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Diet

When you feed your body well, it will serve you well. When your body is nourished, you have more energy and vitality on all levels. This serves to heighten your productivity, and your self-esteem, directly driving the healthy mind body connection. Educate yourself about proper nutrition, nourish your body with intention, as opposed to indulging your appetite and feeding your emotions. Your diet should contain adequate healthy proteins, a variety of fruits and vegetables, essential fatty acids (EFA) and antioxidants.

Unfortunately, many people in today’s busy world do not receive the nutrition they need. Whether this is due to making poor choices or eating foods that have been stripped of nutrients, without proper nutritional education and intent we are at the mercy of commercial dairy corporations and agribusiness conglomerates for whom profit, not health, is the only motive. Such produce is picked green, before it becomes ripe, then treated with preservatives so it will change color to appear ripe and can be shipped long distances.  This process causes this commercial store bought produce to lose much of its nutritional value. 

Likewise, large dairy farms mass produce cows, chickens, sheep, and pigs, feeding them a steady diet of growth hormones to accelerate weight gain and aging in the animals. This unhealthy existence leaves these animals weak and anemic, often resulting in paralysis and skin diseases prior to the eventual slaughter, flash freezing and shipping to your local market.

These foods jeopardize your health. Processed foods laden with chemicals work against your body. In each example, chemical manipulation of the production cycle for profit produces foods that deliver substandard nutrition. This leads to overeating and obesity, because while the body is not getting what it needs, it is being dosed with growth hormones and preservatives. It also creates an oxygen deficit due to the fact that it takes more oxygen to digest these types of foods.

For optimum health, you need to feed yourself in the best possible way.  Read more on dietary health

Exercise

The human body is built to move. Like any machine it must be properly maintained to function well. However, our moderne industrialization has bred inactivity. Naturally occurring exercise, such as physical labor and walking, is all but obsolete. Therefore, it is necessary you commit to exercising your body. Exercise strengthens muscle and bone, as well as promoting improved oxygen intake and deep breathing. It also lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels. In addition, regular exercise gives you more physical and mental energy, helps to relieve stress and promotes deeper sleep.

Choose a form of exercise you enjoy and will not consider a chore. The first and easiest way to begin is walking, for a variety of reasons. It is inexpensive, convenient and easy on the joints and bones. Walking at a brisk pace for 30 minutes a day gives your body and mind the workout they need to remain strong and vital.  Join a gym with a friend and start weight training to build strength and endurance. If you can build up to and maintain a regular routine of three times a week, you will be on the right track to achieve total body fitness and health.

Mind

Building a healthy mind is at the core of who we are, and all we hope to be in the future. Like the body, the mind requires regular exercise to be fit and ready to deal with the stress of daily life. Reduce poor behaviours: smoking, drinking, caffeine, and casual drug use. These have a direct cause and effect relationship to: sleep loss, anxiety, a weakened immune system, and depression.

Be socially interactive, make new friends, go new places. Play an active role in all that is going on around you, interact with people, give back and be grateful in the service of those less fortunate. These types of interactions serve your self worth and make life more meaningful, and that, in this push button make a dollar world, is a rare gift. Take a class, open a book or two and read, read, read… no other activity is more beneficial to the growing mind. Turn off the TV and go out side, or plan an escape, vacation, weekend retreat, be spontaneous. Learn more about building brain power.

Spirit

Call it a sense of higher purpose. Be it religion, the environment, science, service, family, being at one with the universe, whatever you call it, that spiritual connection to something bigger and more than ourselves is a key element of mental health.

It grounds us and gives life purpose, provides a basis for the hope we need to strive forward in the face of uncertainty, and leads us back when we go astray. A full sense of spirit is so important that a lack of it leads to crime and self destruction in every way imaginable.

What drives you? Is it money,  greed, anger, or anxiety? These deficit realities are the opposite of spiritual awakening.

Get back to basics: family, trust, forgiveness, and service. We humans need to belong and be part of something more, something better. We all grow up with this ideal in mind, but lose site of it when adult responsibility takes hold. The simple truth is we can all volunteer at a shelter once a week, or support a local after school program, visit the the forgotten elderly in a home, or give food and toys to a family in need. In many respects just being there is as important as any amount of donation you may or may not be able to give. A fatherless child needs a male role model, as do motherless children need good female role models. Big brother and sister programs exist in every city and they need you and your time, not your money.

These are just a few examples of how we can address our spiritual need. Many people go through their entire adult lives completely devoid of this pillar of health, not realizing how it interacts with mind and body to keep us healthy and happy all through our lives but especially in our later years. 

Awaken your spiritual mind, give back and play your part in making a better world for tomorrow. Do it for your health.