The Physical Wellness Dimension
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time you spend sitting in one day at work and at home. Are you above or below the national average of 9.3 hours per day?20
As a team, allow movement routines to be part of your collaborative time together. Support one another’s personal choices and goals for movement and build them into your team meeting agendas. Perhaps set some movement goals together. Consider a “70,000 steps a week challenge” for each team member. Log your steps each week and celebrate your successes. It doesn’t have to be a competition, but rather a team wellness goal! One step, one day at a time.
MYWELLNESS ACTION Name two actions you will take
Sleep is the third routine PH PH Y for your physical wellness Y S S dimension. The way you feel when you are at school depends in large part on Sleep what happens when you are sleeping. Assistant director of health promotion and wellness at Penn State Erin Raupers says, “If you are sleep-deprived, your memory will not be as good and you will not be able to learn efficiently or focus your attention.”21 Most people understand this. When we’re not getting enough sleep, nothing seems to work right. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, when we sleep, our body is hard at work supporting healthy brain function and maintaining our physical health; this affects how well we “think, react, work, learn, and get along with others.”22 More than just affecting memory, sleep deficits impact our ability to remember information and how
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Remember, being busy is a good thing. It means you are living a full life, which includes time for your movement routines. Being hurried is not so good. It means your food and movement routines drift into shallow and poor decision-making (a wellness routine in the next chapter) choices for your physical wellness, and before you know it, your sleep routines suffer as well. We dive deeper into the idea of a busy versus hurried life in chapter 2 (page 24).
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