How to Cultivate a Holistic Vision of Health

Ask yourself, and consider what Health may be.

We have many ideas as to what health is. We are flooded with advice from agencies like the AMA, AHA, our doctors, and our insurance companies. We read from magazines, print and digital media. Media bombards us with success stories of fitness, virility, and sensuousness. Other’s strengths and journeys mirror our own trials while our body feels distorted through diets, fads, and exercise regimes, and new medications.

We live in the market-place of health-care, whether affordable or not. Expensive instrumentations, charts and graphs give us quantified sense to how we are supposed to feel. Numbers, graphs and charts give us a feeling of how healthy we are. Or do they? Every 5 years research shows something different, our numbers change and we are given new pills or another diet.

What are we supposed to feel?
What am I supposed to look like?

Either we convince ourselves, or let others convince us.

Our general sense of Health is greater than the picture of a body image. It is more than measured steps on a phone. It is more than just looking good, it is more than eating good. It is an overall quality of life. One of moderation, being able to take on the stresses of life and flow with them.

To grow, to flourish and thrive.

We must envision Health.

It begins with recognizing the preciousness of our Human life.

Once we know that there is only this lifetime, only this moment, only our bodies to deal with, we can then “ATTEND” to it. Being present with that we can begin to look at the bigger picture, not just for ourselves, but also for others.

Health doesn’t just happen to us, we must coax it, urge it, nurture it, and help it grow. Like a well tended garden.

Without a vision, one perishes. One has to develop a sense of cultivation. With a healthy mind so are healthy habits, and ultimately a life-style.

The body has an innate capacity to heal, the mind being a part of the body also has that capacity. When you allow your body and your mind to tap into that rejuvenative quality then you allow the natural process to work.

With the beautiful support of the body one can accept and cultivate their own Human Nature.