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Achieve Wholeness For Holistic Wellness

Being a healthy, whole person is not just about your physical health and well-being. There are several dimensions that make up the whole person, and it is only when all of these are in balanced with one another that you are whole and truly well. When one of these dimension is unhealthy, it will affect all the others, and you begin to compensate in other areas of your life, making you unbalanced.To create a whole life that is stable and fulfilling, then, you must pay attention to all four of these dimensions. The four essential components of wellness and becoming a whole person are physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental.

Your Self-Assessment Questionnaire

The self-assessment questionnaire is a vital tool for individuals seeking to nurture their physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being. It serves as a guide for self-discovery and improvement, helping individuals identify strengths and areas needing attention. While not diagnostic, the questionnaire offers valuable insights into wellness dimensions, aiding in self-reflection and goal setting. By pinpointing specific behaviors, individuals can chart a course towards holistic wellness and utilize the accompanying wellness action plan for support. This journey offers an opportunity for self-discovery and empowerment, leading towards a healthier and more balanced life.

Self Assessment Questionnaire

You can assess your well-being and start your journey towards holistic wellness by completing our self-assessment questionnaire.

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Improve Your Health

You can begin improving your health and wellness by completing our Self Assessment Tool Questionnaire. This will help you identify areas in your life that are working well, as well as those where you might need to improve. When the mind, body, and spirit are developed in a healthy and positive way, overall calmness and stress relief can be achieved.

4 Health and Wellness Strategies

Take advantage of these four strategies to feel like your best self: healthy and stress-free.

Where should you start to improve your overall health

If you want to make changes for the better in your life, it’s important to have an accurate, realistic picture of where you are balanced and where you are struggling. The results to the self-assessment questionnaire from above can help you narrow down on what area of your well being you need to improve. Below are additional things you need to consider.

1. What are your beliefs and values and are they in alignment with achieving wellness?

First Examine your Beliefs and Values

Being a whole person means you are in balanced, and that can only be achieved when all aspects of your life are in harmony with your personal beliefs and values. Your values and beliefs shape your choices and decisions. They make you unique and special, and determine how you act, how you live and work, your relationships with yourself and with other people.

As a part of your knowledge seeking phase. It is also important to examine all areas of your life that may feel disconnected from your values and set new goals accordingly. Checking in with your beliefs also means reaffirming your commitment to becoming whole and finding wellness. You must make a conscious choice to become balanced, then choose that path each and every day in order to fully achieve it.

How Do I Achieve Wellness?

Without a plan, dreams cannot become reality. Now that you understand where your life is balanced and where you need to focus, it is time to make a plan. Set goals in each of the four dimensions of your life, then make an actionable plan for how you would like to achieve those goals. A plan provides a starting point and something to work toward and setting goals in each of your dimensions can help you see how these are all interconnected. The action plan below outlines how to develop mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness.

How Will You Get There?

The most important step in this journey is to take mindful action toward achieving your dream of becoming whole. Showing up each day to work on your goals and being consistent with your focus, and attention can help you achieve your dreams. You must choose each day to renew your decision to honor this work and yourself, and you will have to be patient, as this work does not happen instantly.

2. Define Your Health and Wellness Goals

How do you presently deal with stress?

What are you doing to support these needs?

What kind of coping strategies do you use?

Are you finding the time for self-care?

What are your emotional, mental, physical or spiritual needs?

What well-being goals do you want to achieve and how do you get there?

For optimal health and wellness, it is important to consider the person as a whole. That includes their mind, body, spirit, and emotion. The World Health Organization defines Mental health as:

A state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.

To achieve a state of well being we need to keep in balance and harmony all aspects of our life, and when we achieve this we will be more productive, fulfilled, and better contributors to our community. In order to achieve this, we must implement healthy strategies to prevent and manage stress in cooperation with family, friends, and the community. Implementing stress management techniques in the area most concerning to you can help achieve this. It doesn’t have to be all at once, but step by step, one goal at a time.

“Mental health is one part of an interconnected package of overall health including mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.”.
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3. Opt for Smaller, Achievable Goals to Enhance your Health and Wellness Journey

For health and wellness, you must break down the larger vision into smaller practical goals in order to implement an action plan. You may have multiple goals in different aspects of your life (mental, emotional, physical, spiritual). By doing this, you will be able to start and follow through on a goal more easily. Upon achieving a smaller and practical goal, you can move on to the next and feel a sense of accomplishment. As you achieve your goals, you are encouraged to go on to the next one.

How to Break Down Goals?

Do you want to achieve more calmness, happiness, patience, or confidence?

Do you want to be more physically fit, gain more energy or lose weight?

Do you want to rest and sleep more peacefully

Do you want to let go of anger or guilt?

Do you want to feel more resilient, secure, less fearful and more in control and empowered?

Do want to develop better health habits?

Do you want to be more focused and productive.

Do you want to improve the negative aspects of your environment?

Stress Reduction through Mastering Health Goals

As you master your health goals you will come to realize that you are also relieving some of the stress in your life, and you will feel a sense of accomplishment. Each step you take gets you closer to where you want to be and the person you like to become.

Once you have identified what your specific goal is, it is important to focus on the positive aspects of that goal, and not on the negative. That is, instead of focusing on what is wrong, focus on what you like to achieve.
A steady practice of emotional, mental, spiritual and physical skills builds resilience that helps you to progress even in times of adversity.

Knowing what you can achieve and how stress triggers mental health problems, you should decide what strategy is best for reducing stress and enhancing your health.

4. Choose the Right Strategy for Your Wellness Goal

Now that you decided on your specific goal, how do you get there? It is important to choose the right strategy to achieve your health and wellness goal. Basic wellness strategies include food, fitness, rest, self-love, support from family and friends, stress management skills, and a healthy environment.Using natural holistic therapies along with these fundamentals can help you achieve your personal goals, reduce stress, and improve your health.

You must keep in mind that achieving wellness is a long-term goal, and the strategies you incorporate must become part of your everyday routine. This is not a quick fix, but a healthy lifestyle you are adopting. Therefore, you should ask yourself:

“Am I able and willing to take this challenge?”

Implement Your Health and Wellness Strategy

Reflecting on your own wellness can help you identify the aspects that are positive and those that need improvement. Knowing yourself can be uncomfortable, especially when it pertains to areas that need improvement. Take note that looking closely in the mirror may raise some issues. This knowledge, however, is essential because without it, you cannot truly change your life, relieve stress, or achieve wholeness.

In accordance with your wellness goal, you can select one of the dimensions of wellness below to begin your self-care plan for well-being. The dimensions of wellness are interconnected. While some of them can be accomplished alone, others require others’ aid and support.

Self Care Plan for Health and Wellness

A plan for improving your mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual wellness will also help you reduce stress and bring more calm into your life. Even though stress is inevitable and can lead to anxiety, depression, and other disorders, you can alleviate it by practicing positive emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical practices.

Health and Wellness Dimension for Wholeness

Don’t let stress and poor health get the best of you. Please choose one or more of the following areas that you would like to improve. In order to achieve self-care goals, start with small ones, and then move on to the next. The health and wellness goals you strive for can be achieved with just a little time and effort.