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Sarah Leah Health 1100 Mon, Wed, Fri 9:00am Dimensions of Health Awareness

5 Dimensions of Health Physical Concerning the physical dimension of health awareness I believe, like everyone else I’m sure, that I have strengths and weakness in this area. I think that although my body size and shape is not perfect, I don’t think that it’s is adequate. I don’t want to say that it’s a strength because then that would be prideful but I’m not excessively overweight so I’m quite happy with the way I look. My body is pretty good at fighting disease and illness. When I do receive some sort of sickness, I generally only take a short period of time to recover. On the other hand, my weakness would be physical activity. I rarely participate in physical activity other than daily routine things like walking to classes on campus and doing household chores. I need to incorporate exercise into my agenda in order to improve my participation in physical activity. The issue with doing physical activity is finding the time to do it. Mental As I studies over mental health, I felt as if I wasn’t necessarily ‘strong’ in certain areas but I felt that I was generally ok at the majority of the things listed. ‘Learning new things’, an aspect discussed in this reading stood out to me as possibly one of my strengths. Like many people there are things that I don’t enjoy learning but some new subject that I am study are very interesting to me.

I believe I need to improve dramatically in mental health. I am someone who suffers from slight depression. I’m not even sure if it is depression because it’s only occasionally but mentally I tend to see all my weaknesses and mistakes and don’t look upon my successes and strengths very often cause I see them as things that everyone does and everyone can do so they aren’t that big of an achievement. Emotional I believe that I have definitely progressed in the self-esteem area over the past year. My self-esteem and self-confidence was pretty low senior year of high school because I thought I was overweight which made me ugly so I didn’t believe in myself but through accepting myself for being of adequate weight and listening to what others are telling me that I do have worth has seriously built my self-esteem and self-confidence. Also I have improved on expressing my emotions. I would always hold things in and never confide in anyone in the past but now I am improving. I’ve realized how much I can benefit from confiding in someone. A weakness I occasionally feel in emotional health is sometimes I tend to get down about myself and how I’m doing at ‘life’. The simplest things can start this spiral of lowered self-worth and soon I feel like such a failure that I’m not going to make it through. Fortunately these stages don’t last and soon enough something good happens which pushes me back upwards to a better emotional outlook. Social Growing up I wasn’t a very social person. I didn’t enjoy hanging out with friends or going to social events. I don’t know why but I was always afraid so I would always make up excuses which I’m sure they saw right through but I would panic every time and just make up

some silly excuse. Although I still feel a little awkward sometimes at social events I’ve realized that that’s something that just happens and there’s no need to fear it. I have greatly improved in social health especially this last year going to singles ward. It’s has really helped me to be an individual and not relying on parents but going to activities as an adult. I enjoy it a lot more this way and I hope to continue to progress to attain better relationships with my friends and family members. Spiritual I have a strong sense of spiritual health as I imagine most people in ‘happy valley’ do. Being a part of the LDS church helps me feel that I have a purpose in life, that life isn’t just a time to goof off and have fun but a time for progression and learning. Analyzing my responses to each of the five dimension of health awareness I’ve noticed that Spiritual Health is probably the dimension that I feel that I’m best at. I do have moments when my spiritual health is lacking but we can’t be at 100% forever. I feel like I need to improve at least a little because there is always room for improvement, no one is perfect. I think where I could improve would be that I could take steps to avoid those critical times where I do feel down and slightly depressed and see the bigger picture, that this sadness won’t last....