KIN 1600 Chapter : Wellness
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Wellness means achieving your potential in six related dimensions. Each person has power over the dimensions for themselves. lack in the most: physical health physical wellness is the most common, emotional wellness mental health-most critical. Intellectual wellness most people don"t know what"s going on in the world; this is the one people: spiritual wellness each person needs to believe in something. Stress is defined as how you respond to something that threatens you. Stress is something that puts physical or mental strain on the body. Stress can be justified as either being due to issues of time and/or money. A response to stress is called the general adaptation syndrome something positive happens. Bodies react the same way to bad and good stress. The body goes through three (coined by hans seyle). It is a drug that immediately gives people energy. Adrenaline gives a burst of quick energy: blood pressure goes up. In this situation, high blood pressure is good.