The reason that I created this blog was to share my unique set of opinions and thoughts in hopes to help inspire, grow, and nurture others. Now, I am not always going to be right, and this is where the fun begins! Lets get started.
Today, I choose to speak on the topic of healthiness. When I feel compelled to write, I can barely hold it in. The reason that I am choosing healthiness because I want to help define what healthiness means to YOU. Most people may regard it in a physical sense in that the more physically active they get, the closer they are becoming ....HeALTHY. The world offers a vast array of products and services to help you achieve your goal. Now what happens, when you reach your intended physical goals and desires?
Most people maintain it. Some may slack and call it good. Some may even take it upon themselves to use the experience to their advantage through helping others. And these my friend, are all good. Now, if one focuses but a crazy amount of time to reach this goal, but lacks to keep their social life in order, then what happens? How about if one doesn't do that but takes the time needed to keep their spiritual life in order and uses it to only keep their physical,......then what happens? Does anyone see what I am getting at here?
We live in a world that is very fast. Everything is fast driven, faster service, faster technology, faster, faster, and guess whats next? FASTER. Have we forgotten something here? Some things just take TIMEEEE...... slowww down and take time to ponder what all else that we may be LACKING to consider a HEALTHY you? Still not getting it?
What I am trying to say is that when we tend to set goals in front of us, and the only way to achieve those are to eat, sleep, drink, and BREATHE the living soul out of that GOAL, we may be missing our mark.
HOW SO? You may say. Well, lets give an example. Mrs. Nobody decides shes overweight. According to her doctor, she is on the brink of self imposed diabetes and cardiovascular disease. So she puts her mind, soul, and spirit into getting her physical life back in order. She works out beyond her desired goals to be point of utter exhaustion but she is trulyyyy reaping the benefits from it all. Soon, she is back to the old her again! Wow! Shew! That was hard work!
During these moments of time when you reach the goal, did anything else lack that could have assisted her in her that journey? My thoughts here are that PURE TRUE HEALTHINESS can be found in BALANCE. YEs. Balance. That word is barely used in the United States because we have found that conserving energy that could be used towards making more money or anything else, is more important.
What Is Balance? It means having a clear set of objectives throughout the run of your day and having time to achieve ALL of them. It means proactively utilizing your resources to get things done through others so that this LIST of TO DO's don't ADD up.
We need to learn as a society that being HEALTHY is a BALANCE of mind, soul, AND spirit. We can get ourselves in physical tip top shape of our lives, but if we are still the same old mean and grumpy person, we haven't changed much have we? You can't make someone enjoy your presence by only changing the outward appearance.
Now how about our Spiritual life? Do we still maintain and find that time for God to listen to Him speak to us and move our hearts and spirits on fire for Him? Sometimes this hard! Sheesh! I sure do know! As a single mother of three beautiful blessings, sometimes, honesty, my prayers at the end of the day are RIGHT before I fall asleep and in the morning I couldn't even tell ya what I prayed about. Our minds must always be guarded to ensure that Satan doesn't creep in because let me tell you....ONE OF HIS BEST TOOLS, is BUSYNESS. Another, is through the over dosage of our everyday lives of one thing or another. Too much eating can have reverse effects on a physical body, but also effects the balance of our emotional, and spiritual life.
I think that possibly, just possibly, the fitness industry may be slacking. How so? Being Healthy is considered as not just PHYSICAL body image....but an overall BALANCE in life. Spiritually, Physically, Emotionally, and Intellectually. If we can infuse all of these aspects in ONE mass program that helps reach millions on all of these levels, and create an overall satisfaction, we may HAVE won this fight.
As a personal trainer, I have noticed that 9 times out of 10 I am also a psychologist. Many of the factors that have driven people to obesity or out of BALANCE in life, have been found rooted deep within ones soul, that only finding this part.....can cure it. Let's get to ROOT. ROOTS spread. They intertwine through the dirt, soil, and find other things to latch onto.
TOO much of ANYTHINg, is not good. Apply and think on this. Evaluate your life and tell me what consumes most of your time and energy in the run of a day? Is there a BALANCE? do you consider your life as HEALTHY or have you found some things that could be readjusted. We all have said this in our life "If ONLY i had more time" or "IF only.....dadadaada. Lets consider adjusting what the root to our stresses are, adjust how much time we spend on fixing that root, and maintain a HEALTHY balance of our everyday lives. Gods in control, but ultimately, are we letting Him be?
I CONCLUDE THIS MESSAGE....THIS IS YOUR "DAILY DOSE."
