SIX DIMENSIONS OF LIFESTYLE:
What and how your eat and drink
Recreation – activity level
Satisfying social Relationships
Optimistic view of the Future
Meaningful and productive Career
Aesthetics
Stress and disease can be consequences of "dysfunctional" lifestyles and self-defeating or self-destructive behaviors. Happiness, fulfillment, and "emotional prosperity" follow from healthy lifestyles.
People are often motivated to try to change their
lifestyles after they are diagnosed with a medical
condition or told that they are at risk. Lifestyle change
can be very difficult but a medical diagnosis can be
the trigger to create a longer and happier life through
creative lifestyle change.
Lifestyle Change Program:
- Inventory of strengths, abilities, interests
- Through mindfulness, and life planning techniques, develop a personal fantasy or "vision"
- Psychotherapy to address limiting and dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
- Mindfulness practices to help center in oneself, reduce "emotional inflammation" and expand creative thinking.
- Use personal projects through art, writing, photography, scrap-booking, etc to help bring it into fruition
- Personal coaching to keep the process on track.
LIFESTYLE CHANGE:
CREATING YOURSELF INTO THE FUTURE
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