“The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.” Quentin Regestein
Going to the doctor is okay as we need to seek medical attention to treat sickness. But that is merely a “reactive” approach to when we encounter a problem with our health.
The World Health Organization says that we are to embrace a proactive, not a reactive solution to being healthy. They call it, “Preventive, curative and palliative interventions.” This means it is not just our doctor’s job to make us healthy.
Bottom line, it is our personal responsibility to pursue a healthy lifestyle. It is high time for us to realize that it’s not the job of our spouse, friend, or neighbor to motivate us toward health. The responsibility lies with each of us to learn how to take care of the body that is given to us. It is ours to manage for a lifetime.
Where to begin? Let’s start by getting our minds around the kind of changes we want to attain with our bodies. The sculptor creates his work of art in his mind before even touching the workable clay. We can do the same with changes that we want to make in the course of this year.
Take a deep breath and be still for a few minutes. Begin to get that visual in your mind of what you want your strong, healthy and energetic body to look like. Close your eyes and keep them closed until you have the clear, attainable picture in your mind.
Begin to make a list of 5 goals that are important to you, and begin to think about some baby steps toward those goals.
Remember, we will change our body when we change our mind; and not until then.
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FIT FOREVER Tom Hopkins 