The Importance Of Intellectual Wellness

Intellectually well person uses available resources to expand knowledge, improve skills, and increase the potential for sharing with others, according to National Wellness Institute (http://www.louisiana.edu/Student/Counseling/form/Wellness.htm). The intellectual capacity of an individual is believed by many people especially in the business world to be one’s passport in joining an organization.
Intellectual wellness recognizes one’s creative, stimulating mental activities. It is also a requisite of today’s knowledge society. According to Drucker (2000), the fastest growing group of work force today consists of the knowledge workers”. These are the employees whose major contribution depends on their employing their knowledge rather than the

He argued that if the areas of the brain that feels are damaged, man’s ability to think is diminished. Emotional quotient makes a man aware of his feelings and the feelings of others. It affects empathy, motivation, compassion, and an ability to respond skilfully to pleasure and pain. Spiegel (1999), reported that expressing feeling and emotions could improve health. The cornerstone of emotional health is emotional stability, which describes how well an individual deal with the day-to-day stresses of personal interactions and physical environment (http://www.louisiana.edu/Student/Counseling/form/Wellness.htm). In achieving emotional wellness, it allows an individual to experience life’s ups and down with enthusiasm and grace while maintaining and satisfying relationships with

Evans (2001) likewise reported that paralleling the rise in the spirituality was a marked rise in the material influence, yet this affluence had not satisfied the deeper part of the individual’s being (Dawson). She reported that a Newsweek poll found 58% of those surveyed responded positively to the idea for a need to experience spiritual growth. She noted that the percentage rose to 82% in a 1998 repeat study. She said that being spiritual in the new millennium did not necessarily mean attending church. In her report Evans (2001), revealed that church attendance was down 26%, which was originally 42% in 1965. Churches faced a crisis in membership and funding. However, she explained that the low attendance did not mean there was decline in believers; besides, 95% of Americans said they believed in God and 75% believed in miracles. Rather, as she explained, what people believed had changed from a God who was a distant formal figure to one who was personal, intimate, and authentic for them