A. What is health?
According to the World Health Organization(WHO), health is a state of physical,mental and social well-being.These three aspects of health are interconnected.
B. Achieving the healthy lifestyle
i) For physical health
1) Balanced diet
We should have a balanced diet by getting the appropriate amount of various types of food. (For example,we can eat less fat,oil and salts,drink 6-8 glasses of fluid every day,eat 6-8 taels daily and eat 3-6 bowls daily
2)Adequate Exercise
Getting adequate exercise means doing exercise for about 30 minutes every day or about 3.5 hours a week.
3)Adequate Rest
Young people generally need to sleep 8-9 hours per night.
ii) For mental health
Feelings:
Afraid, confused, Surprised, nervous/sad, excited, Disgusted, Proud, angry, sick, happy, Very Happy, Hungry
1.What are emotions?
An emotion is a personal feeling. It is a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral and physiological elements, by which the individual attempts to deal with a personally significant matter of even. There are no right or wrong emotions, but there are right and wrong ways of expression and behaving when affected by emotions.
There are five primal emotions
| 5 | primal | emotions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love | Happiness | Anger | Sadness | Fear |
| Feeling mad | Feeling remorse | Feeling embarrassed | ||
| Feeling shame | ||||
| Primal emotions | build up to complex | mental conditions | that you don't feel | but rather are |
| Act love | Act happy | Act angry | Are disappointed | Act fearful |
| Are respectful | Are excited | Are jealous | Are pitiful | Are nervous |
| Are satisfied | Are irritated(煩躁) | Are bored | Are remorseful | |
| Are proud | Are hateful | Are depressed | Are confused | |
| Are calm | Are disgusted | Are hopeful | ||
| Are confident | Are frustrated | Are courageous | ||
| Are careful |
The existence of emotion in our daily life
Describe your emotions if you have following situation and share it with your classmates:
| Events | Emotion | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Miss the train to school. | nervous |
| 2. | Getting a high mark in examination | Happy,Excited |
| 3. | Forget to bring your homework to school | unhappy,nervous |
| 4. | Being bullied by your classmates | angry,unhappy |
| 5. | Your class has won the inter-class performance competition | happy,excited |
| 6. | Your nice dream was disturbed by alarm clock | annoyed,unhappy,angry |
List some of the characteristics of emotions:
Different people have different reaction towards the same event.Emotion is inevitable in our daily life.
3.Why do we need to manage our emotion?
Discuss the case below:
For example,Mary is upset because she got a low mark on a math test
Case 1a
| Mary got a low mark on a math test | ----------------------------------------------- | She felt depressed. She lost her confidence in studying. |
|---|---|---|
Case 1b
| Mary got a low mark on a math test | ------------------------------------------------ | She felt disappointed but she has the motivation to improve her performance |
|---|---|---|
Which one would you prefer? Why?
Case 1b,because the thought of Mary in case 1b is more positive and she doesn't give up(My opinion)
Why did the same event has two different outcomes?
Belief in case 1a:She thinks she must have good grades or she is worthless.
Belief in case 1b:She thinks she has the potential to gain higher marks as long as she works harder.
Dicuss the case below:
John needs to change the school as his family moved to Yuen Long.
| John needs to change the school as his family moved to Yuen Long. | ---------------------------------------------- | He felt depressed as he lost his friends |
|---|---|---|
| John needs to change the school as his family moved to Yuen Long. | ------------------------------------------------------ | He felt upset but he was awaiting to meet new friends |
Sometimes, we cannot change the situation but we can change our mind to face the difficulty. Negative emotion can be the motivation for us to work harder.
How to manage our emotions?
How we think(cognition),how we feel (emotion and affect),and how we act(behavior)are all interacted and going together.For example,our thoughts influence our feelings and behavior,our feelings influence our behavior and vice versa.One of the methods to manage our emotions is cognition therapy(認知治療)---The ABC technique.
A major aid in cognitive therapy is what Albert Ellis called the ABC of irrational Beliefs.
In this ABC model,"A","B" and "C" stand for:
A---activating event.
E.g. I didn't get invited to the party to which my friend was invited.
B---Beliefs.Our explanation about why the situation happened.
E.g."I am such a loser,nobody likes me."
C---Consequences.The feelings and behaviors that our belief causes.
E.g.Feels sad,even depressed. Has no motivation to go jogging and eats a whole box of chocolate despite her focus on healthier living.