Most people today live fast-paced lives filled with stress and poor habits. As a result, it’s easy to neglect many areas of our life that contribute to our health. Holistic wellness can be the solution you need to achieve a balance in life and address your physical wellness, emotional, spiritual, mental, financial wellness, and more. The result can be a joyful life where you thrive, find purpose, and achieve overall well-being.
What is Holistic Wellness?
Holistic wellness is a comprehensive approach to optimal health that considers you as a whole person to help you achieve peak well-being. It involves addressing many components that contribute to your overall health including physical health, emotional health, mental health, spiritual health, financial health, lifestyle and more.
Why is Holistic Wellness Important?
Holistic wellness is a personalized approach to your overall well-being that prioritizes prevention of health issues rather than being reactive. Incorporating holistic wellness into your life can lead to:
- Improved well-being
- Emotional balance
- Reduced stress
- Better sleep
- Improved quality of life
- Reduced risk of chronic illness
- Fewer side effects from treatment
- Improved resilience
- Greater self-awareness
- Increased energy and vitality
- Sustainable health practices
- Personal growth and fulfillment
- And more
Different Types of Holistic Wellness in Life
Holistic wellness involves many aspects of your life, such as the below, and they are all interconnected. In order to achieve balance and peak health in life, each of the following categories must be considered.
- Physical Wellness
This includes exercise, nutrition (eating a diet rich in nutrients), getting enough sleep on a daily basis, and receiving regular screenings and check-ups to address health issues before they become severe. - Emotional Wellness
Understanding your emotions through self-awareness, managing stress with a variety of techniques, bouncing back from challenges in life, and building healthy relationships each play a role in your emotional wellness. - Mental Wellness
Mental wellness includes pursuing intellectual interests, maintaining cognitive health, and receiving mental health support through therapy or other activities. - Social Wellness
This involves maintaining healthy friendships and relationships, communicating effectively, and building a support network to have during challenging times in life. - Spiritual Wellness
Finding purpose and meaning in life is a very important part of our spiritual well-being. Different practices, such as meditation and mindfulness or participating in religious traditions, can help build your spiritual wellness. - Occupational Wellness
Experiencing fulfillment in your work while also achieving work-life balance are important when cultivating occupational wellness. - Financial Wellness
Important aspects of financial wellness include managing money effectively and developing a budget to help you reduce financial stress.
How To Achieve Holistic Wellness
Achieving holistic wellness involves making conscious choices in many aspects of your life (physical, emotional, mental, financial, etc.) to improve and maintain your well-being. The key with incorporating changes to your life and routine is to start small and build from there.
Here are some specific things you can do to start achieving holistic wellness:
- Assess your current level of well-being in various areas of your life, such as your physical, emotional, social, spiritual, financial, and more. Ask yourself which areas need improvement, and focus on those first.
- Set clear, specific goals for each area of wellness where you want to improve.
- Try to eat at least one healthy, nutrient-filled meal each day. This can include vegetables, fruits, whole grains, healthy fats, and protein. From there you can begin to make changes to all meals each day along with snacks.
- Exercise for at least 30 minutes daily. This can include any physical activity that has moderate-intensity, such as walking, running, swimming, yoga, or going to the gym. Focus on activities that bring you joy rather than ones that feel like a chore.
- Start journaling as an outlet for expressing all of your emotions in a healthy way.
- Practice positive self-talk and self-compassion by speaking kindly to yourself. Try to say one nice thing to yourself daily.
- Set a budget for your spending. Start with trying to stay within that budget for one week and build from there.
- Ask friends for help if you feel like you’re juggling too many things at once, or if you need someone to talk with.
- Seek out the help of a holistic wellness specialist to receive personalized support and to improve all categories of wellness.
Holistic Wellness at National Wellness Group
National Wellness Group specializes in holistic health and wellness treatment, helping patients achieve peak health and optimal vitality. As a value-based clinic (rather than volume-based), we provide individualized care and natural treatments in the form of holistic medicine that work in harmony with your body.
During your first appointment, we will provide you with a comprehensive evaluation to assess your current health and discuss any symptoms you are experiencing. This gives us a deeper understanding of the issues you are facing, as well as learn more about your lifestyle and diet.
We will then come up with a plan to improve and restore your overall health with a holistic approach. Treatment will vary based on your specific needs, but typically will include a combination of prebiotic and probiotic supplements, IV therapy, making changes to your diet with foods you like that are full of nutrients, combining functional medicine with quantum energy and quantum diagnostics (and turning them into healing energies), and more.
Our team of leading health practitioners at National Wellness Group are determined to improve your health.