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You Drive Your Journey To Health

This is where you can choose how you want to assess your own health and start to take steps to make improvements.

Before you can start, you have to create a health record.  You can add as much or as little as you like into this record. No-one will see it. You can edit it later.  You will be able to view it and print it.

You will see whether you have a health record in the section below.

There are three stages, and you can choose which to do when  (just click GO! to go to the relevant section!) or complete the whole process.

1 Understand you and your health. This can involve doing a questionnaire to see how healthy you are now, looking at what has made you the way you are now, what your values are, your strengths and weaknesses, some aspects of your personality and how likely you are to change.   GO!

2 See how healthy you are in different areas. You can learn how your overall health is made up – we talk about physical, financial and mental health but there are other aspects to health (domains) and also specific areas within these domains, and you need to understand exactly WHAT you want to focus on.   GO!

3 Improve your health in a specific health area. Once you decide which specific health area you want to address, you can find out more about it, do a questionnaire to see how you score, then start making some changes!  GO!

4 Complete a full process.  The first time you look at this you may want to follow the full process,  which has been developed after extensive research into different worldwide approaches to determining overall health.  The process is very interactive, and covers all three of the above approaches – understanding yourself, looking at different health areas and then completing an action plan.  Just start at the top and work down!

1. Understand yourself and your health

1 Understand yourself and your health.  This can involve doing a questionnaire to see how healthy you are now, looking at what has made you the way you are now, what your values are, your strengths and weaknesses, some aspects of your personality and how likely you are to change.  You will see all these aspects below in more detail.

We don’t look at any details, and nor can anyone else. You can start vague and add details as you go.

Your Health Record

You should see your health record below, and you can either go to it from there or go to a specific area by looking at the options below.  If you haven’t set one up you’ll see a form where you can set one up. 

If you’ve set up more than one by mistake, you can delete the extraneous one by clicking the Delete button.

Background Info

You can enter more details about yourself, only to make your profile more complete. You can even add a profile picture! We won’t look at it, use it or do anything with it at all!

This just starts you thinking about your health – feel free to add details at any time.

 

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to see your background info

Your Values

Your values form your attitudes on life and determine how you think, the decisions you make and what you do.  It’s important to understand what they are – we help you to do that and give you choices in how to do it.

What’s the difference between values, attitudes and beliefs?  See more by clicking the button below.

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to see values.

Analyse your health

When going for an interview, you’ll often be asked for strengths and weaknesses.  It makes sense to understand these about your health, too.  You should know where you need to focus your efforts to improve.

Berkeley give a good example of strengths and weaknesses, with some good examples and videos.  Click to go have a look.

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to go to strengths and weaknesses.

Overall health Questionnaire

You can do a questionnaire to see how healthy (or well) you are overall.  We have three options, depending on how much time you want to spend and how much detail  you want to go into.

What’s the difference between values, attitudes and beliefs?  See more by clicking the button below.

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to go to our health questionnaires.

Attitude to change

It’s good to want to make improvements in your life and health, but some people just can’t change how they behave – eating, drinking or pure slobbery!

You can see some information on attitude to change, and even take a questionnaire to see what yours is!

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to go to attitude to change

Locus of Control

Some people believe things happen to them, others believe they can influence what happens.  This is your ‘locus of control’

You can see some information on locus of control, and even take a questionnaire to see what yours is!

Your Health Record

You’ll see your health record below if you’ve created one – click the green button to go to Locus of Control.

Download Health Profile

Once you’ve completed your health profile, you can download a PDF copy of it. Click the button on the right to go to a page where you can select your health profile, then you can go to your profile and download a PDF.

Health domains

You need to scroll down to see all the info in this popup – sorry for going on so much!

We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains.

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

wellness wheel

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, once you have subscribed we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area.

To close this box and go back click the X at the top or just click outside the box

See which domains you should address

You need to scroll down to see all the info in this popup – sorry for going on so much!

Having established that we use 8 domains, you need to understand which you should concentrate on.

The 8 are:

  • Emotional
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Intellectual
  • Occupational
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Spiritual

You can take a questionnaire, which scores you in each domain.  You can decide which domains you are strong in, and which you need to improve.

Another analysis shows which domains you should look at, but also which domains you want to look at.

To close this box and go back click the X at the top or just click outside the box

A Butterfly Life: 4 Keys to More Happiness, Better Health and Letting Your True Self Shine

Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.