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We know there are at least 5 pillars of health.One is nerve flow and airflow, two is nutrition and water. Three is movement, exercise, flexibility, joint health, the things that keep us moving. Four is rest, our ability not to get overwhelmed by our task lists, our ability to take a breath within a day, our ability to, even though we’re running and getting stuff done, not be over revving our engine and be able to balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic. Our ability to know when it’s time to sit down and rest and know that we’re actually doing something when we’re resting. That we’re not just not doing something else, but we’re actually doing something. Resting is something, it’s not just something you do when everything else is done. And there is sleeping well at night. Five is a positive mental attitude and things we feed our mind. The way we tell ourselves our story, the way we tell ourselves our story from the past, the way we tell ourselves about the opportunities in our future, the way we take everything that happens in our lives and make the most of it and learn from it and grow and see things to the positive. Because whether we can make a case for anything else positivity what benefits us the most and that’s what provides us with what we need to be the best person we can be and have the most impact in this world.
So there’s the implication of following or not following the 5 pillars of health, where we know how these choices lead to certain outcomes. Like we’ll take sugar for example. We know the implication of sugar. If abused is diabetes, inflammation, and many of the inflammatory diseases that are part of the chronic disease world that we play a part in, actually a huge part. Over 80% and maybe even higher of chronic diseases are caused by lifestyle choices we are making each day. And then there’s application. Application is taking what is implied and actually putting in the work and the effort to have those things come into existence. So many times we’re explaining the implications to ourselves and we’re trying to convince ourselves to apply what we know to be true, to get the health we want, so that we can make the changes necessary to experience that health in our lives.
We try to tell others about the implications when people are suffering with their health. We tell them the implications of if they keep living their life that way. But a lot of times they don’t need more implication. We do need implication to know what’s going on, but we need help with the application, the work and the discipline that’s required to make change and to make those good habits and the implications of what can happen with those good habits, a reality. So many times we need to help ourselves and help others with the application. I know for me it is sugar. I watch myself put things in my mouth that I don’t want to put in my mouth. I feel guilty afterwards. I don’t like myself afterwards. I wouldn’t necessarily call it this, but maybe it could be depression, I just don’t feel on my game or at my best when I do things that I don’t want to do that are bad for me. Especially when I know the devastating effects of that habit on my health over time, no matter how healthy I look or feel.
Then, I think things are going to change because I understand the implications, but when it comes down to it, I find a way to get myself around those things again. I find a way to put one of those things in my mouth again. Then I find a way to shut off my brain and shovel in as many things as I want to because I think that may be the last time I’m going to do it, which is not true. Then I find myself in this negative loop of constantly reminding myself and trying to convince myself how real the implications are and the implications are real when you abuse sugar. You get inflammation which leads to less health and makes you more susceptible to disease every single time, whether that disease is fully expressed or it isn’t. A person may have so much health built up and be so active that they seem to counteract negative decisions, but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s having a negative effect on their health.
Whereas good decisions always lead to better health. And even if a person is sick and not doing well, when they start making better decisions, their health is improving. Whether that full health of what they think their health should look like is fully expressed or not having the right decisions and making the right decisions about health and following the laws of health are definitely going to lead their health in the right direction, towards better health every single time. So let’s not continue to overdue just the implications of what could happen if we make bad choices and constantly throw the implications up in our own faces and in the faces of others, as we continually try to tell them what will happen if they stay on the course they’re on, but let’s start to encourage ourselves, encourage others to figure out how we can help each other with the application of the habits and laws that lead to the health and life we want.
But so we should probably just start with ourselves because that’s the person we have the most control over and it’s the person that, many times, we have no control over. So it’s probably a good place to start exercising implications, motivation, and application. And then maybe people may ask us what’s different about us and it always comes down to having both the emphasis in implication and the understanding and the knowledge of what your choices are and researching them and making sure that they’re time tested and proven like all the pillars of health. And at the same time, the motivation and ability to understand and put a schedule together to add discipline and work, with the realization that we have to apply these healthy habits over time to get healthy results, which is better health. Then we have to continue to apply these habits to keep the results we have gotten so far and continue to apply those habits to build and take our health to the next level.
Because the day we stop a healthy habit is the day we stop getting the benefits of what we were doing and the day we start getting the benefits or results of what we’re doing from that day forward. So it’s a simple formula. The difficulty is not in the implication of how health works. I think everybody would agree about exercise and water and sleep and rest and nerve flow and airflow and positivity and all those things. The implications are not really debated amongst people. Everybody believes in it when they have conversations around the dinner table and when they have conversations with themselves, however, where most of us fall short, obviously some people don’t know what to do, when to do it, or how to do it, but most of us fall short at the application. And when we fall short at the application, it doesn’t matter what we know, what we know to do, all the papers and all the research. We know all the proof, we have the thousands of years of people being healthier by living by the laws of health. However, if we don’t have the ability to apply those things, we won’t be able to experience better health and express that better health and enjoy better health in our lives.
So implication, motivation, and application all go together. But usually implication is not the problem. We’re very aware of what poor habits do. We’re very aware of what good habits do. It’s the motivation and application that we need to focus on and help each other with each day. If you need any help with implications, motivation, or application of the laws that lead to better health, you can get my book, The Health Equation it’s on Amazon inside The Health Equation is Health is practically Free. This book has the five pillars of health, what they are, how they work, the benefits to your health, and how to apply those pillars of health in your life. Also Winning Moments is another book that is inside The Health Equation book. Winning Moments show you how to turn everything we already do in a day into better health. All the things we’re already doing each day, like how we sit, how we sleep, how we work, and doing them in a way that leads to better health, instead of health problems.
And then The Health Equation brings it ALL together. How to have the habits and the discipline to make every health plan work, how to win each moment of your day for better health, and how to apply the 5 pillars or laws of health. The great thing about good habits is that good habits when they go together, with other good habits, make great habits that get great results.
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