DIMENSION OF WELLNESS.ppt

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DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS

Dr Rajesh RamnathBAMS, MSc Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Fellowship in Nutrition and Environmental Medicine, MS Clinical Research and Epidemiology


INTRODUCTION

•As ‘Health’ became known for more than mere absence of disease, the term

• ‘Wellness’ was introduced to reflect the positive attributes of health.

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HOW DO WE DEFINE WELLNESS

Growth

Balance

Absence of Illness


CONCEPTS

Fragmented approach

Holistic approach



WHY DO WE NEED WELLNESS



DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS Physical

Emotional

Psychological

Social

Intellectual

Spiritual

Occupational

Environmental

Cultural

Economic

Climate



7 DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS


1. Social

2. Physical

3. Emotional

4. Occupational

5. Intellectual

6. Environmental

7. Spiritual


PHYSICAL DIMENSION

Physical wellness involves aspects of health related directly to the body.

Physical wellness means you can get through the day with enough energy for work and play.

Body, nutrition, healthy habits.

This dimension considers overall health and what you need to do to maintain a healthy quality of life.

It is the ability to take charge of your health by making conscious decisions to be healthy.



PHYSICAL DIMENSION• The ability to recognize that our behaviors have a significant

impact on our wellness and adopting healthful habits (routine check ups, a balanced diet, exercise, etc.) while choosing to avoid destructive habits (tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.)

• Examples

• Someone who eats a nutritious breakfast every morning

• Someone who exercises at least three times a week

• Someone who protects him/herself from STDs

• Someone who chooses to be drug and alcohol free



SOCIAL WELLNESS

Social wellness involves interacting with people and the environment and having satisfying relationships

Relationships, respect, community interaction.

This dimension considers how we relate to others.

How we connect, communicate and get along with the people we are surrounded by.



SOCIAL WELLNESS• The ability to relate to and connect with other people in our world.

The ability to communicate well (verbally and non-verbally).

• Our ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with

family, friends and co-workers contributes to our Social Wellness.

• Examples

• Someone who works to decrease

violence and handles conflict in

a positive way• Demonstrates basic social etiquette



EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

Emotional wellness involves a sense of self-worth and an acceptance for things that are different.

•Feelings, emotions, reactions, cognition.

•This is the dimension where you are in touch with your feelings and emotions of sorrow, joy, love, etc.

•This dimension helps us to cope with the emotional challenges of life.



EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

• The ability to understand ourselves and cope with the challenges life can bring.

• The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness or stress; hope, love, joy and happiness in a productive manner contributes to our Emotional Wellness.

• Examples

• Takes action to control stress (exercises, journaling, yoga, diaphragmatic breathing, etc.)

• Calmly and openly discuss your feelings

in a respectful way.

• Has a conscience and considers

how actions affect others

(“listens to inner self”)



INTELLECTUAL WELLNESSIntellectual wellness involves your ability to use the knowledge that you acquire

•Critical thinking, creativity, curiosity.

•This dimension considers the desire to be a lifelong learner.

•It’s the ability to be open to new experiences and ideas in order to continue growing.



INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS• The ability to open our minds to new ideas and experiences that can be

applied to personal decisions, group interaction and community betterment.

• The desire to learn new concepts, improve skills and seek challenges in pursuit of lifelong learning.

• Examples

• Someone who accepts challenges as a vehicle for growth• Someone who reads often for enjoyment• Someone who is able to listen to ideas other than his/her own



OCCUPATIONAL WELLNESS• Skills, finances, balance,

satisfaction.

• This dimension involves finding fulfillment in your job and knowing that it has meaning.

• It is also the ability to establish balance between work and leisure time.



OCCUPATIONAL WELLNESS• The ability to get personal fulfillment from

our jobs while still maintaining balance in our lives.

• Our desire to contribute in our jobs to make a positive impact on the organizations and to society as a whole.

• Examples

• Someone who believes that work is meaningful and it allows for personal growth.

• Able to balance work with rest and play • Someone who continues to do the best

he/she can do when working



ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS• Includes protecting the earth

and its resources and modifying your surroundings to help you achieve a healthy lifestyle.

• Modifying your environment to remove or minimize barriers.



ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS• The ability to make a positive impact on the quality of our

surroundings—be it our homes, our communities, or our planet.

• Examples

• Someone who recognizes his/her impact on the environment• Someone who recycles• Someone who avoids excessively noisy situations such as

loud headphones or athletic events (acoustic overexposure can lead to temporary or permanent loss of hearing).



SPIRITUAL WELLNESS

• Spiritual wellness involves your relationship to other living things and the role of spiritual direction in your life.

• Spiritual wellness means working to achieve spiritual potential and find harmony in living.

• Meaning, values.

This dimension helps to establish

Peace and harmony in our lives.

It is the ability to discover meaning

and purpose in life



SPIRITUAL WELLNESS

• The ability to establish peace and harmony in our lives.

• The process of discovering meaning and purpose in life and demonstrating values through behaviors.

• Examples

A person who meditates or prays on a regular basis

A person who takes time to enjoy beauty

A person who loves life and is

free of self-destructive behaviors.



WELLNESS

• Health will be good if one’s mind and body are in harmony, and one’s interaction with the universe is natural and wholesome.

• Disease arises when a person is out of harmony with the universe. Disruptions can be physical, emotional, spiritual, or a combination of these.



INTERCONNECTION

• Wellness incorporates many dimensions of health, each of which is interconnected within the framework of an individual’s total well-being.

• While a certain dimension may be strong at a particular point in time, others may need more attention.

• The Financial Dimension, for example, might affect how an individual feels they can succeed socially.

• The Occupational Dimension may suffer if the Intellectual Dimension is being compromised.


WHEEL OF WELLNESS



CONTINUUM

All seven spokes are essential to the strength and balance of the wheel demonstrating a continuum, from illness to wellness, along the line of each spoke from the centre to the edge. Within this continuum the “treatment model” is seen as only being applied to the measures and signs of illness , whereas the “wellness model” gives support across the whole continuum



YOU THE FOCUS

• In each dimension there is opportunity for personal growth, and due to the dimensions’ interrelationships, growth in one area often sparks interest in another.

• Balancing these dimensions, however, is important in pursuing wellness. For example, being an avid reader yet not being able to get along with anyone is not an example of balanced wellness



EAST AND WEST

The reductionist West have focused on behavior change as the mechanism for achieving wellness and left largely unconsidered the Eastern approach of transformation of consciousness

The Wellness dimensions drawn from this model includes constructs of gender and cultural identity, both of which interact with other constructs, emphasizing the construction of wellness has much to do with its location within the context of culture, gender and class.



EASTERN WELLNESS

• According to Ayurveda life is much beyond a biochemical or biophysical phenomenon. It is the manifestation of union of soul, mind and body which are integral and interdependent components of life.

• Action and Chetana (closest equivalent is consciousness) are the essential characteristics of life. Soul provides Chetana (consciousness) while mind initiates action and these characteristics manifest in body which neither possesses Chetana nor an action



ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGY• Avyakta (latent)

Avyakta means unmanifested. The avyakta principle is the unmanifested form of pure existence. The origin of Universe is from avyakta. There are 2 main components.

• Purusha

• Prakruti



ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGY• As per the principles of Ayurveda, every human being is a

microcosm of the universe, that is, a universe within the universe. Everything in this universe is connected. Ayurveda advocates that the relationship and interaction between the energy and matter, individual and consciousness determine the health of the person.



ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE - COSMOLOGY• In the beginning, there was primordial stillness. The desire of

that stillness to know itself created a disturbance, which took form as the intention and motivation of cosmic energy. This disturbance, in turn, created a duality in cosmic consciousness



PURUSHA

• Purusha is absolute, pure conciousness. It is a potential energy. Purusha does not take an active part in the creation. Purusha is the observer. It is only a witness to the creation. It exists as a choiceless, colorless, formless non-material entity.



MAHAD (COSMIC INTELLIGENCE)• This is the first primordial matter developed from Prakruti and

Purusha. Mahad is defined as pure innate intelligence. It has self awareness but no differentiation. Mahad is Buddhi as reasoning capacity and individual intellect.

• collective consciousness

• Buddhi, or wisdom and discriminatory power



CREATION OF UNIVERSE

• The creation of the universe, as described in the Rig Veda, emerged out of Avyakta (Unmanifest) in which everything lay latent. This universe emanates from and recedes into Paramatma in an everlasting process. Creation is described as the union of Purusha (life principle or spiritual factor) and Prakriti (nature or cosmic illusion). Omit one or the other, and there is no creation.



PANCHAMAHA BHUTAS (5 GREAT ELEMENTS

• Everything in the universe is made up of combinations of the Five Elements (Pancha Mahabhutas). This includes the human being which also acquires a soul or spirit. These five elements are known as:

• Space or Akasha

• Air or Vayu

• Fire or Tejas

• Water or Apa

• Earth or Prithvi


CREATION

• These five elements, it should be understood, derive from and are expressions of an unmanifest and undifferentiated Creative Principle, which is One. These five elements are to be understood in a material sense as well as a subtle sense. By earth we are to understand not only the terrain of our planet or the iron in our red blood cells and spleen, but also the quality of steadfastness of mind, strength of one’s moral fiber, one’s slow and quiet undeterred advancement towards a goal, and the resistance to the manifestations of others.



WELLNESS IN AYURVEDA• Sama Dosha Sama Agni: cha, Sama Dhathu Mala

Kriya

• Prasenna Atma Indriya Mana: Swasthyam ethya api dheeyatai

• Health is combination of equilibrium of Doshas (functional principles); and Agni (principles responsible for digestion and metabolism); normal state of Dhatus (body tissues), Malas (excreta) normalcy of body functions, normalcy of Indriyas(sensory and motor faculties); clarity and pleasure of mind; and pleasure of soul (a state of absolute pleasure unaffected by a loss or a gain)



WELLNESS IN AYURVEDA• the ancient Ayurvedic physicians realized

the need for preserving the alliance of the mind and body and offers mankind tools for remembering and nurturing the subtler aspects of our humanity. Ayurveda seeks to heal the fragmentation and disorder of the mind-body complex and restore wholeness and harmony to all people



WELLNESS

• High-level wellness is achievable by people of all ages, all socioeconomic groups, and all types.

• It involves working toward becoming the best you can be without accepting “traditional” limitations (i.e., age, race, gender, heredity). Wellness is a way of living in which growth and improvement are sought in all areas.

• No matter where you are starting from or what you’ve done in the past, you have the capacity to take steps to improve your personal well-being.



WELLNESS IS

•A continuous active process – an going lifelong effort oriented towards maximizing one’s potential.

•a commitment – a determined choice to move toward a optimal well-being

•Proactive – an approach to living, loving, working and playing based on one’s values

•A way of life – life style one designs to achieve optimal health

•An integration – an appreciation that everything one does think, feel, and believe has an impact on well-being



BE WELL STAY WELL


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