Living a Healthy LifeWhen you look at the phrase living a healthy life do you immediately think of a good diet and plenty of regular exercise? Does it make you think of slim attractive people with glowing skin, glossy hair and gleaming teeth, brimming with vitality? This is the media concept of a healthy life style and it's my belief that most people see it exemplified in this way. But is that really all living a healthy life means? Look again at the phrase healthy life ![]() Do you see that it says Heal - thy - life? Heal means to make well Thy means your Life means existence or being. So looking with this awareness at living a healthy life means:To make well your own being. In order for us to be living a healthy life style we need to heal our life from all that prevents good health. Living a Healthy Life - BalanceThe most effective way of making our being well, is to look at the amount of balance in our lives. Or how about people who feed their minds through tremendous intellectual endeavors, but live like couch potatoes physically? ![]() To look after all of ourselves - to tune up and find our authenticity at each level - takes some doing. Firstly, it means having some awareness that we are physical, mental, emotional and spiritual beings and that good health means wholeness and balance across these four quadrants. We might understand about the need for good nutrition and exercise, but what do we think about the importance of working out on an emotional or mental level?
Living in the Present MomentLiving a healthy life means living in the present moment rather than investing yourself constantly into the future or the past.![]() Practice spontaneity as much as possible so as to free up your creative aspect. Living a healthy life means monitoring our sense of conscious living. By having greater awareness of the balance of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects we can stand tall on our quest for conscious living. The reward is gaining that concept of health that we admire calm, peaceful, centered inner vitality framed within a radiant, lively, attractive healthy body. This is the byproduct of living a healthy life on the inside. How Does Stress Affect Health? We look here at how both posture and breathing are affected by stress and how they have a marked effect on your health, your attitude and your emotions. How stress affects your health. Do you have an adequate definition of stress? One that helps you to assess how stressed you really are?Its always useful to know what our own definition of any subject is in order to understand how we would best deal with it.
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate ~ Carl Jung
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