7 Easy Ways to Promote Wellness in Your Life You Can Start Today

In light of recent events taking place in our nation, it was brought to our attention that we need more wellness practices in our community. But what is wellness? How do you achieve it? How can I practice it? Well if any of those questions sound about right to you, keep reading because we will answer them, and share 7 easy ways to promote wellness in your life you can start today!

Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices towards a healthy and fulfilling life

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My Story:

To say the least, I have been pretty emotionally sick. Between the actual pandemic happening outside and social injustice on the rise, I could not help but to feel defeated over the past few weeks.

Nonetheless, a deep thought came to me in conversation about all the madness. Can I be candid for a moment? Police Brutality is the tip of the ice berg of the harsh effects of systematic oppression and/or racism. While this issue is major (Stop Killing us), there are many other issues that stem from a history of our country using racism as a vehicle to build capital, resources, and sustainability. In fact, I recalled our entire existence as a people has been devastated for centuries.

Think about it, we want love in our lives. We want to build Black Love and Family, but history has devastated trust between men and women as well as our modes of operations in love, relationships, and such. We want to build wealth, but we’ve been behind for ages due to working for free and against our will. We were born into being behind financially, so much so we are having to unlearn and learn how money really works. We want to own property, but we already know redlining has hindered that attempt for years. It’s a lot. Every aspect of our being has been devastated and singed in some way. All of the pillars of humanity–mind, heart, body, spirit, financial livelihood, etc has been impacted by systematic oppression in one way or another.

That thinking has urged me to want to work towards restoration. Matters of our hearts, minds, bodies, political participation, wealth, education, and otherwise can be restored, and they need to be restored. Our existence as humans who live full and happy rely on it. And guess what Ladies? As the women of our households and families, that act of restoration begins and ends with us. Yep, we are the covert and overt leaders in our respective spaces. We are the growers and the nurturers. The gag is, if we do not restore and replenish ourselves, we can’t expect our families or communities to follow suit.

Break it down, B:

It is the pursuit of restoration that makes wellness, or the active process of becoming aware of and making choices towards a healthy and fulfilling life, even more important. I’ve recently learned wellness is composed of 7 dimensions–social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual, and physical. It is the active process of making choices towards the goodness of those 7 dimensions that will lead to happy and full lives, and therefore restoration.

So what does that actually look like? Must we do run, work out, and drink green juice to capture wellness? lol Nah. That’s what I thought initially, but it is not true. Ultimately any attempt at being mindful and dedicated to the health and fullness of your mind, body, spirit, intellect, and otherwise, is practicing wellness. No worries though, below I will reveal 7 Easy Ways to Promote Wellness in Your Life You Can Start Today.