What is Christian Health and Wellness?
Wellness refers to the condition of good physical and mental health, especially when maintained by proper diet, spiritual activities, exercise, and habits. Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes. But do we know if we are really well? How do we tell? The first place to start would be with the examination of your eating habits. Since we are a product of what we eat, if our eating habits are unhealthy, or do not provide for the nutrition we need, we’re not going to be healthy individuals in the long run.
Do you take in more calories than your body needs? Are you supplementing with vitamins and minerals to make sure you are getting your recommended daily allowances? If you’re not making the most basic of efforts to take care of your nutritional needs, you aren’t a well individual. You may not look sick, you may not have any noticeable symptoms of ill-health, but you’re not the well individual you could be and sooner or later it will take it’s toll on you.
Next, you might want to look at your exercise habits, if there are any. If there aren’t any exercise routines to examine, no wellness. Everyone, no matter what their age, benefits from exercise. It keeps our bodies conditioned, our mental sharpness working at top speed, and thanks to the physical aspect, we get a boost to our cardio health, extra calorie burn, and more oxygen to those cells!
Then there is spiritual health. We know from the Bible that everything that is seen began from that which is not seen. That means that what’s going on outside of us is a direct reflection of what is happening inside of us. Our negative thoughts and limiting beliefs most definitely affect our health and wellness. If we are not spending time with God or filling our hearts and minds with the word of God, it will be difficult to offset the negative pulls of our outer environment. Therefore taking care of ourselves spiritually is often more important than what we can do physically, because a healthy spirit will result in physical habits that promote health and wellness. You will see that many of the Christian weight loss programs on my website deal a lot with our mind and spirit instead of focusing on making physical changes.
What about the stress levels in your life? Do work in an environment with high levels of stress? Is your personal life a source of comfort or does it add to your stress levels? Do you engage in some form of stress-relieving activity? Stress is the number on contributor to heart attacks and strokes, since they manage to speed up the affect of the real culprits. Stress is basically an out of control situation for most adults today. We manage to schedule every moment of our free time, and leave ourselves with no time for quiet reflection, or time to deal with life’s unexpected emergencies.
If you push yourself until the point of exhaustion or don’t take time regularly to re-group, re-center, and re-evaluate your life, most likely you’re living my default. Wellness is about living your bliss by tuning into your authentic self and taking the time to hear God and your inner spirit.
There are so many occasions to stop and question our efforts at maintaining optimal health, that we usually don’t even take the time to begin the examination. But it is beneficial to our overall health, the quality and quantity of our life, to make every effort to be well, healthy, individuals.
On Christian Health Online, my desire is to integrate the mental, spiritual, and physical aspects of health so that we are treating the whole person. Jesus said, when one member of the body suffers, the whole body suffers, therefore, we must look at health and wellness holistically and treat out bodies (including our minds and spirit) as the entire being that it is.
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Blessing,
Rhonda Jones
