Health Goals

I ran across a debate involving Einstein where he argued there was no such thing as darkness, but that darkness was merely an absence of light.  I like to think of health and wellness in the same way – illness is merely an absence of health.  As you add health to our system, you simultaneously reduce illness.  I suppose this view could be a bit too holistic for some to swallow.  However, I firmly believe that too often, we adopt a victim mentality that we are destined to age poorly and succumb to illness – a mentality that we are inherently broken.  I choose to believe that health is our genetic design and when illness should occur it is merely because we have not practiced an appropriate and healthy lifestyle congruent with this genetic design.  I believe you have to ask yourself, “Where does health come from?”  We all start from just two individual cells and the information held in those two cells is enough to build all our tissues and organs until we naturally grow into an integrated and sophisticated organism of around 70 trillion cells.  There has to be an inborn intelligence in those two cells for this to occur and that same intelligence must be passed onto all the other cells that develop.  It only makes common sense to me that this intelligence that made the body is good enough to maintain the body and promote health naturally.

If this view resonates with you at all, then I ask you, how can you support this inborn intelligence and add more health to your own body over the next year?  Even if you are dealing with an illness or disease, do you really believe that you are going to find health with a surgery or in a bottle of prescription drugs?  This may be necessary to deal with the implications of the sickness.  But even with chronic illness, you can always improve by adding health.  With this in mind, I would like to challenge you to consider your health goals for 2019.  Whether you are someone who intentionally and routinely sets goals or not, I believe we all reflect on things we would like to happen for the New Year.  You may already have a goal of a promotion at work.  Or it may be the goal of a new house or car.  It may be a family vacation or just a big screen T.V.  But if your health is not there, how well can you achieve or even enjoy any of these other goals?  Try not to look at just symptoms of illness – these will improve as you add health.  Rather, think of something you can start doing physically, chemically, and/or emotionally to promote health.  Consider how you will measure these goals to know when you’ve achieved them.  You may be looking at a dietary change or an exercise goal or starting a program of chiropractic, massage or yoga.  It doesn’t matter; just make certain you commit to something that you can do over a period of several months and see what changes can occur when you add health!