Question

Discuss the eight components of wellness. What happens when an individual addresses a limited number of wellness components? Of the eight components of wellness, which do you feel are your strengths and which would you consider weaknesses and why?

Answer 1

Wellness

The quality or state of being in good health is called Wellness.

Components of Wellness:

Health and wellbeing of a person are affected by different components or factors.    There are mainly eight components of Wellness. An individual should focus on all the components with importance . They are:

* Physical:

Physical wellness refers to the ability of a person to be healthy physically with adequate nutrition, able to carry out his daily activities, being free from diseases or disabilities. Physical wellness can be maintained by good nutrition, adequate exercise and rest and sleep and by avoiding bad habits like smoking and alcohol.

* Intellectual :

Intellectual wellness means the ability of a person to utilize his intelligence and talents in a creative way and to use effectively his knowledge and skills. An individual can increase his intellectual wellness by learning new language or musical instrument or by involving in challenging tasks etc.

* Emotional :

Emotional wellness refers to the ability to deal with stress effectively, to show emotions appropriately and to sustain relationships. This wellness can be maintained by good relationship status, relaxation, rest and recreation etc.

* spiritual :

Spiritual wellness means a person 's understanding about meaning and purpose of his life and values and beliefs , and also an accountability to a supreme Power of the Universe. This can improve by prayer, moral standards and hearing religious messages.

* Social :

Social wellness refers to one's ability to maintain interactions and connection with one another in society. One can lead a successful life in society with satisfaction only by maintaining good social relationships.

* Occupational :

Occupational wellness refers to a condition, when a person free from occupational stress, and can maintain balance between work or office and rest.

* Financial :

Financial wellness is mostly subjective, but overall it is the adequacy of financial status of a person . Financial imbalance can cause undue stresses.

* Environmental wellness: refers to the healthy atmosphere or the surroundings that a person ocuppy and it gives him the content and happiness. No one prefers to be in a polluted and disorganised environment.

When an individual focus or addresses on limited number of components of Wellness , there will be some imbalance over the health and wellbeing of that person. For example: Suppose a person, who is maintaining physical, financial, environmental wellness and not maintaining emotional wellness , then he will be in trouble to maintain social welness, spiritual, and occupation wellness, as he will be unable to copy with the stressful situations and unable to maintain relationships.  

This imbalances can contribute to ill health and the concept of Wellness may not be achieved by the individual.

Strength and weekness

(my) strength areas of Wellness components are physical, emotional, spiritual and environmental. Physical health, and the ability to cope with stress and new situation, use of knowledge and skills in creative way, the understanding about life' s purposes, its meaning and a relation with the God Almighty, the supreme Power , in heart , are the wellness areas that ( I) consider as ( my) areas of strength. A good and neat house, working environment also contribute to (my ) wellness.

Weekness are social, occupational and financial and intellectual wellness areas. Introvert nature of ( mine ) is contributing to the failure of establishing new relationship with the colleagues and other people in the society and the lack of adequate financial resources like inherited money , property or a high salaried job also adversely affect the wellness components of financial, social and occupational.