Do you clean your house just to keep the dirt from showing? Do you eat just to shovel in nutrients, or do you enjoy the way your favorite foods taste? Do you maintain a relationship just to have someone else’s backside make a divot in the couch next to you? Do you pay attention to your health only when it is going downhill? The depth and quality of your relationships, health, and life depends entirely upon you.
Trudging through life like it is a chore is a waste of time. Your attitude makes all the difference. As a chiropractor, I observe people in my office who hurry through their days to get home, only to hurry through feeding their families, getting the kids to bed, then becoming a tube zombie for the evening. Then they start the whole process again the next day. At some point, these people’s bodies rebel against them. Their backs start to ache, they fall and injure themselves, or they wake up with excruciating neck pain. These incidences seem like just more proof that life is tedium, just an obstacle to get through.
I have a different perspective. When you feel aches and pains, realize that your body is sending you a signal to wake up! Smell the roses! Take a walk, spend an afternoon building something with your kids. Take care of yourself, and those you love, because you enjoy it. The healthiest people I know are those who maintain their health before it starts to crumble. Instead of playing catch up, they stay ahead of the game. They wake up ready to conquer whatever comes their way. When they do get an injury (probably from playing ultimate Frisbee or climbing mountains), they accept the challenge and get to doing what needs doing in order to heal.
When you ignore those you love, they drift away from you. The same thing happens to your health. The funny thing is, when you start really taking care of yourself by making proactive decisions about diet and exercise, then the rest of your life gets better. Visit your chiropractor before you feel aches and pains. Get your health up and running, and maintain it!
Live your life to its fullest. Nobody else can do it for you.
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