Good or Bad Health Doesn't Just Happen
It accumulates over time from the choices we make. Wellness is an on-going, living, organic process—not a final destination. It affects your body, mind, emotions, relationships, work, and activities. It is a lifestyle decision that is supported by ongoing healthy choices and behaviors.
Wellness is the result, or better yet, the on-going reward of our desire and commitment to living a healthier lifestyle.
The benefits of wellness extend far beyond the individual. Healthier people are generally more productive in their home and at work, and can serve as a credible role model encouraging others to adopt a healthier lifestyle.
Being sick, fat, tired, or poor isn't easy. Just living, for that matter, isn't always easy—especially as we grow older. Yet we can make our lives more difficult and less fulfilling as a result of poor lifestyle behavioral choices, or at least less-than-optimal ones we make over time. While we can't control everything in our life, we can decide to make better choices regarding our health and take reasonable action.
Your Wellness Lifestyle is a free, self-paced, online healthy living education program. It is for anyone that genuinely desires to live a better, more fulfilling life, and is willing to make small, gradual, and reasonable changes to lifestyle behaviors that will move them along a continuum towards better health.
The primary emphasis is on providing easy-to-use, common-sense, educational content and tools to help you learn about, and implement over time, healthier lifestyle choices and behaviors as they relate primarily to whole-foods nutrition, reasonable exercise, stress management, proper sleep, mental health and the use of targeted, high-quality supplements to augment what is lacking in our diet.
The desired outcome is to experience small, incremental success by gradually increasing healthy lifestyle behaviors over time while gradually decreasing the unhealthy ones. With each new success comes first-hand, personal experience resulting in more confidence, energy, and commitment to take the next step.
When we choose to take better care of ourselves, we perform better and experience more fulfillment in our relationships, work, hobbies, and other activities.
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Course Structure
Navigate the Course Outline to find Wellness topics that interests you most.
Course Outline
The Course Outline is organized into Modules. Select the and it will expand to show the different Topics covered. Select the Topic Title to see the subject-matter content broken out into these sections:
Learning Objective
The Learning Objective describes what the student should know after they have completed the instructional content. It clearly defines the expected outcome in terms of knowledge that should be acquired.
Behavioral Objective
The Behavioral Objective describes what the student should be able to do after they have completed the instructional content. It clearly defines the expected outcome in terms of demonstrable skills that should be acquired.
Key Thought
The Key Thought is the main or most important idea that the student should remember after completing the instructional content. It should be easy to state and easy to remember.
Terms
The Terms are important words or phrases used in the instructional text that need further definition or explanation.
Read
The Read section is the main area of instructional text covering the specific subject-matter area. It will typically be 1,500-2,000 words and take about 10-15 minutes to read.
Watch
The Watch section contains one or more videos supporting the topical content. These are generally one to three minutes in length.
Quiz
The Quiz section contains one or more quizzes that provide real-time, educational feedback for every answer option chosen. These typically contain 6-10 questions to challenge your understanding of the subject matter.
Activities
The Activities section contains easy and fun personal activities that enhance learning and encourage participation and discussion. Activities help you to turn the knowledge acquired into personal actions that over time become sustainable, healthier lifestyle behaviors.
Resources
The Resources section contains additional content and tools (some downloadable) that extend the subject-matter area covered or provide related Wellness information.
Discussion Forum
The Discussion Forum is an online community where you can ask questions and share your thoughts and feedback with others.
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Additional Wellness Resources
You also have access to our Healthy Living Blog, Whole-Foods Recipes and the Professional-Grade Supplements from popular brands anytime you are on the website.
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Student Expectations
Enjoy the course content at a time and location convenient for you.
Take a look at the Course Outline and get an overview of the health topics covered. Hopefully there is something interesting and helpful for everyone. You can go through the course content in any order you want, at any time, as many times as you like.
You should expect to commit about 30 minutes per topic on average to include reviewing the content and performing the suggested activities. This can be done at a time and place convenient for you. All that is required is internet access and the web browser of your choice.
Once you have viewed the topic's Read and Video sections, we encourage you to take the Quiz, perform the Activities, participate in the Discussion Forum, and review the additional Resources.
We hope you enjoy this online Wellness education and consider applying the practical tips and suggestions to your lifestyle.
Wellness Begins with YOUR Decision
Do YOU want to look, feel and perform better? If so, make the decision to do so. Take advantage of Your Wellness Lifestyle. If you find it useful, please share it with others whom you think would benefit from it.
Here's to a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life!
