Change is Here!

I was going to speak more about depression but I think I covered that enough. School officially starts next week and I'm ready to move into the next phase of health. Now that we have the mental aspect of health covered (and believe me, it will be updated as time goes on), I want to transition into they physical aspects of health. I'm still not going to talk about food (yet!) but I will talk about issues that are just as important, if not more so to most people.

I plan on writing to you about the 4 Essentials to achieving and maintaining health that are the most often neglected. Most "connoisseurs of health" talk about these things much later in their processes but I want to talk about them first and get them out of the way so that you have an even firmer foundation for health.

These 4 Essentials are: Sleep, Posture, Water, and Breath. I don't care how much you exercise, how well you eat, how many herbal teas you make or how often you detox. It's not going to make a lick of difference if these 4 Essentials are not taken care of.

I want you to know that even though weight loss is always on my mind, it's in the back of my mind. There are ladies and gentlemen out there that may need to gain weight in order to be healthy. As a matter of fact, it's good for you to understand that just because a person is deemed "skinny" or has a "great body", doesn't mean that they are at optimal health. Looking good, feeling good and being well (a state of wellness, which is true health) are different concepts, depending on the individual. While sleeping well may not be a contributing factor in weight loss, it is a major factor in making sure that your body functions as well as your mind are at rest and capable of performing the necessary functions to maintain health and balance while you are awake. Even though Water has a slew of health benefits - internally and externally, including weight loss, most would probably be surprised to know that breathing properly can reach the same goals (internal and external health benefits as well as weight loss) in a different way. Posture is often talked about briefly in regards to general health but for the most part, it's only focused on when you have serious issues with your back, neck, shoulders, or spine. Proper posture deals with so much more than that and I feel that it is of the utmost importance when you have overweight/obese individuals lose weight.

I have decided that I would like to take a couple of days to a week on each subject. I will also transition into other topics so that you have a complete understanding of what you must do for yourself to achieve and maintain health. My goal is to have each person that reads these posts understand concepts that the mainstream really doesn't talk about so that you can maintain health in your own way. Sure, we can eat food to lose weight and we can exercise to firm muscles and build up our cardiovascular system. However, without these 4 essentials, it will all be in vain because you can still be prone to disease as well as dis-ease.

All I ask of you at this moment is patience. A lot of things are going to happen at once so I won't be able to put up the blogs as often as I would like (actually it's not as often as I would like it to be right now LOL). If I am not able to put up a blog, please look over to the "Health Related Links" for more information on any of these subjects.

We are all works in progress. So let's get to working on this progress! ;)
In the meantime...

stay strong, stay healthy, and fight dis-ease!