Health and Well Being
...ve stress". It is exactly this ability to relax which makes moments of peak performance possible. Coupling activity with relaxation improves vitality. Vitality is understood as the level of functioning ability and condition which is typical for a person's age. Stress and hectic scrambling are becoming ever more common ways of life. Time gets shorter and shorter. Rigorous demands thrust our responsibilities into the foreground as we allow healthy nutrition to be short-changed. Naturally, our body cannot tolerate such punishment over the long-term, and therefore reacts first by transmitting early warning signals, such as brief concentration lapses or diminished endurance. If these signals are not taken seriously, our body can react quite strongly, our vitality rapidly deteriorates. '''Well-being''' is a subjective perception of balance, harmony, and vitality. Well-being occurs in levels. at the highest level, a person feels satisfaction and a sense of contributing; such person might place his or her state of well-being at the top of a plus-3 scale. At the lowest level, people see themselves as ill and may place their state of well-being at the bottom of minus-3 scale. Leddy and Pepper also say that well-being is a state that can be described objectively and therefore can be measured. In contrast, health, which encompasses "well-being, illness, disease and non-disease is an evolving potential that cannot be quantified. Public ...