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How can our work impact our health? What is a healthy work-life balance?
Work is an essential aspect of human life and serves to provide meaning and a form of income for us. However, there is more to life than just work and sometimes people devote so much of their time and energy to their professional life, they start neglecting their personal life. This can cause a lot of problems for us; particularly if our work is extremely hectic or if we don’t enjoy it.
We may start suffering from mental health problems, which consists of symptoms of irritability, lethargy and inability to focus on our work. All of this may affect our mind and emotions resulting in a reduction of our productivity. Not giving enough time to or displacing our stress may also harm our relationships. Eventually this may have a negative impact on our physical health and we can develop illnesses like digestive troubles, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
So how do we deal with stress at work? By maintaining a healthy work-life balance! Here are some steps that we can take:
To learn more about the different aspects of health, visit the healthy life section.
Is your school life causing you distress? How can we achieve a school-life balance?
Being a student can be really stressful because of the academic pressures. In addition, the age we are in school in is a time of great personal development which can itself be a very stressful process. In the middle of all of this it is easy to get overwhelmed and suffer from burnout. Burnout consists of feeling irritable, lethargic and unable to focus on our studies. This will negatively affect our academic performance and our health.
Therefore, it is important to establish a school-life balance in order for us to be able to successfully achieve our academic aspirations and fulfill our personal needs.
Some steps that we can take to develop a good school-life balance include: