The fact that you are reading this says to me that you are keen to be finding ways to move forward with your health and healing and have some idea of the level of health you would like. And no doubt you have various health-promoting strategies in place – and this is wonderful. Good on you! But are you doing enough for your health so that you can reach your health-potential? Doing more exercise & reducing coffee are not enough if you are wanting to achieve superior health and healing. Health aims can be compared to other areas of our life where by if we have goals clearly set out then it is going to be much easier to work towards them and achieve them. It’s no different when thinking about your health.
In this blog, I want to help you to identify what your health goals are in a very specific – non general way and then work out in an equally specific way, how you might go about working towards them.To make it more likely that you will reach these goals, you need to be asking yourself certain questions:
“Do You Know The Key Areas To Invest In So That You Can
Help Maximise Health And Healing?”
That’s right – you may be making some changes to your health regime, but are those changes going to maximise the improvements to your health and healing. You need to know the specific areas to focus on so that you can really optimise the heath-benefits you can achieve. So if you would like to maximise your health, help to avoid illness and disease, or actively work on particular health issues and maximise healing, then you need to map out a bit of a “health plan” for yourself over both the short term as well as the next 12 months. Have a bit of fun while you are doing this! And don’t just read this blog and do nothing! Wait until you have some time and write down your thoughts and answers…… you will get so much more out of the exercise.
Major Life Divisions
Now some of you might think this is a little simplistic, but if you haven’t done anything like this for a while I think it is really great way to quickly give you a perspective of where the issue of health sits in your life and the level of priority you give it. List 5 or 6 main categories that cover the major areas of your life. Make sure health is one of them! Now, for each, estimate an approximate percentage of your time, effort & energy that you give to each category. Then look at each category, including health, to give you an idea of how much emphasis you place on each. For some people, health plays a minor role. Other people become obsessed about health.
One question to ask yourself: Does the level of my health reflect the amount of time I give it? So for example, you may be wanting to feel more emotionally balanced but the time, energy, resources, money you spend on your health, are minimal.
When thinking about setting your “health goals”, some of the areas to consider are:
1. Disease Prevention
2.Food Choices
3. What Treatments Will You Choose?
4. Exercise
5. Emotional health
6. Mindset
So have some fun with this and actually articulate what you would like to achieve with your health and specifically how you are going to go about reaching those goals.
Talk soon, Andrew