Five realms of well-being

The Five Realms of Well-Being are 5 general realms of focus that can aid in bringing balance to their life. Every individual is different. These are my five realms with short definitions within the subcategories.

1. PHYSICAL:

1. 1. Plant-Based Diet
   1. A diet consisting mostly or entirely of foods derived from plants, including vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, legumes and fruits, and with few or no animal products.
      
2. Cardio
   1. Any physical activity that uses large muscle groups and causes the body to use more oxygen than it would while resting.
3. Strength
   1. Resistance training, can firm, strengthen, and increase muscle mass, as well as improve bone density, balance, and coordination.
4. Relaxation
   1. The emotional state of a living being, of low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal that could come from sources such as anger, anxiety, or fear.

2. MENTAL

1. Art
   1. A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the creator's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
2. Science
   1. A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
3. Philosophy
   1. The study of general and fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, politics, reason, mind, and language.
4. Historical Context
   1. An umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Topics include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, and entertainment, as well as athletic events, quirky or unusual events.

3. Ethical

1. Utilitarianism
   1. A family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the majority of a population. Although different varieties of utilitarianism admit different characterizations, the basic idea behind all of them is to in some sense maximize utility, which is often defined in terms of well-being or related concepts.
2. Deep Ecology
   1. An ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.
3. Personism/Secular Humanism
   1. An ethical philosophy with the belief that rights are conferred to the extent that a creature who is capable of desiring to continue as a subject of experience and other mental states deserves the opportunity. Secular Humanism is a life stance that embraces reason, ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making.
4. Feminism
   1. A range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the genders.

4. SOCIAL

1. Intersectionality
   1. An analytic framework that attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most marginalized in society and culture.
2. Libertarian Socialist
   1. A group of anti-authoritarian political philosophies inside the socialist movement that rejects the conception of socialism as centralized state ownership and control of the economy. Libertarian socialism is close to and overlaps with left-libertarianism, criticizing wage labor relationships within the workplace, emphasizing workers' self-management of the workplace and decentralized structures of political organization.
3. Anarcho Syndicalism
   1. A theory of anarchism that views industrial unionism (syndicalism) as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society. Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs. Basic principles are solidarity, direct action (action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbitrators) and direct democracy. The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.
4. Marxist Humanism
   1. A political theory and method of working-class self-emancipation. As a theory, it relies on a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation. This ideology articulates a concept of species-being, the essential nature of being free producer, freely reproducing their own conditions of life.

5. SPIRITUAL

1. Meditation
   1. The practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or concentration on a thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
2. Psychonautics
   1. A methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of altered states of consciousness, including those induced by mind-altering substances, and to a research cabal in which the researcher voluntarily immerses themselves into an altered mental state in order to explore the accompanying experiences.
3. Dreamwork/Active Imagination
   1. A method of exploring various images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes, while not attempting to come up with a unique dream meaning. Dreamworkers take the position that a dream may have a variety of meanings depending on the levels (e.g. subjective, objective) that are being explored. This approach comes from psychoanalysis, a set of theoretical frameworks and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind.
4. Travel
   1. The movement of people between distant geographical locations. Travel can be done by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements. Travel allows an individual to witness cultural context on an experiential level, giving more direct internalized responses to the humanization process.