Several of my refelctions on attempting to be healthy, what it has implied to me before, and what it means to me right now. What does staying healthy imply to you?
Today I look forward to talk about the word healthy. Or the meaning of being healthy. In 2020, what does the definition of healthy even suggest?
I used to conceive that health was one way and one attempt only. I was unconsciously masked by my own fascination of orthorexia, anorexia and binging. I conceived eating clean was the unparalleled process. I charachterized foods as bad and good. I ate the same things every single day for years. I measured everything. I regulated due to most of my life felt so out of regulation. I worked out every single day for at least an hour. I weighed myself excessively.
For years, I thought that all of this was healthy owing to I was slim, ate nutrient rich food and exercised. How I was strangely incorrect.
Reminiscing, I can observe how detrimental I was to both myself and my bonds with people all reason being I simply attempted be “healthy”. I didn’t allow myself some knowledge owing to it interfered with how I believed I attempted live.
Not only did I have these disputes, but I also negatively perceived others for their preferences when it came to choice of nutrients and physical activity. Never out loud, but occasionally in my head. It was incorrect.
Nowadays are much divergent. My views of what determines trying to be healthy has modified and I’m finally in this zone of harmony, which I never accepted would be conceivable. I’ve also evolved quite a bit, adapted compassion, trained how to be kinder in thought, and loved myself harder. The last detail is specially important as practicing to love and be considerate to myself brought me to love and believe others. I could connect and sympathize.
I’m not sure if you’ll agree, but I guess that most of our contexts of attempting to be healthy have alternated especially over the years.
Society and the media are continually contributing us with countless information on how to eat, studies on what to flee from, and how to live the most awesome lives possible. Our fascination on attempting to be the healthiest, liveliest humans all the time is too much and can even be detrimental to our general well-being. Every so often we forget that health has more than one meaning.
These are just a few cases of “trying to be healthy”:
• A tri-athlete is known to be healthy.
• A person who exercises 3x a week is considered to be healthy.
• Indulging in dessert can be included in a nutrient balanced diet.
• Green smoothies are a healthy, nutritious snack or breakfast.
• Engaging in yoga is a stress calming route of health.
There are too many black and white ideas of what attempting to be healthy implies and so I challenge you to contemplate outside of what’s comfortable to you. To admit others perspective of what health implies to them and the happiness it can bring to their lives. Let it be green smoothies or acai bowls, running followed by pizza on the weekends, early morning yoga or making time for themselves; each person is authentic and so is the description of health.