Everyone has their own reasons to travel. Yes, we do want to see the world in it’s fullness and live our dream. And if you are a person who prefers wellness for your mind and body, well, it’s possible through wellness travel. A journey where you could find your inner self, enhancing your health and wellbeing through closer interactions with nature and it’s healing power.
Wellness is an active individual pursuit, significantly influenced by the physical, social, and cultural environments in which we live. One has self-responsibility for their own choices, behaviors, and lifestyle. Wellness travel has become one of the most explored, intentional, and mindful adventures that help to reboot and restart the mind and body.
Wellness is often confused with fitness, wellbeing, and happiness. Rather, wellness is associated with the active process of being aware and making choices that lead to a state of holistic health and lifestyle as a continuum that extends from illness to a state of optimal well-being. FYI, it’s more than just physical health, hence multidimensional. The least six dimensions of wellness are,
- Physical – nourishing a healthy body through proper exercise, nutrition, sleep etc
- Mental – engaging the world through learning, creating, and problem-solving
- Emotional – being aware of, accepting, expressing, and understanding own emotions as well as other’s too
- Spiritual – seeking meaning and higher purpose of life
- Social – connecting and engaging with others through human interactions
- Environmental – nurturing and stimulating a positive co-relation between planetary health and human actions, choices, and well being
The key tents of both preventive and holistic wellness can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of the East, prominently from India, and China. Wellness hit the mainstream and has informed the concept of healthy living, self-help, self-care, fitness, nutrition, diet, spiritual persuasion, flourishing the wellness movement in the 21st century.
