WellnessAware blog

The word 'Wellness' seems to have a very fuzzy meaning.  I'm sure people would define the word in many different ways, and I doubt whether it could possibly have a standard dictionary meaning. So what are some possible understandings of Wellness?  For a start, people would associate this with being healthy, being 'well', although even this much more basic word is not possible to define precisely.  What is 'being well' for me is probably very different from 'being well' for you, as this will depend on many factors such as general living conditions, age, recent illnesses, attitude, and so on. And how can we expect to be able to change, and hopefully improve, our Wellness?  Is it just a matter of eating a healthier diet so that we are able to avoid becoming overweight and have a good energy level?  Or is it much more than this being physically active and getting plenty of exercise?  Surely diet and exercise are the most significant aspects of Wellne...

It is tempting to simply resolve to improve the overall wellness of your life, without giving sufficient consideration about how you are actually going to achieve this. You might have general ideas about improving the quality of your diet, and getting more exercise, and taking the time to have relaxation exercises.  However you might make all the appropriate resolutions but nevertheless fail to implement most of what you had earlier resolved to do. It is usually helpful to at least outline some of the actual aims you have, and then you are better able to measure how many and how well these aims were achieved.  For instance, instead of telling yourself that you must get more exercise over the coming weeks, why not actually commit yourself to getting 80 minutes of exercise this week, 100 minutes the next, and 120 minutes from then on. Similarly, instead of deciding to maintain a more healthy diet from now on, you need to actually specify how the general intention can be ac...

From what I have observed so far, it is tempting to consider the concept of Wellness as the need to eat a healthy diet, with maybe some sessions of yoga or mindfulness thrown in. However really Wellness should be understood as having much wider implications and so corresponding ways of establishing these. Certainly maintaining a healthy diet is a crucial part of this.  For anyone to indulge themselves on a regular basis by eating fatty or high sugar content foods, this much increases the risk of suffering heart or stroke problems in later life. However if we are thinking of the overall condition of the cardio-vascular system then the importance of getting regular exercise should not be ignored.  Ironically the getting of plenty of exercise will to some extent limit the damage being done by eating the wrong foods.  Nevertheless we should all try to both eat healthy foods and exercise regularly. And our physical health is not necessarily the main consideration....

So much in life we take for granted, particularly our everyday health and quality of life ... until we begin to notice some adverse changes. It is so important to maintain your overall Wellness, particularly for older people, say 60+ years.  We all need to do all we reasonably can to maintain our steady Wellness, otherwise the quality of our lives can begin to decrease significantly. The purpose of this Blog is to cover a wide range of issues which affect our Wellness, and to consider the best ways to keep us keeping well and happy for as long as possible. I look forward to developing with you a greater awareness of Wellness, and how we can go about improving the quality of our lives.