Wellness

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

Fraternity and Sorority Life

Intramural Sports

MSU Walking Path

Office of Student Engagement

Public Affairs

SAC

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:

Recycling at Missouri State

Sustainability at Missouri State

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:

Campus Ministers' Association

Events Hosted by the Religious Studies

Religious and Cultural Observances

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:

Career Center

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:

Real LIFE

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:

Academic Advisement Center

Libraries at Missouri State

Bear CLAW

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:

Counseling Center