Personal Wellness

Personal wellness is all about perception. Wellness has been a struggle for many individual regardless of age, background and demographics. This is because we always take ourselves even our health for granted and see sleep or food as non-essential. Escalating perception on choosing a more health risk lifestyle will have its immediate and long term consequence on any individual who continue to choose what he thinks is best for his body. Wellness is about balance and knowing the essentials of nutrition, diet and physical fitness. Health and wellness ultimately relate to individual expectations and values and your personal motivation to change direction.

You may need to alter health habits and environment to achieve higher levels of well being and to maintain certain levels of health condition. Your ability to maintain your desired level of health depends on your initiative to manage negative health behaviors. This will likely influence personal health rates and your option to assume accountability and responsibility of your health. Reducing health risk simply means a change of lifestyle and breaking old habits. The initiative to change is often influenced by situational factors by which the adherence and adaptation of the new health choices could be trying and real frustrating.

You may find yourself complaining of fatigue. It is especially important that you get the required hours of sleep each day. This includes the breaks you need to fulfill during the day necessary to stay fit like rest and refresh. The lack of rest and sleep may lead to medical problems or develop to fatigue. Fatigue is usually relieved by sleep. Chronic fatigue may result from ignoring simple fatigue symptoms which is characterized by recurring flulike symptoms, weakness or lack of energy, and experiencing difficulties with memory, concentration, expression or comprehension. Fatigue has every influence to cause significant change in your lifestyle and work.

Sleep and rest are considered as both restorative and protective. The shift in hormonal balance experienced by your body during sleep facilitates physical restoration through anabolism. Normal sleep duration for efficient, hardworking people is usually 6 hours. One or two awakenings during the night are common but tend to increase with age. The need for sleep and rest varies among adults which is dependent on individual and situational variables. High incidence of fatigue is contributed to shorter, fragmented sleep. Disturbed sleep occurs when you are trying to get some sleep at a time when your body’s circadian rhythm is set for wakefulness. Less sleep may compromise your clinical judgment and decision making if fatigue is transformed to chronic form of stress. You know what sleep means to you now, never deprive your body the basic need to rest!