The simplicity of wellness is that if you eat well, move well, and think well — you’ll increase your capacity for health many times over. The difficulty of wellness is fitting these habits into the social and cultural aspects of American life.
Tag Archive: emotional health
Community and Health
Having a health community is a lot like being on a sports team. “You’re only as strong as your weakest link” applies to health as well. Health is a combination of physical, emotional and chemical components. Many of us focus just on the physical, or just on the chemical. We often fail to exercise our “mental muscles” and we often traverse into unchartered health territory without a proper guide.
Who are You When You are at Your Best?
If you knew you wouldn’t fail, what would you be doing right now? Do you ever have moments in your life where you feel invincible? In basketball, they call it “in the zone”. In writing they call it “flow”. It’s a moment when you feel supreme confidence in your abilities, and everything you touch seems to turn to gold
Pain as an Emotional Experience — A Holistic View
Most people associate pain with a physical problem. Burn yourself or step on a nail and ouch! — it’s going to hurt. What people often overlook is the emotion and psychology behind pain and how simple reassurance about one’s condition or injury can go a long way to speeding recovery.
Alternative Options for Managing Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and Related Conditions
. So while we can point to the brain, the thyroid, the adrenals and other systems in the body as playing a role, specific symptoms are the body’s healthy response to the stresses imposed on it. Simply removing the symptoms, although often necessary in acute flare-ups, is similar to cutting the wire to the check engine light in the car — the problem still exists, yet your body is unable to alert you.
