What is Wellness?
Wellness is an approach to healthy living, that takes the whole human being – body, mind and spirit – into consideration. The goal is to become optimally healthy and balanced in all areas of life.
As human beings, we communicate through our physical bodies. It is often easy to use physical things, like exercise and eating, as channels to improve other areas of your health. Wellness coaching often makes use of physical activities.
However, wellness is about much more than physical exercise and healthy eating. In particular, it is also about the health of your:
- relationship with God,
- relationships with other people,
- exercise habits,
- eating habits,
- emotions,
- thought-patterns,
- work habits, and
- finances.
The aim is to stop doing things that are harmful to you, start and keep doing things that are good for you, and maintain a healthy balance between it all.
September 2nd, 2008 at 03:01 am
All good advice. The hard part is following it and doing a good job at following it. It’s not easy being good.
Great post.
September 2nd, 2008 at 06:53 am
Dankie Francois. Ek stem saam dat “wellness” meer as net ‘n gesonder liggaam behels, maar dit is soveel makliker om ten volle “wellness” te ervaar as jou liggaam ook gesond is. Ek stem saam met Robin, die uitdaging is om dit te bereik.
“Wellness”, ek probeer nog dink aan ‘n goeie afrikaanse woord.
September 2nd, 2008 at 04:28 pm
@Robin & Riaan:
Thanks for the feedback!
I’m planning quite a few posts about wellness for the next few months…