What is Wellness?

Many people misunderstand wellness as a new version of avoiding getting sick, but it is much more than that. Wellness is a way of seeing ourselves that bypasses a medical view.
Wellness can most easily be understood as feeling good at the three levels of body, mind and spirit. It requires that we assume control of our lives and choose personal responsibility for our own physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Wellness requires awareness of, and responsibility for our primary or sponsoring thoughts.
Thus the primary education competency for wellness is the identification of the primary or sponsoring (see below) thought in any situation and its consequent outcome.
Our aim is to make medicine largely irrelevant in your life. This is because medicine/health focuses largely on the avoidance of illness rather than the maintenance of feeling well.This is achieved by focusing on a positive knowledge based perspective of how your mind, body and spirit work when they are operating at their best.
A good way to explain this is to see your health like a bank account. You can have a credit account or an investment account. With the credit account you spend now, and try to pay off the debt and interest later. With the investment account you save now, earn interest and if any bills come in you pay them out of your positive balance. The investment way you end up with a very healthy account balance because you are less likely to become ill. The positive balance can be seen as wellness/wealth/health and the negative balance is illness/disease/sickness.The focus becomes on teaching people how to have a positive health balance in all areas that affect their wellness. Information and education on being well become the basis for living. And small regular deposits or investments in your health manage your future.

[1] A sponsoring or primary thought is that thought which underlies our thinking. It is often subconscious or unconscious and it is our feeling about that thought that manifests our reality. As it is subconscious it often precedes our understanding, but is usually based around our ego and is most often negative. Dieting is a good example of our primary thoughts. We think that a diet is a good or positive idea. But is we dig down a little into the thought stream that underlies the decisions to diet we often find that the source thought was in fact a negative judgement about our appearance or weight. If that is the case then our diet will end up being one of the 98% + of diets that end up in weight gain as our endocrine system strives to maintain our perception that we need to loose weight. And we only need to loose weight if we are over weight.