How is Your Health Account? Are You Among the Super-Healthy, the Walking-ill or the Lying Down Ill?
Check your health balance by reading the following descriptions.
The features of super-health are:
- Boundless energy - of course you get tired but it is a natural tiredness. You have the energy to do the things that you want to do, you work hard at those things and feel tired at the end of the day.
- Perspective on life - you feel satisfied with your life and the way that you are living it. What you do with your time has purpose and meaning for you. You don’t necessarily live in a perpetual ‘bed of roses’, you have trial the same as everyone else, but these trials don’t overwhelm you.
- Sharp mind - you are able to concentrate well, have a good memory, are able to understand and think well and you can learn new things.
- Positive outlook - you are optimistic about the future. You believe that you will be able to achieve the things that you want.
- Full of the joy of life - life is a pleasure for you, you enjoy the thing that you have to do and you have plenty of ‘fun’ in you life.
- Physically fit with a toned body - you eat well and have an aerobic, flexibility and strength exercise program that you work with as a part of your daily routine.
- Rarely or never ill - you don’t suffer from ill health and very rarely have colds or any other problems.
- Leading a full life - you have many commitments in your life but you have balance and time for yourself. Your energy and fitness mean that you feel in control and happy with what you are doing.
- Contented - you are happy with your life in all its areas and feel in control enough that you could work on changing things if this became necessary.
The features of the walking-ill are:
- Constant tiredness - you frequently feel drained and lacking in energy. Even if you don’t have to do a great deal on any particular day you still feel tired.
- Low concentration - you have difficulty focusing and completing tasks, your memory is not what it used to be and you sometimes find it difficult to understand and learn new things.
- Mood swings - you sometimes feel good but often you are depressed and anxious.
- Exhausted by exercise - you don’t feel you have the energy to start let alone stick to an exercise program and if you do try you are left feeling exhausted. As a consequence you are unfit
- Run down, frequently ill - you frequently have headaches, colds or flu, constipation or diarrhea, hay fever etc. You frequently need to take time of work.
- Easily overwhelmed - you get stressed easily and don’t feel in control of what is happening in your life. You frequently feel that there isn’t enough time for you to do things.
- Flabby - because have little chance to exercise and are unfit you are not as toned as you would like to be and you find that you put on weight very easily.
- Dissatisfied - you life is not heading in the direction that you would like and you are not satisfied with yourself and many aspects of your life.
The features of the lying down ill are:
- Chronic fatigue and exhausted - you are barely able to find the energy to do the basics in life. You feel drained and even if you are able to rest all day you don’t feel any better.
- Constant aches and pains - your joints and muscles ache and you often have other pains as well. These pains could be migraines, menstrual cramps or back aches, etc.
- Chronic depression - you feel down most of the time and are pessimistic about your future. You do not feel that you have much control over what is happening to you.
- Unable to exercise - you do not have the energy and you have too much pain or are too ill to be able to exercise.
- Incapacitated by illness - you have at least one major illness which prevents you from doing many of the things that you would like to do.
- ‘life is hard work’, ‘life is against me’ - you find things in life difficult to cope with and that there is little that you can control.
- Despairing - you feel there is little left in life for you.
Where are you? Are you in super-health? Are you among the walking-ill or the lying down ill? A great number of people fall into the walking-ill category - lacking in enthusiasm and energy for life. Many also come into the lying down ill - chronically exhausted, depressed and incapacitated by ill health.If you are in the walking-ill category how would it be to sit comfortably and consistently in the super-health category - full of both energy in the body and mind?
If you are in the lying down ill category how would it be to feel more energy and enthusiasm and live longer and healthier and as free from disease as possible?
You can do these things if you have the ‘know how’ and the willingness to work on improving your health. If you are in the walking-ill or the lying down ill categories then you need to make improving your health a priority - so that you can live your life to its fullest.
