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Aspect to work on:
Reduce unnecessary digital distractions and FOMO

Solution:
Implement strict digital detox periods during work. Use focus-enhancing tools like app blockers and notifications management. Prioritize deep work sessions and schedule time for essential digital engagement.

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Aspect to work on:
Optimising physical performance to reduce tiredness

Solution:
Schedule regular movement breaks every 90-120 minutes, focusing on stretches or light exercises. Combine this with nutrient-dense meals, consistent hydration, and maintaining an ergonomically optimized workspace for sustained energy

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Aspect to work on:
Integrate core spiritual principles from biblical teachings into daily life and decisions.

Solution:
Dedicate time to studying biblical passages, reflecting on their meaning, and applying their wisdom to my personal and professional life. Practice gratitude, patience, and faith to enhance inner peace and purpose.

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Aspect to work on:
Prioritize time for nurturing relationships within my social circle.

Solution:
Schedule regular, meaningful interactions with friends and family to strengthen bonds. Create opportunities for quality conversations, shared experiences, and mutual support, ensuring social connections remain a key part of your balanced life.

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Aspect to work on:
Dedicate focused time to reading books aligned with my professional and personal growth goals.

Solution:
Set aside daily or weekly reading sessions to explore books that enhance my knowledge in key areas. Apply insights from these readings to my personal development, and intellectual pursuits for continuous growth.

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Did you know that being creative and curious is part of being healthy? Your intellectual health is part of your brain health. Taking care of your brain health will improve your intellectual health. This means making healthy choices and doing activities where you think and create.

What is Intellectual Health?

Intellectual health includes creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Intellectual health is not a person's IQ score or how much they know.

Intellectual health is sometimes called intellectual wellness, intellectual well-being, or the intellectual dimension of health.

Examples of intellectual health include:

Academic success

Creative hobbies like music, writing, painting, or design

Problem-solving

Motivation to learn new things

Developing self-identity

Knowing when and how to ask for help

How to Improve Intellectual Health

All parts of our health are connected. Taking care of our mental healthand physical health improves our intellectual health.

If you're an educator or a caregiver, you may be helping improve someone else's intellectual health.

Four ways to improve intellectual health include:

#1 Eating Nutrient-Dense Foods

Nutrient-dense foods have lots of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients and not too much sugar, sodium, or saturated fats.

Berries, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains, wild salmon, and avocado are brain-healthy foods. For intellectual wellness, look for foods with antioxidants, healthy fats, fiber, and vitamin E.

Introducing young children to different foods, flavors, and textures will encourage them to eat brain-healthy foods.

If you have food aversions or are a caregiver for someone with food aversions, a speech therapist may be able to help.

#2 Caring for Your Physical Health

Caring for your physical health supports your intellectual health. Your brain is healthier when your body is healthy. Healthy brain habits include getting quality sleep, staying hydrated, and exercising.

Fitness is not just for your muscles. Exercise makes your brain think about body movements and release "feel good" chemicals like dopamine.

Staying active can look different for everyone. If you are an individual with a disability or a caregiver for an individual with a disability, a physical therapist or a recreational therapist may be able to help.

#3 Pursuing Hobbies and Interests

When you pursue a hobby or interest, it keeps your brain thinking and engaged. Intellectually healthy hobbies aren't just reading, writing, or doing puzzles.

You can improve your intellectual health by doing physical hobbies too. You might be interested in team sports, running, kayaking, weightlifting, skiing, or even construction. These activities require quick reactions, problem-solving, memory, and critical thinking skills.

Other hobbies like working on cars, interior design, playing an instrument, cooking, or party planning all support intellectual health.

Parents and educators can build intellectual health from an early age by reading to babies and introducing creative art activities to young children.

Stress affects all parts of our health. Long-term stress wears down our intellectual health. Stress can make it hard to problem-solve or complete tasks. When we are stressed, we can lose our motivation and curious spark.

Managing stress is an important part of staying intellectually healthy. Check out McMillen Health's mental health education programs:

Habits for Intellectual Health

Activities that make your brain work improve your intellectual health. These activities include:

Brain Health Education Programs

Using high-tech media rooms, our educators can reach classrooms anywhere with an internet connection. We offer brain health programs for students of all ages.

If you want to learn more about McMillen Health's health education programs, visit our program guide.

Ready to schedule a program? Click here.

Alysia Marshall-Seslar

Alysia Marshall-Seslar is the Writing and Marketing Associate at McMillen Health. Along with being the author of TamTalks, Alysia contributes to the research and development of McMillen's custom health education curriculum.

Did you know that being creative and curious is part of being healthy? Your intellectual health is part of your brain health. Taking care of your brain health will improve your intellectual health. This means making healthy choices and doing activities where you think and create.

What is Intellectual Health?

Intellectual health includes creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Intellectual health is not a person's IQ score or how much they know.

Intellectual health is sometimes called intellectual wellness, intellectual well-being, or the intellectual dimension of health.

Examples of intellectual health include:

Academic success

Creative hobbies like music, writing, painting, or design

Problem-solving

Motivation to learn new things

Developing self-identity

Knowing when and how to ask for help

How to Improve Intellectual Health

All parts of our health are connected. Taking care of our mental healthand physical health improves our intellectual health.

If you're an educator or a caregiver, you may be helping improve someone else's intellectual health.

Four ways to improve intellectual health include:

#1 Eating Nutrient-Dense Foods

Nutrient-dense foods have lots of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients and not too much sugar, sodium, or saturated fats.

Berries, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains, wild salmon, and avocado are brain-healthy foods. For intellectual wellness, look for foods with antioxidants, healthy fats, fiber, and vitamin E.

Introducing young children to different foods, flavors, and textures will encourage them to eat brain-healthy foods.

If you have food aversions or are a caregiver for someone with food aversions, a speech therapist may be able to help.

#2 Caring for Your Physical Health

Caring for your physical health supports your intellectual health. Your brain is healthier when your body is healthy. Healthy brain habits include getting quality sleep, staying hydrated, and exercising.

Fitness is not just for your muscles. Exercise makes your brain think about body movements and release "feel good" chemicals like dopamine.

Staying active can look different for everyone. If you are an individual with a disability or a caregiver for an individual with a disability, a physical therapist or a recreational therapist may be able to help.

#3 Pursuing Hobbies and Interests

When you pursue a hobby or interest, it keeps your brain thinking and engaged. Intellectually healthy hobbies aren't just reading, writing, or doing puzzles.

You can improve your intellectual health by doing physical hobbies too. You might be interested in team sports, running, kayaking, weightlifting, skiing, or even construction. These activities require quick reactions, problem-solving, memory, and critical thinking skills.

Other hobbies like working on cars, interior design, playing an instrument, cooking, or party planning all support intellectual health.

Parents and educators can build intellectual health from an early age by reading to babies and introducing creative art activities to young children.

Stress affects all parts of our health. Long-term stress wears down our intellectual health. Stress can make it hard to problem-solve or complete tasks. When we are stressed, we can lose our motivation and curious spark.

Managing stress is an important part of staying intellectually healthy. Check out McMillen Health's mental health education programs:

Habits for Intellectual Health

Activities that make your brain work improve your intellectual health. These activities include:

Brain Health Education Programs

Using high-tech media rooms, our educators can reach classrooms anywhere with an internet connection. We offer brain health programs for students of all ages.

If you want to learn more about McMillen Health's health education programs, visit our program guide.

Ready to schedule a program? Click here.

Alysia Marshall-Seslar

Alysia Marshall-Seslar is the Writing and Marketing Associate at McMillen Health. Along with being the author of TamTalks, Alysia contributes to the research and development of McMillen's custom health education curriculum.

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Brain Health Basics: What is Intellectual Health? - McMillen Health

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Your intellectual health is part of your brain health. Intellectual health is your curiosity, creativity, and thinking skills. Learn how to care for your intellectual health.

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