6 Dimensions of Wellness & Feng Shui

I recently came across a program called Six Dimensions of Wellness. The idea that focusing on wellness helps build grit to weather and succeed through challenges of life. Tuning in to all six dimensions of wellness in our lives builds a body-mind-spirit sense of balance.

The National Wellness Institute presents Six Dimensions of Wellness: emotional, occupational, physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual.

Co-founder of the National Wellness Institute (NWI), Dr. Bill Hettler developed Six Dimensions of Wellness as an interdependent model sharing many interpretations and states of wellness. The definition of wellness long used by the National Wellness Institute —”Wellness is an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence.”

Did you know Urbaca is set up according to the bagua? The bagua is a feng shui energy map showing the principles of reality with eight segments.

These maps are very similar, just condensed for the 6 Dimensions of Wellness. Not changing the North or South delineations but combining SW and NW with W attributes and doing a similar combo with SE, E and NE

Occupational/Fame-Reputation (S)

Physical/Relationship-Love-Mother-Children (SW/W)

Social—Creativity-Children-Future-Helpful People-Travel-Father (NW/W)

Intellectual/Career-Path in life (N)

Spiritual/Knowledge-Wisdom, Skills, Foundation,Family, Past (NE/E)

Emotional/Abundance prosperity Wealth, Foundation Family Past (E/SE)

The Six Dimensions of Wellness lack one of the most important elements of Feng Shi, Earth in the Middle. It fits in the Physical segment but seems to lack a centering point. Are we supposed to be at the middle? Personally, I like some earth to stand on!

Interesting. Well whatever it takes to get more balance and resilience in folks lives. We here at Urbaca are all for it.

Two interesting things I found in their website—

“The Mission of the National Wellness Institute (NWI) Multicultural Competency Committee is to support NWI with increasing inclusiveness by advancing multicultural competency within wellness best practices, and to assist with the development of knowledge, awareness, and skills to deliver equitable and culturally appropriate programs and services for wellness practitioners, organizations, underserved populations, and communities.”

Also, I’ve heard about this program and am a little obsessed.

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