community by first taking care of ourselves.
obtaining emotional wellness
Tips for obtaining and sustaining emotional wellness:
- Being Self-aware
- Be socially aware
- Be able to engage and self-manage your feelings, behaviors, and responses to tense, difficult, or challenging situations in your social interactions and your relationships with significant others
- Have an ability to quickly reduce stress
- Be able to connect with others using non- verbal communication language
- Be able to use humor and play to deal with challenges
- Be able to resolve conflicts positively and with confidence
- Be able to stay focused in the present
- Choose your arguments, not every issue is worth arguing over
- Be able to forgive
- Be willing to terminate conflicts that can’t be resolved
- Get enough rest
- Be of service to others
- Practice self-discipline
- Manage your stress levels
- Try not to worry
- Spend time with friends and family
- Take time to travel and explore new places
- Indulge in your creative spirit
- Become part of a social support group that interest you
