Mental Health and Well-being Courses

Health is a complete condition of physical, mental, and social well-being, not only the absence of disease or disability. In other words, "health" is holistic and involves not just your physical state but also how you feel socially, spiritually, financially, mentally, and emotionally.

Well-being relates to how you experience your health and perceive your life. It can be affected by many things, not just how physically and mentally well you feel.

To maintain good health and well-being, you must look after the three aspects shown below:

• Physical well-being relates to how fit and physically active you are and how susceptible you are to illness and injury.
• Mental well-being relates to how you think and feel and how this impacts your everyday life.
• Social well-being relates to interacting with others and the wider world.

Mindfulness is a technique that involves taking the time to become more aware of what is happening in our mind, body, and surroundings in the present moment. It helps us become more self-aware and more able to notice the thoughts in our mind and what our body is telling us so that we can recognise what is happening early on and react to them more calmly.

To learn more, read about Techniques For Improving Mental Health and Well-being.

As well as being morally correct, the Health and Safety at Work Act requires employers to protect their employees' health and well-being. Among other things, they must:

• Decide what could harm you at work and implement measures to prevent this.
• Provide the proper training and equipment required to do your job.

Employees must work with their employer, abide by the measures to protect their health and well-being and help those around them do the same.