You pick up the magazines each
day, and you’re bombarded with health and fitness information. Advertisements and articles that are designed
to impart much needed information to the reader about the state of fitness and
health in America
today, and what we as responsible citizens should do. I want you to stop, and think for just one
moment. How do you determine your
current fitness and wellness levels?
Does your regular doctor as you each time you go if you believe yourself
to be fit and well? Probably not. Nor does he give you any method for
determining the status on your own.
Fitness centers abound in this country, and most are staffed with
counselors who can test your fitness level.
What about your wellness level?
Are they one and the same? They
are not one and the same, yet they rely heavily on each other to keep you
healthy.
Being
fit and being well are totally different conditions. Your wellness rating is dependent upon your
immune system, and what vitamins, supplements, and nutrition you provide for
your immune system. Fit people can
sometimes be unwell. And well people can
sometimes be unfit. However, when you do
combine the two, and use sound principles based on clean living, exercise, and
healthy eating, you attain a state of equilibrium where you are both fit and
well.
Most
individuals do not take the time to completely understand the advantages of
being both fit and well. We read and
absorb the information we’re given through the media and health organizations,
without ever pondering if we’re receiving all the information we need, or
simply the part that is profitable to be seen or heard. Fitness gyms need your monthly fees in order
to remain operational. They have no real
concern about the condition of your immune system. Physical fitness is a condition of the body
alone. Hospitals and doctors need you as a patient in
order to remain operational; they want you to know you need to be fit and well,
but often leave out important pieces that affect your wellness and, therefore,
your ability to be fit.
What
about eating habits? What about
vitamins? What role does our daily
intake play in our health, our wellness, and our fitness? More than you have been lead to believe or
understand. The body’s ability to remain
well under anything other than ideal conditions is a direct result of the
nutrition received on a daily basis. The
mind’s ability to remain well is, again, a direct result of our nutrition
intake. For instance, the human brain
doesn’t develop well without the necessary input of protein in our daily
diet. No protein, no intelligence. No intelligence, then none of the other
states is attainable.
Our
spiritual input is a determining factor when establishing our wellness
level. We all need the benefit of
spiritual reflection, as a way of cleansing ourselves of the toxins of our
daily life. Spirituality is a way of
assuring ourselves of a renewing, and rebirth of ourselves as caring
humans. Wellness encompasses our state
of being, mind, and health. It is a condition
of the whole. Wellness is a condition of
the mind, body, and soul.
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