Health - Resilience

For the past few weeks, my class and I have been learning about resilience and other topics that is based on resilience.  While focusing on those topics there were many things that I found really interesting. We had learnt about 8 topics, and the ones that I found excited to learn about were these five.

Resilience...
What is resilience?
To me, Resilience is when you never give up, or you challenge yourself to do something you can't. An Example is when you are facing something that you find hard to do in a test, But you know not to give up and you try your best. According to the internet, resilience means -  the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

We also watched a short clip based on resilience - Who moved my cheese!
The problem that the characters faced was that the cheese was going away very slowly. Once all the cheese were gone sniff and scurry went to go look for more cheese unlike hem and haw they waited for the cheese to turn up for them. When haw noticed it was turning up he went to go search for the cheese himself, and in the end, he did. In this video, I noticed that sniff and scurry were resilient and never gave up finding the cheese, but hem and haw weren't, and in this video hem and haw learnt that change is good, and to accept change you'll win in the end.

Relaxing...
Why is relaxation important?
Relaxation is important for us because it calms us down from over stressing and having anxiety. Reducing stress is also very important for our health because stress can give us health problems such as, high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity.

How does relaxation help us personally?
Relaxation helps us personally by helping our health. What it does is it lowers our stroke risk and it keeps us safe from depression. It also helps you by allowing the brain and body to function normally and it keeps us from having headaches and other health problems.

Relaxing can help us with many things that is stressing us out. It can help us to bounce back* by resting my muscles and to not over stress, It helps us to recover and it gives us strength to get back up from hard challenges we are facing.
*Bouncing back is just like resilience. Bouncing back is becoming healthy, happy or successful after something bad has happened.

Mindfulness...
What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to fully present, aware of where we are and what were doing, and not overly react or overwhelmed over whats going on around us. Being mindful is being aware of what's around you. Being mindful with your friends you'll need to remember
1. Paying full attention
2. Showing genuine interest
3. Being non-judgemental
4. Being receptive
5. Trying to connect and fully engage

One of the things we did that was based on being mindful with others was we had to get in partners and connect with each other. We did this to practice our mindfulness skills to maintain the quality of friendships.

Body cues...
What are body cues?
I think, body cues are when the person your connecting with is giving full attention with their body e.g, smiling, giving eye contact, posture, nodding. It's basically signals that show your emotions or reactions to how you feel.
The actual meaning of body cues...
Body cues is a type of non-verbal communication in which physical behaviour, as opposed to word, are used to express or convey information. Such behaviour includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

Coping step plan...
To me a coping step plan is doing a step by step plan and breaking down a problem with less difficult steps. Coping step plan can help many people build their confidence as they learn how to slowly face
something their struggling with or something difficult.

Ways to help us cope...
1. Calm down
2. Remind yourself there is always more than one solution
3. Talk to a family member, friend or someone you trust
4. When you choose a solution, think about what will happen short term and long term
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As I was moving on to different subjects I learnt many things, an example is coping step plan. While researching about coping step plan I learnt that it can help you with many difficulties that your facing with. I also learnt that most of the topics we focused on were all based on one thing or had one thing in common, and it was, when dealing with something very hard you'll be able to recover from it and 'bounce back' very easily with just using these 5 topics.

Learning about all of these is really important for us, as it can help us with our future, our health, and our well-beings. Let me explain how... In the future we are all going to stress about the up-coming things we'll have like, NCEA exams, applications etc, and when we stress, It can cause serious health problems, and we can reduce stress by using one of these 5 things. Doing this it can help to protect us from various Mental health  - A well-being -  such as depression and anxiety, and doing these it can improve our ability to cope. Resilience, is directly related to well-beings, as they're both important to prevent the onset of mental-health problems as well as potentially lessening severity of existing mental-health problems. Just from doing one of these five things it can prevent us from stress and other health problems, which is important for us, our body and our health.

At my age I start to face my mood swings and get angrier a lot faster, and I start worrying, stressing out more, which it gives me head-aches. To stop that from happening I use one of these topics, especially relaxation, because it's easier and it helps to take your mind off of the things that is worrying you a lot. You could use these these in your life when you have something important that has to do with your school, family, work, etc. When you're stressed about one of those things you could relax, to clear things off, use a coping step plan, to help you slowly regain from your struggles, And be resilient, Just know that you can do it, and just thinking positive.
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Here is just the other topics we also discussed together as a class and worked on individually...