Wellness A Philosophy of Life

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Wellness A Philosophy of Life

• Prof. Dr.med.habil. Dr.rer.nat. Dipl.-Chem.
  Helmut G. Pratzel
• Academic Director a.D.
• Ludwig-Maximilians-University of MunichHonoury
  president of the International Society of Medical
  Hydrology and Climatology (I.S.M.H.)

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Public imagination about wellness of 80 those
asked(Repräsentationsbefragungsstudie der GfK
Nürnberg bei Frauen zwischen 18-59 Jahren)

• Physical and psychical well being well balanced
  together
• Vitality
• To allow oneself something and to be spoiled
• holidays
• Fitness
• To take time for oneself to meditate

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Wellness - motivation and wishes (Ergebnis der
Marktforschung des Springer-Verlags)

• Physical activity
• Pleasures of life
• Physical Acceptance
• Stress control
• Self-reflection
• Unity of body, soul and spirit
• To enjoy the nature

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Task of presentation

• To find out and understand health promoting
  factors of wellness philosophy.
• To recognize abuse of wellness to make unserious
  business by use of non-effective methods and
  products in case of public ignorance.

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It will be explained

• What is Wellness and what is not included.
• The different levels of Wellness-philosophy.
• Unserious Wellness-offers
• Practical examples to get physical Wellness at
  home.
• Examples of Wellness from other cultures
• Institutions for Wellness
• Wellness-Trainer - what they are learning.

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Wellness who used this word first and gave its
meaning?

• 1961 Lectures and book of Halbert L. Dunn,
  American physision, titeled High Level
  Wellness.
• Main content By a special style of life a higher
  level of physical and psychical well being is
  possible.
• During the 70th Travis and Ardell, Hettler, Allen
  developed these ideas to wellness as a preventive
  alternative by a healthy style of life.

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Definition(National Institute of Wellness der
USA)

• Wellness is the active Process of realizing and
  getting decisions for a better way of life.

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Definition of the German Wellness-Association

• Wellness is to understand as an active strategy
  of health, helping anyone to organize his life
  healthy and productive by use of serious
  scientific controlled remedies and to have a
  pleased life largely free of chronically diseases.

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Wellness und Health

• Wellness arrange a preventive training of neglect
  physiological functions of the body to prevent
  development of diseases. (Primary prevention).
• Stabilization of health
• Not included in wellness strategies is treatment
  of diseases. This is only part of physicians.
• To get healthy

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Wellness and Medicine

• Wellness use a strategy of activation health
  promoting factors.
• Medicine use a strategy promoting knowledge of
  risk factors to forgo pleasures by the dictates
  of reason in protection against threatening of
  health.

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What is Health ?

• Health is than the absence of diseases.
• Health is the condition of totally physical,
  metal, and social well being (WHO).

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Why Wellness is high important for health?
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Health is stimulated

• 50 by the personal way of life
• 20 by heredity
• 20 by environment
• 10 by medicine

Quelle Barbara Richter IKD Reisen München,
Vortrag EUROKUR Wien 1997
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Health is connected with

• Personal responsibility
• Awareness Nutrition
• Controlled stress
• Physical fitness
• Sensitivity for environment

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Rules for a healthy way of life by Hippocrates
and Galen
Traditional Rules of Prevention

• Cultured use of light and air, water and heat, of
  climate, earth and environment,
• Culture in eating and drinking, in table manners
  and fasting rules,
• Balanced rhythm of moving and rest, work and free
  time, stress und leisure,
• Sleeping and waking in accordance by cosmic
  rhythm,
• Culture in metabolism,
• To have control in passion, economy of emotions,
  in cultured company by himself.

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Wellness and Wellnepp

• Wellness should result in lasting improvements of
  personal capability.
• The word Wellness is connected by
• Wellbeing und Fitness
• Wellnepp is defined by unserious offers without
  lasting results in treatment.

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Wellnepp a product of free market

• Wellness in many countries was degraded to a
  trademark to earn money by unserious treatments
  and misleading packaging. This was named
  wellnepp.
• In free market it is not possible to forbid
  these. Only custom is able to decide if he accept
  such products or not.

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Wellness a trademark

• Wellness-Cosmetic
• Wellness-Shampoos
• Nutrition with Wellness predicate (Designer food)
• Wellness-Pans
• Wellness-Fast Food
• Wellness-Table water
• Wellness-Bread
• Tourism with Wellness cures in obscure equipment
• Wellness-Design-fireplace
• Wellness-Hoof feat for horses
• Wellness-Food for guinea pigs
• Wellness-Disco-ball
• Wellness-Slipper
• Wellness-Socks
• Wellness-Mattress

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Translation from an article Die Zeit

• Merciless marketing get to absolute loss ones
  bearings of consumers, included of banalities
  and matters of course, like walking barefooted
  are titled as a wellness-feature to increase the
  price. This is national stultification and
  mocking of people in a big way.

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The Lies of the Wellness-Gurus (from Austrian
Wirtschaftsmagazin Trend 11,2004, S.264)

• By always new, pleasant terms hundreds Austrian
  Wellness-Companies woo each relax addicted
  person. But controversial, sometimes even
  dangerous methods hide behind Ayurveda, Reiki
  Co., that are used by often miserable educated
  wellness-trainers and often are too expensive.
  Those quality disaster could bring down the whole
  well being branch into a hard crisis.

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The Definition again(National Institute of
Wellness der USA)

• Wellness is the active Process of realizing and
  getting decisions for a better life.
• This will be explained in different levels of
  lifestyle

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1. Physical Wellness

• Fitness
• Learning of knowledge to get and to keep
  effective physical power
• Possibility for training in Fitness-Studios,
  Sports clubs
• Education to medical self responsibility in
  school
• Nutrition
• Nutrition -advise
• Practice in help for healthy nutrition programs
• Healthy way of life
• Safety
• Positive way of life

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2. Emotional Wellness

• Sexuality
• Sex education and to become aware of human
  emotions
• Management of feelings, control of passions
• Relations
• Control of emotions for society acceptable rules
• Tolerance disposition

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3. Intellectual Wellness

• Creativity
• Creative designing (to do handicrafts, painting,
  ceramics i.e.)
• wit
• Knowledge, education
• Bibliotheca, Internet
• Cultural offers for passive and active use

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4. Social Wellness

• Family
• Family consulting
• Society
• Education in ethical and moral values of the
  collective human co-existence
• Environment
• Education in social compatible ecological
  awareness
• Active part in community and environment

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5. Job-related Wellness

• Career
• Orientation to use optimal personal abilities
• Acceptance of job-related co-existence
• Inner calling
• Profession and hobby are satisfying
• Wide interests und capabilities

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6. Spiritual Wellness

• Values
• Mediation of spiritual values
• Religious and cultural tolerance
• Ethics
• Mediation of ethical rules for human co-existence.

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Six Levels of Wellness

• Physical wellness (fitness, nutrition, safety)
• Emotional wellness (sexuality, relations)
• Intellectual wellness (creativity, knowledge)
• Social wellness (family, society, environment)
• Job-related wellness (career, inner calling)
• Spiritual wellness (values, ethics)

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Catch phrases of Wellness

• Active role in society and environment
• High value of partnership
• Job and hobby are contently
• Tolerance
• Loyal to own moral concepts
• To live in harmony
• Health useful lifestyle
• Medical own-responsibility
• Intellectual agility
• Many interests
• Creativity
• Optimism in lifestyle
• Management of emotions

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Short feeling of well being moments is not enough

• Relaxing-massage
• Well smelling baths with soft music
• Exotics with flair und luxuries
• Short getaway from everyday life
• Cosmetics

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Bluff packages in Wellness-Studios

• Forehead flush with heated oil was titled as
  Ayurveda.
• Swing of a incense stick upon a supposed
  acupuncture point was titled as traditional
  Chinese Medicine.
• One hour gymnastics together with foreign music
  was titled as QI Gong.
• Bath additive with alges was titled as
  Thalassotherapy.

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Wellness sometimes mixed up with beauteousness

• Beauteousness can be stabilize psychic well
  being, but are used treatments able to give such
  results?
• Beauteousness of skin by Wellness treatment is
  main wish of Wellness-customs and is main point
  in wellness public relation.
• Elimination of wrinkles
• Streamlining of old skin
• Browning of skin
• Elimination of Cellulite

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Wrong expectation of Cosmetics
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The skin as an organ of defense shows scars of
life-exertions

• Skin has to defend all adversarial attack as a
  strategic outpost of the body
• By use of messengers skin informs systemic
  systems if penetrators could not be retained and
• Additional help of central function should be
  activated.

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The epidermis

• is the decisive impediment contrary penetration
  of substances but its thickness is lesser than a
  sheet of paper,
• it will be regenerated totally between 28 days,
• every day one layer of cells will be exuded,
• it has within 28 layers of cells, half of living
  cells and half of dead cells named horny layer.

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Only the horny layer could be treated by cosmetics

• Water and solutions, but also many drugs in
  different cosmetic formulations penetrate only
  between cells of the horny layer.
• Amount of cosmetics to contact living cells is
  very low if the horny layer is not damaged.
• remove roughness of skin is an effect of increase
  the skin moist of the horny layer.

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Effective Wellness-Programs

• Fitness-Programs (Physical wellness)
• Programs of training thermoregulation (Kneipp)
• Programs of psychic stabilization (autogenous
  training, meditation, Qi Gong, Yoga,
  Feldenkrais, Ayurveda in a scholastic manner)

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Wellness-Programs in Spas

• Health training of stretching, strengthening and
  activation of the body by use of water pools.
• training of relaxation to help by psychic und
  physical tensions.
• training of the heart-circulation-system by
  control of heart rate.
• Learning the act of moving in prevention of low
  back pain.

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Wellness programs at home to increase well being
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Exercises in stretching

• Stretching of
• calf muscle
• backside- and abdomen muscles
• thigh extensor
• hip flexor
• neck muscle
• back extensor
• i.e.

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Water stepping
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Shank treatment
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Arm treatment
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Arm bath
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Wellness in Spaa German trade mark of quality

• Medical competence.
• Natural healing agent of the earth, the sea, the
  climate or physiotherapeutic competence like
  Sebastian Kneipp
• Well-tried concepts of spa culture
• High quality in service
• Infrastructure as a center in health and tourism

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Wellness in Spaa German trade mark of quality

• Maximum possibilities in personnel arrangements
• Cultural offer in a capricious ambient
• Flavorful landscape and environment
• Offer of social contacts and communication
• Positive life and experience, quality of being
  sensual, pleasure and lifestyle

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Wellness Quality mark of German Hotel Group

• Minimum three stars-quality
• Nonviolent environment near the nature
• Environment-conscious management
• Non-smoking area in dining and sleeping rooms
• Wellness-kitchen
• Wellness-center
• Wellness-trainer
• Experience programs

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Future of Wellness

• Wellness as a trademark will be loose credibility
  and fare dodger who use wellness to earn money by
  misleading packaging will be unmasked.
• Wellness of the 2nd generation has to use new
  social and cognitive competences. In future
  wellness will give more power for a higher level
  of total own awareness, for wishes, dreams to
  stabilize personally functions of life.