Health awareness + Health goals + Health knowledge + Health investment + Persistence in action = Good Physical Health
Health and wealth, health and beauty. They are always inter-related. If you want to be attractive, you need to stay healthy! If you want to enjoy life, you need to stay healthy too! Each one is never complete without the other. Let's talk more about health....
[1] Health awareness
Health awareness might come in the form of:
- own illness
- sufferings/pain
- illnesses from loved ones
- from health sources
- self awareness of good health
- from books and mass media
Health awareness is always a wake-up call for a person to be more health-conscious. Only then a person will be more conscious and be aware of the importance of health. Health is hope. When there is hope, we can have everything. Without health, one can never enjoy his assets or wealth or just being a good friend to another person. He is just too tired to get involved!
[2] Health goals
Health goals are for all of us. One should feel the need to be healthy and remain healthy. Good health needs to be earned. It never just happened or can be taken for granted. One need to understand his health line before adjusting himself to achieve GOOD health.
Draw a graph, one side good health, the other EARN, then draw a health line with 4 points, naming it A, B, C and D. Thus one will see a health line with 4 destinations/points. Earn refers to proper exercise, positive attitude, enough rest and balanced nutrition.
At A, one is under medical care or being hospitalized. He cannot work and is ill. He is in a great deficiency and suffering. His condition might either be going up to B or sliding down towards death. I call this level POOR health.
At B, one looks fine, he can work, can eat, can move around but in actual fact, he is under medication. He is dependent on pills. He might have all the modern sickness like high blood pressure, diabetes, headaches, sleepless nights, fatigue, allergies, stressful days, heart problems or kidney problems. Sometimes he is ill but not at all times. He is either underweight or overweight. Due to his illness, there are some food or drinks that he should never touch. I call this level FAIR.
At C, one really looks fine, he can work, can eat and is healthy all the time. He doesn't take any pills or under any medication. He can easily adapt to all environment and is not afraid of cold or heat. He can move around fine and is free of any modern sickness! He can eat almost anything given and feels good all the time! I call this level GOOD.
At D, one is at optimum health. Well, to say the truth, no one can be at this level unless it is a someone who is a saint and meditating in the Himalayan Mountains. He is stress free, work free, perhaps just meditating. He can well live through ripe ages, as long as 150 to 180 years old. Air is perfectly clean, water is perfectly clean and he worries for nothing, just emphasizing on his spiritual journey. I call this level OPTIMUM.
Understanding all these few points, one should aim to achieve the level of C. So, are you willing to go forward to attain level C? If this is your goal, then I congratulate you... when one has a goal, one knows the direction of his health clear and loud.
How much effort are we putting into it to earn and gain our health? To be fit and not ailing?
to be continued...
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