For some people, it's a New Year's resolution. For others, it's impending nuptials, a big life event. Maybe it's a scary diagnosis of your own or a friend or relative. Sometimes it's a long thought out process, even when it seems more of a spur of the moment pledge, the decision to be healthy usually comes after good thought out consideration.
What exactly plants the seed of possibility?
Who and what figures into the picture as we go over the thought process in our minds and think about how our health could be?
Where do we end up inspired to finally make a change?
Ultimately, the path that we each take is/was different.
For some of us, the urge could be bought on by the memory of having been very healthy at one time in our lives and the desire to get back to that level of activity and enjoyment was at the forefront of your mind. Perhaps we've felt plagued by obesity or poor health concerns as long as we can remember but ultimately cling to the idea that life can be more after all. Possibly you've always enjoyed good health and fitness but wanted to take it to the next level after a fresh bout of motivation spurred on by competitiveness, new information or a different perspective made us think differently about how we went about achieving things.
More than likely the common factor in all our journeys is that lingering feeling and concluding acceptance that we are not living the life we ultimately want and that we could do better for ourselves.
Whatever the reason we finally begin to value ourselves more highly and see that our physical health goes hand in hand with what we have to experience and offer in this life. Finally it hits us; if we want to be healthy - we must make the decision to be healthy. Coming to this realisation is a turning point when our desire becomes more than a lofty goal, the decision we make for health becomes the way we live.
This is the beauty of making a decision over a set in stone goal. A goal is something that you wish to attain, a point of future success, it implies an end point. Of course you will have to work hard and be dedicated to achieve this goal, but the focus is often on a future fixed point. A decision is present resolve that permeates every moment, starting with the here and now. It's not an image of success that we project our desires onto, it's what we make of each day we're living on this earth.
A decision ultimately shapes a lifestyle.
Ahh... I love the power that making a decision has over our lives. When you make a decision to lead a healthy life, you don't put a goal at the centre, you put yourself at the centre. You situate your beautiful self at the core of your life and there is no straying from that. No excuse will change it or overturn it, because you have put yourself and your concept of health at the absolute centre, the heart of your life. That's when it dawns on you -
Your health and wellness (the balance, the energy, the vitality it brings) is a vital centre that supports every aspect of your life and self.
I believe this is the critical step that makes a difference for so many of us. Most of the time it's not so much learning new or more information, but seeing it with fresh eyes, seeing health from a new vantage point, it's seeing health from the heart centre rather than some distant pining observer. You can now begin to build support around that decision, add things and people to your life that reinforce the decision. You can begin to weave the way you live day-to-day into that remarkable choice, the decision to be, to live, healthy.
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