How do you define health?
Is health simply an absence of disease, or is health a specific state of being that you can see, measure, and feel? Beyond medical definition and parameters, health is often based on perception, appearance, culture, gender, age, and ability. If you are seeking to improve your health then most likely you are fully aware of what you don’t want - maybe it’s some excess weight you’d like to loose or you wish you were able to sleep more soundly or want to reduce your cholesterol or maybe you simply don’t feel as well as you would like to.
A decline in health can come about due to lifestyle choices such as tobacco use, lack of exercise, and/or dietary excess. Other times poor health is attributed to a genetic condition or chronic illness. Regardless of your current state, improving health is well within our control. What aspect of your health would you like to change?
Consider these 3 Key Concepts to Improved Health:
Soothe - Relieve chronic pain and better manage stress
Nourish - Dine well and take full responsibility for the consequences of your meals
Rest - Improve sleep
These three factors are simple, yet too often are neglected and disregarded. How often have we ignored pain or overeaten or told ourselves we can go without much sleep? Choose one of the three concepts or all then invest more time and attention into better managing pain, both physically and mentally. Acknowledge and reduce the stress in your life. Eat a nutritious diet and understand how certain foods can promote good health and offer protective factors. Never underestimate the power of sleep.
This advice isn’t meant to replace medical attention, speak to your physician before implementing any changes to your wellness routine.
Be Well. ~Tiffany Anderson, LMT, RMT, BS, CHES, Founder of Anderson Therapeutics