For Health's Sake: This I Do

A Lifestyle Plan for Optimum Health

Succinctly stated, this "Lifestyle for Healthy Living" consists of four action components. This plan is simple but profound. It can be applied by anyone who chooses to pursue health-consciousness. Below are the four components of this lifestyle plan.

    1. Diet. It is not necessary to have a nutritionist, dietitian, medical specialist or anyone, other than yourself, to have a health-centered diet. A common sense awareness and recognition that begins with listening to the body speak and eating vegetables, fruits, nuts and a small portion of sea food and chicken, consuming small amounts of salt and sugar, and drinking at least four or five glasses of water and/or juices constitute a balance diet. Other staples that include cake, pie, cookies and ice cream in small amounts. Moderation in all things is a good principle to apply to your food consumption.

     2. Exercise. There are many kinds and acts of exercise. Walking, preferably two or more miles five or six days a week, is an effective kind of exercise. Body movements that include stretching, bending, creative dancing (that may or may not be named dances,) child-like fidgeting and practically any sustained with some rigorous movements of the body constitute exercise. To these things, observe animals, especially those in the wild, and do what they do. Pussy cats and house dogs are not the best role models.

        3. Spirituality. Human beings are by nature spiritual beings the same as they are physical beings. Each person has a soul. In the seat or core of the soul are conscience, emotions and creative capabilities.
Caring for the soul is no less important than it is to care for the body and mind, two other essence components of a human being. Care for your soul, and your soul will care for you, much like being on automatic pilot. We care for the soul when we think creatively and give expression to that which is good, positive and beautiful. Prayer, meditation, contemplation and worship are ways in which we care for our souls. Commmuning with nature is also a way to nourish the soul. It is important that spiritual growth continue throughout a person's lifetime. It is the spiritual endowment of a person that other endowments, such as the physical, mental and emotional, are subjected to and directed by.  When these are not in harmony with the spiritual a deficit exists that may lead to self-debilitation or self-destruction.

      4. Comumnity. Practicing community is a more accurate way to describe the nature and functioning of community. Let us be very clear community is not a matter of geography. That is people being in close  physical proximity in a given area does not constitute community. The aggregation of people is not community. The answer Jesus gave to a question asked of him by a lawyer provides light on this matter of community.. A lawyer asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied by telling him what is commonly referred to as "The Good Samaritan Story." Paraphrasing, Jesus said "While a Samaritan was traveling he saw a Jew who had been robbed and brutally beaten, and even though by custom Samaritans had no dealings with Jews, he gave the Jew compassionate aid. Earlier a priest and a Levite had seen the half-dead Jew and passed him by without giving him aid. Jesus said, 'Of these three, the Samaritan was a neighbor.'" This speaks forthrightly to the question of not only "Who is a neighbor? but "Who is a community practitioner?"  Like geography, neither does race ethnicity, economic status or any other classification that established partitions between and among people define or determine community. Like the "Kingdom is within," so "community is within." Community can be practiced not only when a person is in the present of another person or people, but when he is alone. What the community practitioner radiates and viabrates impacts the entire world. He adds to the consciousness of the universe. He affirms that:

                     Each is in all,
                     All is in each;
                     Each is for all,
                    All is for each;
                    No each without all,
                    No all without each.

For health's sake think health-consciousnesss which embodies diet, exercise, spirituality and community. Do these things and speedily move toward optimum health.

          Take care of yourself,
          That is the most important thing
          That you can do for yourself;
          Be your own best friend.
          Do not let the desires of your heart,
          the dictates of others or default deny
          you the good that is rightly yours.
         Take care of yourself,
          Be postive, follow your heart,
          and enjoy life.
          You are precious and the epitome of beauty.

Good health trumps great wealth.

Copyright 2013 by Uriah J. Fields