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The wellness wheel health womans illustration below shows the 7 wellness dimensions of a life in balance with optimum rounded wellness.
If you treat the centre of the wheel as 0 and the outer edge as 10, do you see how each of the coloured sections indicate a full-roundedness?
Wellness Wheel Health Womans
While the ideal would be to achieve a score of 10 across all the 7 dimensions of the wellness wheel, we are not in a perfect world where any of us can achieve 100% perfection in all our wellness dimensions, 100% of the time.
In this respect, please note that the wellness wheel - health womans illustration is not a representation of what you would like to be the case. Rather, the wellness wheel should be used to assess your present reality in the 7 dimensions of your life. You'll find further information on how to use any of the Health Womens Wheels here.
Achieving a greater degree of roundedness, mean you must give attention to each of your 7 dimensions as shown. Any over- prioritising or under-priorising of any one or more of your wellness dimensions will result in your life being out of balance.
Everyone will have a different definition of wellness and of the number or type of wellness dimensions. Some advocates will focus only on four main areas such as spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical; while others will say that there are 7, 8 or even 6 wellness dimensions.
It really depends upon the perspective of the individual. However, any definition of the wellness dimensions must consider all aspects of your life that contribute to your overall sense of wellness.
The beauty of this wellness wheel health womans exercise, lies in the fact that it enables you to take stock by weighing up the balance of activities in all of the 7 wellness dimensions of your life at present. In doing so, you can begin to both assess whether things are the way you want them to be and how they are likely to unfold over time.
Although the wellness wheel health womans example shows 7 dimensions of health, you will note that physical health and to a lesser degree, some aspects of emotional and mental health have already been covered in great depth throughout this web site, so the focus from here on will be on the other 6 dimensions of wellness.
As you can see from the wellness wheel health womans example above, a definition of wellness is more than the absence of illness or even the presence of good health. In much the same way that there are varying degrees of, and conditions that lead to wellness, there are also varying degrees of, and conditions that lead to ill-health.
Associated to each of the 7 wellness dimensions are many different factors that can either cause movement toward optimum wellness or toward the illness end of the spectrum. These dimensions are interconnected and as such, there is continuous interaction with each other. For instance, if you're unhappy or stressed in your work/career dimension, this will undoubtedly impact on your emotional well-being and family/personal relationships dimensions etc.,
To maintain and/or improve your wellness quotient in each of the above areas, you will need to become your own wellness monitor and do a frequent stock take to access your responses to events and challenges in your life. Use your journal to help you enter into a self-dialogue about any and every aspect of your wellness needs and your solutions to remedy them. Then, set yourself some goals to rebalance those aspects of your health dimensions.
Do bear in mind that just as there are categories and sub-categories in your Physical health dimension - i.e. Food Nutrition, Beauty Health, Weight loss exercise etc., the same is true of your other 6 wellness dimensions. Each of these will in turn be explored in this wellness series, (so do come back to this page regularly for added/updated links).
As you can see, the wellness wheel health womans exercise is an excellent wellness monitor tool and one that you can use to not only gauge where you presently are in your other 6 dimensions and the state of things; it can also help you to evaluate your progress with your goals and in bringing balance/fullness to your life.
To use the wellness wheel health womans exercise, simply follow the principles you have used for your health dimension, which has already been extensively covered throughout this site. click here for a full explanation on how best to use the wellness wheel.
Try this health skill for
wellness exercise
to help you monitor your health
dimensions and set goals to raise your low-scoring areas
Health womans social networks
exercise
Use this exercise to help you assess the
quality of your friendship network and learn who are either
hindering or helping your growth
"In each of us are places where we
have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find
them". (Dr Joyce Brothers)
The information on this site is purely of educational value and is not intended to replace your seeking medical advice. You must consult your doctor over all your health concerns.
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