Wellness: Renewal of the Whole Person
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind …
—Romans 12:2a (ESV, emphasis added)
Transform : make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
Renewal : the replacing or repair of something that is worn out, run-down, or broken.
We all need to make changes from time to time, and often those changes need to be thorough and dramatic, going from unhealthy to healthy, from broken to renewed.
To wellness.
Parts—or thoughts—may need to be replaced, transformed, and revived. So how do we make those life changes? How do we get to wellness?
Beliefs
Wellness: The Awareness of the Whole Individual focuses on the acronym BELIEFS. Each chapter highlights one area of BELIEFS and ends with an assessment for help in determining areas in life that may need attention. True wellness should be cultivated in key areas of our lives:
- Body
- Emotions
- Livelihood
- Intellect
- Environment
- Family & Friends
- Spiritual
The necessity of health and wellness is before us constantly—on social media, on billboards, in magazines we see in the grocery check-out line, on television. Our culture is obsessed with the latest health food, living a stress free life, the easiest and guaranteed-to-work diet plan. And yet, wellness is about so much more than only the physical. Each of these areas is important in providing peace and rest for our souls.
For as he thinks within himself, so he is. —Proverbs 23:7 (NASB)
A friend of mine, who recently became a Life Coach, instructs her clients that they control and direct their emotions by controlling and directing their thinking. Likewise, in each of these areas of BELIEFS, we have the ability to make choices toward wellness and health.
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” —Robert Urich
Because we live in a fallen world, the storms of life will come our way. This encouraging and practical book helps to navigate through those storms, pointing us toward a life of wholeness and wellness while we’re on this earth.
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” —Plato
