For many, eating is taboo. Nobody is allowed to interfere. The results are all the more devastating: obesity, illnesses, diabetes II. Sure, the food has to taste good, in any case. Nowadays, good and healthy food can be served in our latitudes. The hard question is: what is really healthy eating?
Here are some blog links on the subject to introduce you, dear reader, to this important topic.
EQ0 (Definition) - EQ0 (Areas Of Live) - EQ1 (Marriage and Family) - EQ2 (Job)
As a reminder: The five areas of social life:
MARRIAGE u FAMILY (mutual understanding based on self-image)
PROFESSION (dealing with colleagues, subordinates, with the boss, motivation)
HEALTH (healthy lifestyle promotes the frontal lobe)
ENVIRONMENT (privacy, public and society can see added value)
SPIRITUALITY (understanding and dealing with belief in a postmodern context)
3. Health
How do you like the following: General health is the result of the application of human laws of nature. If we knew our needs better and if we knew how best to meet them, then health would be a corollary. There are certainly exceptions. (Genetics)
Imagine that we humans would obey the laws of nature and cultivate our relationship with nature, learn from it and recover. What would happen to us - But no, we want to be independent, create our own laws, live our own lives autonomously, no matter what the cost. Is health still possible like this?
WHO defines: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of illness or ailment."
Although we live in a sophisticated, medically high-quality health system, it strikes me again and again that there are interest groups who are nevertheless not interested in our health. I think among other things to the pharmaceutical industry, which can have a significant influence on our state of health via medicine.
Interaction: physical, mental, social
Viewed individually, a person can, for example, be physically fully functional, but have psychological problems or live socially isolated. How strongly these three aspects of health interact, however, we feel very quickly in ourselves or in our fellow human beings. Our body reacts to stress, fears, and conflicts. Our mental freshness diminishes as soon as we become physically ill. Our social contacts can also suffer.
When we are young, we usually do not consider the consequences of our lifestyle. Only in old age is the bill presented for it. Health is particularly important at retirement age. Then you still have time to do it. A healthy lifestyle pays off right from the start.
Only the positive interaction of all factors means health.
The assessment of these factors can, however, be very subjective and it is not uncommon for one's own well-being to be an indicator of one's "perceived" health.
About every 20th patient who see a doctor suffers from hypochondriac disorders, which is also a disease. These patients feel sick, fear illness, and are so fixated on their bodies that they experience physical symptoms that a doctor cannot diagnose.
The other way around, a person can feel very good and healthy until he receives a diagnosis from the doctor, such as Cancer. Many physical illnesses are not recorded by the patient themselves, or are never recorded at all, because the body's self-healing powers work and illnesses can be dealt with by the body itself before they become noticeable to the person concerned. Thanks to a good lifestyle and / or a strong psyche.
What affects our health?
Almost all of our living conditions have a direct or indirect effect on our health: air, soil and water quality, nutrition, exercise, sleep, rest, relaxation, stress, self-image, social contacts, love, sexuality, work, security, recognition, life goals and hobbies . There are other aspects that have a positive or negative effect on our health.
Love and intimacy in particular can have the greatest positive effects on health. However, this does not always have to be associated with such an acrobatic exercise!
Control the impact yourself
A healthy lifestyle contributes significantly to maintaining health. Anyone who constantly exploits their own body through a lack of exercise, unhealthy diet and addictive behavior destroys their own health.
Unemployment, strokes of fate or environmental influences can usually not be avoided. But it pays to expand your own control and develop joy in good health.
Mental / Spiritual Health
PESSIMISM is very bad for our health. It weakens the immune system. Our health at 60 is heavily dependent on how strong optimists / pessimists we were when we were 25. (says Martin E.P. Seligman, psychologist). The inner attitude seems to be fundamentally important. The joy of the pessimist that he gossips about the bad experience because he was right is probably not a forward-looking attitude. (See blog Toxic Thoughts).
OPTIMISM only wants to see or expect the good. If this is based on a realistic background, then sooner or later this will also have a positive effect on the environment. It is interesting that what you see and expect coming often also happens. Here are a few positive effects:
better health thanks to better chemical brain processes (see blog ToxG-Env)
longer life expectancy thanks to mental well-being
better perception thanks to stronger mental abilities
deeper relationships thanks to pleasant personality
Setbacks and rainfall are temporary and provide learning material
the mental resistance (resilience) is greater
Some people seem to be born optimists. Nothing can tarnish your feelings of happiness. Let's do it after them!
How do you become an optimist?
It helps to move more in optimistic company. Optimism is contagious. Instead of always talking about negative things from others, you can also mention positive things.
Become aware of your negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones. It's a training thing, but it's worth it. Pull someone into your trust. Then it's even faster.
If someone asks you, "How are you?" Then you say: "Very good, thank you." This even if you are not doing so well, because now you have the opportunity and the impetus to quickly make use of your gratitude and indulge your happiness in valuable relationships.
Learn to make the best of uncomfortable situations. You are stuck in a traffic jam. Do not allow frustrating emotions and expressions, but find reasons for positive thinking.
Much more could of course be written about mental health.
Physical health
Many people have found that exercising in some form makes them feel positive. This means fitness. Fitness is an umbrella term for healthy nutrition, exercise, training of strength, endurance and coordination.
The risk of developing diseases of civilization such as heart attack, obesity, lung cancer, colon cancer and diabetes II can be reduced through targeted fitness training. In addition, the ability to concentrate and learn is increased. People who actively keep fit are considered healthier and, statistically speaking, have a higher quality of life and life expectancy. This also increases your EQ, especially in the areas of 'self-motivation' and 'emotional self-regulation'. More information on this in the blogs EQ0 (Definition) and EQ0 (AreasOfLife).
So don't miss this. Use your self-motivation, set an achievable goal, find a like-minded person, and begin your fitness program. You will not regret it.
Movement, let's say at least 5000 steps a day, has an enormously positive influence on health. Jogging 2-3 times a week as interval training will keep you young and strong.
Social health
Like me, like me, like you!
As I am to myself, so am I to others too. Ok, sometimes you can play a role, play a salesman, sell yourself better than you are. But the source of motivation for dealing with other people comes from within.
Those who hate themselves also hate others. Those who have accepted themselves find it easy to treat their fellow human beings in a positive way. In the blog about SELF-HATE and SELF-LOVE there is more detailed information.
Tit for Tat !
Many people reduce their social contacts to the level of REACTION. If YOU are good with me, then so am I with you! The blog CONDITONAL LOVE talks about it. This makes us dependent on other people's goodwill. We no longer live our own lives.
How about UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ? This component changes a lot, yes it opens our social potential, enables miracles in relationships such as marriages, family and professional life.
Let us remember: WE shape our social world ourselves. We can choose healthy relationships. That is probably not always easy, but possible. With a strengthened frontal lobe, we also make healthy decisions thanks to a healthy lifestyle.
Final thought: Eating healthy alone does not create holistic health. My attitude towards life, towards myself and towards other people has greater influence. Anyone who does something for physical, mental and social health will also benefit from it. And with him also his environment. BRAVO.
