SeekWellness.com Expands Wellness Mission to Encompass Five Concentric Spheres

Seek Wellness, LLC (SWC), a member company of the Wellness Partners Group, has announced an expanded mission and vision for its website, www.SeekWellness.com. Always a leader in the wellness field with its Wellness Center directed by Don Ardell, PhD, SeekWellness.com is developing content, products and resources related to wellness for individuals, families, communities, worksites and the Globe. To help visitors find all of the website´s resources on each sphere, the company has designed a series of icons that it will apply to relevant information and products. Along with the icons, SWC has made a commitment to help people look at the global effects of their wellness choices and offer more information and products that add up to positive results at all levels. Watch for the new icons to appear over the coming months. A new banner with links to five essays about the wellness spheres is now showing on the website´s homepage at www.seekwellness.com.

At the Wellness Center, visitors can read about the company´s definition of REAL Wellness, which has nothing to do with holistic or alternative medicine. Instead, REAL Wellness focuses on a set of practical goals for achieving the highest personal potential:

• High self-esteem and a positive outlook
  
  
• Strong foundation philosophy and a sense of purpose
  
  
• Strong sense of personal responsibility
  
  
• Good sense of humor and plenty of fun in life
  
  
• Concern for others and a respect for the environment
  
  
• Conscious commitment to excellence
  
  
• Sense of balance and an integrated lifestyle
  
  
• Freedom from negative or health-inhibiting behaviors
  
  
• Capacity to cope with whatever life presents and willingness to learn
  
  
• Grounded in reality
  
  
• Highly conditioned and physically fit
  
  
• Capacity to love and an ability to nurture
  
  
• Capacity to manage life´s demands and communicate effectively.
  
  

When someone begins to work toward REAL Wellness, spin-off consequences occur. Since parents are the primary role model for children, other family members notice positive changes when adults pursue wellness. Wellness at home leads to a desire for wellness at work and a parent who aspires to REAL Wellness will want local school systems to choose the best foods for cafeterias and physical education to be as important as math. Community wellness, in turn, leads to better choices for the environment and the Globe. Seek Wellness, LLC wants to be part of the solution, not part of the problem, and has pledged a percentage of its profits to "we can solve it" (www.wecansolveit.com). It will also feature organizations and websites where people can contribute time, ideas or money or where they can learn what they can do to help at each level of wellness.

Donald B. Ardell, Ph.D., is an urban planner who wrote High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs and Disease in 1977, a landmark work that helped shape the wellness movement, particularly at the workplace and in the health care system. He´s written 15 books in all and publishes an electronic newsletter, available at the website: http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/ardell_wellness_report.htm. The success of his first book helped spark the wellness movement and propel Don to a career of writing, speaking and teaching ways to apply wellness concepts personally and professionally. SeekWellness.com, is the largest repository of wellness essays in the world -- Don has been writing articles for this site for nearly a decade on the physical, mental, and meaning and purpose dimensions of the wellness philosophy, with topics further organized into 16 skill areas.

Wellness Partners, LLC was formed in 2001 by a group of health care professionals who want to put the "heart" back into health care. They hope to empower consumers and form partnerships with them to change the health care system through education, interaction and support. Most importantly, they want the consumer to seek wellness always.

Access their web sites at:

• www.seekwellness.com
  
  
• www.sephiaschoice.com
  
  
• www.ContinenceNurse.net
  
  

For more information, contact Josee Archer at 603 574-4915 or 800 840-9301.