| Definition of "Wellness" |
Wellness is first and foremost a choice to assume responsibility for the quality of your life. It begins with a conscious decision to shape a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is a mind set, a predisposition to adopt a series of key principles in varied life areas that lead to high levels of well-being and life satisfaction. A consequence of this focus is that a "wellness mind set" will protect you against temptations to blame someone else, make excuses, shirk accountability, whine or freeze and lose hope in the face of initial adversity. Wellness is a word that's used a lot these days, and I'm sure you hear it all the time. It's almost a buzz word, and traditionally over the past 50 years particularly, health and wellness have been thought of as the mere absence of disease and disability.  This is known as the Western Allopathic Medical model, and the problem with it is that it promotes the idea that unless you show the symptoms of a disability or disease you are ultimately healthy. In recent years there has been new thinking in this area and it has led to the development of newer models of health and there are numerous different models in development and becoming more prevelant and more available superceding this "Allopathic" way of thought. Basically, the superior Wellness model that people adhere to today moves beyond that traditional notion of health and wellness as being the mere absence of disease to the optimum WHOLISTIC functioning of each individual, regardless of current health status or disability. So, wellness exists on a continuum and is unique to each individual person. Each of us defines our own wellness when we understand how we are built and that all healing begins with ourselves and our relationship with our creator first. This will be sure to take us on a journey of learning and discovery and inevitably ends with us too..The wisdom to heal resides in each and every cell of your body, within the template of your DNA. It's hard to say, you're well or you're not well. That's not the way it works. It's a unique thing based on our individual circumstances. And wellness in this view is also seen as a Wholistic concept. It's looking at the whole person and not just at your blood pressure level or how much you weigh, or how well you manage your stress. It's not one thing; it's all of these things connected. We know ourselves better than any other person - or we should. To excel in sports one starts out as a beginner fumbling through the understanding of the rules of the game they are studying and training their body in developing the physical and mental mastery of their skillset by practicing it over and over again, many hours a day. If the goal is gold at an Olympic games then this continues for years sometimes decades to accomplish perfection on the right day and right time to achieve such inspiring results. We all love to watch excellence, but few understand the levels of commitment it takes to drive one to these heights. But we have all dreamt of the feeling of excellence. So we are clear, excellence does not mean perfection. The single thing World class athletes train and work day after day for is to live in and train for what is known as the "White Zone". When an athlete can constantly replicate what it is to be in the white zone they have begun to master the skillset they have been practicing for so diligently, for so many years. Everything experienced while they compete in this state is in a totally automated autonomic reflex state of awareness. There is no thought needed, their body and mind are as one. Not everyone can be a world class athlete as some are born with naturally more physical gifts than others, some have better work ethics than others and staying injury free enough to get through the years of training and competition is always a constant challenge. However we are all born with the innate connection to enjoy health and wellness and just like the athlete practice makes excellence. But as you are already bestowed this gift, you only need to remember you have it and how to access it. Now the reason i use this as an analogy (the same is applicable to world class musicians, artists and businessmen alike) because when we can harness the body, mind and spirit connection as a whole and not separate we can choose to spend as much time in this state of the health "White Zone" as we like. Buddhist monks spend most of their time in this state. We don't all have to be a monk to achieve this innate gift we are all born with.
We just need to be prepared to begin to adopt the right practices for ourselves to remember what state of BEING works best for us to activate that state and enjoy the full potential of our time here. Reaching a state of balance and harmony and a true state of innate health is inspired by a multidimensional level of conscious practice which in turn developes into expansive unconscious benefit. It is our job to assure our children are taught the depth of their innate abilities early in life so they can master their mind, body connection whether thay choose to be an athlete, musician businessman or Zen Buddhist |
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