Existential Well-Being: Finding Balance in Your Life

Physical, social, psychological, and spiritual

All the information, I got from this course:

The most important this course teaches you, is how to find balance in your life via the following 4 existential domains: physical, social, psychological, and spiritual. Let’s define them one by one.

Physical

The physical dimension is essentially your body. Taking good care of your physical health could promote your well-being and generate positive moods more often.

Many people suggest exercising for at least 30 minutes a day and it doesn’t even have to be high intensity.

Another benefit of physical exercise is becoming smarter by creating new connections and brain cells:

And of course, nutrition is another important component for developing the physical dimension.

Social

The social domain includes the people around you, your friends, perhaps your children, and even animals like dogs. Finding a good balance in the social existential domain is another component for developing your well-being.

“A lack of social life has been associated with depression, and depression has corresponding risks of high blood pressure, obesity and alcohol and drug abuse.”

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Psychological

The psychological domain is essentially your mental health. Your habits, beliefs, thoughts, etc.

Developing your psychology can be done via mental exercises like mindfulness or by simply reading a book how your mind works.

Spiritual

S o the spiritual domain is a more complicated one to understand and develop. It essentially contains things like your life goal, philosophy, and understanding how reality itself works:

“For those who follow Nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

And:

“The path of Nature is straightforward.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Having an imbalance between these 4 existential domains can cause all kinds of issues including an existential crisis. Overdeveloping a domain relative to each other, on the other hand, can cause neglect of the other 3 domains too.

Which existential domain do you think should be developed more to promote your well-being?