- For practical simplicity, it’s helpful to remember wellness as the opposite of illness.

- Diving deeper, however, at its core wellness describes
- a collection of routine actions [behaviors, habits, lifestyles or way of life] and associated their outcomes [health goals, fitness level, mental resilience, financially well, etc.], that we do to deliver and sustain progressively better states of health, well-being or safety for individuals, their groups, and the organizations or societies they are apart.
- Wellness can be thought about or described from two perspectives, as
- [1] a state – an endpoint or goal to be achieved – such as having consistently good blood pressure.
- and [2] a process – an ongoing set of actions that result in progress being made towards achieving a better state of being – such as consistently doing moderate exercises for at least 30 minutes daily, for five or more days per week.
- Wellness differences – not all ‘wellness’ are the same!. Like medicine, wellness has conventional [global consensus] and unconventional [location or group-specific consensus] approaches. In the workplace, the conventional approach is used as the default gold standard approach for wellness. Unconventional approaches to wellness are very popular, most, however, lack strong research support.
- They are however not incompatible with the conventional [evidence-based] approach. They should not be confused with the conventional approach, which should be understood properly before trying to integrate both.
- Unconventional approaches to wellness are sometimes called alternative practice, or the oriental ways to develop our health, or labeled as a trending fad of wellness – typically provided through catchy products, quick-results services, and celebrity-endorsed [vs. robust research-endorsed] activity routines


