Dr. E. Anthony Allen
PATHS TO WELLNESS
Pathways: Your Journey
Here are two questions that can change your life:
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How much am I living my best life now – physically, emotionally, in my relationships, career and spiritually? What about your economic empowerment?
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If not, how much do I care enough about myself to do something about it?
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You are special. You were created unique. There is no one else exactly like you. You have a special destiny which is to make a difference to the world and the lives of others that no one else can make in quite the way that you can.
You are loved unconditionally by your Creator. There are also many persons in the world who will love you unconditionally –most persons in fact. This is because you are created to be loved and all of us humans are created to love. Thus you can also be free to love yourself.
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So you are lovable. So you have an honorable and fulfilling destiny.
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Because you are simply human, you deserve all the respect in the world from every one, bar none.
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You deserve all the opportunities to enable you to achieve wellness of mind, body and spirit and to enjoy a long, pleasurable and fulfilling life.
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You will face obstacles to the love, destiny, respect and opportunities that you deserve. It is your responsibility to desire these opportunities, to believe that they can be yours and to do everything possible to grasp them. It is your responsibility to seek allies, and resources to overcome obstacles that may come from nature, nurture, human abuse or economic injustice. The greatest obstacle comes from within. It comes when you do not recognize that each of us has a wonderful potential in mind body and spirit to overcome obstacles. Thus you need to know who you are: powerful, special, loved, with destiny and opportunities for a good life.
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Are you one of those who are not living the best life that yourself can?
Understanding & Approaching your Wellness
Approaches to your pathways
The pathways to wellness are the same as the therapeutic elements of our whole person approach philosophy of care:
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Self Engagement through self-awareness and self-help
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Lifestyle Changes through motivation and knowledge-building
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Relationship Empowerment through care of self and others
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In all of the above Pathways to Wellness, the following steps are necessary:
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Self Assessment for Recognition
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Planning
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Implementation
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Self Monitoring
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The links below will provide some tools to help you travel these pathways.
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Understanding & Approaching your Wellness
Approaches to your pathways
The pathways to wellness are the same as the therapeutic elements of our whole person approach philosophy of care:
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Self Engagement through self-awareness and self-help
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Lifestyle Changes through motivation and knowledge-building
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Relationship Empowerment through care of self and others
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In all of the above Pathways to Wellness, the following steps are necessary:
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Self Assessment for Recognition
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Planning
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Implementation
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Self Monitoring
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Too often in health care the focus is on different parts of the person to the exclusion of the others. Thus we have too much specialization in caring for persons: Specialist dealing with the body, the mind, the spirit, social relationships and the environment.
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The individual as a “Whole Person” gets lost in all of this, yet this is the only approach to self care and other care that will truly make us well.
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The links below will provide some tools to help you travel these pathways.
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Understanding the Whole Person Wellness Approach
Whole Person Growth Philosophy
Overcoming and Wellness through Balanced Living!
WELLNESS is a Whole Person matter. So is OVERCOMING the challenges of life. This is not instantaneous, it involves growth over time – WHOLE PERSON GROWTH. The philosophy of Whole Person Growth relates to its Pathways and Steps.
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PATHWAYS
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What are the pathways to Wellness through Whole Person Growth?
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These include:
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Self Engagement through self-awareness and self-help
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Lifestyle Changes through motivation and knowledge-building
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Relationship Empowerment through care of self and others
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These pathways involve the development of specific attitudes and skills acquired through practice over time. This process of growth involves primarily Self Help. There may also be need for wise professional help.
STEPS
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What are the steps that are needed to achieve the above pathways to Wellness through Whole Person Growth?
In all of the above Pathways to Wellness, the following steps are necessary:
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Self Assessment for Recognition
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Planning
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Implementation
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Self Monitoring