Health and wellness is not just an absence of illness, it is the abundance of vitality, a profound sense of wellbeing.  This is characterised by a consistent, clear and high level of energy, an emotional balance, a sharp mind, a desire to maintain physical fitness and a direct awareness of what suits your body, what enhances your health and what your needs are at any given moment in time.  The state of health includes a resilience to infectious diseases and protection from the major diseases, consequently slowing down the aging process.  At it’s most profound level, health is not merely the absence of pain or tension, but a joy in living, a real appreciation of what it is to live a life you dream of.

Your Health Balance

I would like you to imagine you were born with a health reserve – a certain amount of money in your health account.  Depending on what you eat, drink, breathe and think, gradually your money will be lost from your health account.  Once you go overdrawn your energy is low, you can’t get out of bed in the morning and you suffer from niggling health problems.  As your overdraft grows you develop diseases and when you exceed your overdraft limit you die.  Our western medical system does not kick in until you develop diseases.  How can you can take responsiblity for your own health account?

How is your Health Account?

Superhealth     - boundless energy, perspective on life, sharp mind, positive outlook, joie de vivre, physically fit, rearly/never ill, full life, toned body, contentment.

Vertically Ill – constant tiredness, drained, low concentration, mood swings, exhausted by exercise, unfit, run down and frequently ill, easily overwhelmed, flabby, dissatisfaction.

Horizontally Ill – chronic fatigue, exhausted, constant aches, depression, pessimism, unable to exercise, incapscitated by illness, life is hard work, lifes is against me, despair.

 Take a look at the rows above.  Where are you?  A great number of people fall into the vertically ill account – lacking enthusiasm for life.  How would it be to sit comfortably and consistently in the superhealth account – full of energy in both mind and body?

 Now is the time to step up and take action – The Lifestyle Challenge (TLC) is the foundation that you need to move from vertically ill to superhealth.    

Instead of measuring whether or not you have disease, why not measure how well you are functioning – are you firing on all cylinders?  The objective is to improve your health status before chronic diease develops.                                                                                                                                                          

How can you take the steps to alter your Health Account?

Wishing you health, wealth and vitality.

Nateele

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