Health Course Reflection

The first reading of this course was very interesting for me to read! The most important concept or item I got from the reading was how many components of our health their our and how important it is to take care of all of them. Before further reading about all six, I thought that physical wellness and mental wellness were the only two components of health/wellness, but the chapter clarified the differences between, for example, mental and spiritual wellness, and then all of the components seemed equally important.

The second most important thing I read (or viewed) was the table of leading deaths in women in the USA and around the world. I knew that HIV/AIS and cancer is still common, but had no idea that either effected and even killed so …show more content…
I am actually happier being unsocial, unspiritual, and sometimes unfit (as weird as that last one sounds). I have extreme social anxiety and get terrible anxiety when I think about life and my relationships. I also do not enjoy working out. Even though I am constantly indecisive about my body, working out has never made me happier about myself. I understand that it is critical for my health, which is why I do it anyway, but it in no way contributes to my happiness. This is why my low scores did not upset me. They may show that I am unhealthy, but that is actually how I naturally behave and am content like this. I have no desire to "improve" any component of my wellness because I feel just fine.

To answer the assigned question, if I had to pick one component of wellness to improve, it would be my intellectual health. I love learning new things and being informed. I definitely have a scientist mind set in two ways: I prefer facts and I like finding out how and why things happen. One subject I enjoy studying is math. I found a cite that passed the reliability test and three interesting facts from