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My essential five pillars of health and wellness

Updated: Jan 17, 2021

How are you feeling today?


I guarantee that whatever is bothering you or upsetting you, fits into one of the categories explained in this article.


I believe that there are five essential pillars of health and wellbeing that can be broken down into the following five areas:


Mind and emotions - Achieve emotional balance and mental wellbeing


Sleep and waking cycles - Develop an understanding of your circadian rhythm


Connection to others - Cultivate improved and healthy social relationships


Movement - Focus on quality and enjoyable exercise


Sustainable eating - Enjoy good food and harness the power of nutrition


Let's go through each of them in more detail below.


Mind and emotions


According to the National Science Foundation, every human has around 60,000 thoughts per day.


Of those, 80% are negative and 95% are repetitive.


Think about that for a moment.


If we are repeating negative thoughts then we think negative thoughts way more than positive.


This affects our choices, behaviours, decisions.


Our internal world affects our external world.


So many people let the external world affect their internal world.


Your thoughts affect your beliefs which affect your choices; our minds affect our overall health and wellbeing so having a healthy mindset is central to making the changes you want to make in your life.


In order for us to achieve emotional balance and mental wellbeing, raising our consciousness about our thinking patterns beliefs and behaviours is really important to drive more positive thoughts and improve our lives.


Sleep and waking cycles