Year 8 Health topic 3- Whats in ya head

Year 8 Health topic 3- Whats In Ya Head?

What is Mental Fitness?

Mental fitness is being at peace and happy with yourself and with others, having the ability to handle stress and being secure with your thoughts and emotions. And most important of all, being happy.

Whats the difference to physical and mental fitness?

Being physically fit requires training and exercise, but mental fitness also requires training and exercise, but in a very different way. For physically fit you might train and practice by working out, playing sport, etc, but for mental fitness you might train by using and practicing social and other behaviours, and setting goals, and learning how to be at peace with yourself and others.

How do you train to be mentally fit?

For mental fitness you might train by:

Using and practicing social and other behaviours

Setting goals

Learning how to be at peace with yourself and others.

Planning, to divide your time well between work and play, so that you dont totally stress out.

What are signs that you are mentally unfit?

If youre acting in certain ways towards others, and are constantly putting others down and insulting people.

If you are not generally happy with life, and are always angry and upset.

Over the course we will learn:

Self Awareness- physical and mental health benefits, and social benefits and happiness.

Social Awareness- Feeling good about yourself, coping.

Coping Skills.

Overall- Respect, resilience and tolerance.

How to understand people- personality, background, belief system, values.

By learning how to look for those clues and how to interpret them you will get this superior self understanding of others and yourself.

Self understanding- not feeling lost will help you where to go.

The more you understand yourself the more you will understand others.

Understanding your problems will make you feel better, instead of feeling you are fighting an enemy you dont know.

Body language- a university study found that people build their impression about you based on:

55% gestures, postures and movements, 38% on the tone of your voice (tempo and frequency) and only 7% on what you actually say.

How to interpret body language: feelings have a lexicon of corresponding gestures. Anyone who can read others through their body language. Knowing familiar gestures in body language and their associated emotional states will help you read their body language like a book!

How to keep a cool head!

Assessment task 1- Accentuate the Positive- 14 day challenge.

For the next 14 days, every night before you go to bed, write down 3 good things you did that day and reasons why they were good. Keep this in a journal format, so it can be submitted at the end of the unit.

Criteria:

Record 3 god things you did each day and an explanation of why they were good.

An A+ will be given if the above is met, is neat and legible and is submitted by the required due date (Do your journal on your computer and you will have most of that criteria covered!)