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>From: "Donald B. Ardell" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Health--and Wellness
>To: Multiple recipients of list HEALTH-PROMOTION
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>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Ilona Kickbusch wrote:
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>> You might be interested to know ...Board of WHO has proposed...
>definition of health...
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>> "Health is a dynamic state of complete physical, mental, spiritual
>and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
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> Perhaps the WHO might, someday, define and thus promote a
>related term that clarifies how individuals might improve their prospects
>for ACHIEVING health. One such term that already exists, "wellness," was
>described by physician Halbert L. Dunn half a century ago and now
>receives much attention in North America. Wellness, however defined, seems
>to describe a lifestyle approach for pursuing advanced states of physical
>AND psychological well-being. It does not do much good, of course, if
>environmental and political conditions are not supportive, but other
>things being the same, it surely trumps reliance on medical strategies or
>government programs.
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>> Wellness is a lifestyle that leads to as good, healthy,satisfying and
>> meaningful an existence as one's potentials/heredity/environment and
>> fortune (i.e., luck) permit. It is a precious tool for life,
>> without which one's prospects are not so good. Fortunately, it is not
>> necessary to know this, that is, to be familiar with the term or to
>consciously pursue the art and science of wellness skills, but--it helps
>to be so aware and to
>> conduct the pursuit on a deliberate level, which is why a WHO statement
>about it might be in order someday.
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>> To be well in a wellness sense, as opposed to experiencing "health" and
>life quality in the non-WHO sense of " normalcy" or muddling through in
>"good enough" fashion, you usually must battle your culture, your programming
> and your nature. Sounds pretty tough, wouldn't you agree? One way you
>must fight your culture/programming and nature is by learning to forego
>short-term pleasures for long-term gain--of a health and life
>quality-enhancing nature. Doing so requires discipline, responsibility,
>perspective and a mindset focused on excellence. A wellness lifestyle, it
>seems, invites, in addition to all else, more than a modest level of
>character.
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>> Wellness is worth taking seriously, while at the same time you must be be
>> resolute not to be grim about it. In addition to the obvious fact that it
>> is good for you, the wellness seeker, the truth is that it is also very,
>> very good for your family, your mate or significant other, your friends,
>> your co-workers and, as we have seen from reading newspapers or following
>> events on television and observing the consequence of its absence, your
>> country and the world. Therefore, wellness might someday be seen as
>a moral responsibility for those who live in societies where it is an
>option.
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>> Wellness is about more than health, even the highest interpretation of
>health as seen in the WHO definition. It is about life--a life that is as
>healthy, satisfying and meaningful an existence as one's potentials/heredity/
>environment and fortune will allow.
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>> The key elements of wellness, beyond the physical elements of fitness and
>> nutrition, include but are surely not limited to self-responsibility,
>> meaning and purpose including accessible passions, critical thinking,
>> humor and joy, a mindset or perspective of functional expectations, a deep
>> sense of gratitude, loving relationships and the like. Don't you agree?
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> Don
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>> Donald B. Ardell, Publisher
>> ARDELL WELLNESS REPORT
>> 3016 Harbour Landing Way
>> Casselberry, FL 32707
>> (407) 695-3535 (fax-8415)
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> Donald B. Ardell, Publisher
> ARDELL WELLNESS REPORT
> 3016 Harbour Landing Way
> Casselberry, FL 32707
> (407) 695-3535 (fax-8415)
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Une tres bonne journee.
Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.
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