my back has been out since sunday night/monday morning.... after that stressful day. :( it was so bad i..... i.... i confess i took an extra-strength muscle relaxant yesterday (me, who can count on her hands how many tylenol she's taken in the last decade). BOY are those things ever strong!! i walked around in a muscle-relaxant-induced-haze for several hours, oblivious to the pain my body was in... until it wore off and i was in even more pain afterwards. Still sore this morning i opted for taking yet another MR and later spent over an hour in the local pool's hot tub. now i feel GREAT but don't want to count my chickens until they hatch... if i feel great tomorrow then i'll get back at rowing and tai chi. but whoowee i hope i don't ever have to take medication of any kind ever again. i am so grateful for my health and for raw food. i am certain i am recovering faster because i'm not consuming deadened, cooked food as well, expecting my body to heal and also use the enzymes which should be going towards healing for food digestion. Nourishing myself with living foods is certainly a major part of the ticket to good health.
Update on Thursday: my back felt fine last night, so of course I did housework, even rowed on the rowing machine. Woke up this morning very sore again... however a visit to the chiropractor today has me on the mend now, I think.
Isn't it funny how we take our health for granted? How we will eat whatever's in front of us - burger, fries, beer, whatever... because the effects of such a meal will take so LONG to become apparent that we are too slow to realize once our health goes awry what the connection between that meal was and our now ill health. It is so EASY to disregard the importance of regular physical exercise, or of eating well (and by that I mean raw, living foods & pure water). It's just so much easier to eat crap and procrastinate and make excuses why we can't exercise... why it's not so important. Well, it's preventative. Today the chiropractor said I should have no problems living 'til I'm 100. WAHOO. Whether he's right or wrong isn't the point; the point is that I'm on the road to good health. Good health is not a goal that you achieve; it's a journey, a process. You can always improve your health, but if you don't take those steps towards good health, you'll backslide and slip. Falling off the wagon isn't the end of the world, but it means you're going the wrong way on the one-way road to good health.
So what things do you do to ensure good health? Not smoking? Abstaining from drugs? From alcohol? From certain foods - be it meat, dairy, common allergenic foods like wheat, gluten, soy, corn, peanuts, from cooked foods, choosing only raw, live, vegan foods? Do you exercise regularly? What types of exercise do you do - stretches, aerobic, muscle building and strength training? Do you practise good dental hygiene (did you know doing just that can increase your life expectancy by a full DECADE?!?! So go floss!!!) Do you feed your mind the way you nourish your body - doing brain-building exercises like Sudoku or crosswords? do you read regularly, do you challenge your brain? Do you limit things like violent media images and shows and instead nourish your self with images of a world you are here to create - a peaceful, compassionate, loving world? Do you surround yourself with community - with the loving support of others and do you offer that to others as well? Do you spend time outdoors every day in the fresh air and sunshine? Do you spend time in nature? in solitude? in silence? Do you regularly reflect on your life, on your goals? Do you keep the big picture of life in mind? What do YOU do to ensure your good health?
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I drink beer.
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