Speech Title: Personal Responsibility is key to Wellness
Attention Getter: Wellness is not Wishful Thinking, but an intentional reality
Specific Purpose: Behavior Practices Impact on Health
Introduction: Personality, beliefs and behavioral choices has the potential to bridge the gap between health deficits be it emotional or physical.
Thesis: Personal Responsibility is crucial for maintaining wellness
Credibility: I am a Health Coach who believes personal choices impacts wellbeing. I have presented at corporate wellness fairs and conducted wellness retreats helping people tap into the power of healthy choices.
Justification: Young adults engage in high risk behaviors that has the potential of consequences beyond the young adult …show more content…
Initiatives to enforce behavior change---- Health risk behaviors contributes to unintentional injuries; causing disease over time based on the findings of the Center for Disease Control (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2013). According to the data from the CDC, 70% of all deaths among young adults results from causes; motor vehicle crashes (23%), other unintentional injuries 18%, homicide 15% and suicide 15%. These are real numbers we all need to pause and think about ( CH’s story –car crash that led to TBI & robbed his future) On the other hand, healthy behavior choices accrued over time leads to a healthy body and general …show more content…
A research by Fredrickson et al supports the claim that positive emotions accrued overtime by practicing loving kindness meditation has the potential to enhance and strengthen positive emotions that can influence a person and their surroundings, and also affect their environment and genetic endowment. In other words, a positive immunity is built against some of life’s challenges and stresses thereby, reducing susceptibility to disruption of wellbeing.
II: Evidence of Study’s impact on wellbeing. Subjects in a random experiment were invited to participate in a study about meditation to reduce stress. According to the report, The list of emotions measured were as follows; amusement, anger, awe, compassion, contempt , disgust, embarrassment, gratitude, hope, joy, interest, love, pride, guilt, sadness, shame, fear and surprise.
Transition: I joined a virtual global community from over 100 countries for 8 weeks to test the concept based on Barbara Fredrickson book “ Positivity Ratio 3:1”. We engaged in activities, dialogues and video segments facilitated by Barbara to demonstrate the process of how “Open Hearts Build Lives”. Within a couple of weeks, participant posted testimonials about how their lives have been
Attention Getter: Wellness is not Wishful Thinking, but an intentional reality
Specific Purpose: Behavior Practices Impact on Health
Introduction: Personality, beliefs and behavioral choices has the potential to bridge the gap between health deficits be it emotional or physical.
Thesis: Personal Responsibility is crucial for maintaining wellness
Credibility: I am a Health Coach who believes personal choices impacts wellbeing. I have presented at corporate wellness fairs and conducted wellness retreats helping people tap into the power of healthy choices.
Justification: Young adults engage in high risk behaviors that has the potential of consequences beyond the young adult …show more content…
Initiatives to enforce behavior change---- Health risk behaviors contributes to unintentional injuries; causing disease over time based on the findings of the Center for Disease Control (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2013). According to the data from the CDC, 70% of all deaths among young adults results from causes; motor vehicle crashes (23%), other unintentional injuries 18%, homicide 15% and suicide 15%. These are real numbers we all need to pause and think about ( CH’s story –car crash that led to TBI & robbed his future) On the other hand, healthy behavior choices accrued over time leads to a healthy body and general …show more content…
A research by Fredrickson et al supports the claim that positive emotions accrued overtime by practicing loving kindness meditation has the potential to enhance and strengthen positive emotions that can influence a person and their surroundings, and also affect their environment and genetic endowment. In other words, a positive immunity is built against some of life’s challenges and stresses thereby, reducing susceptibility to disruption of wellbeing.
II: Evidence of Study’s impact on wellbeing. Subjects in a random experiment were invited to participate in a study about meditation to reduce stress. According to the report, The list of emotions measured were as follows; amusement, anger, awe, compassion, contempt , disgust, embarrassment, gratitude, hope, joy, interest, love, pride, guilt, sadness, shame, fear and surprise.
Transition: I joined a virtual global community from over 100 countries for 8 weeks to test the concept based on Barbara Fredrickson book “ Positivity Ratio 3:1”. We engaged in activities, dialogues and video segments facilitated by Barbara to demonstrate the process of how “Open Hearts Build Lives”. Within a couple of weeks, participant posted testimonials about how their lives have been