Strong Enough To Be Healthy

Health is the strength to do what is healthy. What we choose and how we do it must be healthy for us to have health.  Health is all encompassing to our existence. 

Emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health all support each other. For instance, you more likely become cranky and are less likely to perform well when you do not get enough sleep or food. To get adequate sleep and proper nutrition require planning, determination, and study. The disciplines of repetition, pushing ourselves, and building upon successes and failures lay the foundation to consistently not be cranky and to perform well. 

Your health depends upon your foundation to master stresses. You cannot improve without being stressed. In sports, an athlete cannot perform well without the challenges of pushing his or her body past comfort. Knowledge is not learned without effort. Loving someone does not happen without overcoming problems.  We cannot advance without stressing ourselves. Yet, stress is the number one killer. Thus, health in every arena relies upon our ability to discern how to healthily involve stress and respond to stressful situations and looking for the best and healthiest solutions.

To manage your health, you must become aware of the many decisions you make in each day. You cannot be sloppy about what you choose. Simply ask, “Will this decision help my health or harm it?” “Is my attitude healthy?” “Ten, twenty, thirty years from now, will I be healthier for this decision?” You usually know the answers, so make the healthy choice. Your healthy choice will always make you stronger emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. When you are uncertain, make the best decision possible. Then, stay curious and cautious so you can be ready to correct anything unhealthy.

Remember, it is healthy to be at peace, to be humble, compassionate, and thankful, to have proper boundaries, and to be loving. It is healthy to rise to challenges, reach beyond risk, help, support and take care of those around you in a healthy way. Health is powerful to make everything about you healthy and strong.  Your work, your sports performance, you grades, your relationships, and your teamwork will all advance when you improve your health. And you will feel healthy about yourself.  Be strong and healthy.