“Fitness is important. A healthy lifestyle is important. An optimistic and unenvious attitude is important. Finally, valuing your relationships and friendships, and remaining connected is important” – Anon.

Total Wellness is different from Total Well-Being. Total Well-Being includes subjective valuation of mental perceptions and includes many other factors than just Wellness. While Wellness is mostly a physical condition, of Good Health and Fitness including mental acuity, that leads to general satisfaction and contentment.

Of course, Wellness too is somewhat subjective in that each of us is a unique individual and responds somewhat differently to what we eat and what we call on our body to do and our attitude to what happens to us.

Even keeping this in mind, Wellness is something we all strive to attain to and maintain, as it is also an important factor of our sense of happiness and well being.

Our happiness and wellbeing, arising out of our attitude, our work, social and especially our family relationships, our sense of control over our work and life and how we see ourselves fitting in amongst our neighbours, all in turn have a considerable effect on our physical health and total wellness, in a cyclic relationship.

From ancient philosophers to present day thinkers, all agree that happiness is the ultimate objective in life and all other goals are but a means to this end. But happiness, as we all know from our own experience, is more a short lived experience that soon wears off, and that if we want it to become more meaningful and effective in improving our Quality of Life we then need to ensure our physical health and fitness and develop a positive, even optimistic approach to all the other happenings in our lives, and to accept relative affluence and comparative conditions of our neighbours and others with equanimity. Research has determined that over 85 percent of all illnesses are stress related. Hence we should strive to reduce stress. Envy is a waste of time and a cause of stress. We should therefore recognize that we already have all that we really need and so learn to appreciate it. Continue to do what we need to do with the belief that the best is yet to come. Power and money are not the only aims for life these should always be only the result of how we live our life.

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