Health and Wellness

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUTH HEALTH AND WELLNESS

If you want to live your life actively, energetically and fully, in a state of optimal personal, interpersonal and environmental well-being and have taken charge of your own health, than you are on the path to wellness.

Wellness is composed of eight interrelated dimensions (physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, occupational, financial, social and environmental), all of which must be developed in order to achieve overall wellness. Wellness in any dimension is not a static goal but a dynamic process of change and growth. true wellness is largely determined by the decisions you make about how to live your life.

According to Constitution of the World health Organization: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

No matter your age or health status, you must take charge of your health and your path to wellness. Since wellness is an expanded idea of optimal health and vitality, you can optimize your health in each of the following eight interrelated dimensions:

Physical Wellness
Emotional Wellness
Intellectual Wellness
Spiritual Wellness
Occupational Wellness
Financial Wellness
Social Wellness
Environmental Wellness

The habits you develop and the decisions you make today will largely determine not only how many years you will live, but also the quality of your life.

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."

~Thomas A. Edison

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© Maya Gavric, entrepreneur, consultant, freelance writer, web developer, artist, former realtor, and marketing coach has been working, researching and reporting on the Internet for years. Her numerous articles and books offer valuable insight and tips on wide variety of topics. In recent times she has paid particular attention to knowledge management on the Internet, health topics and environmental problems, exploring how our attention to hot issues might best transform current situation into better practice. For more health tips and info visit: Romwell Health Pages

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