What is emotional wellbeing?

Emotional wellbeing has to do with the emotional quality an individual experience. Emotional wellbeing is influenced by a variety of factors, such as, economic, demographic, and situational factors. For example, the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, reduced emotional wellbeing by 74%. The implications of lowered emotional wellbeing are related to mental health concerns such as, anxiety, depression, and stress. These mental health concerns also contribute to physical health concerns such as sleep disturbances, digestive disorders, and general lack of energy. 

Those suffering from emotional distress have low self-esteem, are pessimistic, emotionally sensitive, very self-critical. They are people who need to constantly assert themselves through their emotions. They worry a lot about the future, focus on the past, and tend to be timid.

On a positive note, improved emotional wellbeing is known to contribute to upward spirals in increasing coping abilities, productivity at work, performance, self-esteem, and longevity. Emotional wellbeing is one of the aspects of personal wellbeing which can be assessed in terms of quantitative quality of life assessments. 

Steps to better emotional wellbeing 

There is a vital link between well-being and being active is probably something that everyone knows about. If our physical health is affected by cardiomyopathy, being active becomes tricky. It can be difficult to work out the right level of activity, neither too little nor too much. At this point, you are advised to meet your cardiologist, specialist nurse or GP to advise in general terms on the types of activities that are right for you. It is also strongly advised that you should look out for the way you talk to yourself about being active. Inward self-attacking thoughts may arise from huge frustration caused by physical problems and reduced exercise tolerance. In view of the preceding, you need to consider and provide answers to the following questions below:

• Are you encouraging and kind to yourself?
• Are you discouraged by your past relations with exercise or activity?
• Are you working yourself up about how little you are doing as against your expectation?

If life is full of struggles, it is always best to talk to yourself about it as you would have done to your own best friend rather than like a neighbour from hell. A consistent find in the world of positive psychology is that people tend to feel better when they give something to others. What we give doesn’t seem to mean much to us as much as the genuine acts of kindness and help. Showing the same level of kindness to yourself can build your emotional wellbeing. 

Our emotional wellbeing tends to improve when we become more aware of our external and internal world. By noticing and being mindful of our thoughts, we are able to step back from them. By recognising thoughts as they truly are, we can become less entangled with them, thereby, improving our emotional wellbeing. 

Feeling connected with the world around us reminds us that we are social beings and that every time spent with friends, family, colleagues, and partners is vital to our emotional wellbeing. It implies that the nature of our social relationship is very important.