The Sims 4 Wellness Skill Guide
If you want chill sims, you need to have them gain the sims 4 wellness skill!
We could all use a little more wellness in our game. It’s great for being calm, taming our emotions and just taking life a little less intensely.
Doing yoga, meditating and getting incredible massages can be found in this fun skill from The Sims 4: Spa Day.
What is the Wellness Skill Good for?
The wellness skill is going to help your sims become mentally strong.
They can give massages that influence people’s moods, give manicures and pedicures and more.
This skill is great for earning some money, you can earn money through giving massages, teaching yoga and more.
Plus, if you do a good enough job you can even get a tip!
How to Gain The Sims 4 Wellness Skill
The first way you can gain this skill is through massages. You can give massages on either the massage table or the massage chair.
There are specific massages available for each item with hand and foot massages available on the chairs and all types available on the tables.
The next way you can gain the skill is through yoga, this can be done by purchasing any of the yoga mats available in buy mode and placing them on your lot and practicing yoga.
You can also head over to a spa lot and choose to join a yoga class to get this skill.
The next way you can gain the skill is through meditation. You’ll need a meditation stool for this and once placed you can add it to your inventory and use it in public.
You’ll want your sim to practice meditation and they’ll gain the skill quickly.
The last way you can gain this skill is through skill books. You can purchase three wellness skill books by clicking purchase books on any book case in the game.
- Wellness Vol 1: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
- Wellness Vol 2: Balance Your Emotions, Balance Your Life
- Wellness Vol 3: Transforming Emotional Energy
If you want to gain skills even faster with reading books and you have The Sims 4: City Living, you can add the peace and quiet lot trait to have faster skill gains from reading.
Ideal Mood for Wellness
Emotions were such a big selling point for The Sims 4 because they have a big impact on your sims ability to gain skills. A sim who is currently in the ideal mood for a skill will gain it more quickly than sims who are just happy.
The ideal mood for wellness is focused and you can get this by pondering moves on a chess board in the base game or you can use Spa Day to your advantage and get focused by:
- Doing Yoga
- Listening to New Age Music
- Drinking Honey Ginger Detox Tea
- Getting a Lavender Aromatherapy Massage
Best Traits for Wellness
When you give your sims the goal of gaining wellness you need to think about their traits. There are a few traits you may want to give your sims with this skill in mind:
- Genius: Since we now know that the best mood is focused, genius is the best! Sims with these traits are going to get random focused moodlets that you can use to gain the skill more quickly.
- Cheerful: A cheerful trait is good to have regardless of the skill you’re trying to gain. Cheerful sims get happy moodlets that can stack with focused for a stronger effect.
You should also add this incredible lot trait to your sim’s household to make them gain the skill more quickly:
- Bracing Breezes: This lot trait seems like it would only apply to fitness, but it applies to wellness too! The trait increases skill gains for wellness.
How to Cheat The Sims 4 Wellness Skill
You can cheat every skill in The Sims 4 and wellness is with that too. The cheat you need to know is stats.set_skill_level Major_Wellness 10 to max the skill.
Want a different level of the skill? Change the 10 at the end to a different number between 1 and 9.
Levels of the Sims 4 Wellness Skill
There are ten levels of the wellness skill for your sim to gain throughout their time. Gaining these will unlock new abilities with meditation and yoga!
| Skill Level | Level Unlocks |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | Sims can perform various yoga poses, meditate and give a Swedish massage. |
| Level 2 | Sims can now discuss cognitive focusing methods and bake sugar-free carob coconut cake. They can perform boat pose in yoga, teach a yoga class, host guided meditation and tend massage tables and massage chairs. |
| Level 3 | Sims can now give aromatherapy massage and perform the triangle pose in yoga. |
| Level 4 | Sims can now offer mental relaxation tips and perform the tree pose in yoga. |
| Level 5 | Sims can now give deep tissue massages, perform the warrior pose in yoga and might levitate when meditating! They can now mentor others in wellness. |
| Level 6 | Sims can now give sports massage and suggest visualization techniques. They can now perform the lord of the dance pose in yoga. Sims can now give manicures and pedicures. |
| Level 7 | Sims can now teleport when levitating and make superfood salad. They can also perform the bridge pose in yoga. |
| Level 8 | Sims can now give stone massage and recommend self esteem exercises. They can perform the hand stand in yoga. |
| Level 9 | Sims can now give fertility massages. |
| Level 10 | Sims can now brew lemon honey ginger detox tea and share detox secrets. |
Meditation Abilities
When your sim gets to level seven of the skill they are going to be able to start teleporting. You can use this to get anywhere in your sim’s neighborhood without walking which can save time.
If a sim has previously entered a secret location in the game (sylvan glade, forgotten grotto or sixam) they can actually use the meditation stool to teleport back to it.
You’ll just want to get your sim to start meditating, wait until they levitate and then you can choose teleport to > and it will show any of the locations you’ve been to and your sim will travel there immediately.
Hosting Meditation Sessions
Your sim is able to host their own meditation to help teach others this very important skill. There are two types of meditation you can do hosting or leading. If you lead your sim can gain the wellness skill from doing this but will receive no compensation.
If you host a meditation session your sim can be paid for each sim who attends their session.
Private Meditation
A private meditation session is only open to sims that you invite, you’ll need these sims to already be on a lot. If you want you can travel to a public lot with a bunch of sims you know or host this in your home and just invite sims over before choosing this option.
Public Meditation
A public meditation session is open to anyone that is at the public lot in that moment. My public meditation had sims like Don Lothario just walking up and joining us!
Hosting Yoga Sessions
Just like with meditation you can host yoga sessions, you just need to bring some yoga mats that you can drag out onto a public lot or host it in your home. If you lead a yoga session you won’t get any money.
If you host a yoga session you’ll get paid for each attending member.
Private Yoga Session
A private yoga session is a session where you’ll invite sims. These sims need to already be on whatever lot you’re in, either your home or a public lot.
Public Yoga Session
Public yoga sessions are great because your sim doesn’t need to have any friends. Any sim that’s on the current lot can join your sim!
Promoting Your Sessions
For both the yoga and meditation public sessions you are able to promote these on simstagram. This is nice because if your sim has enough followers they can get extra people to attend a public session!
Types of Massages
There are five types of massages you can give (and aromatherapy but we’ll get there in a second) and each of them will give your sims a different type of moodlet when the massage is over.
- Swedish Massage > Happy Moodlet
- Sports Massage > Energized Moodlet
- Deep Tissue > Happy Moodlet
- Stone Massage > Happy Moodlet
- Fertility Massage > Happy Moodlet
- This massage is the most interesting one, it can help sims get pregnant easier and increases chances of twins or triplets!
Aromatherapy Massage
The category of aromatherapy massage is great if you want to influence a sim’s mood even further. Have a sim who needs to paint for a few hours? Do a Ylang Ylang massage and make them feel inspired!
The following shows the different types of aromatherapy massages and the effects they have on a sim:
- Lotus Blossom > Confident Moodlet
- Lavender > Focused Moodlet
- Rosemary and Mint> Energized Moodlet
- Ylang Ylang > Inspired Moodlet
Caring For Your Massage Table
Once in a while your sims are going to have their massage table get very dirty and your sim will have to take care of it. This is easy, just click on the table and choose to clean. Neat sims can even polish to perfection!
Manicures and Pedicures
Did you know that Spa Day got a refresh and was made even better? It was a great time and its when nail polish was added to the game which I love. This unlocks the ability for your sims to give manicures and pedicures to other sims.
You’ll need one of the massage chairs to do this. If you click on offer manicure to a sim you’ll see a menu option that gives you tons of colour options as well as a few shape options:
- Coffin Shaped
- Stiletto Shaped
- Round Shaped
- Almond Shaped
- Short Shaped
Although this is included with spa day I found it does not help you gain the skill but you will need the sixth level of the skill to unlock this ability.
Tending a Massage Table
Your sims are able to tend a massage table. This is best to do in public where your sims can have random sims come up and ask for massages.
If you want more sims to come you can promote your services on simstagram and if you have lots of followers you can get more sims to appear.
You don’t get to choose the type of massage you give these sims but it doesn’t take long to give them and you’ll get paid every time one is over. Plus, there’s a chance a sim can give you a tip!
I’ve seen payments anywhere from 50 to 300 simoleons. It really depends on your sim’s mood at the time of the massage and their skill level.
