Would you like to be and to stay healthy and well? How about growing older without aches and pains? Would you like to start healing now?
You can! Bodies can and do heal all the time. That includes YOUR body. 🙂
Preventative medicine is often thought to mean vaccines, medicines and treatments. It’s actually much more than that.
I love this quote about prevention:
“Prevention is the highest form of healing and surgery should always be considered the last resort.”
That’s on the back cover of a comprehensive book about eye care called “The Eye Care Sourcebook” by Jay B. Lavine, M.D.
And it’s true!
What does prevention mean? It means taking care of yourself. It means getting rid of “junk foods” in your house and body. (There is a reason they are called “junk” food, right? Oh, come on. You know in your heart that’s true.) 😉
Prevention means getting fresh air and sunshine, using your lungs to their fullest capacity, using ALL of the muscles in your body instead of just a few.
When you were a child you used to run and jump and climb and swing in the great outdoors and have fun!
When is the last time you jumped in a puddle or played on monkey bars? Grown ups just forgot how to have fun and use ALL of our bodies.
Healing your aches and pains and preventing illness can be done by paying attention to your body.
You also need to educate yourself and use your own good sense to figure out what is true and best for you. There is a ton of incorrect information out there, even by experts and other people who mean well.
So what IS good for you?
Let’s play a game. Imagine you were living on a farm 100 years ago.
How would you spend your days?
1. What would you eat?
2. Where would your food come from?
3. How would you get your food?
4. How would you prepare it?
5. Would you be indoors sitting at a desk all day?
6. How would you spend your day?
7. Would you work with your muscles all day, outside or inside?
8. Would your food come from a vending machine?
9. How much sleep would you get?
10. What time would you go to bed and get up?
11. Would you use all of your muscles?
12. What would your bathroom habits be? How are they now?
I’m trying to give you clues here. 🙂
No one cares as much about your body as you must.
1. Educate yourself. Become an expert on the causes of your aches and pains. Bodies are logical–pain happens for reasons. And bodies heal all the time. You just have to get rid of the reasons.
2. Change your habits. If something isn’t creating health for you, why continue with it? Some folks say you’re going to die anyway so why bother. Well, the reason is so that you can live until you die instead of dying while you’re still alive.
3. Do things to take care of yourself. Stretch and walk. Start moving. Make yourself feel good. Help other people feel better. Feed your mind with wholesome thoughts and entertainment. Skip the news. Watching and reading the news depresses your immune system so be selective: just read the “feel good” news.
Your body will love you for making these changes in your life. And you will love your body more. You will feel better, happier and healthier.
I believe in you. You CAN help yourself feel better!
