There are those who think of health psychology as a theoretical topic for researchers and academics. However, it’s also an applied discipline, one that you can use with or without a psychologist while working toward a goal of total wellness.
Your habits, addictions, and thoughts can be changed. What really matters here is the frequency, duration, and intensity of the habits and choices that you make.
As long as you are being kind to yourself and doing the healthy things with a higher frequency, intensity, and duration than the unhealthy things, you are on the right track. Ideally, its a ratio of at least 80% healthy. This applies to many different areas of your life. Some less obvious areas include relationships, conversations, and media. Pay attention to how you spend your time every day so you can start living happier and make things better for yourself and those around you.
Let’s take a quick look at what we mean by frequency, intensity, and duration:
You can learn to increase your baseline level of fun and fulfillment, handle the challenges gracefully, see the world more objectively and positively, manage those parts of your personality that get in the way, and be upwardly mobile in the places that matter most to you.
At the end of every day/week/month/quarter (depending on how intense you want to be with tracking, which, by the way, is a good habit in itself) track your habits along with any improvements in frequency, intensity, and duration, and make a plan for the following day/week/month/quarter/year.
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