To become younger and healthier for longer, you must be aware of your own health
conditions, whatever they may be at this moment
- Do
you have high blood pressure?
- Are
your blood cholesterol levels normal?
- Do
you experience regular physical pain, or frequent headaches?
- Do
you have difficulty going to sleep?
- Do
you have insatiable cravings for certain unhealthy foods?
- Do
you have anxiety or mental depression?
- Is
everyday life stressful to you?
- Are
you overweight?
- Do
you have any degenerative disease or chronic illness?
It is useless to deny the presence of any health problems you
may have. Your awareness of your present health conditions is
the first step towards erasing your age.
“All men by nature desire knowledge.” Aristotle
Health Decisions
Once you become aware of your own conditions, make a decision to bring about the necessary changes – a change in your attitude, and a change in your diet and lifestyle.
Adopt the right attitudes towards aging and wellness. The right
attitudes include your quest for health information. According to a research
study at Purdue University by Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman, published in
the Journal of Medical Internet Research, “individuals who searched
for health information on the Internet were indeed more likely to be
health-oriented than those who did not. Consumers who sought out medical
information on the Internet reported higher levels of health-information
orientation and healthy activities, as well as stronger health beliefs than
those who did not search for medical news on the Internet.”
Knowledge is powerful. Knowledge not only gives you more options
in life, but also enables you to make your own health decisions, instead of
replying on others to make them for you, such as your healthcare professionals.
Empower yourself with health information. Do not reply solely on
doctors or pharmaceutical drugs to make you younger and healthier for longer.
They offer no miracle cures.
Nowadays, many doctors may find themselves unable to keep
themselves abreast of the new knowledge of medicine in spite of their
continuing education. In addition, many doctors may become so preoccupied with
the ever-increasing paper work required by the healthcare machinery that they
simply do not have adequate time for their patients. If doctors cannot devote
their full attention to treating you, it just makes good sense that you should
be more reliant on yourself to keep yourself younger and healthier for longer.
The pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have convinced not only
the medical establishment but also the gullible public that costly drugs are
the answer to all their health problems, despite their dubious track records
and often-deadly side effects.
The use, misuse, and abuse of drugs account for 250,000 to
500,000 deaths each year in the United States. And do you still believe that
pharmaceutical drugs provide all the answers to your health problems? Dr.
O. W. Holmes, Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, had this to say
regarding pharmaceuticals putting you in harm’s way: “If all the medicine in
the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for
humanity.” Dr. Holmes’ statement speaks volumes of the potential harm of
pharmaceuticals.
This is not to say that doctors and pharmaceutical drugs have no
place in modern medicine – far from it. But you must equip yourself with
knowledge to understand what your doctors are telling you, and why you should
be taking certain medications, if need be. More importantly, become your own
physician, and, indeed, the best you could ever have, because no man can be a
perfect physician to you than yourself, and no one can tell you
what your body needs other than yourself.
So, without the right attitude, it is difficult to initiate any
meaningful change in your life. Let your mind control your body, and not the
other way around. Therefore, what you feed you mind is as important as what you
feed your body. A toxic mind is worse than a toxic body. Remember, your mind is
most powerful if you harness its energies to create the reality for you.
There is some point in life that you must make a decision – the
decision on what you believe to be the best course of action
for you to become younger and healthier for longer. Everything begins with
belief. What you believe is the most powerful option of all. Nobody can
help you if you do not help yourself make that decision to believe.
Make that decision to change now -- not
tomorrow, or any time soon. If you keep on doing what you have been doing all
your life, then you will continue to be what you have been for the rest of your
life. If you want to be younger and healthier for longer, you must make
that decision to take appropriate action right now!
Your decision is present, so is your determination to succeed,
no matter what. Make it your goal in life, not just a wish. There is a
difference between a goal and a wish. Many people may wish for being younger
and healthier for longer, but not too many actually see that happen to them,
because they have never turned their wishes into goals. A goal is something
realistic and achievable. A goal has a time frame, and is measurable in one way
or another. On the other hand, a wish does not require commitment, energy or
discipline. A wish is merely a thought. A wish alone, without action, will not
make you younger and healthier for longer. Make your decisions to take actions
to live your life as if everything is a miracle.
Read my book: As If Everything Is A Miracle: This 125-page book is about the wisdom in living as if
everything is a miracle, just as Albert Einstein once said:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is to live as if nothing
is a miracle. The other is to live as if everything is a miracle."
Consciously and
subconsciously we have created for ourselves a world in which our bodies, our
minds, and souls have become toxic and we live as if nothing is a miracle. To
do just the opposite—living as if everything is a miracle—we have to renew the
mind, renew the body, and reconnect the soul, and realign the being so that we
know who we really are, instead of who we "think" we are, and
accordingly we make the right health decisions.
Stephen Lau
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