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Thank you very much @Faith-and-Hope
I've largely been building on the work of @Shaz51
I's good to have the opportunity to discuss this with both of you.
You've picked up on something I noticed along the way which was that, as per your examples, things like kindness; self-reflection; revisiting thought and behavioural patterns seem to percolate across more than one of the nine wellbeing types.
I don't know yet what the significance of this is. It may be that in addition to the nine kinds of wellbeing, there are some practices worth identifying and listing separately for their wellbeing potency. It's like by doing one thing you get two-in-one (or more) value.
It may be worth highlighting this in the list of items for improving or maintaining that kind of wellbeing. For example, if an item in the list of things good for physical wellbeing is also good for e.g. spiritual wellbeing, then say so in the entry for that item.
My ambition is to assemble all the items, and the accompanying model, into a single document called the The Tutti Frutti Book of Wellbeing.
I don't want to be naive but I don't want people to necessarily have a lot to consider about wellbeing. The concept of wellbeing ought to be easy enough to grasp. From there it's nice to know that there are the nine kinds, and that there is some sensibility as to how they are related. From there, just dive in to the kind of wellbeing that interests, you and partake of the menu, so to speak. I have tried to divided the items appearing under each type of wellbeing into themed bunches or chunks, so as not to overwhelm the reader with too many types. OTOH, I may still be underestimating how hard it is in fact to follow all of this.
Another puzzle, that I briefly mentioned earlier, is whether there is a separate "mental wellbeing". If there is, then I suspect it would accompany the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing types. OTOH, I suspect there would be lot of overlap with the intellectual, spiritual and emotional wellbeing types, possibly so much so that there is no such thing as mental wellbeing as a separate kind of wellbeing.
I have some further work to do in adding references from the literature to the consolidated list of wellbeing types.
I don't know yet, but am looking forward to seeing how all of this works out. If you have any thoughts about any of this I'd be delighted to hear from you.
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