Wellness is first and foremost a choice to assume responsibility for the quality of your life. It begins with a conscious decision to shape a healthy lifestyle. Every time you make a decision it is either good for your health and moves you towards wellness or it's not good for you and moves you towards illness.

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An alternative approach to wellness to also consider is the six dimensions of wellness suggested by Bill Hettler in 1979 and how it can be integrated into a quality way of living. Wellness involves continually learning and making changes to enhance your state of wellness. When we balance the physical, intellectual, emotional, occupational, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of life, we achieve true wellness.

Physical
Physical wellness means respecting and taking care of your body. It is making informed and responsible decisions and applying your knowledge, skills and motivation towards enhancing your own personal fitness and health. To stay well, physical wellness requires that you take steps to protect your physical health by eating well, taking good exercise, having enough sleep, maintaining a proper weight and restricting the use of harmful substances both in and on your body.

Intellectual
Intellectual well-being involves lifelong learning through your formal education and informal life experiences. Well-being in this area increases your openness to new ideas and to maintain a sense of humour, creativity, curiosity and a strong desire to learn. It involves staying stimulated with new ideas, and sharing. It is the ability to think clearly and to engage your mind in lively interaction with the world around you.

Emotional
Emotional Wellness is the ability to understand your own feelings, accept your limitations, achieve emotional stability, and become more comfortable with how you feel. It is the ability to make a positive choice in how you respond to life events. It involves learning how your behaviours, thoughts, and feelings affect one another and your decisions. Emotional wellness implies the ability to express emotions appropriately, adjust to change, cope with stress in a healthy way, and enjoy life despite its occasional ups and downs.

Social
Social Wellness is the ability to relate well to others, both within and outside the family unit. Social wellness gives you the ease and confidence to be outgoing, friendly and affectionate towards others. Social wellness involves creating positive interaction with others, developing and building friendships, practicing empathy, caring for others and allowing others to care for you.

Spiritual
Spiritual Wellness is the sense that life is meaningful and has a purpose; the ethics, personal set of values and morals that guide you and give meaning and direction to your life. Spiritual wellness integrates your beliefs and values with your actions and leads you to strive for a state of harmony with yourself and others.

Environmental
Environmental Wellness is an awareness of the precarious state of the earth and the effect your behaviour has on the physical environment around you. Environmental wellness includes living in harmony with the earth by understanding the impact of your interaction with nature and minimising harm to the environment. It means being socially responsible and taking actions to protect the world around you