HLife | Healthy Living Redefined

Throughout our lives, we have been conditioned to believe that we are our body, our job, our name, etc…to believe that only the tangible is what is “real”. General concepts like health have been distorted and an incomplete picture has been painted, with a controlled, reductionist and limited point of view. We have noticed that when the majority of people think or talk about health, they associate and refer to it only with regards to food and the physical body. The confusion, and the reason that many people cannot achieve true health, real healing addressing the root of the situation, lies in the ignorant mentality that health is a term only applied to our physical body and only what we physically put in it can affect it.

First of all, health is a lifestyle. It is not something that just happens for 30 minutes in your kitchen or  for four hours after in your physical body. Health begins in the mind. The mind dictates, controls and affects the body continuously. We are a compendium of mind, spirit, soul, emotions, and body. Without our thoughts in our mind, and our soul and spirit to animate this body, what we see in the mirror would just be useless flesh. But we do need this body to navigate this experience we call “life”.  With all of this taken into account, health is a word that refers to and applies to our WHOLE Being. Eating right is  A PART of that journey of health, but it is not the complete picture or the whole truth. Healthy eating (aka “nutrition”)  is one aspect of what can contribute to your health. You can have good nutrition but if your thoughts are negative, your are not healthy. And this can be more harmful (to you, others and the planet) than any bad food you put in your system. If you are a positive person with a nutritious diet but you have emotional imbalances and outbursts even if you don’t totally show it in front of people, you are not healthy either. Having health means striving for and maintaining an optimal balance on ALL levels of the self – mind, body, emotions, soul and spirit.  You can eat “healthy” but feed your mind junk by having negative thoughts, taking in ugly images (movies/shows/books) or even by feeling negative emotions.

Health can only be attained through knowledge, understanding and love. This means that, in order to achieve health, we need to seek out information to understand what it is that we need to be healthy, and then apply what we have learned. This is true love – doing the work it requires to know, understand and then put into action the “right” things for your mind, body, and soul. This is what it’s all about – love for the self, for your cells, your spirit, your loved ones. Love will be the motivator as well, the fuel for wanting to seek the knowledge to understand what health is and how to attain and maintain it. Healthy living and consciousness go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other.

We need to understand the global, more clear picture of what health really is in order to embody it fully and not be confused as to why we still don’t feel well, even with a good diet. Health begins in your mind, and our thoughts and beliefs affect our choices in life. These decisions can either empower or hurt us, create a thriving internal environment or a hostile disease-promoting shell. Health is a holistic matter (see our About Us for FAQ on health and holism), one that encompasses all of you. Let’s make a conscious effort to understand the totality of our being and focus on maintaining health in the only way that it exists: In the order and harmony of your mind, body, and spirit.