Five Components of Our Health

So I had to learn about this in my Concepts of Fitness class, but it ended up being pretty interesting. It’s neat to see how these factors affect us in our everyday lives. These are real health components that really make up our state of being. Would you consider yourself healthy in all of these areas?

1. Physical Health-This one is sort of obvious. Basically, if you don’t take care of you body it will respond negatively. Compromising proper care of yourself results in the body functioning poorly and exhibiting what we call symptoms of illnesses or disease. So when you get sick, it is because your physical health is not up to par.

2. Mental Health- I find this so interesting. Mental health depends on the person being able to respond well to major life changes. In the hard situations, such as dealing with death or family divorce, a mentally healthy person can identify the difficulty without falling apart. It is so important to maintain a good standing of mental health, being sure that your thoughts and feelings are remaining at healthy levels.

3. Social Health- I can’t believe this is recognized by a health book. Research actually proves that an essential to overall health is having deep, loving relationships with others. Learning good communication skills and keeping close to a group of caring individuals, such as family and friends, directly relates to being a socially healthy person.

4. Intellectual Health- This isn’t exactly referring to being a genius in the classroom. To be intellectually healthy, you must have a proper grasp on suggested thought processes like problem-solving, decision-making, and critical thinking. It is important to be able to have good understanding of information throughout normal daily activity that will positively affect others as well as yourself.

5. Spiritual Health- Keep in mind that this information comes from a well researched, published text book. According to the authors, the belief of and relationship with God gives a sense of inner peace and healthy harmony to the person. This also results from developing involvement in arts and nature as well as serving others. Having such values and beliefs create spiritual health that ties directly into our overall state of health.

So, what do you think? Are your health components well balanced?