What is a lifestyle disease?
It’s a disease associated with the way a person lives.
Therefore, the only way to cure lifestyle diseases ….. is to change the way we live.
I know it’s tough. Your doctor tells you to change your habits. Blog and magazine articles give lots of tips on how to improve your health or prevent illness. But you just can’t seem to make a difference, or maybe even make a start.
Being creatures of habit, we are all challenged when attempting to change what we do or the beliefs we hold. Modifying our lifestyle can feel overwhelming enough to keep us from taking that empowering first step. Keeping those familiar habits is much more comfortable.
Is familiar comfort most important ? Or are you willing to experience TEMPORARY discomfort for the results you desire?
Be encouraged
If you want, or need, to change a part or all of your lifestyle……do it in small steps.
Integrate small changes one or two at a time.
- Substitute fresh vegetables for frozen or canned.
- Walk half a mile more than usual.
- Practice one of the many relaxation breathing techniques you’ll find in help articles.
- Start a better sleep pattern.
- Add a nutritional, herbal supplement to your diet.
- There’s a ton of information out there on health and relaxation.
It doesn’t have to be radical. Indeed, dramatic and over-enthusiastic attempts to do something new usually fail. They usually distress us by demanding that our whole system try to process too much at one time.
Don’t rush
It took your lifetime to get to where you are now. You’ve recognized the signs of a body struggling to be healthy and you’re planning to alter your style of living.
Perhaps you want to prevent disease, or you already experience conditions like joint degeneration, obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arterial blockage, and diseases associated with smoking, alcohol and drugs, including legal pharmaceuticals.
If you do have any of these conditions, it has developed incrementally over the years and will take time to improve or eliminate. But you CAN make a difference with consistent, if stumbling, baby steps.
As each small change becomes a new habit — a natural and easy part of your life — take another one or two steps. Soon, you’ll begin to feel an overall shift in your well-being. A new life will emerge. You’ll have more energy, a clearer mind, inspired thought. PROVING this to yourself with your first few changes will give you the impetus to keep going.
Stumbling off the path from time to time is normal. Most of us do it. This doesn’t mean you are weak or incapable of accomplishing what you set out to do. It just means you’re in the process of mastering something new, and that never happens right out of the gate. Ask anybody who starts a new job. Look to others who have accomplished seemingly impossible health goals. Their stories are all over the internet.
Don’t use “I knew it wouldn’t work!” against yourself.
Just step right back on the path and continue
Over a few months, within a year, you will discover you have walked miles in your new chosen lifestyle – effortlessly becoming healthier and happier, and so glad you took those first small steps.
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