wellness
The state of being in great health, and continually striving to attain all of your goals.
The 8 Areas of Wellness
At uPOW (Your Pursuit of Wellness), our main mission is to provide guidance on your personal journey of wellness. While wellness presents itself in many forms, we have identified the 8 fundamental areas of wellness as being: Physical, Intellectual, Professional, Social, Financial, Spiritual, Romantic, and Creative. These areas may seem independent but they are intersectional and often affect each other; if you are neglecting a certain area, then there’s a good chance it will negatively impact another area. Now that we’ve established the 8 areas, let’s take a closer look at each one individually.
By Your Pursuit of Wellness5 years ago in Longevity
RESTART RESET RECLAIM RECOMMIT
When I drove three hours to see the surgeon that had done my lumpectomy I knew before I got there what he was going to say. He was a friend of the family and so I trusted him to remove the suspicious tumor. I decided to have it removed before confirmation about what it was because my reasoning was it would have to be removed anyway. I sat in his office with my best friend who had travelled with me to do the surgery weeks before. She knew me well, my untamed strength and my hidden unspoken vulnerability, so her support meant a lot. Finally, the words were out of his mouth, “You have a very fast-growing breast cancer, which based on size and location means you have to go to the oncologist and surgeon to do a mastectomy ASAP”. The brightness of my smile greeted his words so despite knowing how intelligent I was he asked, “do you understand what I’m saying?”. This was where my wellness journey began.
By TanYah Global5 years ago in Longevity
Cultivating Time and Peace
If you were a human on Earth in 2020, chances are, you had a few thoughts about health and wellness. The COVID-19 pandemic shook our species to the core — causing us to face our greatest fears, grapple with the reality of social inequality, failed systems, gaps in our personal safety nets, and the reality of our collective and individual mental health. It was a year of reality checks. And an endurance test of our ability to cope.
By Jen Schildgen5 years ago in Longevity
2021 in Mind, Body, and Spirit
That fresh new year energy hasn't faded on me yet, so I'm hanging onto it for as long as it's willing to stick around. We could spend some time reflecting on 2020 here, but in the spirit of a clean slate, can we not? I'm keeping my eyes on what's around me and what I want to see and create in the future.
By Tabitha Kerbabian5 years ago in Longevity
You Must Make These 7 Things as Wellness Resolutions For 2021
2020 is finally go now which suggests, we must make some new wellness resolutions for 2021. Globally speaking, we've all been too stressed, burned-out, and aroused this year which has made our psychological state choose a toss.
By Shivay Talks5 years ago in Longevity
An Exercise in Integration
While standing, place your feel hip width apart, turn your toes in until your feet are parallel, it will feel slightly pigeon toed (very pigeon toed to me!). Raise your knee caps, tighten your thighs, pull your navel to your to your spine, lengthening your lower back. Raise your shoulders, press them to the wall behind you and lower your shoulder blades onto the back of your rib cage. Externally rotate your arms so that your palms hint forward. Keeping your chin parallel with the floor, slightly move your head toward the wall behind you and lift through the top of your head. Relax your jaw. TaDa Sena!!
By Madelyn Fletcher-Stark5 years ago in Longevity
Encouraging the Elevation of Wellness
As we enter this new year following the woes of the year passed, I think it's important to consider what really promotes wellness for each of us individually. As I see it, each of us truly live in alternate realities. Now, one might argue against this and propose that we all live in the same reality, but I'm suggesting that our personal realities are based on more than our outer conditions. You and another person, for instance, may both be in a pitch black, soundless room, but does your reality, your total experience of that room, not differ from that of the other person based on your internal perception of what occurs in your mind and body in that moment? You might be comfortable; they may feel unnerved. Objectively, it's simple: you both are simply in a room without external stimuli, but, subjectively, the potential difference of internal circumstances strikes me as two unique individuals experiencing different realities at the same time. I often see others being primarily affected by the events going on around them, and, depending upon what those occurrences are, that experience of life can range anywhere from very favorable to very miserable. My point is that, upon reflecting this past year and even my whole life up to now, it's becoming increasingly prudent to pay just as much, if not more, attention to what is going on within myself if I'm to experience a more enjoyable reality, and the intent of what I'm writing here is to inform anyone reading of what my reality consists of on a daily basis in my endeavor to reach for a more enjoyable existence in this perpetual flow of countless experienced moments.
By Luke Crawley5 years ago in Longevity
Being Better
The year 2020 changed the way we lived, worked, learned – practically every aspect of how we function as a society. I can only imagine historians trying to fit this past year into a textbook for future generations to learn! With that said, I feel like I can speak for many of us when I say that we have emotional whiplash from the amount of changes we have had to assimilate in short periods of time. It kind of felt like every time I got my head around one change another was just over the horizon. I think this has left many of us feeling as if the very foundation on which we stand is shaky and unstable.
By Leslie Smestad5 years ago in Longevity
Have You Ever Checked Your Heart Rate?
Heart Rate. The other day, I was climbing one of the small hills in Madurai (located in the state of TamilNadu, India) along with my friends. While a few of us could climb with easier efforts, a few struggled a bit, with their breathing strained. Only with adequate breaks, by catching up with their breath, they could climb. Of course, the hill had good and well-structured stairs to climb.
By Ganesh Kuduva5 years ago in Longevity
