At What Point Do You Go From Healthy to Unhealthy?

A healthy person has nothing but hopes and dreams to think about. A person who is sick and unhealthy has only one wish or dream. To be healthy again. When most people who are sick think about losing their health, they usually think back to the moment when they found out they weren’t healthy. Typically, when their doctor informed them of the results. Unfortunately, our health never changes in an instant. Truthfully, the process of going from healthy to sick takes months, and even years. In fact, the first moment someone notices a sign or symptom that they aren’t feeling “normal”, that was not the moment they became unhealthy, or sick. Symptoms can take months or years as well before they show up. Underneath the surface, the physiology was changing for a long-time beforehand. What can we do with this information? Well, the first thing would be to begin addressing our health now. Waiting till we ‘feel sick’ is not enough. As I mentioned above, if we wait that long, it’s already too late. Our body doesn’t move into a state of disease or sickness overnight. If we start to implement healthy strategies into our daily experience, our bodies will reap the benefits. These actions we take to improve our health do not need to be drastic. In fact, I highly recommend not to do a complete overhaul. Break this challenge off into bite-size pieces. Start by making a 5% change in your daily habits. Maybe you decide to have a healthier breakfast by making a green smoothie when you get up in the morning time. Or, maybe you...

The Bigger Picture

We all experience rhythms. They’re a natural part of the balance in this world. After all…without the rain, we’d have no rainbows. Without sadness, we’d have no such thing as happiness. It’s easy to look around our world today and see chaos. To some it may seem that there’s more now then ever before. This may be true. Or, it may be due to the role the media plays in our perception of reality. Regardless, there is no shortage of negativity. On the flip side, there is no shortage of positivity either. In America, we still to this day have live very fortunate lives. The opportunities are abundant here, and there is still the chance to make something of yourself. If we look around the globe, that isn’t necessarily the case. There are many countries where advancement is extremely difficult, or downright impossible. In these places they don’t worry about having enough money for Starbucks, they worry about when their next gulp of water will be. After a downturn, or negative cycle, it’s typical of us to sit in our protected homes and nice offices and wonder why our world is so horrible, or if we’ll have enough money to purchase a new car next year. Instead of pondering the negative, maybe we should compare. Compare with the other countries of the world. The less fortunate, and the so-called “industrialized” ones. It’s one thing to see our lives in the tiny bubble we habitate most days. However, it would benefit us to look outside and see what everyone else has to deal with on a daily basis. This is...