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Defining Wellness Here at Earth's Kids when we speak of a "firm foundation of wellness" we mean far more than helping kids have healthy bodies. We're actually talking about that broad, hard to define type of well being that children experience when all of their needs are being properly addressed. This encompasses getting good nutrition, active play, and proper health care to be sure. But it also means:
In short, when we speak of encouraging wellness, we're talking about helping children get their basic physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual needs met. Because as research has shown, when children get these needs met, they are better able to assert and follow their natural drives to learn, to create, and to care -- about themselves and others. And they are less likely to lose their way into drug addiction and other destructive problems.
We believe that now more than ever our children need this. Our world needs this. Perhaps it is time we stopped focusing on religious differences, on trying to convert others to our own camp (whatever that may be). And turn our attention to nourishing our own personal relationship with our higher power, and to living our lives based on the inspiration and guidance we receive.
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But
take note, when we speak of wellness we also refer to something most
sociologists and psychologists don't consider -- our connection to our
higher power. It is our belief that each of us has a source
of inner guidance that can help us move forward, in a healthy and
creative direction, to tackle any problem we may have. Both as
individuals... and as a society.