Wellness

Wellness is a relatively new term and indicates a blend of the physical, the emotional, the spiritual and the mental to produce a stability in our lives that helps us to be positive and productive. The day that we had yesterday where we celebrated health and wellness through a variety of presentations, workshops and addresses, underlined how much there is to learn as we seek our own approaches to life. It is uplifting for me when I am reminded of how little I know and, far from getting me down, it inspires  me to pursue more and more knowledge and thought. Surely that is good for us in itself, exercising some of the unending and limitless possibilities of that mass of electrical and chemical interactions that occupies our cerebral cortex. The brain is the real key to wellness.

Most people style themselves as "lifelong learners" and that is promising for society as a whole as long as we keep promoting the value of learning. I see life as one giant menu of sorts, full of choices about what we feel like and what would be good for us, what we'd enjoy etc.The trick is to have as many choices as possible and to be armed with as much knowledge as possible that will help us to make choices that end up being right for us or good for us, or, ideally, both! Perhaps I could finish Descartes' famous sentence for him : " I think therefore I am well"!