7 Simple Steps to Natural Health & Wellbeing

 
Natural health doesn't mean you have to live on alfalfa and lentils and wear a kaftan or live in a teepee in the forest!  It's actually a way of keeping yourself and your back healthy and strong so you can get the most from life.

Nor is it hard to acquire the skills and knowledge to build and maintain your natural health, although you can't buy it over the counter at the drugstore.

But when you get it right, you don't need drugs - you'll feel great - naturally!

Learning to Listen To Your Body

No, we don't mean the rumbles in your stomach or the creaking in your joints! Imagine you have learned to listen to your body, so you instinctively understand what it needs and how to look after yourself.

So when it whispers "one more chocolate is fine" or shouts out "stop the junk food now!" you pay attention.

It's actually not hard to learn this so you understand what your body needs so it works best for you.

Keeping A Focus On Your Health

Healthy and vital people have learned the practices to keep themselves that way.
Would you like to learn how how you can get well when you do get sick and how to take on a set of healthy “habits” that move you steadily towards vitality?

It's really not that hard and often its pretty obvious, like the choices between:

- a mars bar or an apple

- a short walk or hopping in the car

- the thick shake or an orange juice

Watching Out For Health Traps & Nasties

What are "health traps"?
They are the things that you assume are good for you and probably don't think about too much - we also call them "health nasties".

They work against your natural health and wellbeing, even though you might think they're doing you good. You probably read about them - stories about how things you and most other people thought were good for your health turn out in fact to be unhealthy.

We encourage you to think carefully about how you use the mainstream healthcare system to your advantage and to consider alternatives where you can.

It might sound contradictory, but in our opinion, your best chance of long term health and wellbeing comes from looking after your own health, staying out of the health system and avoiding "health nasties".

So How Healthy Are You Today?

Have you spent years and years living a damaging lifestyle?
Did you have a lifestyle that you thought was good, but you've been eating predominantly processed foods, or food rich in sugar or heavy in fat?

Are you now noticing a fall off in your energy levels or fitness and thinking "Gee, I used to be able to do that but I can't now"?

Can You Do The Things You Want?

You might be experiencing a decline in your physical capabilities and quality of life. Have you been sick more often, or suffered mechanical failures in your body? You may say that you are ‘surprised’ or that is ‘unlucky.

Actually, it’s neither a surprise, nor bad luck, it’s just an inevitable outcome if you have been neglecting your natural health.

Here's Some Good News!

What happens if you have spent a large part of your life eating badly, not exercising and taking drugs instead of letting your body heal naturally?
Then you change your habits and you say, "OK this is it!" and you start building up your good habits - healthy eating, shed some weight, get fitter and drop bad habits.

Are you able to repair the damage and achieve natural health?

You will be pleased to know the answer – it's “Yes”.

The good news is that your body has an amazing ability to heal itself, provided the damage is not too great. As soon as you improve your behaviour and make lifestyle changes, you make a difference to your health from that point on.

The effects might not be visible right away, but your body is healing itself and the time to see improvements can be remarkably short.

7 Simple Steps To Natural Health & Wellbeing

Here's what we say in the HealthIQ ebook.

1) Have the intention to be well - give yourself every chance of this.

2) Remember your mind and body are one – you need to keep both healthy.

3) Eat fresh, natural foods, especially fruit, vegetables and nuts.

4) Minimise your intake of all drugs and chemicals.

5) Exercise regularly - 30 minutes at least 3 times per week.

6) Educate yourself about health and wellbeing.

7) View your body as an energy system and discover which energy practices work for you.

The 7 steps are explained in detail in the book where a set of practices are described. You can use these together with diary worksheets to enable you to take on the 7 steps in your daily life.

Find Out How Yoga Can Help You

The benefits of yoga are well documented and wide ranging. If you stick at it you can expect your body to become stronger and much more flexible, which means you are less likely to accidentally injure yourself.
Yoga also stimulates and massages your internal organs helping them to function properly and stay healthy.

It also helps your mind to become more settled and clear. The calmness this brings helps in itself to reduce stress and niggling illnesses. Read more about yoga

Learn About Your Energy System

So you might be thinking - this is starting to sound a bit weeeiiiird??!
Energy fields - next we'll be warping through space and time, Jedi sword fights, Darth Vader . . hey beam me back to planet Earth Scotty!

Well, your energy field is actually a physical reality. Without getting too technical, physics describes a Universe made of energy at the fundamental level.

As such this energy integral to all aspects of our life processes - how your physical body operates, the state of your emotions, the workings of your mind, and your spiritual life.

The energy in this field is active and intelligent and provides the connection, between the Universal energy field and the physical world that we live in.

The energy fields in your body drive its physical behaviour and disturbances in this energy field typically appear as physical illnesses.

This energy can be treated and manipulated by trained practitioners. Reiki is one example of an energy treatment and there are many others.