Healthy people express themselves consistent with their personality types, so there is a wide spectrum of normal behaviors that could contribute to achieving wellness. The technical end of wellness psychology encourages normal responses to the challenges of life, rather than just treating mental and
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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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Personality
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Physical
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Quality Of Life
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Our own values and beliefs will shape our definition of a great quality of life. A well person or family seeks to live consistently with their own meaning for living well. The most obvious and desirable benefit of a well mind is a better quality of life, which of course is determined by each individual's
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Relationships
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Sharing and committing to support each other's values calms rocky waters and sets the stage for happiness and growth in relationships. While you can't be responsible for someone else's behaviors and values, you can help to create an environment that makes relationships work better. Gaining and maintaining
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Spirituality
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help form a solid foundation of wellness in your life. No discussion of wellness psychology would be complete without mentioning the impact of spirituality on wellness. Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help to form a solid
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Wellness Psychology
Category: Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Mental
Is this glass of water half empty or half full? Wellness psychology would definitely indicate the latter. Wellness psychology is the study of mental and emotional wellness - in other words, the way to create conditions of thinking and feeling that are consistent with healthy living. Wellness psychology
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PMS
Category: Common Conditions Treated, Chronic Condition Relief, Conditions Affecting Women
Several studies have shown that chiropractic care can help decrease many of the symptoms of PMS without the potential side effects of prescription drugs. Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by mood swings, swollen abdomen, headaches, back pain, food cravings, fatigue, irritability or depression
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