Friday, October 9, 2009

Some Basic Rules For Healthy Living

By Jill Gorman

Healthy living depends on so many factors. You must take care of you physical health, you must take care of your emotional health and you should also take care of your spiritual health.

Of course, physical health is essential to all round healthy living and we must pay sharp attention to how we take care of it. This is partly achieved by maintaining an optimum diet for health. This includes lots of fresh fruit of different varieties and home prepared food that that is predominant in leafy green vegetables and beneficial fats and proteins. Unfortunately, the modern diet is tilted too much toward over processed foods with high sugar, carbohydrate and saturated fat content.

An active lifestyle is a recipe for good health. We know the benefits of exercise in promoting health and well being. The human body was designed to work and with our increasingly sedentary lifestyles the body is denied the opportunity to work and keep itself strong. Today's work is more likely to have you sitting in front of a computer instead of heaving behind a set of oxen and plough. To offset this, it is important to supplement exercise with a daily workout of your preference.

Relationships with those around us also play a big part in our ability to live healthily. We are social beings and are surrounded by family, friends, colleagues and authorities. Wrong interactions with all the people we have to live with can seriously jeopardize emotional health. Existing in situations such as unhappy marriages is all too common and depression is rife. Do not be afraid to go for help if relationships are becoming a strain. You need emotional health to make most use of physical health.

Not everyone is ready to acknowledge the role of spiritual wellbeing in healthy living. In the history of the human race, this reluctance is unusual. All over the world and throughout the course of human history, people have placed spirituality at the very centre of their lives. It is the pursuit of spiritual oneness with the Universal Source that have kept people and societies balanced, cohesive and moral. With spiritual breakdown comes corruption and decadence which are the precursors for societal breakdown.

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