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title: Purpose - Real Balance Certified Health and Wellness Coach Training
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# Purpose

## [Meaning and Purpose and the Motivation to Be Well](https://realbalance.com/meaning-and-purpose-and-the-motivation-to-be-well)

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***“Wellness is the experience of living life with high levels of awareness, conscious choice, self-acceptance, interconnectedness, love, meaning and purpose.”*** Michael Arloski (Wellness Coaching For Lasting Lifestyle Change, 2007).



Meaning and purpose are included in most definitions and models of wellness, yet how does this philosophical concept translate into behavioral change, or does it? The primary value of meaning…

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## [Meaning And Purpose: A Key To Wellness](https://realbalance.com/meaning-and-purpose-a-key-to-wellness)

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Those in the helping professions have long observed that people who have a sense of meaning and purpose appear to do better with their lives in general and their health in particular. Research over the last ten years is showing us that our observations were spot on. **A clear, if even very simple, sense of one’s values, meaning and purpose**…

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