What is Wellbeing?

Wellbeing has different meanings to different people, for me it is a state of mind, body and soul balance which is achieved through optimising lifestyle, diet, movement and mental health. Maintaining your wellbeing is a crucial part of life, as is understanding what helps support your individual wellbeing balance.

“A person too busy to take care of their health, is like a mechanic too busy to take care of their tools.” Spanish Proverb

Everyone is unique and will experience a wide range of life events, emotions, mental and physical highs and lows throughout their life. Building up awareness, endurance and resilience to these experiences helps enable individuals to fully embrace them and ride the waves.

How many people go through life ignoring the mental and physical signs that their body is telling them to slow down?  If an imbalanced life can cause things like stress, anxiety, inflammation, vitamin deficiencies what else can it do in it’s extremes? 

Improving your wellbeing can be done in multiple ways such as:

• Setting boundaries around the areas of life that are stressors or zap your energy, ensuring you are balancing them off with practices and activities that bring you joy, energy, calm or whatever your desired state of balance is.
• Reviewing your lifestyle, diet and exercise.
• Linking in wellbeing activities to the seasons can be helpful as different times of year bring in different energies so whilst a walk in sun, foraging or yoga in the garden may work well in the summer, activities like journaling, sound healing or aromatherapy in the autumn/winter months may serve you better.
• There are also a lot of natural wellbeing products available now to supplement different lifestyles such as kombucha, kefir, CBD, adaptogens and aromatherapy oils.

In supporting the wellbeing of my clients, I generally work intuitively to understand the balance that they are trying to achieve and work with them to agree wellbeing goals as well as tailoring meditations, mindfulness techniques and suggesting products to help support their desired outcomes. The types of practices that I find useful for most people are breathwork, meditation, movement, aromatherapy and journaling.

For me the goal of wellbeing is to find your oneness, the peace and conscious awareness of connection with yourself and the world around you.