This document introduces the concepts of wellness, its relationship to personality, and the components that comprise wellness. It defines wellness as a constant effort to stay healthy and maximize potential through self-responsibility. Wellness encompasses physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, occupational, social, and environmental domains. Factors like nutrition, stress management, substance abuse, exercise, and environment impact wellness. While health refers to one's current state, wellness emphasizes maintaining health through responsible behaviors. Personality is one's ability to adapt to changing circumstances based on their genes. For optimal development, one must learn to influence their genes through wellness behaviors.

1. INTRODUCTION TO
WELLNESS, RELATION
OF WELLNESS &
PERSONALITY AND
COMPONENTS OF
WELLNESS
5.3.2013
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2. WELLNESS: MEANING
Wellness is the constant and
deliberate effort to stay healthy and
maximize potential for optional well-
being, dependent on self-
responsibility.
In other words, the self-responsibility
lifestyle that minimizes morbidity
and mortality and enhances longevity
and fitness is termed as Wellness
way of living.
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3. SCOPE OF WELLNESS BEHAVIOUR
Wellness is an all inclusive umbrella covering a
variety of public health related factors.
A wellness lifestyle requires the
implementation of positive programs to
change unhealthy public bahaviours so as to
improve public health and quality of life and
total public well-being.
To enjoy wellness lifestyle by the general
public, all people are required to be taught the
right methods to practice daily behaviours
conducive to public health promotion in all
dimensions domains of wellness (Hoeger &
Hoeger, 2007).
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4. CHARACTERSTICS OF WELLNESS
(Hoeger & Hoeger, 2007)
1.Wellness is an active process, ongoing,
lifelong effort to maximize one’s potential.
2.Wellness is a determined choice to move with
commitment towards optimum well-being.
3.Wellness is pro-active approach to living,
loving, working and playing based on
one’s values.
4.Wellness is a lifestyle designed by self to
achieve optional personality.
5.Wellness is an integration of all domains of
personality development namely, Physical,
Emotional, Spiritual, Temporal, Mental,
Occupation, Vital, Environmental and Social.
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5. LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH
Figure1: Leading Causes of death in the United
States in 2003 5
Cardio-vascular
disease 34.5%
Cancer Others
22.7% 33%
Chronic
Lower
respiratory
diseases Accidents
5.2% 4.3%

6. IGNORANCE TO WELLNESS
Unawareness and non-inclusion of
Wellness lifestyle in core educational
courses, has greatly caused harm to
almost everyone’s personality.
According to Dr. David Satcher, Former
U.S. Surgeon General, more than 50%
deaths in USA every year, occur due to
their wrong doings daily. Thus, it is quite
evident that there is a large scale
ignorance to wellness which may be
eradicated greatly by balancing education,
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7. RELATION OF WELLNESS &
PERSONALITY
• In order to develop one’s wholistic
personality, wellness way to life in
all its dimensions is a pre-requisite
condition.
• Thus, there is a great relationship
between wellness and personality
development.
• We can say wellness and
personality are the two sides of the
same coin.
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8. RIGHT DAILY CHOICES
Awareness to make right
conscious daily choices of food,
physical activity, thoughts,
feelings, spirits, environmental
conditions, social, occupational,
hygienic behaviours have a great
impact on both the process of
wellness and the achievement of
one’s personality attributes.
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9. FACTORS AFFECTING WELLNESS
The following factors in one’s daily choices
may be termed as the fundamental
components of Wellness lifestyle:-
1.Self-Responsibility
2.Physical Activity Choices
3.Nutritional Choices (If adult males, getting
800 calories from cerelas; 40 vegetables & fruits;
250 calories from Proteins, 250 cal. from HDL,
enough fibre, sufficient water etc.)
4.No “SAD” (Smoking, Alcohol & Drugs)
5.Ability to cope with Stress.
6.Lack of direction & Meaning in Life
(Spiritual Choices) 9

10. 7. Thinking Pattern (Intellectual Behaviour)
8. Emotional Behaviours (Negative/Positive
Attitudes).
9. Occupational requirement
10. Breathing style (Vital Behaviours)
11. Educational Status
12. ‘HELP’ (Heredity, Environment, Lifestyle
and Professional Medical Care)
13. Accident Risk Prone-ness (Using seat
belt while in moving vehicle.
14. Maintenance of healthy body weight and
body fat percentage.
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11. COMPONENTS OF WELLNESS
11Fig.2: Wellness has same components as those of Personality bacause one
needs to be responsible in all dimensions.
Physical Spritual
Emotional Temporal
WELLNESS
Mental Social
Vital
Occupational
Environmental
WELLNESS

12. COMPONENTS OF HEALTH
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Although WHO has defined health
as a state of complete physical,
mental and social well being and
not merely an absence of disease or
infirmity, but attainment of a level
of health that will enable every
individual to lead a socially and
economically productive life. But
health is the outcome in all the
components of wellness.

13. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEALTH,
WELLNESS & PERSONALITY
Health refers to current status in
each component irrespective
Wellness refers to behaving with
self-responsibility for maximizing
health status in each domain.
While Personality refers to one’s
adaptability to change
circumstances in light of one’s
genes.
Contd..(2).
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14. CONTD…(2)
Hence, for best personality
development, one has to learn the
gene actions and switching
harmful genes off and switching
healthful genes on with self-
responsibility of wellness and by
behaviour changes required for
maximizing potential personality.
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15. HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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There is only minor difference
between health & wellness. While
health may be positive (fighting
disease with immune system) or
negative (remaining healthy by
taking regular medicine) examined
from self responsible behaviours.
However, components or domains
of health, wellness & personality
are the same of one’s behaviours.

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