Seeking and Finding Wholeness

What does Emotional Wellness mean? Emotional wellness is closely connected to the other dimensions of wellness. In the most basic sense, it refers to your ability to handle emotions in a constructive way in order to enable you to maintain a positive emotional state.

Emotional Wellness helps a person achieve positive self-esteem, helping them satisfy relationships and providing resilience to meet life’s challenges.

Emotional Wellness is:

• Increased awareness of one’s emotions
• Acknowledge conflict as being potentially healthy
• Being able to express feelings freely and manage feelings effectively
• Being aware of personal limitations and the value of seeking interpersonal support and assistance
• Being able to form interdependent relationships based upon mutual commitment, trust and respect
• Being self-aware and self-accepting while remaining flexible and open to personal development
• Being aware of and accepting a wide range of thoughts and feelings in themselves and others
• Being able to manage feelings effectively to arrive at personal choices or decisions based upon the integration of feelings, cognition and behavior
• Being able to maintain a generally positive approach to life that is rooted in one’s sense of personal responsibility for, and ability to manage, one’s life in personally fulfilling ways
• Emotional Wellness is one of the interconnected eight dimensions of wellness
• Components of good Emotional Wellness:
  • The degree one feels positive and enthusiastic about self and life
  • The realistic assessment of one’s limitations
  • The development of autonomy
  • The ability to cope with and manage stress
  • Optimism
  • Self-confidence
  • Laughter
  • Outwardly expressing personal feelings
  • Satisfying relationships
  • Happiness

An emotionally well person is be able to enjoy the life and be successful. Emotional wellness is not an end stage but a continual process of change and growth.

Further Reading:

• http://www.hettler.com/History/emot.htm