What is Wellbeing?

Well Being is something a bit different from Wellness. 

According  to the Oxford Dictionary, 'wellness' is 'the state of being healthy, especially when you actively try to achieve this. 'Well-being', on the  other hand, is considered 'general health and happiness, a state of  emotional/physical/psychological well-being’. 

I would like to add to this definition of wellbeing, to include the state of spiritual wellbeing.
This distinction is very much related to the comparison of Healing and Curing. To cure is to fix a particular part. Western medicine is particularly good at doing this, offering drugs and surgery so that disease, illness, or physical problems can be repressed, eliminated, or removed. It plays a vital role in alleviating suffering and is superb at  saving lives and applying curative aid. This is invaluable. 

However, the World Health Organization defines health as complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing. This is not the same as simply being without symptoms or illness. Rather, it implies a deeper state of wellness that goes beyond being cured of a particular infirmity.

This is where we enter the realm of healing. A person usually remains passive when cured by someone else. Healing, on the other hand,  is an involved activity, less dependent on external circumstances than on the work we are prepared to do within ourselves. 

As Dr. Bernie Siegel  explains in Peace, Love and Healing: “It is the body that heals, not the  medicine.”  

Healing could also be defined as seeking the state of wellbeing, to find balance emotionally and spiritually.  

My offering of Wellbeing Consultations is to offer suggestions to find calm and ease in your body & mind and to eventually achieve improved balance as you face the challenges that are inevitable in life.