Although many wellness practices and ideas are based in one way or another on wisdom from the Far East, Nevertheless, a certain consensus has formed among representatives of the western wellness movement, which for many people in Germany is now an important aspect of their personal well-being. Far removed from self-awareness and spiritual practices, "western wellness" has the goal quite simply, to increase well-being through certain actions, to ensure a longer maintenance of health and to create a balanced "stress budget"..
In Germany, as in many other Western industrialized countries, wellness is less a method of self-discovery or self-knowledge than a type of health care, entirely based on the American model. The differences in the individual countries relate more to this, to what extent the wellness concept has found its way into classic health care, which is less the case in Germany, for example, than in America.