DEFINING WELLNESS

Wellness is keeping the components of health in sufficient amounts and balanced so that prioritizing one area does not sacrifice the other. The dimensions of wellness are an ideal, and some authors describe seven, eight, nine, and twelve dimensions of wellness. The eight interconnected dimensions are physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, financial, and environmental.

Wellness interventions challenge individuals and communities to review their past choices and commit to healthier choices and lifestyles that could reverse the effects of diseases caused or exacerbated by bad habits.

Wellness is a choice, a decision you make to move toward optimal health.

Wellness is a way of life, a lifestyle you design to achieve your highest potential for wellbeing. (wellbeing is a state of good physical and mental health; a positive outcome meaningful for you).

Wellness is a process, a developing awareness that there is no endpoint, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now.

Wellness is a balanced channeling of energy. Energy received from the environment, transformed withing you, and returned to affect the world around you.

Wellness is the integration of body, mind, and spirit. The appreciation that everything you do, and think, and feel, and believe has an impact on your state of health and the health of the world.

Wellness is the loving acceptance of yourself.

“Wellness is about learning to love your whole self. It is about assuming charge of your life, living in process, and channeling life energy. It is about choices. It is about the one way to wellness; your way”.

WELLNESS IS NOT:

Wellness is not a static state. There are degrees or levels of wellness as there are degrees of illness.

Wellness is not the absence of disease. People may lack physical symptoms and be bored, depressed, tense, anxious, or generally unhappy with their lives.