Health, Total Force Fitness, Positive Well-being = Resilient Warriors

BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL-SPIRITUAL MODEL oF HEALTH, FITNESS, Resiliency AND POSiTIVE WELL-BEING

What is positive well-being?  What is fitness or being fit?  What is being healthy?  Are positive well-being, being fit and healthy the same?  Being fit and healthy are two sides of the same coin and positive well-being is greater than sum of health and fitness.  In the past health was defined as the absence of disease; however good science and a paradigm shift led to a better approach than the old mind-body dualism or bio-medical model which has dominated the health sciences.  In 1977 a Dr. George Engel proposed a radical change in his article "The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge to Biomedicine."  Over the past 40 years the biopsychosocial model progressed to become a holistic health model.  The social dimension expanded to include spirituality and religion.  For a comprehensive review of the biopsychosocial-spiritual model visit Georgetown University's "National Center for Cultural Competency".  For those interested in a deep dive into spirituality, religion and health visit Duke University's "Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health."   The below diagram depicts a holistic, ecological, developmental model for positive well-being and health, total fitness and resiliency; positive wellbeing is greater than the sum of fitness and being healthy.  In the near future the model will be interactive with descriptions of each domain of fitness: mental, physical, spiritual and social.  The model I propose compliments the Chairman of Joints Chief of Staff's "Total Force Fitness" model and program.