MENTAL WELLNESS

Introduction

In Western medicine, the focus is most often on fighting illness, rather than encouraging good health. The ancient art of Acupuncture takes an opposite perspective. The Acupuncturist seeks not to fight disease, but to maintain health, with the ‘patient’ treated as a whole. The mind, body, diet and lifestyle are all elements of focus; understanding that where one area is in discord, symptoms appear in other elements.

Mental wellness is also too often associated with mental illness and seen as something that only receives attention when we suffer an emtional or mental wellbeing set back. Mental wellness analysis and tests are often discounted from our annual health checks; many of us believing that any unwellnesss or imbalance in this area is unacceptable to society.

Fortunately this attitude is now changing, but most of us currently reaching middle age have been conditioned with this flawed logic.

In reality, our mental well-being needs as much care and attention as our diet and exerices programs.

A full mental wellness program incorporates:

• Taking control of your life
• Pursuit of Happiness
• Emotional wellness
• Stress management
• The impact of stress on our body
• Understanding nutrition required for mental wellness
• Anti-stress nutritional supplementation
• Sex and relationships

Definitions of mental wellness can vary depending upon who is promoting it. Regardless of the approach taken, unless mental wellness is incorporated into life as a standard daily function, we can expect our body to be out of balance.

There are also more advanced mental capabilities that extend into the realm of quantum physics:

Quantum Jumping

More on Stress:

• Understanding Stress
• Why we Burn Out
• Impact of Stress on our Health
• Impact of Stress on our Performance
• How to Manage Stress
• Nutritional Needs During Stress
• Anti Stress Nutritional Supplements
• Quix Fixes for Stressful Days at Work
• Other Stress Management Tools & Techniques
• Managing Stressor Response

Wellness Advocates and Resources

• Deepak Chopra - author of more than 40 books on spirituality and health, offers an alternative and New Age spirituality perspective to wellness
• Stephen Jay Gould - American evolutionary biologist, writer, and historian of science
• Robert Schuller, American Protestant minister and television evangelist well known for his "Hour of Power"
• Elaine Sullivan
• Amit K. Saiya - Harmonie Research Foundation
• Andrew Weil - Advocate of Self Healing

Next: Understanding Happiness

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