page_title: Wellness (alternative medicine)
hierarchical_section_title: Wellness (alternative medicine)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Eight Dimensions of Wellness
context_page_description: Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being.
  The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.
  The term wellness has also been misused for pseudoscientific health interventions.
context_section_description: Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being. 
  The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.
  The term wellness has also been misused for pseudoscientific health interventions.
caption: The Eight Dimensions of Wellness
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