How Much do You Value YourHealth?

What do you value?People will spend all sorts of money, time, and energy on things they deem important.Do you really like that cup of coffee and muffin from the coffee shop?You will spend $5 plus per day, $25 per week, $100 per month, $1200 plus per year just to have a coffee and a muffin. You say it’s more convenient, but you are probably spending at least an extra ten minutes to drive there and pick it up.This is over 40 hours per year plus gas.A week of work. Each of us has the right to spend our hard-earned money and extra time how we choose.But when someone tells me they do not have the time or money to improve their health I would dare to suggest that you are not being honest with yourself.It is more honest to simply say that you do not value your health as much as a daily trip to the coffee shop.

In our fast paced and over stimulated lives, our bodies and mind put up all kinds of mental and physical blockers as subconscious survival mechanisms and we lose body awareness.As such, often your health takes a back seat to all the other things you value most. If pain, poor function and or mental stresses can be numbed by popping a pill they are often ignored.For many of us it isn’t until our poor health interferes with our quality of life that we finally choose to act.

Have you heard of the phrase “touch and go”?That is the term used by airplane pilots when they are practicing their take offs and landings.They take off, circle round, land and then without stopping take off again.Often, people will take this approach with their health care. They start, stop, start, stop again, never really taking advantage of building a momentum of healing by reaching cruising altitude.Yet they use huge amounts of energy and effort to circle back to start all over again.

Most people seek health care to improve the quality of their lives.Some may only be focused on pain management; others want to increase function.But in the end, they just want to be able to:get a good night sleep or eat a good meal without feeling sick or play with their children and grandchildren or swing the golf club or go out on the town etc.These are the things we value.If we start by making a commitment to ourselves to engage in daily and weekly strategies to improve our physical and mental health you will be amazed at how much money, time, and energy you will save.

Whether that happens through self-help strategies such as increasing exercise, improving your diet or learning to meditate; or needing to frequently visit a health practitioner or therapist.Just like the plane, your body needs to create momentum by doing that healthy activity several times per week if not daily.

Like an airplane engine reaching higher altitude, your body works much more efficiently when it reaches a higher level of health.

So, what do you value most?I can almost guarantee that having a higher state of health will allow you to enjoy those things to the fullest!

James DiGiuseppe is a local chiropractor with a busy family and wellness practice.For more health information or to contact Dr. DiGiuseppe visit: www.portarthurchiropractic.com