Learning About Emotional Wellness

 What Are Emotions?

    Emotional wellness correlates with emotional intelligence both are interconnected to the brain and digestive system. The gut and brain are like big communicators for our emotional health, maintaining positive emotional health allows you to productively progress through life overcoming personal struggles or issues. Having emotional intelligence will enable you to realize & fulfill your greatest potential, it also affects your physical & cognitive health. 

    Emotional health is important at every stage of life beginning in early childhood, and progressing throughout late adulthood. To make the concept more clear, emotional health is the umbrella for mental health which provides us with the ability to manage negative & positive emotions, feelings, or thoughts. There are various ways to enhance or improve your overall emotional intelligence & wellness. 

Ways to Improve Emotional Well-being

Connect with others, interact with other introverts or extroverts

Become mobile & stay active

Learn new skills or something new every day

Talk through your emotions/feelings, don't allow them to overwhelm you

Give more to yourself & others

Develop an adequate sleeping pattern

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!!

Be present in the moment, don't let the past or future deter your focus

Incorporate new hobbies into your routines

Develop/establish a solid, generous social circle

Intimacy & mobility boosts confidence, energy & concentration levels

    Emotional intelligence helps you navigate complex problems better, and gives you a solid foundation to function appropriately in society. Emotional health is commonly described as mental health which pertains to emotions, feelings, thoughts & personalities/moods. Emotional intelligence affects how we think, feel, react & understand this allows us to understand how we handle stress, grief, or dysfunction. 

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.” 

-- Shannon L. Alder, n.d.