Practicing Proactive Wellness
Adopting strategies that empower you can lead to a healthier and more fulfilling life, both mentally and physically.
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Balancing a fulfilling life, everyday tasks, and personal well-being can be tough. In today’s fast-paced world, the importance of prioritizing our health and wellness cannot be overstated that you are the most influential and ultimate owner of your life, and being in the driver’s seat of your health is essential for living well. Knowing your current health status and envisioning a future of well being means embracing a proactive and holistic approach.
Practicing proactive wellness focuses on promoting vibrant health, preventing disease, reversing the degenerative effects of aging, and supporting chronic condition management. Increased awareness and education are at the center of making conscious choices and adopting supportive practices. Combining scientifically validated treatment protocols with conventional and complimentary medical therapies, are key to when seeking quality care and optimal wellness.
The Four Wellness Domains
Embracing a proactive approach to wellness involves appreciating that health encompasses more than just our physical well-being. It entails cultivating balance and harmony across various aspects of life, and developing a strategy to embark should prioritize these core four domains: Spiritual, Physical, Mental, and Emotional.
A. Physical Wellness
From disease prevention to aging gracefully, a holistic and integrative approach empowers you to take control of your health journey with expert education, lifestyle guidance and ongoing support.
Regular exercise, a balanced diet, adequate rest and sleep are fundamental pillars of living healthy. By limiting sedentary behavior, maintaining a healthy weight and staying active throughout the day helps to improve your overall health, energy levels, mood and quality of life.
Mental Wellness
Nurturing mental resiliency, adopting positive coping skills and tending to your psychological well-being includes managing stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges effectively. Establishing a regular self-care routine, practicing mindfulness and meditation, managing stress, practicing gratitude and limiting negative influences, enhance the most important relationship between you and you.
Emotional Wellness
Acknowledging your emotions, both positive and negative, and allowing yourself to experience and express your feelings in healthy ways such as journaling, talking to a trusted friend or engaging in creative activities, is practicing self compassion. In strengthening your emotional resiliency to manage stress during challenging times allows for understanding, perspective, forgiveness and gratitude.
Spiritual Wellness
Aligning and connecting to something greater than yourself cultivates meaning and purpose in life. Taking time for self reflection, connecting with nature, and engaging in spiritual practices that personally resonate helps to infuse daily life with a sense of intention.
Prevention is at the core of proactive physical wellness and is about taking charge of your health and well being before issues arise.
Conclusion
Practicing proactive wellness is about more than just preventing disease; it is a comprehensive approach to living a vibrant, balanced life. By embracing a proactive approach to wellness, you empower yourself to live a balanced, healthy, and fulfilling life. Take the driver’s seat of your health journey, and make choices that support your well-being across all domains.
**I am Elle, a Physician Assistant, Global Health Consultant and Founder of BHive Management Co, a personal health management medical practice in New York, NY.
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*As with anything you read on the internet, this article should not be construed as medical advice; please talk to your doctor or primary care provider before changing your wellness routine. This article is not intended to provide a medical diagnosis, recommendation, treatment, or endorsement. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
