Awareness Begins Within You: The 8 Types of Well-Being

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Hello traveller, fancy meeting you here. I see you've come to embark on your journey of self-discovery and self-improvement.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and that single step is awareness.

Awareness of what, you may ask?

Awareness of your different types of health. Not just health of the body or mind, but 8 types of well-being that would impact you in every way. They are namely:

1. Emotional Well-Being

The ability to manage stress, be resilient, and generate the emotions that lead to good feelings.

2. Physical Well-Being

The ability to improve the functioning of your body through healthy eating, good exercise habits and other habits for rest and rejuvenation.

3. Social Well-Being

The ability to communicate, develop meaningful relationships with others, and maintain a support network that helps you overcome loneliness.

4. Workplace Well-Being (a.k.a. Occupational Well-Being)

The ability to pursue your interests, values, and purpose in order to gain meaning, happiness, and enrichment professionally.

5. Societal Well-Being (a.k.a. Environmental Well-Being)

The ability to actively participate in a thriving community, culture, and environment.

6. Intellectual Well-Being

The ability to think in terms of logic, creativity, as well as to acquire new knowledge and experiences.

7. Financial Well-Being

The ability to manage personal finances and finances of accounts under your care. As stress from handling finances can spill over to impact other aspects of well-being, we'll be covering ways to help you monintor and nurture your financial health.

8. Spiritual Well-Being

The ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, or a power greater than oneself.

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It should be noted that every aspect of well-being does not work in silos from each other. Maintaining and growing personal well-being is an internal balancing act and the effects of one would spill over to at least one other.

To us at Growing Unicorns (GU), achieving a fully developed and balanced version of oneself is not as daunting as it sounds. This is a unicorn that is not as mythical as it sounds, and we want to help you achieve this unicorn status, i.e. being a Unic individual.

As we proceed further on this journey of self-improvement, it is highly recommended to reflect on and monitor these different aspects of well-being regularly.

In upcoming GU content, we will explore more on each type, and cover ways to improve the respective areas.

So what are you waiting for? The journey of self-improvement begins with you taking the first step!