The Student Activities Office - Wellness Programs

The Student Activities Office is committed to promoting and, facilitating empowerment of individuals and groups, and fostering a strong sense of health-enhancing behavior, through educational and social programming.

Wellness is the conscious development of the whole self. It is the concept of practicing all the things that keeps a person well. It involves maintaining good nutrition, exercise, stress-control, and good personal and familial social relationships.

According to the National Wellness Institute there are eight dimensions, of wellness. They include:

• Physical: A physically well person selects a varied and nutritionally balanced diet. This person seeks to get an adequate amount of sleep, engages in moderate to vigorous exercise 3-5 times a week, gets routine medical check-ups appropriate to his or her age and risk factors, and takes safety precautions.
   

• Emotional: An emotionally well person is able to express and manage the entire range of feelings, including anger, fear, happiness and sadness.
   

• Social: A socially well person has a network of friends and family with relationships that are based on interdependence (rather than codependence), mutual trust and respect, equity of power and cultural competence.
   

• Intellectual: An intellectually well person values education and engages in lifelong learning, and pursues activities that increase knowledge, develop moral reasoning, foster critical thinking and expand world views.
   

• Spiritual: The spiritually well person seeks meaning and purpose in human existence, and has an appreciation of life.
   

• Sexual: A sexually well person is comfortable in expressing feelings that relate to a person's sexual orientation, perspective and behavior.
   

• Occupational: An occupationally well person seeks to fulfill a social and professional defined role that is both stimulating and inherently rewarding.
   

• Environmental: An environmentally well person strives to minimize wasteful consumption or unnecessary destruction of animals, plants, elements or energy.

The Ohio State University Student Wellness Center (Columbus campus)

Positive Balance Program—LINK (information forthcoming)

For more information, contact the Student Activities Office, Hopewell 105, (470) 366-9241.