What is wellness?

It is almost impossible to remove stress from everyday life.

Even people who live a problem-free life consider trivial things like nothing to be stressful, while people with major problems usually find it stressful to solve their problems.

How to remove stressors is also a hint to a healthy life.

Health and wellness

"Health and wellness", both sound the same.

Health = a healthy body that is not sick.

The body itself is a healthy body.

Wellness refers to a wide range of things, including health.

Extensive is a term that aims to promote the overall positive and positive well-being of a lifestyle that brings balance to everything related to a single human being, including mental, lifestyle, awareness, self-care, thoughts and spirituality.

Unless your body is healthy, you will be tired easily, you will not be able to move as much as you would like, etc., and you will be far away from wellness. However, this is not the case, and the most important thing in wellness is defined as 'How you are thinking'.

Stress can change the way we look at things and create negative factors, but this is always considered a matter of self-choice.

The National Wellness Institute defines wellness as 'an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices towards, a more successful existence' (an active process through which people become aware of their successful selves and make choices towards, a more successful existence".

Why do we need wellness thinking?

Wellness, meaning both physical and mental health, is closely linked to overall quality of life. When this balance is disrupted, it can take significant time, energy, and resources to restore it.

With the global spread of COVID-19, the concept of wellness has gained more attention than ever before. Many people have become more aware that neglecting mental and physical health can directly affect well-being and daily life.

In recent years, wellness has expanded beyond the medical field into industries and the broader economy. Food and supplement companies, for example, increasingly develop products with wellness in mind.

Similarly, services such as head spas, public baths, and retreats now promote relaxation and recovery as part of a wellness-focused lifestyle.

Large companies are also introducing initiatives to support employee well-being. These include regular health check-ups, early detection programs, access to in-house counselling, and practices such as mindfulness. The larger the organisation, the more likely it is to adopt structured wellness strategies.

For more on global health and well-being, you can explore resources from World Health Organization and Harvard Health Publishing.

Quality of life

A quality life does not mean living in a big house and driving a luxury car, but a state of balance in body, mind and environment.

A quality life can be defined as a state of mental stability and contentment, with health as the foundation, and a relaxed state of mind.

A relaxed mind allows for a relaxed body and mind calls

Total healthcare = wellness

Isn't it?

Wellness thinking, well-being.

The two are almost identical, but wellbeing is a concept based on 'happiness'.

You may have heard the term 'wellbeing policy' used in corporate press releases.

This is because we believe that when employees are filled with a sense of well-being, they are more efficient and do better quality work.

Internal relationships and creating a comfortable working environment are also wellbeing-oriented initiatives. Recently, we often see companies advertising "flex-systems", "remote working" and "enhanced benefits".

All of these have one goal: job satisfaction. The goal is for employees to enjoy and be satisfied with their work.

Wellbeing can also be interpreted as referring to mental comfort in wellness initiatives. The similar terms can be summarised respectively as.

well being

Health does not mean not being sick or weak, but being in a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

WHO

wellness

'Designing a rich life based on physical health, mental health, environmental health and social health, self-actualisation (2017)'

Mindfulness

To be deliberately aware of the experience of the present moment, and to simply watch, without evaluation and without preoccupation.

Health care

Actions and health management to maintain and improve health. The concept of accurately detecting illness at an early stage and dealing with it early on by enhancing self-healing.

Whereas mindfulness refers to mental health, wellbeing refers to the health of the body itself. And all elements are taken together to create wellbeing, which is further broadened to create the definition of wellness.