We all like the idea of healing, healing is synonymous with wellness, we want to live the best life we can live. We wanna feel our best,and look our best. We want the energy to do the things that bring us joy, we want to be able to do the things that earn us income and provide for our families. There are different ways that we can heal we can heal, physically from an illness or we can heal our bodies from strenuous activity by resting, we can heal ourselves with calmness or meditation, and we can heal ourselves from past emotional trauma and experiences through therapy. However another part that I never really considered. Not really, not deeply and that’s prevention.
Healing from a long-term illness ,healing from the loss of a loved one, healing from the end of a marriage or saying goodbye to a chapter of our lives whether good or bad. The opposite of healing is harmful or causing harm. The Hippocratic oath states and I’m paraphrasing here, but basically that the physician will do no harm. But what if we were to take a Hippocratic oath about the care of ourselves would we drink, would we smoke? Would we stay up late? Would we eat at Taco Bell? Would we stay in a relationship that wasn’t good for us? Would we continue to work a job that caused us incredible amounts of stress? Would we go into debt? Would we drive recklessly?
i’ve been thinking a lot lately about the harm that we do to ourselves. I’ve been reading about certain conditions, such as arthritis, and how yes some of it is genetic, but some of it can be caused by the things that we put into our body or the way that we move our bodies or don’t move our bodies or the amount of weight that we carry or don’t carry. The kinds of food that we eat, the things that we drink, the drugs that we take,the places we go, the environment of our homes. The stress that we were under all of these things play a role in our health as to our genetics so what about prevention? What if we had to swear a hippocratic oath for the care of ourselves, what would we change?
I don’t have all the answers. I don’t really have any answers what I have is a thought, an idea a perspective, to look at the flipside of our lives our responsibility for us. It’s not just health it’s finances, relationships, religion, politics, society, the environment and all the areas of our life, and what we do about it, how we choose to spend our time, where we go, what we do, who we do it with, and what we put into our bodies all play a role in our overall care of ourselves and if we were under that oath could we honestly say that we do no harm?
Just a thought,thanks for listening!
Patsy
I am definitely struggling from inactivity, much of it not of my own doing, but nonetheless, there are things I could do that I am not. I thought I was close to getting started, but never followed through 🙁
I am also definitely grieving from the loss of my old life, and not doing anything to address it. I was not what I would call a VERY active person, but I was as active or more than most. I went out and did things a fair amount, worked hard, etc. Still struggling with how to both process and adapt to most of that being taken away from me.
I at least am mostly good about what I put into my body, very little sugar, just in my coffee and a moderate dessert every night. Eat a lot of fruit, and love veggies, very little fast food, unless you count Chinese food once a week 😉 Try to keep my protein intake up and unlike for most, keeping my weight UP is the focus
Thanks for the new post hon💖💖
I have noticed a big change myself since I stopped working outside the home. When I was working on a typical day, I would get 10,000 steps or more. Definitely something I wanna get better about in the next few months.