Missouri State students and employees may sign up for wellness programs that focus on bettering the body and the mind:
Balance Your Life with our Wellness Wheel
Understanding Your Level of Wellness
Our Wellness Wheel is comprised of eight well balanced sections to enhance the overall health and wellness of your life. The eight dimensions of the wheel: community, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, career, physical, financial, and environment, help you reach your goals in a way which incorporates wellness.
We have compiled for you a list of resources to help you achieve, maintain, and expand your individual wellness. Each section should be taken care of in an effort to reach your optimal wellness level. Just as a wheel that is part of something bigger, if it is flat in one spot, the overall progress of the machine will suffer. Balance your health and wellness with the wheel and resources we have provided.
Community
The community dimension of the wellness wheel focuses on connecting with others by developing a sense of connection, belonging, and a well-developed support system. This also includes creating
and maintaining positive relationships with the people and things around you, constantly contributing so everything will continue to be effective for the better.
Resources to help enhance your community wellness can be found all over campus:
Center for Leadership and Volunteerism
Citizenship and Service Learning
Environment
The environmental dimension of wellness focuses on occupying pleasant, stimulating environments that support well-being. Appreciating the external world around you while understanding the limits of its natural resources and doing what you believe it takes to make sure it is being kept up to the highest standard possible. The awareness of all human activity impacting the environment, its up-keeping, and longevity is central to this dimension.
Below are campus resources to enhance the environmental wellness dimension:
Spiritual
The spiritual dimension of wellness is centered on establishing inner peace and harmony on your life while expanding your sense of purpose and meaning. People with a strong spiritual wellness use personal beliefs and values to choose which actions to take and interpret how things in the world should be viewed.
Missouri State offers campus resources to assist in strengthening spiritual wellness:
Occupational
The occupational dimension of wellness focuses on the ability to receive personal satisfaction and enrichment from one’s work or career choice. Everyone wants to feel as if they have made a difference in the career field of their choice, the positive impact we make and the feeling you have upon completion leads directly to occupational wellness.
Check out resources around campus to enhance your occupational wellness:
Financial
The financial dimension of wellness incorporates finding satisfaction with your current and future financial situations. Additionally, it involves an understanding of how to improve those situations for the betterment of your life and career goals. This involves being able to effectively control your income and successfully plan your finances. Learning how to save and invest completes the financially-well person.
For help with increasing financial wellness, there are helpful campus resources:
Physical
The physical dimension of wellness includes recognizing the need for physical activity, healthy foods, and sleep while maintaining these to the highest degree. A strong physical dimension will allow individuals to complete daily tasks and activities without excess stress or fatigue. Understanding these qualities greatly impact our lives and working toward adopting healthier habits will help individuals reach a higher level of physical wellness.
Check out the physical resources around Missouri State's campus:
Intellectual
The intellectual dimension of wellness focuses on recognizing creative abilities and finding ways to expand knowledge and skills. To fully develop the intellectual dimension it is important to challenge one’s self to master those skills and apply them to everyday life in pursuit of a higher state of mind.
The following are resources around campus helping to expand the intellectual dimension:
Emotional
Emotional wellness entails being able to effectively cope with life’s challenges. It also includes create satisfying relationships will allowing us to understand and grow within ourselves. This leads to the ability to be able to identify, express, and manages emotions in a controlled manner.
These emotional wellness resources are found around campus: