Do you understand the concept of Wellness?

I`m very impressed with your response. Most people don`t even understand the wellness concept. It is always thought to be only exercise. To me wellness is all that and most importantly a balanced life. What I`m learning from my involvement with developing wellness software and the development of mywellnessspace.com/wellness. The definition is really left to you. To me it is almost like a path to follow. Stay on it, live a longer healthier happy life. Leave the path and well you know the rest. Thanks your input. Be Well

 

Wellness is the opposition to, and proactive action against illness. It`s come into play with the collapsing healthcare system, which has always been reactive.

People are understanding that whatever we can do in the "preventative medicine" field, which is what "wellness" used to be called, is going to lower current healthcare costs.

Among the areas being examined are so-called holistic and alternative medicines, psychology, sociology, and even the "X" factor (metaphysics, parapsychology, and New Age ideologies).

Not so long ago, vitamins were considered ridiculous. Some pharmacies carried them as money-makers, but no doctor really "felt" that vitamins were necessary. After all, the Gubb`mnt had fully proclaimed the FDA "daily minimum requirement" for nourishment. Why have more than that?

Yet today, most physicians understand that vitamins and supplements often make for major changes in how often someone becomes ill.

Fortunately, with the Internet, we`re starting to have access to massive studies, statistics, and empiric evidence coming from overseas countries using socialized medicine (like Germany). Their healthcare systems have collapsed, so they`re somewhat forced to look at wellness programs. The result is large-scale de facto studies of all kinds of alternative medicine.

An example coming from this is the St. John`s Wort substitution for antidepression. It offers no benefit, based on those very large-scale real-world tests. On the other hand, the routine use of folic acid in pregnancies came out of studies that also were quickly accessible through the Web.

Wellness is a far better way to examine life and health, than illness and disease. Now if we can get people to understand that insurance is YOU betting you`re going to have a horrible life, and the insurance company betting you`re going to have a wonderful life, we`ll be on the way to another big improvement. :-)

This is what I would consider my Definition of Total Wellness

Physical Wellness: Live Longer Healthier Lives

Financial Wellness: Get out of Debt, Secure Your Financial Future

Personal Wellness: Achieve Balance, Freedom & Peace in your Personal and Family Life

Environmental Wellness: Making our Homes and Enivornment a Cleaner Place to Live

 

Wellness is the "art of taking care of yourself before the doctor has to."

Wellness is my day job, I do enjoy it, and it works well with my "creative side"

Thanks to everyone how has posted. Keep em coming.