Mastering Your Health is a Journey
Just when you have everything in your journey or life figured out, something comes along and changes everything. This is why your health is a journey and not a destination. You will always have more work to do because life changes quickly.
All parts of your health are a journey, whether it be spiritual, mental, or physical. Everyone’s journey is also unique, so yours will not look the same as other people's. Try not to compare other journeys to yours.
Health is also evolving, so you will need to make changes to your life and routines as life changes. You can master your health, but you need to be willing to work and put in the effort every day. Good health is also a process from the very start.
Enjoying the Journey
The journey might be hard sometimes, but you need to make sure you are making space to enjoy it and appreciate it. Even if you have mastered your health, you might still find yourself making choices that are not ideal such as making poor food choices or skipping exercise routines for a few days or weeks.
Once you have fallen out of a routine, it can be very hard to get back into it. That’s why you always need to push yourself and make sure you are not falling out of routines. If you are, you need to make sure you get back onto your feet as soon as possible.
No matter what, enjoy the journey though. Even if you have aimed to eat healthily, you also need to have days where you enjoy meals including dessert and snacks. This is part of enjoying life. You also need to learn to enjoy the ups and downs of life.
If you are only concentrating on the ups of life and let yourself get down when life throws things your way, you can find yourself stuck in a rut. Even when less than ideal things come into life, try to take a deep breath and enjoy each day as it comes.
Understanding Your Journey
Your journey will look different than everyone else’s. This is because we are all unique and special in our own ways. That means you need to always look inward when understanding your journey and the way it happens.
When you fall along with hardship or something else that might put a roadblock in your journey, you need to stop and think about why these things are happening and what you can do to overcome them sooner. Each part of your journey is a process.
Remember that you also need to learn new things during your journey. Each hardship will teach you something you need to know about your life or as a person. Hardships might also teach you something you need to know about other people to help them in their experiences or issues.
Everything is Connected
Just as the body is connected and all works together, your journey to health is also connected. One thing can affect other parts, whether it be good or bad. Understanding that everything is connected can help you to become whole and heal. As your mental health becomes whole, your physical and spiritual health will also be one step closer to being whole as well.
Setting goals will also show you that everything is connected because it will show you how accomplishing one goal leads you closer and closer to the next goal.
Don’t Think About Failure
Since you have learned that health is a journey and there will be hardships, you might be thinking that failure is inevitable. This is not true though and failure is not synonymous with hardships.
You will encounter many different hardships and trials, but this does mean you will fail.
When hardship comes along, don’t immediately think that failure is the next step. Just take each step and day as it comes and enjoy the ride. Remember that failure will only happen if you allow it. And if you happen to fail at one part of the journey, this does not mean you will fail at the entire journey. As long as you get up and keep moving, you can be sure you will succeed.
Keep Self Care Practices and Routines
As part of your health journey, you will need to make sure you are keeping your routines and self-care. If you don’t keep the practices during your hardships and trials, you will find that succeeding is much harder.
Self-care also involves reflecting and doing something you love during hardships. This can be anything from reading to swimming to doing a facial or a massage. This will help you to work through the problem at hand and realize concrete solutions that can get you past the hump and on the other side.
This is also part of why having people in your corner is super important in overcoming hardships. If you are feeling like you might be close to failure, you need to make sure you are reaching out to your support group and asking them for help. Share your feelings and fears and see how they can advise you.