Fitness
You pick up the magazines each day, and you're bombarded with
health and fitness information. Advertisements and articles that
are designed to impart much needed information to the reader
about the state of fitness and health in America today, and what
we as responsible citizens should do.
I want you to stop, and think for just one moment. How do you
determine your current fitness and wellness levels? Does your
regular doctor as you each time you go if you believe yourself
to be fit and well? Probably not. Nor does he give you any
method for determining the status on your own. Fitness centers
abound in this country, and most are staffed with counselors who
can test your fitness level. What about your wellness level? Are
they one and the same? They are not one and the same, yet they
rely heavily on each other to keep you healthy.
Being fit and being well are totally different conditions.
Your wellness rating is dependent upon your immune system, and
what vitamins, supplements, and nutrition you provide for your
immune system. Fit people can sometimes be unwell. And well
people can sometimes be unfit. However, when you do combine the
two, and use sound principles based on clean living, exercise,
and healthy eating, you attain a state of equilibrium where you
are both fit and well.
Most individuals do not take the time to completely understand
the advantages of being both fit and well. We read and absorb
the information we're given through the media and health
organizations, without ever pondering if we're receiving all the
information we need, or simply the part that is profitable to be
seen or heard. Fitness gyms need your monthly fees in order to
remain operational. They have no real concern about the
condition of your immune system. Physical fitness is a condition
of the body alone. Hospitals and doctors need you as a patient
in order to remain operational; they want you to know you need
to be fit and well, but often leave out important pieces that
affect your wellness and, therefore, your ability to be fit.
What about eating habits? What about vitamins? What role does
our daily intake play in our health, our wellness, and our
fitness? More than you have been lead to believe or understand.
The body's ability to remain well under anything other than
ideal conditions is a direct result of the nutrition received on
a daily basis. The mind's ability to remain well is, again, a
direct result of our nutrition intake. For instance, the human
brain doesn't develop well without the necessary input of
protein in our daily diet. No protein, no intelligence.
No intelligence, then none of the other states is attainable.
Our spiritual input is a determining factor when establishing
our fitness level. We all need the benefit of spiritual
reflection, as a way of cleansing ourselves of the stress of our
daily life. Spirituality is a way of assuring ourselves of a
renewing, and rebirth of ourselves as humans. Fitness
encompasses our body's health, as a whole and in this respect it
includes the mind. It is a condition of the whole body. Fitness
is a condition of wellness for our physical body.