All-round Well-being

Here is my illustration of how All-Round Well-being shows itself through our capacity to combine our own abilities together with whatever life throws at us, and then transform these into the will (the self-motivation) and the skill (the know-how) so as to create something beautiful of which we can be proud, (such as loving partnerships, and kind, courageous endeavours). Human well-being must by this definition always work in harmony with a Healthy Natural World.

Well-being enables us to invest all of ourselves... our relationships, feelings, thoughts, body and soul*, all working in unison...to make something good of whatever life throws our way.

We each can do this by creatively channeling both the poignant learning and the powerful emotional-energy generated by our setbacks and successes, our tragedies and triumphs.

* Soul, as I use it, is intended to mean our heart-felt passions...our most treasured people, pursuits, places and principles...those things that give our spirit strength and bind us to life... and make our life worth living.

For an example of the transformative ability of All-round Well-being, I think of Monty Roberts - affectionately known as "The Horse Whisperer" - who took his hard-earned ability with horses, and combined this with his own childhood suffering at the hands of his brutal, alcoholic father.


Still in his teens, Monty wisely channeled his horsemanship-skills together with his powerful emotions (of fear, self-doubt, rage and drive for creative revenge) so as to tirelessly pioneer his method of working gently and respectfully when training horses, (founded on a natural phenomenon he calls Join-Up), a method which not only made his fortune but earned him world-wide admiration. Monty also applies his gentle Join-Up philosophy to the mentorship of troubled youngsters and wider human relationships in personal and professional life.