What is a Healthy Lifestyle?

   Definition Of A Healthy Lifestyle

     The World Health Organization in 1946 defined health as ‘A complete state of mental, physical and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease’.

     Wikipedia defines a lifestyle as the way a person lives. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual’s attitudes, values or worldview. A healthy lifestyle is generally characterized as a “balanced life” in which one makes “wise choices”.

     A final definition of lifestyle is: The aggregation of decisions by individuals which affect their health, and over which they have control.

   WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF HEALTHY LIVING?

     The World Health Organization (WHO), defines Health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not simply just the absence of disease.  The actual definition of Healthy Living is the steps, actions and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health.  Healthy Living is about taking responsibility for your decisions and making smart health choices for today and for the future. So healthy living would consist of:

   PHYSICAL (FOR THE BODY)

•   Good Nutrition, Eating Right
•   Getting Physically Fit, Beneficial Exercise
•   Adequate Rest
•   Proper Stress Management

   YOU ALSO NEED TO GIVE AND RECEIVE

•   Forgiveness
•   Love and Compassion
•   You Need to Laugh and Experience Happiness.
•   You Need Joyful Relationships With Yourself and Others.

   EMOTIONAL WELLNESS (FOR THE MIND)

•   Self-Supportive Attitudes
•   Positive Thoughts and Viewpoints
•   Positive Self-Image

   SPIRITUAL WELLNESS

•   Inner Calmness
•   Openness to Your Creativity
•   Trust in Your Inner Knowing

   And all aspects of one’s self, must work in harmony to achieve wellness, so you need to create a balanced life.

   THE COMPONENTS OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

   Eating Healthily

      The right nutrition is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle. Your body requires a well-balanced diet every day to maintain the adequate amounts of vitamins, nutrients and minerals needed to maintain a healthy body.

   An Active Lifestyle

     You will need to include fitness as part of your life. Physical fitness keeps your weight in check, helps you sleep better at night, prevents heart attacks and strokes and other health problems, and generally prolongs your life. Basically, there are so many benefits of exercising that you really can’t live a full life without it.

   Stress Management

     Emotional stress plays an important role in many illnesses, both directly and indirectly. People are also more likely to smoke, overeat, drink too much, work too hard, argue with others and so on, when they are feeling stressed. Thus, stress management is an important part of your new lifestyle, and meditation and relaxation techniques are truly a key part of living a healthy lifestyle.

   Make Friends with Yourself:

      Loving yourself is a key to a healthy, happy lifestyle. Self-esteem is all about how much people value themselves; the pride they feel in themselves, and how worthwhile they feel. Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you act.

   Powering Up Your Mind and Body:

     Program your mind for total success. Develop a vision, a compelling future that excites and inspires you, and focus on it daily. Don’t let anything knock you, of course, or make you question its possibility. I promise you, by taking control of your thoughts, you will improve your life in a big way.

   Life Balance

     If you want to achieve a healthy lifestyle you must take steps to ensure you maintain a certain level of balance… spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially, mentally and financially. You need to balance work and family, and all the other areas of your life without spreading yourself too thin and having a guilt trip when you do one thing, but think you should be doing another. All the key areas of our lives overlap and interlink, effecting each other. Unless we create for ourselves satisfaction in each and every part of our life, we can never truly be fulfilled, or live a contented, happy and healthy life.

     Being Healthy is so important. Just change one thing in your life today. Have a healthy life beginning now. Living a healthy lifestyle will bring you happiness, health and the life of your dreams. You can fit into your favorite pair of jeans again. You can enjoy all the benefits that perfect health offers you. You can feel your best at all times of the day.