Well being Whare:

Hauora is a Maori philosophy of wellbeing and health, it is the same as six dimensions of wellbeing. They are pretty similar apart from us having 4 dimensions as you could say, each dimension has a meaning and an important impact in our lives. In New Zealand, each dimension represents a wall. All the walls create a house that's why there are only 4 dimensions. 

Here are the meanings of each of the walls - 

Taha Tinana:

This wall means physical wellbeing, this impacts on your life since you need to stay healthy physically. For example, eating healthy would be apart of Taha Tinana or exercising. 

Taha Hinengaro:

This wall means mental wellbeing, this impacts on our lives to stay mentally healthy or be happy and calm. Also exercising or calming your brain preventing you from being stressed all the time. Just simply sleeping can be part of Taha Hinengaro.

Taha Whanau:

This wall means social wellbeing but in English, it means family, this impacts our lives because everyone needs someone to depend on sometimes. Hanging out or spending time with family and friends would be apart of Taha Whanau.

Taha Wairua:

This wall means spiritual wellbeing, this impacts our lives because some would be really religious or have a religious family. But this is not only about gods or souls, but it is also actually about what you believe in. so if you believe in aliens then so be it.

In our classroom, we had created our own whare's at the start we had to write on each thing (foundation, walls, roof). On the foundation, we had to write down everything or everyone who makes us happy or defines who we are. On each of the walls, we had to write one of the dimensions (one wall = Taha Tinana/Physical) 

At the front of my whare which is really the door, the side that is the most important dimension to me is Taha Tinana. The reason for it is because the sport has been important to me since I was young. I loved to play netball and football when I was in primary in my last year I liked to play basketball. I carried on playing basketball for my first year in intermediate but also started to play badminton. Then badminton started to be my passion, and it turned out it was something that played throughout my whole family. Now I love to play badminton and netball and they are also my favorite sports.

When building our wellbeing whare it was like living our lives, our teacher Mr. Stock purposely cut off a few flaps to make it challenging for us. He explained to us that we are always allowed to ask for help. Because in our lives we are always allowed to ask for help when we need it. 

Everything is built on our foundation which keeps us happy and we need all the dimensions in our lives our roof is our happiness so we need all these dimensions to hold up our happiness.