Health is more than...........

Sometimes in this life, we can actually get so busy and pre-occupied with so many things we forget the contributions that different aspects of our lives can actually make to our health.
Our health is about far more than what goes into our mouths. That really is probably such a small part of the total picture. You can have the best eating habits in the world, exercise, and eating plans BUT have bad health related to emotional and mental aspects of your well being.
I am learning this. My goal is not only to eat more whole kinds of foods nutritionally BUT also to be more whole myself, to be more balanced.
Being a follower of Jesus, and so not to be preachy or opportunistic, I love this verse. ‘And Jesus increased in wisdom, and stature and in favour with God and man’. We are multidimensional beings, we are made that way. Being okay with the social world, ourselves and our spirituality, is about balance.
Health can get hyper focused on certain micro aspects and miss the whole. That’s my journey this year, to look at my insides and find things that are not doing me any good at all. Untrue perceptions of myself and others, tracing negative stuff in me and replacing it with the new truth where needed. I do not think that positivism works when it is just empty words, for me I have to look deep and identify stuff, where it came from, deal to it and replace it when I understand it (if I can).
That takes time and silence, and these are not commodities we always seek out in this noisy, full and fast world.
It also takes a willingness to let it get a bit messy at times, looking into or back at painful and paraletic stuff inside us is not something we like to do, even if we are aware of the effects on our whole health. AND emotional wellbeing definitely has an impact on our physical health. If fact we hate it so much we do our best to avoid it, we become skilled at it.
I thought here I would include so pictures here to represent some things I have done lately to work towards a more complete view of health. I would like to write more about this aspect of ‘whole health’  as it is my journey.

STOP LOOK and SEE

We all know the saying stop and smell the flowers, well this is a different aspect. We get so busy going from a-b, stop and watch things, pull over, and just look at that sunset, or that father playing with his kids………become an observer of life.

ENJOY friendships and often look back at what you have done, said or felt, look at photos, and share what you love about them and value.

In looking back on positive friendships we can shape what we want the future to be like and filled with.

RECONNECT. Make time to connect with old friends, and share in whats happening in their lives, their dreams and aspirations.
Ask the questions and listen…….

This takes time………and is more precious than time maybe in front of a TV. (tho we need that chill time too).

GET SUNSHINE, find spaces to breathe, beyond exercise, find the sun and the sky, and feel the earth beneath your feet.

Kiwis are notorious it seems in USA for wearing bare feet. Fortunately that don’t make us primitive. Let your feet feel the earth.

FINALLY…..go out to something

This concert was a gift from my daughter, I had never heard them, but now I will NEVER forget them. Go out, listen to something different, take a risk, open yourself up to smiling. I smiled and had watery eyes all thru this concert, of Saints & Sinners in Whangarei last night

Our health is about much much more than what we put into our bodies, and I wanted to provide a different perspective here.
And if I may I will add to it as I explore this in my own life.

Liking your insides, and having a healthy inside is very important. I like the feeling and the good it is doing me, my family, my relationships and my world exploring this. I am working towards balance. The most important person you can have genuinely like you is yourself.
Are you like me and have by design, default, life’s path or your personal camoflage gear ended up telling yourself so many lies about yourself, and living life like a cover up job, and not really being true to who you want to be?.

I having a suspicion living under cover is not good for you.

Try some of the things above and let me know what happens. Aren’t journeys exciting!