Optimizing your overall wellness

What exactly is wellness? Wellness, as defined by Webster's, is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life.

Most of us seek overall wellness as one of our main health goals and approach accomplishing this in terms of lifestyle. Diet, exercise, juicing, reducing stress, are all common means used to help achieve our goal. These are all great steps to take down the road of wellness. Many of us, though, still are seeking out other practices to help us obtain the next level for our wellness. Studies are now showing one of the best modalities to optimize overall wellness is acupuncture. Adding in regular acupuncture treatments to any wellness regime is an effective way to optimize overall health.

Acupuncture is most commonly known for pain relief, but its long-standing historical purpose is preventative wellness care. In current times, acupuncture is used as part of an integrated approach to treating and preventing many disorders. Getting regular treatments will help the body's systems, such as digestive, immunity and sleep regulation to run more efficiently, putting less stress on the whole system. Treatment also benefits the nervous system, allowing us to deal with day-to-day stress in a more efficient manner, leaving us less fatigued at the end of the day. The treatments themselves are also very relaxing, allowing the entire body to rest and rejuvenate.

To learn more about how acupuncture can optimize your wellness, stop by our booth Urban Acupuncture tonight at the 3rd annual Health and Wellness Fair.

Urban Acupuncture can be found at 225 E Locust Ave., Coeur d'Alene, or by calling (208) 665-2293.