Wellness consciousness is the awareness and desire to actively achieve your full potential. It includes a combination of different dimensions, including lifestyle, spiritual well being and mental health.
This study reveals that health consciousness can indirectly affect home-based exercise through health life goal and perceived behavioral control. Future research can explore the mediating effects of these factors.
Physical Wellness
Physical wellness is a key part of overall well-being. It involves maintaining a healthy body through exercise, proper nutrition and sleep. It also includes safe sexual practices and avoiding unhealthy habits such as smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
Wellness encompasses many dimensions of health, including mental and emotional well-being as well as physical health. These dimensions are interconnected and are affected by the choices and decisions we make in each of them. When one dimension is not functioning well, the others can be negatively impacted.
This study focuses on health life goal as an important influencing factor in home-based exercise during the pandemic of COVID-19. It finds that health consciousness directly affects home-based exercise and that perceived behavioral control mediates this effect. The results show that people with higher levels of health consciousness are more likely to set health life goals and stronger perceived behavioral control. This can help them increase home-based exercise during the pandemic and improve their quality of life.
Mental Wellness
Mental wellness is the ability to thrive and cope with life’s ups and downs. It involves a range of skills such as coping, resilience and stress management, positive relationships and a sense of meaning in life. Often, people confuse coping with wellness. While coping is an important component of mental wellness, it is not enough.
Mental well-being can be measured using a wellness continuum with languishing at one end and flourishing at the other. Corey Keyes’ research shows that it is possible to have mental illness and still be functioning at a moderate or flourishing level of mental wellness.
The study used Structural Equation Modelling to investigate the mediation between health consciousness and home-based exercise, and found that health consciousness directly affects home-based exercise. It also indirectly affects home-based exercise through health life goal and perceived behavioral control. The higher a person’s health consciousness, the more likely they are to set healthy lifestyle goals and the more likely they are to stick with them.
Social Wellness
The social dimension of wellness focuses on nurturing relationships with friends, family and community. A person with strong social wellness exhibits a sensitivity to others’ feelings and an ability to communicate effectively. It also involves being aware of your own emotions and expressing them in healthy ways.
Babita Spinelli, a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and New Jersey, says people with high social wellness maintain healthy, authentic friendships and relationships. They prioritize spending time with loved ones and seek out community groups and activities, like group exercise (like Peloton), to connect with others who share their interests.
Social wellness also entails prioritizing in-person interactions over electronic communication and limiting your screen time. It’s a good idea to schedule regular catch-ups with friends and family, either in-person or via video chat. Volunteering is another great way to meet new people, create a sense of purpose, and build lasting connections with others. It’s important to find balance between all eight dimensions of wellness in order to be your best self.
Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual wellness is a personal journey of understanding oneself and others. It includes a spiritual practice, religion or faith, or simply a set of values that provides meaning and purpose in life.
A recent study found that individuals who engage in spiritual wellness tend to have better physical health than those who do not. This may be due to the fact that spiritually healthy people are more likely to manage stress and to have a positive outlook on life.
Activities that are part of spiritual wellness include journaling, reflective writing or free-writing to uncover hidden feelings and aspirations; meditation, including mindful eating; and service to others and the nature. In addition, these activities can help us feel connected to something bigger than ourselves, to the universe as a whole. A common picture of this is the balance between infinity and point, our small self and the larger whole.
