Breath practices are generating buzz because they’re free, accessible and increasingly science-based solutions that tackle what ails us most now: stress and anxiety. In response, the GWI just launched a BREATHE Initiative, bringing together a global group of breath practitioners, scientists/researchers, doctors and wellness leaders that will work to bring a broader awareness to breath modalities and the science behind breathwork. The Initiative co-chairs are…
No one has the definitive wellness playbook. If they did, we’d all be using it by now. Nevertheless, in a time of accelerated crises, there are many ways to, as the Chinese proverb says, “dig the well before you’re thirsty.” You can put conditions and resources in place to cultivate high levels of wellbeing before crises happen so that people have the tools to deal with the…
A new study (of 2,000 adults) found that just one night of fewer than six hours of sleep significantly hurts mental and physical wellbeing, and as the number of consecutive days of sleep loss increased, the severity of negative emotions and physical issues (body aches, gastrointestinal issues and respiratory problems) became severe. Problems spiked on day three and plateaued until day six when mental and…
The GWI supports 30+ Wellness Industry Initiatives, which are global taskforces on dozens of different wellness sectors and issues. Today, the GWI released thirty brief and wide-ranging trends reports from these Initiatives–an expert view of what’s unfolding now in everything from wellness tourism to mental wellness to nutrition to sleep to wellness architecture and design to workplace wellness and digital wellness (and many more!). Access…
“Aging Well” Is a Pipedream without a Focus on Loneliness and Financial Wellness By Thierry Malleret, economist A new report (“Long and happy lives – The future of wellbeing in an ageing society”) published by the Danish Happiness Research Institute sheds some interesting light on the way in which wellbeing in later life is being threatened by increasing rates of loneliness and mental health problems.…
Is Mental Wellness an Individual or Collective Responsibility? By Katherine Johnston and Ophelia Yeung, GWI senior research fellows The notion that mental wellness is about self-care and personal agency does not imply that it is solely an individual pursuit or that it is fully within our own locus of control. Many of the pathways for mental wellness may sound like simple healthy lifestyle habits (e.g.,…
