Wellness consciousness is the process of being aware of, and making choices toward a successful life. It is a multidimensional concept that includes several key areas that contribute to quality of life such as spirituality, occupational, emotional and physical health.
This study aims to explore the influencing mechanism of health consciousness on home-based exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that health consciousness promotes the formation of health life goal and further enhances perceived behavioral control.
Increased Perceptual Awareness
Perceptual awareness allows individuals to interpret and understand sensory input from their environment, enabling them to interact with the world in a meaningful way. Using various techniques, such as fMRI and TMS, researchers have investigated the neural correlates of perceptual awareness, but results have been inconsistent.
For example, some studies have shown that perceptual awareness is modulated by attention, while others have not (e.g., inattentional blindness). Moreover, some studies have found that metacognitive judgments about the presence of a stimulus are not affected by whether a participant is aware of it.
More recently, researchers have used multivariate patterns to decode the state of conscious perception across the brain, including frontal lobe regions. This has revealed that the anterior SPL, in particular, provides monitoring and feedback between perceptual hypotheses and the underlying sensory data in a feedforward manner during bistable alternations. When this area is disrupted with TMS, the rate at which changes in conscious perception occur slowed down.
Improved Mood
Mood is an important part of our overall well-being, and it’s been shown to affect how we feel about ourselves, our relationships with others, our physical health and more. Low moods have been linked to digestive problems, sleep disorders, fatigue and even heart disease.
A good mood can help us get through hard times, and there are a number of ways to boost your mood. For example, listen to music that lifts your spirits or take a nature walk. Research shows that being in nature can increase happiness and reduce stress.
Also try practicing mindfulness techniques, such as meditation or deep breathing. You can even use apps that will guide you through these exercises or just try focusing on your breath and noticing what happens. By becoming aware of your feelings, you can start to accept them and move on. Plus, studies show that people who are able to savor positive emotions have long-lasting activation of the ventral striatum, which is associated with feelings of reward.
Better Relationships
Wellness consciousness is the awareness of positive choices toward a more successful existence. It involves becoming aware of your spiritual, occupational, psychological, physical and environmental well-being.
Health conscious people are more in tune with their emotions and can control them better. They are also more likely to have a strong sense of self-discipline, which can help them stick with their healthy lifestyle choices and achieve success.
This study mainly discusses the influencing mechanism of people’s health consciousness on home-based exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic. It finds that health consciousness has a significant effect on home-based exercise, and this impact is mediated by health life goal and perceived behavioral control.
A synchronized mind and body can reduce stress, improve moods, increase productivity and develop resilience to stress. Therefore, it’s important to have both wellness dimensions (mental and physical) in order to thrive. This is why wellness is considered preventive and holistic, and it’s gaining popularity in many different fields.
Increased Productivity
A healthy body and mind help us be more productive at work, school, or home. Being health-conscious allows you to focus your energy on the tasks at hand, which boosts productivity and makes it easier to accomplish more in a short amount of time.
Spiritual wellness is the willingness to seek meaning in life and a sense of purpose, and the ability to balance your inner self with the forces that exist around you. This type of wellness grants you peace and happiness.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, this study aims to investigate the influencing mechanism of health consciousness on home-based exercise by using the indirect effect model. The results show that health consciousness indirectly influences home-based exercise through establishing health life goal and perceived behavioral control. In addition, chain mediation was found. The findings suggest that health consciousness has a positive impact on home-based exercise. Furthermore, the mediated effects were stronger for perceived behavioral control than for health life goal.
