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5 Pillars of Health - Live Your Best
Life Now
Are you someone who recently had a serious health scare and are
now educating yourself about how to support your total wellness?
Or, are you someone who has always been relatively healthy and
just always like to be aware and update and learning as you
maintain your health?
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Or perhaps you are someone right in the midst of a minor to
significant health challenge and looking for information to help you
get through and recover to the best of your ability?
If you fall in any of the three above categories, then I'm glad you
stopped by to read my blog post. In this blog post, I will share
briefly what the 5 pillars of health are and some key tips and
practices you will want to implement to live your best life now.
So what are the 5 Pillars of Health and why are they called Pillars?
The 5 Pillars of Health are
Pillar 1: Healthy Eating
Pillar 2: Healthy Sleeping
Pillar 3: Healthy Movement
Pillar 4: Healthy Environment
Pillar 5: Healthy Thinking
They are called the 5 Pillars of Health because they are the five
essentials to Optimal Health. The pressures of daily living — a
busy schedule, the demands of work, inadequate family or
personal time, not enough rest, environmental challenges — can
lead to a life thrown out of balance, a disturbance of our natural
equilibrium in any or all of these 5 areas. Now before we get
started, release that expectation, thought or goal that you must be
perfect in all 5 areas (or that I might suggest that!), that's
extremely unrealistic. Instead envision your health as journey and
consider what things you can do daily to improve your experience
and journey.
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Let's look at each pillar individually.
Pillar 1: Healthy Eating
Adaptating a strategy for healthy eating is one of the ﬁve pillars
because we are what we eat. Literally! The food we eat becomes
our cells, a healthy life needs a healthy body and a healthy body is
formed from healthy cells.
Well what does it mean to eat healthy?
First oﬀ, leading research has shown that traditional food pyramid
with a heavy quantity of starch is actually a leading contribution to
many of the healthy complications that we are seeing in the world
and particularly in North America. Countries like Brazil and
Australia have actually already released an updated food pyramid
as pictured below.
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You can see that the shift in the definition of a healthy diet is to
consume more vegetables and fruit and lower quantities of grains
as in the past.
The key to healthy eating is to first recognize that the status quo is
broken. If the status quo was working then why are we seeing a
rapid increase in cancer, diabetes and heart disease? It's time to
buck the trend! Stop believing any nutrition, health and wellness
information from the media and start doing your own research.
Although there are several great companies like Isagenix and
Kashi that are really focused on bringing quality food and nutrition
to the market to support your optimal health, unfortunately many
companies aren't. Instead, many are focused on producing the
largest profit quickly which often leads to corners being cut and
your health being compromized.
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Finally, recognize that there will ALWAYS be opinions for
something AND against so do your own research and then make
the best decision that suits and feels right for you. There are some
great holistic nutrition thought leaders out there like Dr. Pearl
Mutter who wrote an excellent book called Grain Brain Whole Life
Plan and Dr. Mercola who runs a very high quality holistic nutrition
site. Educate yourself, do your own research and then apply that
knowledge to improve your eating.
Pillar 2: Healthy Sleeping
Sleep is the second pillar listed because it is while we sleep that
the body is able to repair and rejuvenate itself so you can function
at your best when you are awake.
Now, here's a simple test - can you all agree that when we don't
get a good night's sleep we struggle a lot the next day? That's a
BIG clue. :-)
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There is an excellent book by Shawn Stevenson called Sleep
Smarter. It shares many great tips and insights. Some key take
aways for you is that between the hours of 10pm and 2am are
critical sleeping hours so if you have to be cut out sleep then wake
up early instead of staying up late! Also, get more natural sunlight
during the day, exercise and move your body daily (pillar 3), get
the electronics out of your bedroom and have a caffiene curfew.
Pillar 3: Healthy Movement
There are so many benefits to having healthy movement/ exercise
incorporated daily in your life. One that you may or may not know
is that it what we call a cornerstone habit. Ie, science has proven
that those who regularly exercise tend to more healthy in all the
other areas of their life- socially, nutrition and mindfully. Also,
those who start to exercise consistently then find it a lot easier to
incorporate other healthy habits to move towards a healthier
lifestyle.
Overall, one can achieve the benefit of healthy movement in just
15 minutes a day. Healthy movement can be a simple as taking a
walk with your dog every day to hitting the gym and doing that
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intense workout. Aside from helping you to maintain a healthy
weight, exercise can also help to maintain a positive mood, boost
energy and promote better quality sleep.
If you are someone who hasn't exercised in a long period of time,
do consult your doctor before starting any exercise routine.
Pillar 4: Healthy Environment
Pillar 4 is having a healthy environment. The term "healthy
environment" is a huge one and in this scenario focus on on
healthy environment ecologically and socials.
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Ecologically speaking, there has been an quantum leap in the
amount of toxic chemical we as humans come into contact with
and these is having signifcant negative impacts on our quality of
life. Check out this quick video called Toxins, The Silent
Killer. Fortunately for us, the world and political leaders are slowly
moving towards minimizing this, and things like recycling, filtering
our waters, eco friendly products and services are becoming more
and more popular. Consider developing a strategy to review the
products you are using daily and what small switches you can
make to minize toxicity in your life be it from filtering your water, to
switching out your laundry detergent or doing a full body gentle
cleanse.
Socially speaking, would you agree that being around people who
truly care about you, respect you and you enjoy being around can
have a huge impact on your quality of life? We have humans have
an ingrained need to connect and feel connected and in
community with others so having a positive and strong social
circle allows each of us to full engage in our lives. If you feel
isolated or alone, reach out to family and friends, go join a club on
a topic that you love. There are billions of people in this world so
you are sure to find other who like the things you like to share life
with.
Pillar 5: Healthy Thinking
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Do you know the saying: "Thoughts become things!" It's true, your
thoughts lead to your feelings, which lead to your actions, which
lead to your results! So thoughts do become things! Knowing this,
it makes sense why healthy thinking is the ﬁfth and ﬁnal pillar to
living your best life now. Keeping your mindset positive will allow
you to attract positivity into your life, it helps to reduce stress, turn
problems into opportunities and helps you to value all the great
things that you have or receiving in your life.
Key habits and practices that have known to help others just like
you have healthy thinking are visualization and meditation. Take a
few minutes a day to visualize yourself having the life you desire
and enjoying your life helps you to draw that desired life to you.
Likewise, taking a few moments a day to control and quite the
mind and be at peace, helps to build the internal muscle of
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controlling your mental choices so that when you want to be
choosing healthy thinking you have that mental muscle through
the practice of meditation to help you.
Summary and Next Steps
So those are the 5 pillars of health- healthy eating, healthy
sleeping, healthy movement, healthy environments and healthy
thinking. Where do you see that you may need to do some small
or big changes to help live your best life now? What are the top
2 small daily habits you can adopt after reading this post that will
help you shift into a better life?
Okay,great, say yes to you and start today!
Thanks for stopping by to read my bost on the 5 Pillars of Health-
Live Your Best Life Now.
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