Are There Four Aspects of Health, Wellness, and Wellbeing for Everyone?

Yes, and an imbalance in any one element impacts all, as well as our total state of being.

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Health, wellness, and wellbeing in everyone comes with four aspects. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

It’s extremely important that there be balance between these forms. Yet we frequently do not recognize this, and the price we pay is amazingly high.

What follows is me sharing my work with my personal health, wellness, and wellbeing. This might not entirely resonate with and for you, but you also have the same 4 aspects making up the holistic total of your health, wellness, and wellbeing.

Spiritual and Physical

Let’s start with the spiritual. My spiritual health is good overall. I know who I am, I know where my faith and beliefs lie. If you’ve read any of my Pathwalking philosophy posts you’ve gotten a pretty good look at my mindfulness approach and belief that consciousness creates reality. Yes, there’s room for improvement because there’s always room for improvement. However, this is the place I feel most confidently healthy, and this is where I think I have the best handle on myself.

Note that the spiritual has nothing to do with God, the Powers-the-Be, or any other specific outside force. This is about my self-esteem and the connection between my conscious and subconscious mind. That, in my opinion, is where true spiritual health, wellness, and wellbeing exists.

This brings me to the physical. If you know me in real life, you know that I’m overweight. You don’t develop a gut like mine without years of work. I fluctuate between slightly heavy and obese, and I’ve been struggling with this pretty much my whole life.

Yet I’m not a couch potato, I’m very active. I walk a lot, and fence at least two or more times a week. I sometimes also get to the gym, where I do more cardio and weightlifting. I’m pretty damned strong, flexible, dexterous, and my endurance and stamina are extremely high.

However, I still sometimes eat more than I need, and I consume too many things that are not tremendously good for me. Too much bread, salt…