One of the first places people look when they are trying find ways to be healthier is their diet. The diet is a good place to start when looking to improve a person’s overall fitness, from every angle. Obviously what we eat makes us fat and sick, or it helps us to maintain a good level of fitness. Some of the food we put into our bodies is not really food at all. It is packaged as food and consumed as food but it does nothing for our bodies that food is supposed to do. A healthy diet is one that is geared towards keeping a consistent supply of fuel going into the body to meet all of its internal and external needs. The fuel that we put into our bodies needs to contain vitamins, minerals, protein, grains, and starches. This is taught to us in elementary school, but the lesson stops short of explaining the need to space out the intake of this fuel in a reasonable way so that we burn it as efficiently as possible. A good diet will help us do all the things that we want to do and still allow us to have enough energy to do the things we enjoy doing.
While it was very helpful to be taught the importance of a balanced diet in school, there is the other lesson that most of us learn as we grow: Man cannot live on food alone. Man and woman cannot live without food, but it takes more than food to sustain a life that thrives. Our bodies are a big part of what we are, but they are not all there is to who we are. Our total health depends on nourishing every part of ourselves. There are physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional sides to every person. Every part of us is individual and separate, but is still affected by the state of each of the other parts. That explains why we can become physically sick when we are emotionally upset. Likewise, when our bodies are in peril, our minds suffer as greatly or even greater than our bodies will.
Our minds, bodies, and souls are made up of:
The foods we eat. Nourish your body with all it asks for because that is all it needs.
The things we see. Only allow into your sight what you are willing to accept into your body.
The experiences we cherish. Our souls are fed by the love we give and how it returns to fill us.
The energy we share. Our energy is limitless and therefore can never run out. The more of it we share, the quicker it is replenished.
The passion within us. Every other part of us will suffer if we allow ourselves to go forward without indulging ourselves with everything that ignites the passion we were born with.
To really live a healthy life style it is necessary to acknowledge every pang of hunger that comes from within us, not only those that come from our bellies.
