Wellness consciousness is a mindset that promotes a healthy lifestyle. It involves embracing all dimensions of wellness, including physical, mental, and spiritual health.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people should improve their wellness consciousness. This paper analyzes the mediating effect of health life goal and perceived behavioral control on wellness consciousness and home-based exercise.
Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual wellness involves exploring beliefs, morals and values that support a sense of purpose and meaning. While spirituality may involve engaging in religious activities, it can also include things like learning about different religions or cultures, meditating and spending time in nature, cultivating gratitude and having spirited conversations with others about life’s big questions and mysteries.
People who are spiritually well often have healthy relationships and a strong support system. They are able to balance their own needs with the needs of others and feel that they are part of a bigger picture or universal reality.
Spiritual wellness is also related to meditation, yoga, personal prayer and the practice of mindful living. Practicing these daily, along with self-reflection and introspection can help you grow in your understanding of your inner beingness. This translates into more awareness, compassion and love of yourself and others. In turn, these characteristics can contribute to overall wellness by lowering stress and increasing immunity.
Physical Wellness
Physical wellness includes activities such as nutrition, exercise, and fitness, which keep your body strong and healthy. It also means being aware of how your environment and lifestyle impact your physical wellbeing.
People who pursue physical wellness have a positive attitude toward their health and are more likely to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors, such as practicing regular aerobic exercise and maintaining a proper diet. They also try to eliminate bad habits, such as smoking and excessively surfing social media, which may negatively affect their health.
In addition, this study finds that health consciousness has a direct effect on home-based exercise, and the internal mechanism underlying this relationship is that health consciousness promotes people to set health life goal and further strengthens their perceived behavioral control. Consequently, this study refines and deepens the previous research on health consciousness.
Mental Wellness
Mental wellness is often synonymous with mental health and refers to a person’s emotional well-being and the ability to deal with life’s challenges. It is also a holistic approach that focuses on personal growth, a sense of fulfillment, self-esteem and positive relationships.
Being health conscious leads to improved perceptual awareness. It also helps people to be more objective and to accept their strengths and weaknesses more easily. As a result, their self-esteem improves.
Research has shown that health consciousness positively influences home-based exercise through a chain mediation of perceived behavioral control and internal mechanism. It also increases motivation to pursue healthy lifestyle and strengthens the commitment to a healthier lifestyle. This is a very important contribution to the literature of wellness consciousness and provides new insights into the relationship between health-consciousness and home-based exercise. It is also valuable for developing and enhancing effective mental wellness interventions. The results are consistent with the salutogenic model. They suggest that interventions such as mindfulness, meditation and other stress reduction techniques can help to promote mental wellness.
Social Wellness
Social wellness is the ability to connect with others in healthy and authentic ways. It focuses on developing and maintaining positive relationships with friends, family members, coworkers, and the broader community. It also involves understanding and respecting those who may be different from you, including their sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, or life experiences.
Maintaining a sense of community and belonging is an important aspect of social wellness, which helps to reduce stress levels and increase happiness. This is achieved by cultivating and maintaining meaningful relationships, as well as participating in social activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
Achieving a level of social wellness can be as simple as keeping in regular contact with friends, or as complex as becoming involved in your local community through volunteering or joining a group based on your interests. It’s also about finding a balance between your personal and social lives, as well as developing effective communication skills and empathizing with those around you.
