English writer Thomas Fuller is widely quoted by this: HEALTH IS NOT VALUED UNTIL SICKNESS COMES. If nothing else, the recent Covid-19 Pandemic has revealed this to be true. We DON'T always appreciate our health WHEN we feel good BUT we miss it terribly WHEN we experience an illness. To be precise, the word 'HEALTH' can apply to different areas of our well-being: physical, emotional, mental, interpersonal and so on📗📙📘Knock on wood, if sickness hits us in any of these areas can cause our whole being to spiral into various levels of 'unwellness'. I DON'T want to speak like a medical expert but even as a layman, I believe you will agree that our goal should be to attain holistic health. I heard this a couple of time WHEREIN we put so much focus in other areas of our health BUT miss on one area we [wrongly] thought is immaterial💧💧💧 And experts concocted a coinage for this, tagging it as UNBALANCED EXISTENCE. Like we heed a specific call BUT we neglect the equally other important areas of our health. So, WHAT happens, for the sake of the call, many will abandon self-care and thus suffer the consequences of poor health. NOT to be cynical about this BUT like almost many others, it is unlikely that we will be inclined to change our habits UNLESS [knock on wood] we receive a 'SHOCK' BUT ISN'T it would be hundred times easier to change habits WITHOUT that 'SHOCK'? If only we can take and embrace this proposition, the importance and priority of our health will very likely shoot up💥💥💥 NOW let's dig deeper as to WHAT really is ailing many of us. It is important to remember that generally, people only CHANGE a habit IF they are prepared to give something up to make that CHANGE and this could be as perverse as seeking attention. This explains WHY global organizations have been creative enough, like 'incentivizing' health employees. Taking the 'Xtra' mile, in my latest organization, we even introduced yoga WHICH is proven to have a positive effect on health. And still farther down, even 101 sessions about financial managements come into play because an employee with sound 'financials' will likely have a greater 'peace of mind'😌😌😌 Our takeaway: There should be NO need for any sales pitch to accentuate the importance of our HEALTH because we would surely all agree that WHEN things go down south, it will be bad or critically bad enough for us. And NOT to scare, sometimes, the initial triggers are akin to those tectonic plates which will start off with slight movements until the intensity worsens. Over to our lives, WHEN we get hit with a HEALTH issue, there is always that probability that the problem will NOT only worsen BUT mother of all things, that problem can get compounded, causing a domino effect, with each domino in our life falling down until we run out of it. Dude, it's NEVER late to VALUE OUR HEALTH NOW as in NOW💚💛💜
