For months we have been watching revolutions around the world but author Alex Pattakos has written a new book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, talks about the revolution within, that is our personal revolution for health & wellbeing – ‘wellness’. He recently wrote an article in the Huffington Post on this issue.
This is true healthcare reform – a real viable alternative to rising healthcare costs in our society. Declining health trends with increased chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers and chronic immune diseases are becoming the norm and in first world countries have reached epidemic proportions.
Lifestyle factors including poor life-work balance, poor movement and postural habits, poor diet, poor exercise habits, poor emotional/mental health attitudes, the inability to listen to ones own body rhythms have all added up to poorer longterm health and increasing morbidity as we age.
We are now realising though, that there is much that we can do to improve our health and wellbeing – in our eating, exercise, breathing, mental and treatment habits which will improve our wellness and decrease the propensity for pain, sickness and disease.
Certainly, here at Sydney Ostepathic Medicine, we are seeing just as many people coming in, not just for osteopathic treatment for their pain, but for treatment to enhance their wellbeing. People are seeking osteopaths to help recalibrate their autonomic nervous system and help improve their coping strategies, their movement and posture habits; to help them sleep better, focus more and to feel more vital and vibrant within their bodies.
For 20 to 30 minutes virtually everday you need to be doing some aerobic activity …. enough to bring on the sweat. Each day you need to eat a little less processed food and get more fruit and veges into your diet. You need get off the computer screen at least 30 minutes before bedtime. You need to attend your annual medicals and get your manual treatment routine that optimises your health … It is important that you get your body out of a sickness routine and into a wellness routine.
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