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Key Concept #1: The Illness-Wellness Continuum

WEBIt was a melding of the health risk continuum created by Lewis Robbins (creator of the Health Risk Appraisal) and Abraham Maslow's concept of self-actualization. Once it was …

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Key Concept #2: The Iceberg Model of Health and …

WEBUltimately, this realm determines whether the tip of the iceberg, representing your state of health, is one of disease or wellness. Illness and health are only the tip of an iceberg. To understand their causes, you …

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Wellness: The Wellspring Online

WEBAn Invitation to Full-Spectrum Wellness. Full-spectrum wellness reflects our multi-dimensional approach to health and wellbeing. Full-spectrum wellness is about the …

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Refining the Illness-Wellness Continuum

WEBWhat we saw was that the key difference between illness and wellness - regardless of the point on the continuum at which a person may be physically - is the direction in which …

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Introduction: Simply Well

WEBGenerally speaking, good health is our birthright. The human task is to be a responsible caretaker of the inherent wisdom that already governs the body. Give your body the raw …

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Introduction to Wellness

WEBWellness is a process—a developing awareness that there is no endpoint, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now. Wellness is a balanced …

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What Is Wellness

WEBIts orientation is toward treating and eliminating the evidence of disease, and this is important. But it is not enough. It is essential to look below the surface signs to address …

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Medical Paradigm compared with Wellness Paradigm

WEBAs we understand it, health is a result of a dynamic energy exchange between the individual and everything in creation. People cannot live well while remaining isolated …

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Personal Wellness

WEBFactual text is interspersed with exercises and personal examples as we attempt to engage the whole of you - whole brain, whole heart, whole body, whole soul - so be prepared. …

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The Wellness Wheel

WEBIn summary, we have shown how the Wellness Energy System is our alternative to the usual piecemeal way of looking at health. We offer an integrated overview of all human …

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Illness and Energy

WEBWe do not need a membership in a gym or health club, even though these facilities can be beneficial. We do not need a personal trainer or a live-in masseuse and beautician. Nor …

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Health and Barriers to Listening

WEBHealth and Barriers to Listening Learning to listen brings tremendous, and often immediate, rewards that contribute to health and happiness on all sides. We relieve stress; we meet …

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John W. Travis, MD, MPH

WEBJohn W. Travis, MD, MPH completed his medical degree in Boston and a residency in general preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Strongly influenced by Halbert …

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Wellness Education: A New Model for Health

WEBThe Illness/Wellness Continuum. The Illness/Wellness Continuum, which John first developed in 1972, is a simple one-dimensional model and has described at length in …

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About the Wellspring

WEBAbout the Wellspring. In 1975, after six years in the US Public Health Service, and completing a residency in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Public …

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The Wellness Paradigm

WEBChild/Family Wellness Honoring the heart, soul, and spirit of our children, our families, and our future. After more than three decades of pioneering work in adult wellness, and …

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Cultural Norms and Wellness

WEBMainstream thinking in Western medicine has traditionally considered the state of personal health (the area above the water in the Iceberg Model) as independent of the deeper …

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The Foundations of Wellness, John W. Travis, MD

WEBThe abuse continues when parents leave their young in the care of strangers, allow assaults on their immune system with vaccines that may pose a higher risk to health than the …

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Key Concept #3: The Wellness Energy System: Introduction

WEBThese are: 1) oxygen, 2) food, and 3) sensory stimulation such as physical touch, heat, light, sound, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. In addition, there are the less …

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The Treatment Paradigm

WEBThe treatment paradigm focuses on the reductionist approach of treating symptoms rather than healing the underlying problem. It operates from the Paradigm of Disconnection, …

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Wellness Wheel Example 1: Paul

WEBHere are some hypothetical examples of people who have taken the Wellness Index (either in the book or the online version) and how they might use the Wellness Energy System …

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