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Alright, so did you come up with an idea of what health and wellness mean to you?
Does it align with anything you’ve been told or shown to be healthy?
No big deal, but I would have been surprised if it did.
We’ve all seen this image of a young woman, in yoga clothes standing on a mountain top in a Warrior Pose. This is what healthy and well looks like, right?
This is not my idea of health, and if I didn’t have my very own definition, I might think that I could never be healthy because I am not a young woman, I don’t particularly enjoy doing yoga, and I am sure I don’t look hot in yoga clothes! I guess I can never be healthy!
That being said, I would love to hear what you’ve come up with- you might have discovered both the Fountain of Youth and The Holy Grail all rolled into one!
But if an individual has no clear understanding of what he is trying to accomplish, or even why for that matter, how can he achieve it?
Perhaps this is why so many wind up worse off than had they just let themselves go to seed!
How can one become what he cannot imagine?
How would one know that he achieved it, without knowing what it is?
Is it possible that there is this whole industry called “Health and Wellness”, and nobody knows what that it is?
To some, health and wellness means not being sick.
To others, healthy is getting all of your shots, getting all of your screens, and taking your medication.
For others still, it might be seeing the chiropractor, going to the gym, and eating only organic foods.
To just say a person should be healthy can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Think of all the videos, books, and podcasts telling you how you need to be healthy when nobody knows what health and wellness is, or what that means to you.
In our office, the definition of health and wellness can be summed up in a single-word concept…, adaptation– the ability to adapt.
Health and wellness is not a static state, where one is now and forever bulletproof to all challengers and challenges.
Try it sometime, tell life that you are now fully healthy, well, and impervious to all!!!
Life will look at you and say, “Oh yeah? Prove it!!!”
And look out…, you’ll sure wish you could adapt!
It is dynamic and driven by one’s self-determination to survive better and better each day, to evolve and grow as he confronts challenges and amends his course as necessary to follow his bliss.
This is witnessed in the evolutionary course of the human body itself over the eons, adapting and evolving on a survival course.
It is the adaptations one makes as he works to survive that bring about the health and wellness he expresses, and explains why people who live in different corners of the world, eat different food, hold different beliefs and practices can all be healthy.
They learn and they adapt and they survive better and better, adapting not only themselves to the environment, but the environment itself for better survival, survival of course being the reason for health and wellness in the first place.
Perhaps the joy of health and wellness is the bounty of paths and directions that seem available to those who are well, limited in number only as one believes himself to be growing older and more and more unhealthy.
Can one control the course of his destiny?
In a single-word concept…, yes- adaptation!
This is health and wellness.
At Paragon Chiropractic, our treatment programs and health recommendations are meant to help your body, mind, and spirit adapt for better and better survival.
As with all things, one’s health and wellness should have purpose and direction…, YOUR purpose and YOUR direction.
So there’s another cool thing about Paragon Chiropractic…, health and wellness care that will help you be healthy!
Take Care,
Dr. Dave
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