Want To Experience The Daily Joy Of Optimum Health?

“Optimum health is not just the absence of disease but the presence of wellness in mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and social areas.”

Optimum health is essential at all levels for your better quality of life.

Health and fitness is a only two parts of the puzzle, the mindset and environment we live.

What if you started thinking of your health in terms of mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual well-being?

Mental Health:

The truth is your mind and thoughts are the forerunner of all states.

With a proper mindset you can be happy.

Conversely, if the mindset is not right, no matter how much material possessions you may have, you may still be a very unhappy woman.

Gandhi said, “The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for even a single person’s greed.”

So a healthy mind is a woman with a mindset that can lead to happiness and contentment with self and the world around you.

Relaxation means success as it provides mental clarity of thoughts, good insight and the ability to see life through an unbiased mind.

To be able to see life through an unbiased mind is no small feat.

It is extremely difficult to note or observe the unfolding of events and phenomena without judging.

We habitually associate emotions or feelings to events, and allow such emotions to direct our actions.

Our likes for certain things and dislikes for others are closely associated with our emotions.

Emotional Health:

It is your emotions that lead you to act impulsively at times.

A high level of self-awareness in this area is extremely useful.

In fact, it is essential to your well-being. After all, love and relationships that may take us years to build can be destroyed in a moment of anger.

There are positive and negative emotions.

Positive emotions such as love, compassion and joy should be cultivated, while negative emotions such as fear, anger and hate need to be eradicated.

When asked about this, a wise sage of India once illustrated with a story:

An old woman said to her grand daughter, “Girl, I have two tigers caged within me. One is love and compassion. The other is fear and anger.”

The young girl asked, “Which one will win, grandmother?”

The old woman replied, “The one I feed.”

At times, it may seem that we have no control over our emotions.

This is not true…

 The truth is how well we manage our emotions depends on how aware we are of our emotions, particularly on the arising of our emotions.

The earlier we are able to note the arising of our emotions, we better we can manage them.

More and more researches are showing that our well-being is closely linked to our emotional and mental health.

Our body’s immune system is generally enhanced by positive mental outlook and emotion.

Conversely, it is depressed by negative mental and emotional states.

Stress, worry, anger and fear are some states that may lead to physical illnesses such as hypertension, cardiac diseases, depression and a host of other ailments.

Physical Health:

To maintain an optimum physical well-being means you want to focus not only on your body but also your mind and emotions.

On a physical level, your body can be kept healthy through adequate sleep and rest.

Proper nutrition, regular exercises and a healthy environment that is free from pollution is all part of the experience.

Spiritual Health:

Throughout the ages, wise women have consistently informed and taught us that we are essentially spiritual beings.

Although medical science has not been able to reveal to us our spiritual nature, there are many indirect evidence that we would be foolish to ignore.

Stories from people who had gone through a near death experience or dying people with heightened nearing death awareness, or simply a cure from an ‘incurable’ disease all suggest there is more to life than just the physical state.

Major religions of the world all based their teachings on the belief we are essentially spiritual beings.

According to these teachings, our physical existence is secondary.

While it may be true you can focus more on your spiritual nature than your physical nature, it would be difficult for the majority to do so…

At least not immediately because your life cannot change overnight.

Mindset, however, can and that is perhaps the best place to start.

Healthy Relationship:

“No woman is an island, entire by itself.”

As a health coach, I am in a unique position to confront and comfort women from diverse backgrounds.

One of the most important factors I’ve observed is that happy women do not worry about their money or possessions.

Instead, they focus their remaining health, energy and strength on trying to heal wounded relationships.

Knowing this now, it is as though there is an inherent need to get a proper closure to a relationship.

That’s why forming and cultivating a healthy relationship is important for your well-being.

Unfortunately, this is something we often ignored until it is too late.

If there is any forgiving to be done, or the need to be forgiven, leaving things to the last minutes may end up with an unfulfilled desire for a closure.

What if  you spend more time and effort in improving your relationship with loved ones, especially with your parents, spouse, children and siblings?