Good health is easy but being sick is hard. The truth is, maintaining good health is pretty simple although reclaiming it takes patience, consistent actions and smart choices. Your body heals at it’s own pace. Your job is to help that process along. There are four important components that determine a person’s level of health.

Component One: Is their body being fed what it needs to be healthy? From the point of view of the body, many meals today barely qualify as food. That’s why disease care is a trillion dollar business and over 60% of Americans are overweight.An amazing amount of the American diet is packed with calories carrying no real nutrition. Like good health, eating vital, real food is easy, but that is a decision you have to make.

Component Two: Does the person have a cork stuck up their butt? Are they constipated? Can the body eliminate toxins effectively? Other organs get constipated besides the bowels. Most diseases involve the starvation or constriction of a group of organs. Often food is clogging the machinery. Some foods clog and others clean. Some foods support the health of the organs and others destroy them.

Component Three: Do they feel loved? There’s nothing like loving when it comes to good health. People in loving relationships eat together. The quality of the food is an expression of their affection. Most of good health is attitude and self-image and they’re linked to how you love. Continuously work on improving your ability to love and good health is easy.

Component Four: Do they enjoy their work and feel they make a contribution, even if it seems frivolous to someone else? This attitude is often more important to good health than what it is you actually do, or how much you earn. It’s being connected, valued and on a mission. It keeps the inner flame alive and like love, offers that most valuable asset to healing, a sense of hope. Patiently improve these four components and good health is easy.

Now, cut yourself some slack. Health challenges make people feel guilty, stupid or victimized. Whether you believe you create your own health or that problems simply fall out of the sky, realize that these days, good health barely seems like an option for many people. Health education has fallen down on the job and the result is a trillion dollar plus medical bill. Part of the problem is that the conscious mind wasn’t designed to be responsible for your health. Read that again. Read the rest of this entry »

Daily health assessment helps you take control of your health. While many people believe their health is completely out of their hands, this is far from the case. When a person begins to look at the state of their health and the state of their well-being, they might realize they need to make a change. But without any base of comparison, it can be difficult to see the progress of the changes they do make. In order to ensure that you are watching your health and watching it move in a positive direction, you need to consider daily health assessment and monitoring. Here are four reasons why health monitoring is necessary.

Reason 1: You Need to Know Your Health Starting Point

When you first use a health monitor, you will find out where your health is at right now. Since you might not know how healthy you truly are, it’s always a good idea to begin somewhere and then make changes based on those findings. Plus, when you know where you are beginning, you can track the progress of your health as it moves in a positive direction, hopefully. If you find that the health numbers are moving in a negative direction, then you might need to make more changes or you may want to see your doctor for further guidance. Though you may be nervous to find the current measure of your health and well-being, you need to be armed with this knowledge in order to reach the goal of more perfect health. Read the rest of this entry »