Mind-Body Connection
These are 3 practices of the Mind-Body Connection.
What are mindfulness, meditation, breathwork?
These 2 things are positive for emotional and mental wellness.
Sustainable fitness and along with these are examples of how physical health improves overall health and wellness.
What are self-care routines?
These 3 practices are key to the spiritual and purpose related aspect of holistic wellness.
What are journaling, meditation, and connection to nature or faith?
Creating these increases overall health and wellness.
This affects and is also affected by physical health.
What is stress?
These manage anxiety and negative thinking.
What are cognitive strategies?
How physical habits impact mood along with this type of brain functioning.
What is cognitive?
Cultivating these 3 things are positive ways to increase health and wellness.
What are inner peace, gratitude, and life purpose?
Along with effective communication, setting these positively affects overall health and wellness by playing a role in the social and environmental impact.
What are boundaries?
This word explains how thoughts, emotions, and physical health relate to each other.
What is interconnected?
Recognizing, expressing, and regulating these things help emotional and mental wellness.
What are emotions?
Along with nutrition and movement, this positively affects overall well-being.
What is sleep?
Along with values, beliefs exploring sources of this positively affects spiritual health in turn increases overall health and wellness.
What is meaning?
These 2 things play a major role in wellness, in terms of social and environmental aspects of wellness. healthy relationships and community in wellness.
What are healthy relationships and community?
Just 10 minutes of this daily can lower cortisol levels and reduce inflammation markers in the body.
What is mindful breathing?
People who write about their emotions for 15 minutes a day report this improves.
What is immune functioning?
This can often be as effective as antidepressants for mild to moderate depression, with benefits often appearing within two weeks.
What is exercise?
Also known as the "feel good" chemicals, practicing gratitude can rewire the brain’s reward system, increasing these neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine and serotonin?
Strong social connections boost this by 50%, regardless of other health factors.
What is survival?
These 2 techniques can cause epigenetic changes that reduce inflammation-related gene expression.
What are yoga and meditation?
This describes the act of naming your emotions, which can deactivate the amygdala—the brain's fear center—and help regulate emotional intensity.
What is affect labeling?
For even just one night, this can reduce emotional regulation by up to 60%, making daily stressors feel more overwhelming.
What is sleep deprivation?
People who feel a strong sense of this live up to 7 years longer, even after adjusting for socioeconomic factors.
What is purpose?
Just 20 minutes in this type of environment can reduce cortisol by nearly 20%, significantly lowering stress hormones and improving focus.
What is nature?