The Physical Wellness Dimension
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MYWELLNESS ACTION
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patterns observed from your eating and drinking reflections and dis-
coveries. What changes will you make around your food and drink choices next week, based on your reflections from this past week? You can use this chart to track your eating and hydrating data over three to five days. What I ate or drank
Where I ate or drank
When I drank water
Context (such as dinner with family)
Gupta’s S.H.A.R.P. advice.14 Be sure to also describe how you felt before, during, and after each meal, snack, and drink.
Movement Routines
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In Start Here: MasterP the Lifelong Habit of PH H Y Y Wellbeing, authors Eric Langshur and Nate S S Klemp state that scientific evidence points to all of the following incredible benefits of movement: enhanced learning, greater productivity, increased resilience to stress, improved mood, and slowed aging.15 Wow, right? Kelly McGonigal, author of The Joy of Movement, adds that movement also activates feelings of pleasure and helps stave off depression.16 These are all incredible benefits to our educator lives! When we move our bodies, we increase our energy levels—an essential ingredient of an effective educator. We see the benefits of increased energy firsthand with students when we utilize active brain breaks as a way to increase attention and engagement, and this is also true for us as the adults. Every job position in our highly relationship-driven field demands a robust level of personal energy. Working in a school requires energy and often a lot of it. Energy begets energy, and so
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