Well-being is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health, high life satisfaction, a sense of meaning or purpose, and the ability to manage stress. More generally, well-being is just feeling well (Take this quiz to discover your level of well-being.)
Discourse on meaning and well-being has been an integral aspect of Vedic, Vedic-related, and non-Vedic traditions of India. Although there are differences in certain details, there is wide agreement in India that the true meaning of life and the ultimate sense of well-being are manifestations of the same transcendental state of awareness, which human beings are capable of accessing. To be established in such a state also means that one is free from the repeated cycles of birth and death humans are said to undergo. Such an understanding of human existence and human potentiality has resulted in a qualitatively distinct perspective on life, meaning, and well-being in India.
Well-being is something sought by just about everyone because it includes so many positive things — feeling happy, healthy, socially connected, and purposeful. Unfortunately, well-being appears to be in decline, at least in the U.S., And increasing your well-being can be tough without knowing what to do and how to do it.
It is known that the concept of wellbeing is closely related to health and to the quality of life. Thus, wellbeing exists within two dimensions, a subjective one and an objective one. This includes the life experience of an individual, but also the comparison of life circumstances with the social norms and values. Wellbeing is in relation to health and vice versa, it is a determinant of health, but also a result of it.
Can You Actually Improve Your Well-Being?
Increasing your well-being is simple; there are tons of skills you can build. But increasing your well-being is not always easy: Figuring out what parts of well-being are most important for you and figuring out how, exactly, to build well-being skills usually require some extra help
Where Does Well-Being Come From?
Well-being emerges from your thoughts, actions, and experiences — most of which you have control over. For example, when we think positively, we tend to have greater emotional well-being. When we pursue meaningful relationships, we tend to have better social well-being. And when we lose our job — or just hate it — we tend to have lower workplace well-being. These examples start to reveal how broad well-being is, and how many different types of well-being there are.
Understanding reciprocal relationships between specific arenas in life and at work is critical for designing interventions to improve workplace health and safety. Most studies about the links between dimensions of well-being in life and at work have been cross-sectional and usually narrowly focused on one of the dimensions of the work-life well-being link. The issues of causality and feedback between life and work well-being have often not been addressed. We overcome these issues by measuring six aspects of well-being for both the work arena and life in general, using longitudinal data with a clear temporal sequence of cause and effect, and by explicitly accounting for feedback with potential effects in both directions. Nine hundred and fifty-four Mexican apparel factory workers at a major global brand participated in two waves of the Worker Well-Being Survey. Data on life satisfaction and job satisfaction, happiness and positive affect, meaning and purpose, health, and social relationships in life and at work were used. Lagged regression controlling for confounders and prior outcomes was employed. Sensitivity analysis was used to assess the robustness of the results to potential unmeasured
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