Assessing Your Health
Promoting/Preserving Psychological Health
Cultivating Spiritual Health
Managing Stress
Improving Sleep
100
Expected number of years of life remaining at a given age, such as birth.
What is life expectancy
100
The "thinking" part of psychological health; includes your values, beliefs, attitudes and beliefs.
What is mental health
100
An individual's sense of peace, purpose, and connection to others and the beliefs about the meaning of life.
What is spirituality
100
A series of psychological responses and adaptations in response to a real or imagined threat to one's well-being.
What is stress
100
The readily reversible state of reduced responsiveness to, and interaction with, the environment.
What is sleep
200
Belief in ones ability to perform a task successfully
What is self-efficacy
200
The "feeling" part of psychological health. Includes your feeling reactions to life.
What is emotional health
200
The system of beliefs, practices, rituals and symbols designed to facilitate closeness to the sacred transcendent.
What is religion
200
A physical, social, or psychological event or condition that upsets homeostasis and produces a stress response.
What is a stressor
200
A disorder in which breathing is briefly and repeatedly interrupted.
What is sleep apnea
300
Preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged groups.
What is health disparities
300
Sense of self-worth or self-respect.
What is self-esteem
300
The giving of oneself out of genuine concern for others.
What is altruism
300
The creation of mental images to promote relaxation
What is visualization
300
A neurological disorder characterized by an overwhelming urge to move the legs when they are at rest.
What is restless leg syndrome
400
The ever-changing process of achieving individual potential in the physical, social, emotional, mental spiritual and environmental dimensions.
What is health
400
A form of mood disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder
400
A system of physical and mental training involving controlled breathing, physical postures, meditation, chanting and other practices that are believed to cultivate unity with the Atman, or Absolute.
What is yoga
400
A technique using a machine to self-monitor physical responses to stress.
What is biofeedback
400
Excessive, intrusive sleepiness
What is narcolepsy
500
The proportion of deaths to population
What is mortality
500
Severe anxiety reaction in which a particular situation, often for unknown reasons, causes terror.
What is panic attack
500
A practice of concentrating the mind on a spiritual or ethical questions or subject, a view of the natural world, or an icon or other image representative of divinity.
What is Contemplation
500
A relaxation technique that involves deep breathing and concentration
What is meditation
500
The 24 hour cycle by which you are accustomed to going to sleep, waking up, and performing habitual behaviors.
What is circadian rhythm
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