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Surroundings

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Surroundings

Overview

The term "Surroundings" covers a lot of things. From a Whole health perspective, it involves everything around you that can affect your health and well-being. Examples include: the place you live, work, spend time in, your neighborhood, climate, amount of tranquility or overstimulation and even experiences that affect your physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

Your surroundings can affect your health. You may be able to improve your health or prevent accidents by making adjustments to yours.

Why are surroundings important?

What should I pay attention to in my surroundings?

Nobody has perfect surroundings for themselves all of the time. But you may be able to improve your health or prevent accidents by making adjustments to some of your surroundings, as you are able. Consider the examples of surroundings above and see if there are any that you want to focus on to be happier, healthier, and safer.

How you relate to your surroundings can affect how happy or sad you feel and encourage or discourage bad habits.

How you relate to your surroundings can affect your well-being and mood, and promote the other elements of your whole health.

The resources offered here will help you better understand how your surroundings affect your health and well-being.

Surroundings Handouts

An Introduction to Surroundings for Whole Health

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