Head to the new Wellbeing Website:
Wellbeing: the state of wholeness and thriving within and between people that echoes the Hebrew concept of shalom.
In the Center for Wellbeing, we're encouraging the kind of wellbeing that includes but is more robust than physical wellness.
To read more about how we view wellbeing through a Christian lens, see the explanation linked below.
The Wellbeing WheelDesigned to remind you of six aspects of life that profoundly influence your intrapersonal wellbeing
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why this holistic perspective of wellbeing?
God designed humanity well. Often, people miss out on God's good design and live from shallow, depleted, and self-focused states. Shalom is not present. Wholeness and thriving - individually, interpersonally and systemically - is not apparent. Humans easily become absorbed in the challenges, discomfort and dis-ease of their individual lives. In this self-focused state, they turn inward and the outward perspective on the meaning for life is easily lost. Life was to be more than this, but in order to be 'more than this', change, transformation, or renewal must happen.
Investing in one's wellbeing is investing in this renewal process.
When a person becomes aware of God's good design and chooses to invest in the physical, cognitive, emotional, relational, spiritual and meaning aspects of their lives, they are choosing to tend to their soul's wellbeing. They are helping their bodies, minds, spirits and relationships be renewed.
When individual souls are renewed and well, when they are whole and thriving, they show up differently in life. They interact with others differently. They invest in systems differently. When people feel whole and experience a bit of flourishing, they have an inner reserve that can fuel generosity, compassionate living, and a desire to invest in the common good.
When a soul is well, it transforms a person's way of existing which transforms their way of relating and can fuel a lifestyle of joining God in what God is doing in this world.
In John 5:6, Jesus asks a man this question, "Do you want to be well?" This question is a profound one for each person to considerl: Do you want to be well? If your soul was renewed and well, how would that change they way you exist in this world?
Investing in one's wellbeing is investing in this renewal process.
When a person becomes aware of God's good design and chooses to invest in the physical, cognitive, emotional, relational, spiritual and meaning aspects of their lives, they are choosing to tend to their soul's wellbeing. They are helping their bodies, minds, spirits and relationships be renewed.
When individual souls are renewed and well, when they are whole and thriving, they show up differently in life. They interact with others differently. They invest in systems differently. When people feel whole and experience a bit of flourishing, they have an inner reserve that can fuel generosity, compassionate living, and a desire to invest in the common good.
When a soul is well, it transforms a person's way of existing which transforms their way of relating and can fuel a lifestyle of joining God in what God is doing in this world.
In John 5:6, Jesus asks a man this question, "Do you want to be well?" This question is a profound one for each person to considerl: Do you want to be well? If your soul was renewed and well, how would that change they way you exist in this world?
