If we don't make time for health, we will end up having to make time for illness. Instead, we may take health for granted, until it’s too late.
Learning to self-care
When we talk about things, we are learning to self-care. We don’t always think about, or talk about health in that way, or do self-care. Self-care needs to happen, if we are to have good mental and emotional health.
Making time for wellness
We should make time for wellness, so that we don't have to make time for illness. We should think about the way we want to live. Unless we address mental health, it can eventually interfere with how we live our lives. We don't think about illness, in the same way we don't think about mental health or death.
Illness and Mortality
Illness, like mortality is important, if we are to think about better lives. If we don't work on a better quality of life, we may end up having to make time for illness. None of us will escape illness, but living a better quality of life means we potentially can make less time for illness.
It also means that if we do get ill, we should recover quicker.
Unhappy about my weight, I decided to change my diet a few months ago. My attitude improved, but my weight stayed the same. It could be that drifting from the produce section to the candy aisle, is the problem.
So, I have to face the fact that I must make better decisions concerning my health or make time for illness, which is not an option.
Thanks Tim. Yes, illness isn't an option, but understanding our mental and emotional has to be an option.
Our inability to cope with issues like weight, is tied to our emotional and mental health. We're more likely to put on weight when our lives change, when something happens and we emotionally lose control.
The pandemic has thrown a spanner into the works. There is research out there that supports what I write about here. Our buying habits have changed, our eating habits have changed, but fundamentally we have changed.
We're coping less and turning to vices to help us through. When you look at the whole there are other reasons too, the political landscapes for one. Once we understand what's happening to us, we can take control.
It is important we concentrate on what's important to us and block everything else out. The less we venture out of our homes the better. The more we're exposed to the pandemic, the more stressed we become, the more we turn to those vices.
Keeping on top of my own health in these difficult times is something I also struggle with, made worse because I deal with autism.