EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

Written By Duane Nelson

2 IDEAS FROM ME

  • Ten essentials of emotional wellbeing:

    • Emotional awareness - The ability to create a space in your mind between stimulus and response that Viktor Frankl refers to as the last ultimate human freedom. The freedom to choose your response in harmony with your highest values regardless of chaos.

    • Regulatory processing toolkit - The skills to feel emotions without being run by them.

    • Meaningful authentic relationships - Strong honest connections are the biggest factor in wellbeing.

    • Life Clarity - This includes your true nature, signature strengths, highest values, and experimental mindset and habit framework that integrates it all with integrity.

    • Self-respect and boundaries - Establish clear boundaries to protect your time, energy, and identity.

    • Physical Wellbeing - You can’t emotionally overcome chronic exhaustion or physiology. Sleep, movement, and nutrition are essential.

    • Positive Mind Traits - Create mindfulness tools to replace negative mind-states with default positive mind-traits.

    • Resilience - Cultivate stress and suffering recovery skills. Learn how to surf the storms.

    • Autonomy - Cultivate autonomy skills by building self-confidence.

    • Values Actualization - Align your actions with values to establish personal integrity with your true nature.

  • Cultivating emotional wellbeing is a life-long quest to clarify what matters most and live in alignment with your highest values.

2 QUOTES FROM SAGES

  • “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE

  • Which of the ten essentials for emotional wellbeing have proven most helpful to you?

Namaste,

Duane Nelson

Duane Nelson

Ultrajourney Insight is an Anacortes Washington-based non-profit organization providing mindfulness & well-being services designed to ignite the adventure of a lifetime. The founder, Duane Nelson, is a writer, speaker, and teacher with four decades of parenting, wilderness, & international technology leadership. His professional insights come from chemical engineering and automation leadership at Philips, Intel, and Amazon. His adventure insights flow from ultramarathons, mountaineering, canyoneering, and adventure racing in Nepal, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, British Columbia and Alberta.

https://ultrajourneyinsight.org
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