Wellness is more than simply being healthy. It is about attaining physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being. Many of the strategies offered in this section will be directed toward helping you gain the physical capacity, strength, and resilience in order to achieve complete wellness.
The goal here is to help you gain insight and meaning into the circumstances of your life and then to help you put your life to work for the betterment of the human condition. That betterment may be as a mother who better prepares her children for the world they will live in as adults. It may be for the businessman who sees the greater good and the greater harm that stem from his immediate decisions and then chooses to do what is best for the long haul of all involved. It may be for the politician or community leader who understands the awesome capacity his or her respective group, organization, community, or culture has provided and then to act in the best interest of the greater good for humankind.
Please read on to gain a greater understanding of how you can obtain wellness in all aspects of your life.
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Orthotics
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, What You Wear
Your feet are the base that your body stands on. If your feet are weak or have structural problems, this can lead to problems in your knees, hips and low back, and can even cause headaches. Many people wear orthotics because they are good for their feet, but orthotics are even more important for those
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Personal Trainer
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
Another great way to get results is to make sure you are getting expert advice and supervision. A personal trainer is a great way to ensure that you are exercising safely and effectively to accomplish your goal. All exercise is not the same; some people want to build more muscle mass, some people want
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Power Plate
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
The Power Plate's Advanced Vibration Technology is the most innovative health and fitness tool in the industry today. Backed by over 40 years of scientific research, vibration training enables you to achieve a higher level of fitness faster than traditional methods. The Power Plate produces a vibration
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Protein
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Nutrition
Protein is another nutritional foundation essential to building and maintaining muscle during every stage of life. Protein provides a number of benefits in the areas of weight management, immune support, and bone health. As you know it is always best to nourish your body with natural organic foods, but
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Resistance Bands/Weights
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
In order to keep your muscles strong, you must stress them by resistance training. Dumbbell weights or resistance bands are great ways to strengthen your muscles. Resistance bands are great because they are easy to travel with. Take them on your next business trip and you won't miss a workout wherever
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Videos, Books, & Internet
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
With today's technology there really is no good excuse not to stretch and exercise properly. You can check out exercise videos for free at the local library, rent them from video stores or access free information online. You can even purchase exercise, yoga and pilates programs to download onto your
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Vitamins & Supplements
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Nutrition
Unless you live on an organic farm, most experts agree that we should take a daily supplement in order to ensure that our bodies are receiving the nutrients necessary to promote our optimum health. Multi-vitamin supplements help your body stay nourished to keep healthy and strong. One of my favorite
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Wrist Metabolism Monitor
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
If you are a gadget junkie, a professional athlete or just like to have the most advanced new technology, you'll want the Suunto t6. It is a wristwatch that calculates your heart rate, energy consumption, ventilation, oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory rate, Training Effect and EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise
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Advanced Citizenry
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Being an advanced citizen means that you dedicate some of your time, your thoughts and your perspectives to a cause that you believe in. This may be something as simple as volunteering a few hours every month to visit with senior citizens in the local nursing home, perhaps becoming a mentor to a child,
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Change Unhealthy Habits
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
There are three things that have to happen to successfully change a habit. The first is that you must make the decision to change. When you make a decision, you are affirming to yourself that you are willing to go to any lengths to make your wishes come true. This means that you will need to completely
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Get Your Sleep
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
Research suggests that the amount and quality of sleep we achieve has profound effects on wellness. Nightly sleep is critical for the restoration of health.
Sleep expert and President of the American Sleep Research Institute Lynn Larson explains that the link between sleep and decreased longevity is
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Love Others
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Although you may have never seen a doctor write a prescription for daily doses of "love," best selling authors such as Deepak Chopra M.D., Bernie Siegal M.D., and Dean Ornish M.D. all write about the healing properties of love. Dr. Ornish says, "love may be the greatest of all disease-fighters, and it's
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Quit Smoking
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
Smoking throughout the day is akin to living inside a burning building. Smoking degrades the collagen of your skin causing premature aging, destroys the cells inside your lungs, and promotes heart disease, cataracts and cancer because of the oxidizing radicals released into the blood stream. It can contribute
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Read the Labels
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Eat Well
Just about every packaged food made in the U.S. has a food label indicating serving size and other nutritional information.
Learning how to read food labels is like looking at a prescription for your health and your life. We recommend looking for red-flag ingredients- if a Hall of Shame ingredient is
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Turn off the Television
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
There are three major trends in the health of both children and adults that have public health workers concerned: an increase in obesity, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and the amount of time spent watching television. Several recently published research studies indicate that television may be the
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Identity
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
The big distinction about wellness psychology is that it is largely a manifestation of your identity, who you believe yourself to be. If you consider yourself a well person, it goes a long way toward producing well habits and a well mind. Your identity is your self image, your self concept, your beliefs
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