Intellectual Wellness

Intellectual wellness is maintaining healthy doses of creativity, mental stimulation, and learning. It is also the ability to problem solve and think critically, even under stress.

Intellectual Wellness encompasses…

Intellectual Wellness isn’t just about studying like we do in school, though that can be a great way to keep our intellects sharp. Intellectual wellness is about how we take care of our reasoning, our ability to make judgements, our understanding of information, our very way of thinking. It’s about making sure we feed our intellect to help to make informed decisions and to see beyond what's being shown or told to us.

Just like we need to keep our bodies healthy and strong, our intellectual wellness requires purposeful, meaningful information and experience for our intellect, judgment, reasoning and knowledge to grow and flourish.

When you don’t take care of your intellectual wellness…

When you don’t trust your intellect, you feel like you aren't prepared enough, good enough, or smart enough to make important decisions, influence others, find solutions to problems, advocate for yourself, or separate your emotions for your reasoning. That can make you hesitant to participate in meaningful conversations, too timid to write a challenging response email to your boss, less likely to negotiate for time off or a raise, or unable to create new products or ideas. It can also make you more likely to allow others to make decisions for you or tell you what to do, more likely to accept what you’re told by others without first checking the facts, or too quick to assume you’re right when you may not have all the facts.

When you eat only chips and soda for a meal for the day or don’t exercise, it doesn’t make your physical body feel good. The same is true when you don’t exercise your brain or feed your intellect nonsense or one-sided tv, social media, radio. You feel good and you can damage your reasoning ability, sound judgment, and ability to understand the complex issues that affect your life and your wellness.

You can do this. PsycleOn can help.

No one is born knowing everything, and not everyone reasons or thinks in the same way. That’s a good thing! But whether you’re a bookworm, an experiential learner, or something else, we all need the ability to consume and process information so that we can reason, judge, create, communicate and relate to our world.

There are so many ways to feed your intellect:

• Be curious and ask questions

• Get comfortable admitting when you don’t know something

• Watch a documentary

• Attend a webinar or class

• Play a game that requires strategy or complex reasoning

• Read an article or book. Listen to an audio book or a reputed radio show.

• Have, or listen to, a conversation about a topic that interests you 

• Learn a new technique or method (think cooking, exercise, problem solving)

There are so many ways to nurture your intellectual wellness and we know you’ll feel the benefits of doing so across all areas of your wellness. We can help! Meet with a coach, create a strategy, expand your horizons and then make a plan to put your strategy into action!

Your wellness is too important to leave it to chance!