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HEALTH & WELLNESS
3 WAVES OF
WELLNESS — BY MINA KAKAIYA The 3 waves of wellness is an approach which enables individuals to begin to become aware, move and practice towards nurturing their true inner wellness or “inner me”.
Sharing my thoughts on wellness has been a personal life long journey in enabling myself and others to find their own inner wellness through mentoring, coaching and training. What has also been a great help was developing wellbeing programmes in the workplace and across health and social care and non-for-profit sectors of mental health, HIV and domestic violence. By bringing awareness to improve others personal mental wellness, I realised that our source of wellbeing is innate within us and it is fundamentally our true natural state of being, that is in a continual state of change and transformation.
pressures and norms we begin to adhere to.
Wellness in essence is an emotional state of
neglecting our own. Experiences of loss or
unconditional self-love and appreciation that is eroded or lost and found again along our life journey. Our sense of who we are and our values, believes, attitudes and behaviours are moulded by our past experiences, family situation, culture, education and life experiences. Often our wellness then gets lost or what gets in the way of our wellness and happiness is pleasing and conforming to the wider cultural
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Pandering to needs and wants of others hence trauma in different areas of lives such as loved ones, health, money and purpose. We then try to find it again, and for many of us through developing unhelpful and negative thought patterns, believes, fears and habits such as addictions, self-harm, lack of self-worth, low expectations and negative perceptions about self, others and the world around us.
