Overall Health and Wellness are often a manifestations of other components of overall health. The underlying problem may be physical, spiritual, or mental and may influence a person's overall well being either positively or negatively. It's important to understand the impact each area has on overall health wellness and how to correct any negative influences. Below is a brief overview of each area and it's importance in overall well being.
Health Wellness
Spiritual Health
Physical Wellness
Mental Wellness
Holistic Wellness
Maintaining health and wellness depends on a healthy lifestyle. Unless you are genetically blessed, there are 4 things that you should do to improve overall health: don't smoke, eat right, exercise and hold your weight down. A health wellness program can not only add years to your life but make the quality of that life exceptional.
Spiritual wellness is the result of having both physical and mental wellness. Bad things can happen to anyone, however, spiritual wellness can make coping with these situations easier with less negative impact. A closeness to nature and spending time outdoors is often felt to have a positive impact on spiritual wellness.
Physical wellness encompasses not just the body but also the environment. Colors, room arrangement, and sunlight are environmental factors that can affect physical wellness. To maintain physical health, eating right, exercising and weight management will ensure physical wellness well into the elder years.
Mental wellness depends on spiritual and physical health to ward off depressive symptoms and to help with a general feeling of well being. The amount of exercise as well as lifestyle choices such as smoking can also impact the brain's response to its environment.
Holistic Wellness depends on incorporating a perception that the person is an integrated system rather than as separate parts. Although health wellness looks as the body as a whole it does not incorporate mental and spiritual wellness as part of the outlook.
The Wellness Inventory, is a "whole person", self-service assessment and lifestyle program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. For a one time cost of $40, the program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in your life, and a renewed sense of health and well being. 
