WELLNESS IS NOT
---Wellness
does not necessarily mean that you have everything that you may want. We have
to look at this more closely. As an example...we will use smoking. In the
1950's...society was encouraged to smoke. We were told that anything negative
that comes from smoking was just that – negligible. We were told that 4 out of 5
doctors – smoked. It was all over TV and movies, restaurants and buses,
etc. Anywhere people were...smoking was!
---Over
the years, society has wised-up. Not everyone at the same rate, but, after many
years of wreaking havoc on many things – we realize that we all have to cut
back on our desire systems...and that is for the very survival of our planet
and ourselves. We learned that many things that we thought were making us happy
had dire consequences and made us sick in the process. The side-effects that
all things carry NOW wants to be dealt with. And, it is not allowing us to pass
it on by passing the problem to someone else. It is taking root in our own
backyards.
---Suddenly,
we have become conscious of what the payback is to the kinds of things that we
do. We have to weigh the happiness and wellness factors against each other. We see how important are the choices we make that promote the kinds of things that we want to see and be. We
find that if we are concerned strictly with wellness we may have to relegate
ourselves to NOT doing some or many of the things that we used to do that (we
thought) made us happy. We can NO longer trade-off our health
(planetary + individual) for many of the things that had promises of
happiness. We, also, can't do well at the expense of another. If that is what
you do you'll find that someone close to you will have objections to that...if
NOT the person him/herself – someday soon. People will get pissed-off enough
and say something where at onetime you were allowed more ''error space'' and got
away with negative behavior more easily.
---We
must find a lifestyle that we can live with...that has wellness and
happiness built into it. NOT a trade-off situation where it is either ''happiness''
OR ''wellness.'' We choose a lifestyle where things that make us HAPPY are also GOOD FOR US. In my estimation, one isn't really well unless he is happy, also.
I'm speaking of a sustained happy and NOT just fleeting moments of
happy...every now and then. Your style of living allows for a well-rounded and
healthy dose of well-being...all-or-most-of-the-time. Be Well.
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