Take responsibility for our health

What does that mean?

First of all, to understand how my body reacts in which situations and why.

What is health Where does disease begin and where does health end?

Everyone has a different stability when it comes to health. And yet we all have the same prerequisites.

We therefore have the same prerequisites, since we are all equipped with an intelligent “system”.

Our self-healing power.

What does that mean?

This means that body, mind and soul form a unit and when this unit is in balance, we feel healthy.

Of course, we all try to maintain our health and do everything we can to ensure that:

  • Healthy eating,
  • Sports,
  • pay attention to the latest findings in medicine,
  • may be taking nutritional supplements on a regular basis, etc.

It is also right that we take care of our health.

But let's not forget the unity of body, soul and spirit!

What good is a healthy diet if we become dependent on it?

That is, if we think we can use it to keep diseases away from us.

Isn't it often the case that a world collapses for us when we learn of a "serious illness" that surprised us because we "did not expect something like this"?

Isn't this an indication that the equilibrium has become very unstable with the attitude that I do everything for my health and often “only” have “physical” health in mind?

Let us try to shape our everyday life in such a way that we have a good balance between action and calm and we address our mind and soul equally.

If I work on the PC all day, then body, mind and soul can relax better with a walk in the forest in the evening than in the studio with all the technical refinements.

Who still knows today that when we walk briskly in nature, we appeal to most of the muscles that were "short" over the course of the day. Too "short" in the truest sense of the word. Because of the sedentary work, the tendons, ligaments and muscles are not supplied with blood as needed and so the old adage applies: "If you rest, you rust."

Or who still knows today which forces are at work in a tree that we could use.

In our modern world of work and at home too, we are often exposed to radiation that we no longer register, but our body “forgets” nothing!

Here, hugging a tree or strengthening our “pillar of life” by leaning against a tree trunk can help us to ground ourselves or “come down” again.

Let us think of the fresh air that we breathe when we run out of breath (e.g. by brisk walking) or doing a few breathing exercises. The diaphragm is addressed by deep breathing, so the peritoneum is trained and the large intestine is stimulated.

At the same time we train the pelvic muscles, the sphincter muscles of the bladder and intestines.

If we try to focus our attention on the rolling of the feet and the breathing, the thoughts can let go.

Let us be inspired in nature!

Let's take the time to watch a bee or a bumblebee or “accompany” a bird on its flight.

Or let's try to imitate a bird call and then listen to how the bird world reacts to it.

And let's go through nature alone again, so that nobody can distract us and we arrive at ourselves.

Let's do something new:

  • Yoga
  • Qigong
  • Tai qi
  • Or everything that we have learned in the many courses. Let's practice outdoors!

Singing, dancing, laughing ...

There is so much you could do if you took just a little care of yourself and took responsibility for your own health back into your own hands.

For the venous system, “kicking the dew” in the early morning in the grass is a good exercise instead of “lead foot” on the accelerator.

How about leaving the car behind and taking the train?

Get off one station earlier and then walk a bit.

I could bring many more suggestions, but I'm sure that your imagination has received enough suggestions and that your own ideas are just gushing out!

What I would like to say at the end is to take responsibility for health again with our minds.

If our car stops because we ignored all the warning signals, it goes without saying that we understood: It had to happen that way! Why didn't I respond earlier?

And so our body keeps sending us feedback! But if we constantly try to suppress this with medication, we need not be surprised if we then “end up” physically and mentally in a “burn-out”.

If we need a “light sleeping pill” in the evening, because otherwise we won't be able to fall asleep quickly and easily, then it won't be long before we need a “wake up pill” in the morning to get a good start to everyday life.

We humans are not machines that have to be kept running constantly with input, but we have received such a wonderful intelligence and a gift for feelings that we are allowed to use.

If I can't get some rest after watching a TV show in the late evening and can't fall asleep at the push of a button, that's "normal"!

Some of us are still so busy with the topic that we still need time to process it.

How about a few breathing exercises in front of the open window, or even a short walk?

Of course I understand that it is often too late for that, in the truest sense of the word, but then only one thing helps: think about when to press the button that is guaranteed to give me a good night!