Total Worker Health and Wellbeing

Self-awareness is the act of understanding yourself, listening to your thoughts and emotions, and knowing how you feel and why. It is also understanding that other’s may see you differently from how you see yourself. Understanding your own feelings helps you know your own strengths and weaknesses this in turn, helps you build on your strengths and learn how to overcome challenges.

Mental health is a continuum from wellness to acute illness. Preserving a healthy balance is important to the maintenance of ongoing mental health. Awareness, understanding and knowledge of how we feel will help achieving better mental health and cultivating a better sense of emotional wellbeing.

The first step in becoming aware of your emotions is to take pause and become aware of how you feel in the moment. By practicing how to better recognize and understand your own emotions, you will find it easier to improve how you communicate. Without being connected to all of your emotions, you cannot manage stress, fully understand your own behavior, or appropriately control how you think and act.

Emotional health is the ability to cope with and manage emotions. It is also the ability to have positive relationships. High emotional intelligence can help you navigate the social complexities of the workplace, lead and motivate others, and excel in your career. Several studies have shown that emotional abilities are of particular relevance to psychological health and wellbeing.