With both Western and Eastern societies constantly encouraging hard work, productivity and hustling, many individuals may consider themselves to be successful.
What we may not realize is that they are not able to take good care of their health due to working so hard and so much.
This is where wellness culture comes in.
Wellness culture seems to have a different definition based on who you ask, but this way of life ultimately means that people are adopting practices, diets, habits and work outs that are supposed to provide a more healthy and holistic life.
This can include a positive change in diets, journaling, mediation, regular exercise, yoga, eating organically and so much more.
Wellness culture is a growing and expanding industry. As more research is put into it, new ideas, products, regiments and experts emerge.
People rely on wellness regimens because they are either watching their health deteriorate because of an unhealthy work/life balance, because they want to keep health complications at bay or because they are inspired by social media health influencers.
Whatever reason a person may have to bring these positive changes into their life, they are welcomed with open arms into the wellness culture and community.
The benefits of taking watchful care of one’s health are aplenty.
Many corporations are adopting what is called “cultures of wellness”, and it has not gone unnoticed how much it has paid off.
An article from Forbes titled,“How You Can Nurture A Culture of Wellness”, recognizes that employees are happier, more productive and less stressed on the job when companies try to incorporate health and wellness into their places of employment.
Corporations are catching on to the fact that wellness culture has benefits that stretch beyond short term positive results. They are discovering that having happy and healthy employees helps the bottom line and produce an enjoyable work culture.
The article from Journal of Intercultural Management (JOIM), “Towards Corporate Wellness: Health Culture and Wellness” further discusses the advantage of wellness culture being incorporated into the workplace.
Bad health costs companies money. Too many people were missing work because of health related issues and productivity was negatively impacted.
The article outlines that “labor costs are systematically increasing”. Because of these unanticipated losses in profit, companies took a different approach and started programs that promote health and wellness to improve the psychological and physical health of their employees.
This ultimately led “to companies being able to develop and improve.”
An article from ResearchGate, “Creating a Culture of Wellness: A Call to Action for Higher Education, Igniting Change in Academic Institutions”, discusses that wellness culture should be incorporated into higher education for it to help alleviate the issues of the increased chronic health complications in today’s society, as well as personal choices that lead to questionable and substandard health.
The article aims to start the conversation and bring “overall well-being” to college life, as these changes are planned to be extended not only to students but to faculty and staff as well.
As society changes day by day, a positive change that has developed is a closer consciousness towards health. Seeing the productive effect of these developments leads to the conclusion that this can only be better for people who are a part of the growing wellness culture.
