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What do you understand about health?

Health doesn’t only consist of physical. It consists of much more than that. It relates with your spiritual, emotional, mental, and social well-being.

For more understanding on how to improve your well-rounded health, I’d like to recommend a newsletter from Evan Hadkins, my blogger friend. The title is “Designing a Long and Healthy Life: making small changes to your lifestyle for big health benefits” It consists of 12 emails that will be sent to your inbox.

And these are the topics for each email…Email One: Introduction to the course
Email Two: The New Understanding of Health (the emphasis on controlling your own life).
Email Three: Food
Email Four: Exercise
Email Five: Sleep
Email Six: Feelings and Not Being Trapped in the Past
Email Seven: Feelings provide useful information
Email Eight: Thinking: perception
Email Nine: Thinking: analysis and planning
Email Ten: Spirituality
Email Eleven: Relationships: Recognition and Touch
Email Twelve: Relationships: Listening

And what I really like about his newsletter, is the tolerant and human approach to health he proposed.

“The purpose of this course is to help you make your life more delightful and easeful – a life of joy. Most of us have enough difficulties and challenges.  Adding to the burden isn’t exactly inspiring.”
~Evan Hadkins

Evan promotes the small and easy approach to change that I believe anyone can start. Inside, he also did a number of thought provoking statements on health. One example is what he mentioned about the weight control program that is quite popular nowadays.

“Instead of focusing on losing weight as a way of getting healthy, we should focus on getting healthy…”
~Evan Hadkins

And this is my favorite…

“From the point of view of health the difference between poverty and wealth is agency.  To put it tersely: poverty is lack of choice, and lack of choice is bad for your health.”
~Evan Hadkins

Circumstances may give you not what you want, but do you know that we always a choice in the response we’re giving? Joel Osteen put it that everything doesn’t come together to you, but they come for you. Remembering that you have a choice, you are no longer a victim, but you’re the author of your life. It is one step to your healthier life.

Pursue a healthy life and not the standard of life. That is what I learn recently from the following quote, thanks to Megan.

“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”
-Zig Ziglar

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For your healthy life,
Robert