Defining Healthy

It is exciting to see myself increasing my activity and focusing more on a healthy diet; what is healthy though?  I feel that the definition of healthy is an individual definition.  Each person has their own goals and they may or may not coincide with what other views of health is, but it is their goals and they need to be completed.
What are your goals?  What is your definition of health?  How ready are you to work on these goals?  How confident are you that you can succeed and meet your goals?  These are all questions each of us must ask.

For myself, healthy is the ability to enjoy life, play with my kids, go out hiking, maybe be able to play Softball again.  For me, I want to feel stronger, more able to do what needs to be done and what I want to do, and less about actual weight.  I guess my thoughts are though, to get healthier, I need to drop some of the weight.  Do I feel I need to get down to my "ideal" weight, no, because when I am actually at my ideal weight, I get sick again.  My body feels really good around 160 ish lbs.  I have to work with myself to find the point in which I feel good enough to live my life without trying to fit some category of health that may not work for me.

Right now, I am feeling stronger.  I am walking more, trying new exercising, and watching my caloric intake closer.  I feel good, taking my medications like I am supposed to.  All of this makes it so I can continue on my path to health.  Along the way, I will learn more about myself, my passions, my values, and what drives me.  For me, health is not just about the physical body, but about the emotional and spiritual as well.  They are all intertwined; an in balance in any of these parts of the whole can throw the whole person spiralling.  So my focus is on how I feel, my relationship with my Higher Power, my relationship with others, and my relationship with the Earth/environment. 

I strive for my relationships to be as healthy as possible.  The twins have been taught from an early age about keeping healthy and how to accomplish this to the best of my knowledge.  I do hope that they come out better in communicating than I did; that it won't take 41 years for them to begin to understand themselves and how to communicate in a non-aggressive and healthy way without opening themselves up to attack. 

Keeping the Earth healthy will in turn help me stay healthy.  There is a saying, and I don't remember where I heard it or who said it, but if you take care of the Earth, she will take care of you.  I believe that.  The Earth has an amazing capacity for healing herself.  After many millenniums, the Earth is still here, yet generations of biological entities have roamed the Earth, died out, and new entities have been born to continue the cycle.  Through it all, the Earth heals the damage done and continues to produce life in all forms.  She is truely amazing. Again, what is your definition of health? What are your goals? Visualize how you will feel when you are healthy; it will happen.