b"HOW TO ACHIEVE WELLNESS CHAPTER 10HOW TO ACHIEVE WELLNESS Wellness is an experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. This includes good mental health, high satisfaction with life, meaning or purpose, and the ability to handle stress. More generally, well-being is simply about feeling good.Well-being is something almost everyone seeks because it includes so many positive things like feeling happy, healthy, socially connected, and useful. Unfortunately, well-being appears to be declining, at least in North America. And increasing your well-being can be difficult without knowing what to do and how to do it.You probably already know that if you stop eating healthy and start eating junk food again, you will find yourself back where you started. It turns out the same is true for different types of wellness.If you want to maintain thebenefits you gain, you willneed to continue to engage in wellness-promoting practices to maintain your body of knowledge. It is therefore very useful to have strategies and tools that help you stick to your long-term goals, for example, a happiness and well-being plan or a well-being-boosting activity that you can use throughout your life.Where does wellness come from?Well-beingemergesfromyourthoughts,actions,andexperiences,mostof which you have control over. For example, when we think positively, we tend to have greater emotional well-being. When we seek out meaningful relationships, we tend to have better collective well-being. And when we lose our job or just hate it, we tend to have lower well-being at work. These examples begin to reveal just how broad wellness is and how many different types of wellness there are.Because wellness is such a vast experience, let's break it down into its different types:1.Emotionalwell-being:theabilitytopracticestressmanagementand relaxationtechniques,toberesilient,tostimulateself-love,andto generate the emotions that lead to good feelings. Germain Decelles301"