SLEEP

The first pillar of wellness may surprise you: get enough sleep. The amount of sleep you get has a big impact on weight loss, how your immune system functions and whether you feel happy or anxious. Experts recommend at least eight hours of quality sleep every night.

Sleep can be influenced by many things including buzzy thoughts, stress, hormone imbalance or poor digestion.

Nutrition

Nutrients provide nourishment. Proteins, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water are all nutrients. If you do not have the right balance of nutrients in your diet, the risk of developing certain health conditions increases.

When you eat properly and your body processes nutrients correctly, your body weight evens out, you see improvements in the quality of your hair, skin, and nails, your mood improves, and you sleep better.

Exercises

Research shows that being sedentary causes our bodies to become more inflamed, which supports the adage “Sitting is the new smoking.”

Although the advantages of exercise may seem too wonderful to be true, decades of reliable research have shown that it can prolong life and enhance health. You can prevent a number of major illnesses, such as depression, diabetes, and heart disease, by integrating even 30 minutes of moderately strenuous physical activity in your daily routine.

Frequent exercise can also improve your mood, sharpen your mind, control your weight, lower stress, and improve your quality of sleep.

The hormones that give you that joyful feeling after doing out are endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin.

Pick an activity you like to do and include it into your daily routine on a regular basis.

Mind / emotions

While we often think about mind and body as two different things, they are actually very closely linked. Your physical health can affect your emotions, and your emotions can affect your physical health. Whether it’s with sweaty palms, or an outburst of laughter around exam time our bodies respond to our emotional health in many ways. Your thoughts and emotions can positively or negatively affect your nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Emotions like anger, fear, anxiety, sadness, depression, and stress can manifest with body imbalance and disease. For example: insomnia, high blood pressure, infection, digestive disorders, cardiovascular disease or even cancer.

Community / Relationship

Relationships are the cause of both joy and heartache.

The most important relationship is with ourselves – ensuring we eat nourishing food, make time to relax, exercise and nurture ourselves and set healthy boundaries with others.

Humans are social creatures with emotional needs for relationships and positive connections to others. We’re not meant to survive, let alone thrive in isolation.

We need the company of others to feel and function at our best. Phone calls and social networks have their place, but nothing can beat the stress-busting, mood-boosting power of quality face-to-face time with other people.