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Wellness:

The Word & The Concept

Self-Assessment Test:

Readiness for REAL Wellness

Questions & Answers about Wellness

Robert Green Ingersoll

All These Have One

Commonality: What

It Is?

Alternative Medicine

Medical Tourism

Complementary Care

Healing

Therapy

Cure

Prevention

Treatment

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-10 __________ 0 _________+10

Low Level Worseness Not Sick REAL

Wellness

WORSENESS/WELLNESS CONTINUUM

The Nature of Health

Static and Earned

R-E-A-L Wellness

• Positive

• Oriented solely to earned health

• Quality of life

• Evidence based

• Promotes choices, freedoms

• Existential quest for good life

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Reason

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#psychics #ghosts #pseudo #science #fads

#deceptive advertising #astrology #ESP #apricot pits

#homeopathy #conspiracies #Bigfoot #Altantis #UFOs

#Area 51 #haunted houses #fake moon landings #cults

#telepathy #get-rich-quick #anti-vaccine #tarot

#Bermuda Triangle #the-end-is-near

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Exuberance

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#happiness #joy #humor #energy #vitality #enthusiasm

#excitement #pep #animation #vigor #zest #eagerness

#buoyancy #vivacity #exhilaration #cheerfulness #brio

#ebullience #liveliness #effervescence #sprightliness

#abundance #richness #profusion #plenitude #lush #lavish

#copious #perspective on meaning #love

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Irving Yalom Viktor Frankl Daniel Gilbert Martin Seligman

DBRU Equivalents

Athleticism Exercise and Nutrition

Endurance

Strength

Flexibility

Balance

Frequency

Duration

Intensity

Exercise

Consider an heroic act

Nutrition

Nutrition

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Liberty

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1982 1984 1996 1977 2007 2010

A New Market, New Image and New Revenue Stream

for Spas

Centers for the Experience of

REAL Wellness

Zentren für REAL Wellness

Chancen für Spas in der Wellness-Industrie

real

Nothing not to

like about the

GSS report

beauty

worksites retirement centers

medical

centers

universities

and colleges

Settings for Current Wellness

* pampering & pleasure

spa wellness

* healing and rehabilitation

medical wellness

* weight loss/diet programs

problem solving wellness

•testing and risk analysis

cost control wellness

* Experiences that are

meaningful - REAL Wellness

Weltanschauung

* an alternative to doctors,

drugs and disease

Common Perspectives on Wellness

The time to be happy is …

The place to be happy is …

The way to be happy is …