Wellness consciousness empowers individuals to assume a proactive and significant role in their own well being. It addresses all areas of life including physical, emotional, social and spiritual health.
The study uses Structural Equation Modeling to explore the influencing mechanism of wellness consciousness on home-based exercise. It demonstrates that health life goal and perceived behavioral control mediate the relationship between health consciousness and home-based exercise.
Health
Wellness consciousness is an active process that enables people to make positive choices in all areas of their lives. These include physical, emotional/mental, occupational, spiritual, environmental and financial aspects. The dimensions are shown in a circle overlapping each other, to convey that each dimension influences one another both positively and negatively.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health conscious people are prone to adopt healthy behaviors at home and maintain their good health. However, they need a strong motivation to persist in such behaviors. This study examines the influencing mechanism of health consciousness on home-based exercise by evaluating the correlation between health consciousness, health life goal, perceived behavioral control and exercise behaviors.
It was found that health consciousness has a direct impact on home-based exercise, but it also plays a mediating role by influencing the formation of health life goal and perceived behavioral control. Hence, it is suggested that people should strengthen their health consciousness in order to keep up with their exercise behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Relationships
Taking care of relationships is an important part of wellness consciousness. It includes building a social support network and spending quality time with friends and family. It also involves engaging in spiritual practices and cultivating a sense of purpose.
In a conscious relationship, both partners recognize that they are part of a greater whole. This recognition enables them to be honoring and generous with one another, while mitigating the inevitable moments of separation.
Moreover, the mediation model suggests that health consciousness can indirectly influence home-based exercise via the mediating effect of health life goal and perceived behavioral control. Thus, people should attach importance to the setting of health life goals and improve their perceived behavioral control in order to exercise at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will lead to more healthy behaviors and promote the implementation of health consciousness. Consequently, the overall effect of this study is positive.
Environment
Environmental wellness is about fostering a healthy setting that is serene, clean, and secure. It also involves recognizing our connection to the Earth and taking steps toward sustainability and balance. This includes reducing our use of fossil fuels, procuring local and organic foods, and recycling to diminish landfill waste.
Emerging research suggests that certain character strengths—appreciation of beauty, creativity, perspective, and self-regulation—are associated with pro-environmental behaviors. In addition, curiosity has been linked to learning strategies that promote sustainable wellbeing literacy.
NWI’s mindfulness-based group program Mindful Eco-Wellness incorporates these character strengths into its teachings. The curriculum teaches mindfulness practices alongside sustainability principles, with weekly ecological themes (Air, Water, Food, Energy, Transportation, Consumption, and Ethics). NWI’s mindfulness training also aims to increase participants’ understanding of the complex interplay between human health, planetary health, and ecological resilience. To learn more about the program, click here.
Spirituality
Spiritual wellness can involve a person’s relationship with a higher power, a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and a belief in something larger than oneself. It also includes personal practices such as meditation, prayer, spending time in nature and doing good deeds.
A person’s spiritual wellness can be negatively impacted by past experiences with religion and spirituality, such as growing up in a religious environment where they were victimized or made to feel inferior. In these cases, therapy can help the person reclaim a sense of peace and self-worth.
A lack of spiritual wellness can lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed and disconnected. This may be a result of negative subconscious and unconscious inner dialogue that seeds the deepest recesses of one’s carnal mind. Transforming these energies into higher vibrational frequencies can reorient an individual’s thoughts and emotions to a more positive, healthy path. This is called information transduction. It can reduce stress and increase a person’s ability to relax and find joy in daily activities.
