1. Wellness and Healthy Lifestyle: INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS: LECTURE 5
What is Intellectual Wellness?

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What is Intellectual Wellness?
Intellectual wellness refers to active participation in scholastic, cultural, and community activities.
Life-long learning through your formal education and informal life experiences.
It is the ability to open your mind to new ideas and experiences, improve your skills and seek challenges.

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Value creativity, curiosity, and lifelong learning
Willingness to share your knowledge and skills
Intellectual wellness helps keep your mind sharp as you age
Assists to identify potential problems and choose appropriate courses of action based on available information than to wait, worry, and contend with major concerns later.

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What is Intellectual Wellness?
It is about embracing all knowledge to enhance the quality of life
Intellectual wellness is a cornerstone on which the others sit.
Without intellectual wellness, we’d never really go anywhere; we would be at a standstill.

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Why is it important?
Develop good study habits, time management
Learn to trust your decision
Keep abreast of current of issues and ideas and events
Learn to manage your finance better
Have a better understand of the balance between life and work
Open to new ideas and views

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Signs of Intellectual Wellness 
Development of good study skills and time management
Ability to challenge yourself to see all sides of an issue
Becoming a critical thinker
Development of your own ideas, views, and opinions
Exposing yourself to new ideas, people, and beliefs that are different from your own
Become aware of who you are and what you value 

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Signs of Intellectual Wellness
Think clearly
Have more positive thoughts than negative thoughts
Able to pay attention
Engage in activities to increase knowledge
Seek new challenges

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Am I Intellectually Well?
Am I open to new ideas?
Do I stay on top of world events (local, national or international)?
Do I enjoy mentally stimulating activities?
Am I happy with what I read or how often I read?
Does learning new things excite me?
Is there a class that I love/enjoy?
Am I able to understand all sides of an issue?

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How to Improve Intellectual Wellness 
Improve Study Skills
Review study materials within 24 hours of class to keep it fresh in your memory
Take notes while you read, while in class, and focus on more than what is written on the board
Form a study group session with other people in your class
Study in a quiet environment that will not distract you
Color coding helps trigger memory - keep one topic per color
Find innovative ways to study that work for you

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Improve Time Management
Make a "To-Do" list that allows you to cross off completed tasks as you go.
Prioritize tasks in order of importance and tackle the most important first
Learn to say no to social activities sometimes - remember what is important to get done
Cut work hours. Money is important, but working too much can cut into your study time
Multi-task within your limits

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Remove Objectivity
Learn there is more than one way to do something
There isn't always a "right" answer, but sometimes there are multiple answers
Stay open-minded to new ideas, insights, thoughts, expressions, and values
Expose yourself to difference

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Improve Critical Thinking
Be actively engaged in conversation, readings, and classrooms - think about what is happening
Ask questions to yourself or others as you reflect
Challenge the norm, don't take an answer for what it is without agreeing upon it yourself
Find patterns and connections to examples that relate to your life
Keep your brain active, thinking, and questioning

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Eight simple steps to increase your intellectual wellness
Read for fun. Reading, especially something you enjoy, can improve your intellect by stretching your mind to think about things you normally don’t think about!
Debate an issue with a friend, but choose the viewpoint opposite the one you hold. Focusing attention on information that is different than your beliefs can improve intellectual wellness.. When you expose the mind to opposing ideas, it expands the mind to grasp new information.

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Improve your skills for studying and learning. Learning new things about the way your mind processes information can be a vital tool to helping you succeed.
Learn a foreign language. It can be beneficial to your intellectual health and your employment prospects. When learning different ways to communicate, your mind expands
Play a game. Board games and cards are popularly known as leisure activities. These activities can also help with your intellectual wellness

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Play a musical instrument. Music has a powerful impact on our minds. Playing a musical instrument can increase intellectual wellness by learning how to create sounds, make patterns through music.
Write down your thoughts or journal frequently. Taking the time to write down thoughts. Being able to identify your feelings and understanding yourself more and your actions increase intellectual wellness by exposing your mind to deeper thinking.

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Do crosswords or sudoku puzzles.
Crosswords and Sudoku are leisure activities that have proved to increase intellectual wellness Working through puzzles or finding words in patterns uses a great amount of brain power. Increasing your ability to work through these activities can maintain and build your intellectual wellness.

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Why is academic and intellectual wellness important?
Academics are vital for any university student, so improving your intellectual wellness is important.
Having a healthy mind is crucial for academic success, and this includes challenging yourself to learn new things and develop the skills you need to succeed.
Keeping your mind sharp will help you at SWU and for the rest of your life.

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Why is academic and intellectual health important?
Challenge your mind
Set goals and prioritize
Access resources designed to help you succeed

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Poor Intellectual Wellness may be related to:
Issues with physical, emotional and spiritual wellness
Stress and lack of adequate sleep and rest can result in poor intellectual wellness
Disordered thinking can result from depression or anxiety and spiritual distress

21. Personal Portfolio: Individual Assessment
Describe what is Wellness and how it affects healthy lifestyle
Name and define the 8 dimensions of Wellness
Assess your level of social wellness : strengths and challenges
Develop an personal social wellness plan to enhance your overall wellness
Each week assess your level of wellness in the dimension studied and develop a plan for improvement
Discuss plan with a peer at lectures for possible feedback for improvement
Round table discussion with peers on your completed wellness plan before submission for marking.

22. Group Assessment Topics for group work:
8 dimensions of wellness with a case study
Issues affecting young Thais
Journal Article: Thais and religion
Groups to present in weeks 13 and 14