Health and happiness are based on education
This correlation is supported by numerous studies concluding that health, especially mental health, is seriously affected by a person’s happiness or lack thereof. Also today we explain that it is education that is the basis for the best outcome.
We’ll tell you why it’s so important to teach children to be healthy. And why you should teach and encourage them to listen to themselves and pursue their goals for happiness.
According to the WHO’s own definition of health, there are several determinants of happiness, and one of them is Health. This definition is mentioned in a message relating to the balance between emotional and physical health. It explains the importance of maintaining both areas of our health. Not only is it important to take care of our bodies, it is also important to take care of our mental balance… If there is no balance in the mind, it will affect the health of the body, and it is a vicious cycle that will only cause our discomfort.
Emotional balance is essential to our health and the health of our children.
The determinants of our health are:
- The defining elements of physical well-being. For example, a person’s physical condition, whether they have any problems or illnesses.
- Determinants of mental health. Managing your emotions if you are suffering from any disorder or stress. All of these are also critical to health.
- Identifiable elements in social welfare. Family, work environment and friends can also be crucial because they are circumstances that affect our mental state.
- Physical and biological environment. Our physical environment also affects us, climate, changes, even if the scenery is pleasant or not, can be crucial.
- Restrictions or factors that diminish well-being that directly or indirectly affect other factors. Any circumstance that limits our well-being, affecting the above, can be detrimental to our health.
Definition of a healthy lifestyle
The true definition of a healthy lifestyle, of course, has to do with food and physical activity. However, it’s not just about that. It will also depend largely on everyone’s emotional stability, their social environment, and all the factors mentioned in the previous section. A healthy lifestyle is one in which these factors are in optimal parameters. That is, in which all the necessary conditions for our health, physical and mental, are at their best.
A rich and varied diet is not the only thing necessary to maintain our health.
To maintain a healthy lifestyle, we must learn to listen to where our body wants to see these parameters. Well, each person is different and has different needs than the rest of us, so their health will be based on their personal needs, not generalizations.
Educate for a healthy life
Every mother or father’s greatest desire is for their children to grow up healthy and happy. In fact, both things go hand in hand and cannot be one without the other. As we’ve said before, mental health is a determinant of a person’s overall health. Managing emotions is important to the health of children and the future adults they will be.
It is a public good that emotionally healthy children are easier to raise than it is to fix broken adults. Let’s pay attention to this data and teach our children healthy emotional parenting so they can live healthier lives. Let’s not make the mistake of assuming that just by teaching them to eat well, to exercise, we are already accomplishing that task. You also have to develop connections, create moments and memories…
Healthy habits in children.
Diet and exercise will teach you discipline and responsibility, which will also affect your personal and emotional level, enrich you and help you grow. But more importantly, you cultivate the fact that listen to yourself, that only they have the power to take care of your self-esteem, to support assertiveness.
We must not forget that education is always a major tool for growth and learning. It is another way of showing the love we have for our children. The best favor we can do for them is to allow them to achieve their autonomy by doing everything they have learned in the best way possible. Even more so when learning consists of taking care of themselves in every aspect that exists.