Leisure, Health and Wellbeing: The Ultimate Quest of Humanity

Abstract

In this chapter, leisure, health and wellbeing are discussed. It will become obvious that leisure, health and wellbeing are closely intertwined with each other and as such it is difficult to think of one without the other. It is now well recognized that leisure offers benefits in terms of physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of human wellbeing. As such it may hardly be overemphasized that leisure, health and wellbeing in unison are the ultimate quest of humanity. Examined from the perspective of the unity of these three phenomena, slogans such as "Health For All" and "Leisure For All" will remain unilateral. In order to serve the wellbeing of the humanity, some kind of a combination of both these declarations may be stated as "Leisure and Health for the Wellbeing of All". (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)