Healthy Life Project

Healthy Life ProjectAyaz HafizWarren - 2

Physical Health

Skating provides me with a fun, engaging method of exercise. The balance and leg strength required to push the skateboard and perform tricks offers me a considerable workout. Skating, for me, is a great way of keeping my physical body healthy.

A quick run in the morning is significantly beneficial towards my metabolism for the rest of the day. It helps shake me fully awake and increases the strength of my leg muscles at the same time.

Maintaining a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, meats, and proteins throughout 8 small meals a day is essential towards keeping my body in homeostasis. This way, I can get all the vitamins, minerals, and calories I need to get to make it through the day without adding on additional fat or under eating.Emotional Health

Making music, both with band instruments such as guitars/drums and electronic synthesizers, helps me relay my emotions by processing them and ejecting them through the music. If I am in a stressful or emotional situation, making music lets me release those emotions in a positive, nondestructive way.

Simply talking to another person can help me release all the emotions I have inside without having to do anything harmful. Even if they dont offer advice, just having someone that will listen helps me sort out my emotions and keeps me emotionally healthy.

Watching TV shows such as Dr. Who or Sherlock takes my mind off things, as I am instead focusing on the plot and humour of the show. When I need a laugh or am in a low mood, I can just click play and take away the stress in an efficient matter.Social Health

Like the classic TV show, friends are one of the most important things in my life. In any situation, friends are there to cheer me up, go out with, or simply talk to. Maintaining a good relationship with my friends keeps me in good social health.

In my job as a swimming instructor, I am able to communicate with both children younger than me and adults significantly older. Talking to both of these age groups gives me different perspectives on life and helps me keep up my communication skills, thereby supporting my social health.

Tumblr is an excellent social media platform I use to communicate with others. Its a medium for staying in contact with others, both those I personally know and people who share interests similar to mine. It allows me to communicate more than Facebook does, so I prefer it as my online resource for social health.Mental Health

Taking a bath after a stressful day helps me to cope by taking my mind off of homework and projects for a little while. By using this coping mechanism, I can obtain the demands of daily life in a relaxed mood, keeping my mental health strong.

Maintaining a solid and consistent organization technique is essential towards my daily life. My spacing out my activities in a timely and orderly fashion, I am able to achieve everything that I am demanded to without piling up the stress.

Getting a sensible amount of sleep every night is vital for the correct operation of my brain. It gives my brain a few hours of rest to sort out everything that happened throughout my day and reenergize. Spiritual Health

Above all else, my main life goal is to be able to help people, especially with their emotional and psychological problems or mental disorders. That is what interests me and it is the road I wish to travel upon in my future years.

One of my long-term goals include graduating university and landing a stable job. This is important to me, as it will provide me with the knowledge and money I will need for the rest of my life. Therefore, it is a big part of my spirituality and spiritual health.

To me, family is the single most important thing in life, as ones family with always be there for him. For this reason, my ambition is to maintain a healthy, loving relationship and care for them throughout the entirety of both mine and their life.Environmental Health

Keeping my living space and surrounding environment clean removes it from any diseases or pathogens. This maintains my health because I dont get sick from external vectors such as mosquitoes or bed bugs, satisfying my environmental health.

Making sure I have access to clean water is a solid, important part of my environmental health. It may seem trivial and something to be taken for granted, but as one billion people in the world do not have this luxury, its highly beneficial to my environmental health.

Disposing of waste I have or produce helps me stay away from pathogens that may be contained in them, as well as making sure my living space doesnt smell bad. By regularly disposing of garbage, I keep my environment clean and health stable.

NarrativeFor the title slide, I chose a picture with the text Health Life next exit. This is a humorous depiction of the wellness continuum in ones life. The other picture, one with an apple in the middle and veins coming off to the sides, depicts the different variables of health and images to support them.As for the images I chose for physical health, the first one, depicting strawberry, banana, and egg sandwiches, is meant to show the healthy style of eating that includes fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and fruit. The animated gif of a man on a skateboard represents the intensity of the sport, the physical activity it requires, and the tricks one can do on it to make it an entertaining healthy sport. The picture of a man running towards the portrait camera shows off his muscles and sweat, symbolizing that he must be in a good physical shape. This supports the idea that running is a good way to stay healthy.In the emotional health slide, the picture of a desk with cluttered musical devices represents the dedicated interest I have in music and how much it makes up of my emotional health. The gif of Dr. Who talking to a woman represents the TV show Dr. Who and one of its comedic scenes. The final gif, one of a man saying, You talking to ME? is a humorous representation of ones friends and their ability to be there to talk.The fourth slide, social health, features a picture of swimmers in the pool. I chose this picture because its an accurate representation of the students I teach at Oak Point Center, as can be seen in the letters OPC on the yellow kickboard. The picture of the TV show Friends is a metaphor for my actual friends, and I believed it was an accurate pictorial metaphor, so I chose it. The last picture, which has tumblr. written on it is a slogan for the social media site Tumblr. I didnt want a fancy picture, so I chose the minimalistic, simple logo.The minimal bathtub in the fifth slide cuts to the chase and automatically shows a bathtub, as baths are one of my ways of coping with mental health. The picture of a lot of small fish and a big fish represents the idea that even though surviving may be hard, through organization one may conquer and defeat a tough challenge. The final picture is of a man sleeping with a smile, representing the fact that sleep is good for one.In the sixth slide, there is a picture of two women sitting, one clutching her hands and the others open, as if she is talking. This can be interpreted as counseling or therapy, a career I wish to pursue in my life. The black and white picture of two graduate students holding diplomas represents my wish of graduation from university and getting a job. The final picture, which is also an animated gif, depicts the fun that takes place inside a family, as can be seen with the laughing children and adults.The last slide, environmental health is very minimalistic. The first picture shows a clean bed in a spotless room, representing my need to keep things clean to protect my environmental health. The second picture is one of poverty-stricken Nigerian children receiving clean water a luxury for them. This goes to show that clean water should not be taken for granted and is a big part of health. The final picture shows a girl and boy both throwing away some kind of item(s) into a trashcan labeled with an owl (considered to be the wisest animal) and the words Wise Guys. These labels can be interpreted as throwing away garbage is a smart, healthy decision, which is also explained in my description.