There is a reason why we have both the word wellness and the word health. In fact, it’s illegal to use the word health, if you don’t have scientific evidence to back up any of your claims about something being healthy. In some cases, it’s common knowledge, like that it’s good for our health to have a balanced diet, hydrate, and sleep 8 hours per night. But nonetheless, these are facts that have been researched by an institute that is connected to both hospitals and universities. This is, when we can use the word health.

The word wellness, incorporates anything that gives us a wellbeing, starting with spa’s hundreds of years ago, where the tradition was to drink water from certain springs, that had been found to cure or improve people’s wellbeing. Wellness today, consists of certain supplements, functional foods and most of all a variety of practices, that is supporting our health, but not necessarily proven scientifically. An interesting example is Qigong, that is founded in Chinese Medicine, that also includes Acupuncture and have a history much older than western medicine, yet most often still is referred to as wellness. A helpful way to discern better, is perhaps simply by going by trial and error yourself, to let your own experience guide you. What it really is about, is answering this question:

What can you do to feel better?