Question

1 For many women, being in good health means” Being able to cope”, being well enough to fulfil all

the demands made on them in the never - ending cycle of caring for home and family. Unlike a

man’s work, which traditionally begins and ends at set times, women feel, rightly or wrongly, that

they are on call 24hours a day. They find it difficult to set aside time for themselves, cultivate their

own interests ,needs and desires .Yet these are as many aspects of positive health as exercise and

eating nourishing food. More and more women are recognising this now and reaching out for more

than just a ‘coping’ concept of health.

2. Positive health involves becoming aware of and paying attention to every aspect of our lives and

in fulfilling the potential within each one of us. It also means being able to adapt. Remaining healthy

and in harmony with our constantly changing environment depends on our ability to change and

adapt to new situations and people, new economic, political and social values. Unwillingness to

change creates tension, insecurity and anxiety-the starting points of illness. So health is not

something that resides in the individual alone. Our interdependence on our environment and on

other people is experienced most when things either go very wrong as in serious illness, or are very

right, when the harmony we feel in our surroundings and our relationships give us an inner peace.

3. Positive health means being able to alter our environment, just as we can learn to change our

inner world through understanding and awareness. This means developing a sense of one’s

individuality, of taking responsibility for oneself and one’s needs, making decisions and choices. It

also means developing the capacity to understand and share with others- to know, for instance,

when it is right to be responsible for someone else, a young daughter perhaps, and to know when to

let the child take charge of herself. Or, with another adult, to know when to let go and let him or her

take care of you for a while- the development of mutual responsibility

4. To aim for positive health rather than an absence of ill health involves learning to listen to our

bodies’ language, to the finely tuned rhythms within us which can tell us about ourselves and our

state of health. This growing awareness can sometimes be painful. You may become conscious of

the needs or feelings you have suppressed and of ways in which you hold yourself back from living

fully the fears and anxieties which keep you tied. But awareness brings with it a greater joy too.

Pleasures can be felt more keenly, opportunities grasped more confidently, choices made more

clearly. Positive health is the full creative potential of each one of us; it is a state of being, a

continuous changing flow, and adventure in which we seek a richer and more satisfying way of life.

8.1 Make notes on the passage in any suitable format using recognisable abbreviations (minimum

four) wherever necessary. Give a title to your notes. (5)​

Answer 1

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