Mental health is just as important as physical and spiritual health, and together they all make up a whole: wellness.
When we think of "wellness," many people picture a serene yoga studio, stacks of vitamins, or perhaps someone doing deep breathing exercises in the middle of a nature retreat.
While all those images capture facets of wellness, the concept is much deeper, more nuanced, and profoundly personal. Wellness isn’t just the absence of illness, it’s a full-bodied, multidimensional approach to living that seeks balance across many areas of life.
Wellness is a conscious, deliberate process of making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life. It’s not a static state but a dynamic practice of growth and adaptation. At its core, wellness emphasizes harmony within ourselves and our surroundings.
To understand wellness deeply, it’s helpful to explore its core dimensions: physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, occupational, and financial wellness. Each of these areas intertwines to create a holistic sense of wellbeing.
Strategies To Reconnect With Wellness
1. Exercise
In order to have a healthy state of mind, it is important to always take care of your body, too. By just taking even fifteen minutes a day to exercise, it can go a long way. This can be anything from going for a walk to running on the treadmill or lifting weights.
If you do this for 15 minutes or an hour, you are going to see a difference afterwards due to the serotonin and endorphins your body releases. Those chemicals can lead to a better state of mind, and even affect your spiritual health, and as a whole, you will feel much more reconnected and refreshed.
2. Eat Healthy
To keep your mind healthy, we not only need to take care of our body by exercising, but also by making sure we are feeding it healthy foods. Processed foods can make us feel sluggish, and the amount of salt, sugar, and fat in those foods is not good for your physical health either.
Some healthy foods that are good for your body and brain include fruits, nuts, vegetables, and protein. Our gut health is the key to keeping our mind, body and soul connected to wellness.
Instead of eating potato chips, try eating some fruit, or nuts that are high in protein such as almonds or cashews. By curving those unhealthy cravings and feeding our body healthy fruits and vegetables, we can appreciate nature’s natural snacks and reconnect with overall wellness.
3. Meditate
The idea of meditating to some people can seem silly or strange, and maybe even uncomfortable if you have never done it. However, if you wake up in the morning and want to start your day off in a good state of mind, it can be very beneficial.
This can be done by sitting in a quiet space, relaxing your muscles, and by practicing breathing exercises while turning off your thoughts the best you can.
This can be a simple seven to ten minute process that will go a long way.
After those short minutes are over, you will feel ready to take on the day. This can also be done at night before bed, when you want to calm your body and mind to get a good night’s sleep.
No matter when you do it, meditation is a great way to improve the wellness of mind, body and spirit.
4. Make Time for Your Hobbies
While we are working adults and we spend most of our days on the clock, it is still important to make time for the things that make us happy, and even bring out our inner child. To reconnect with wellness, you should tap into hobbies that bring you joy and make you happy and to alleviate stress.
This could be anything from reading, playing a video game, writing in a journal, painting/drawing, playing a sport, or anything that makes you happy. By making time for our passions and hobbies, we will feel much happier and reconnected to wellness.
5. Learn Something New
A strong way to reconnect with wellness is by going out of your comfort zone and trying something brand new. This can be uncomfortable at first, but in the end, you can at least be proud of yourself for giving it a try, and it may even become something important to you.
Some ideas for trying something new can be anything from learning a new language, trying a new sport, or even going to a new coffee shop that you don’t normally go to. It can be anything—simple or big. This is a great way to improve your overall wellness.
6. Show Gratitude
There are many ways to practice gratitude, and by taking time each day to show gratitude to someone or even yourself, you can easily reconnect with wellness and happiness. Gratitude can be manifested in many different forms, especially by doing acts of kindness every day, or as often as you can.
Tell someone you appreciate them, give them a hug, go to a shelter and volunteer, make a donation, and start looking at life through a more positive perspective. You will be surprised at how fast your life will shift into the light.
7. Remember to have Compassion and Forgiveness
This one can be a bit of a challenge if you are someone who does not forgive easily, but if you try to have compassion and forgiveness for yourself or others, the benefits for your overall happiness, wellbeing, and wellness are tremendous. We are not able to truly achieve wellness if we cannot forgive ourselves or others.
8. Help Others
By helping others overcome challenges and giving them advice on their own decisions and choices in their own lives, you are challenging yourself to become the best version of yourself, and to reconnect with your overall wellness. Helping others can be extremely beneficial for the people you help and also for yourself.
Some examples of how you can help others include things like volunteering for a charity, offering to help elderly neighbors/family members with chores and errands, asking someone if they need assistance in buying food or essentials, they may not have the means for, and maybe even tutoring children and/or students in subjects you can help with.
9. Reflect
Sometimes it can be hard to make time to sit down and think about changes you want to make in your life—whether it’s due to having a busy schedule, or just not enough motivation.
However, if you really want to challenge yourself to living the best life you want for yourself, it is important and essential that you challenge yourself every day, and that includes making the time to sit down, write out your goals and dreams, and reflect on what changes need to be made.
10. Mindfulness
Just like the well-known saying goes, “think before you speak,” it is important to be more mindful. Being mindful is one of the best ways to challenge yourself to live your best life and reconnect with your overall wellness.
Being mindful helps you stay connected to the present moment. Some great ways you can practice mindfulness before making any certain decisions can include practicing breathing exercises, reflecting on your day, connecting with nature, or journaling.
The present moment is the most important time of your life because it is never going to be experienced again.
Remember, your mind, body, and soul are all connected and make up wellness as a whole. Take care of each one individually, and you will be able to live a happier, healthier life. Take control of your life again and get started now!
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