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>>>> According to decades of research, wellness is a lifestyle or state of being that goes beyond merely the absence of disease and into the realm of maximizing

>>>> According to decades of research, wellness is a lifestyle or state of being that goes beyond merely the absence of disease and into the realm of maximizing human potential. Once someone’s basic needs are met (e.g., food and shelter), scientists say that wellness emerges from nourishing six dimensions of your health: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual, and environmental. According to research published in 1997 in The American Journal of Health Promotion, these dimensions are closely intertwined. Evidence suggests that they work together to create a sum that is greater than its parts. This is pure woo. What scientists?

ellopoppit 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying is pure "woo"? >physical, emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual, and environmental Are you saying you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health?
- moonchrome 4y ago
  Depends on what you're willing to accept as science.
  - Nowado 4y ago
    Science is pretty well defined, just (some!) STEM students have issue following the line from epistemology to statistics.
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- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health? I’d be curious to see it. Why those factors but not others? Why is spirituality segregated from cognitive or mental health, broadly? How are these terms experimentally defined?
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  - ellopoppit 4y ago
    Good questions. There is thorough scientific evidence showing that: 1) Mindset (positive or negative) has direct effects on physiology 2) Strong social bonds and a sense of community is beneficial to health, while the inverse is detrimental 3) Meditation and mindfulness can positively affect physiology 4) Chronic stress is detrimental to health (and having an existential terror of death is surely a source of conscious or unconscious chronic stress for many) These are all things which religion and spirituality can help with. Religion, a social determinant of mortality? A 10-year follow-up of the Health and Retirement Study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189134 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.1257437 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.125743... Neurobiology of Spirituality https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/
dang 4y ago
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- analog31 4y ago
  Thanks. Agreed.

ellopoppit 4y ago

I'm not sure what you're saying is pure "woo"? >physical, emotional, cognitive, social, spiritual, and environmental Are you saying you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health?

moonchrome 4y ago
Depends on what you're willing to accept as science.
- Nowado 4y ago
  Science is pretty well defined, just (some!) STEM students have issue following the line from epistemology to statistics.
- deleted 4y ago
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JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> you don't think there's any science showing that these factors are relevant to physical and mental health? I’d be curious to see it. Why those factors but not others? Why is spirituality segregated from cognitive or mental health, broadly? How are these terms experimentally defined?
- deleted 4y ago
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- ellopoppit 4y ago
  Good questions. There is thorough scientific evidence showing that: 1) Mindset (positive or negative) has direct effects on physiology 2) Strong social bonds and a sense of community is beneficial to health, while the inverse is detrimental 3) Meditation and mindfulness can positively affect physiology 4) Chronic stress is detrimental to health (and having an existential terror of death is surely a source of conscious or unconscious chronic stress for many) These are all things which religion and spirituality can help with. Religion, a social determinant of mortality? A 10-year follow-up of the Health and Retirement Study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189134 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Reward, salience, and attentional networks are activated by religious experience in devout Mormons https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.1257437 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17470919.2016.125743... Neurobiology of Spirituality https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/

dang 4y ago

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

analog31 4y ago
Thanks. Agreed.