Do you hate your coworker?
Did you know that the really irritating co-worker you just spent the entire day with, the depressing TV show you watched last night, and your weekend plans, can impact your overall health as much as today’s lunch?
When we discuss food, we tend to think of the actual food we eat, but primary foods are the ones we consume beyond the plate that really bring joy, meaning, and fulfilment (or complete misery!) into our lives; our need for relationships, connection, our career, spirituality, social life, and fulfilment. It’s the things we do to satisfy our hunger for LIFE that are key to our health and they are not to be underestimated. Primary foods include your passion for dancing, or travelling, or having a real belly laugh with your best mates. The things that really make life worth living. Anything that you’re truly passionate about is probably a primary food for you.
Secondary food is what we consume for energy.
If we aren’t nourished by our primary foods, this can have a major impact on our health.
The people we spend time with can significantly influence our happiness. Having healthy relationships with the people close to us, and those we regularly interact with, can help to strengthen the immune system, help with recovery from disease, and may even lengthen your life. Toxic relationships, or no close relationships at all, can cause feelings of low self-worth, fear, anxiety, and depression, and can even influence such conditions as cancer, heart disease, depression and addiction. Toxic relationships will literally kill you.
Having the right kind of job, that you love, also has a huge impact on your life and can make you considerably healthier. People who score low on job satisfaction score worse on mental health measures, reporting higher levels of depression, sleep problems, excessive worry and being in a state of constant negativity. Increased anxiety and depression could lead to weight gain, an increased risk of heart disease, and cardiovascular and other significant health problems that won’t show up until later in life. If you hate your job, the chances are you hate your life, as it’s what you spend 50% of your waking hours doing. Being unemployed has been scientifically proven to be better for your health than being in a job you hate.
Doing stuff that makes you happy on a daily basis is key, as happiness lowers your blood pressure, enables better sleep, improves your diet and lowers your risk for cardiovascular disease.
Holistic health is a multidimensional approach to wellness which encourages individuals to look at the whole physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual person. To prevent health issues such as burnout, stress, anxiety (insert any modern-day health phenomenon here), there is no point eating the perfect diet and hitting the gym five times a week if you’re agonising over your life choices, spending time with people who reduce your happiness levels, or absorbing content that negatively shifts your mood.
At MindVibes, we take a holistic approach to our health programmes, working with the whole person from a physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual level. We look at everything from how much sleep you get to how stressed you are, how good your diet is, to how much you enjoy life and whether you are happy. Because if one aspect is out of balance, it’s going to majorly impact everything else.
If you or your team would like to create some serious wellbeing shifts (especially if you hate your coworker), we offer holistic health coaching as a one to one or group program. Drop us a line today at: hello@mindvibesglobal.com
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