Nowadays, good health is more than just maintaining your normal weight or scoring the right blood pressure daily. While those are great measurements, there’s more to health than just the numbers on a weighing scale or not taking your sick leave credits.
The best barometer for pristine health is by looking at it holistically. Time to consider a broader view of your well-being—beyond pills and diet.
Gone are the days when perfect health was certified solely by science or medicine. Drinking paracetamol may alleviate a headache, but so can sleeping early or even just hydrating.
A holistic approach to health is important because you recognize and accept that your body cannot be classified as just one form or level. Humans are complex and multi-faceted beings—and no single measure can define health.
Did you know…
The word “holism” was coined by Jan Christiaan Smuts in 1926 to describe the concept that living beings are “greater than and different from the sum of their parts.” The word “holistic” wasn’t widely used until the 1970s.
Remember your fractions? Holistic healing means looking at your health in different facets—and ensuring that each of the components is in tip-top condition. Incomplete or unwell components will result in an imbalance to your body.
Lifestyle changes and natural healing traditions play a role in completing you—and so are many other practices, activities, and remedies that you can curate and adapt, depending on what suits your goal.
Fantastic Five (5 pillars of holistic wellbeing)
You may have read about the 5 pillars of holistic wellbeing—emotional, mental, physical, social, and spiritual—and how they form the fractions that are the foundation of your total wellness.
While the 5 may be the baseline for all-around health, you’re not bound to mechanically tick them off individually on your healthy checklist.
Sometimes they just harmoniously fuse and seamlessly integrate into your lifestyle, work ethic, mindset, and value system.
Once ingrained, you’ll eventually practice and mindlessly observe behaviors that correspond to the facets of health—resulting in a holistically sound individual.
Mix-and-Match For a Super Wellness Combo (Benefits of Holistic Approach to Health and its Importance)
With practice and positive reinforcement, you can maximize the powerful combos from the different areas of holistic health.
Here are 5 important benefits that prove why a holistic approach to health is important:
1. Fortify Your Body and Immunity
A superfood-charged diet, positive outlook, and a community-rich lifestyle can spell the difference between being sickly from sick-free. Achieving a balance in clean living (food) and clear thoughts enable the body to attain an optimal condition without the need for medical intervention.
A lean and green diet coupled with a regular workout is best recommended to achieve a leaner physique and more muscle mass. Packing in strength and durability could help fight off diseases and sickness—or even the sniffles you get when walking in the rain.
Prevention, rather than reaction, is another highlight of the holistic method. Physical exams and herbal teas – a proactive take on health is sure to get you started on the right path.
You can also get an immunity boost by practicing yoga and other calming and breathing techniques to dissipate the negative thoughts and energy.
Challenging your present achievements and capabilities also helps surpass your current self.
Think about running faster, training longer, walking more steps, and being healthy. It’s when you push yourself to always beat your record that you can win in your race.
Another channel to put your energy to good use is to help the environment and community. A feel-good initiative brings you quite a workout and new friends to boot.
An act of sharing or volunteering can spread a lot of joy in your body and cells and that’s one way to detoxify your body. Ending the day with gratitude and mindfulness brings enough calm to recharge those hardworking muscles and mind.
2. Beat Stress Wherever You Are—work-from-home or at work
A toxic work or home environment, the anxiety from the pandemic, and growing health concerns can bring stress to its highest level. No amount of binge eating can remove all that negative energy and panic.
It’s even the foods devoid of processed meat and sugar that can give you that all-natural high. Try having fruit or herbal teas for a change!
If there’s anything that can whip out the stress, it’s by doing the things you love with the people you like to be with. Simple and earnest conversations are the best way to relieve an ailing heart (or soul), and it helps to have friends, family, and even a pet for comfort.
Double the dopamine (the happy hormone) boost when you engage with others through physical activities and workouts. Did you know that exercise can help alleviate mood swings, depression, and anxiety? Get that heart pumping and good company chatting to keep you in cloud 9.
Stress-busting activities can even be done in the peace and quiet of your me-time. Get the creative juices running with crafts and projects and find yourself in the artistic zone.
Relax better with classical music, a yoga session in the garden, and scented candles and oils. Meditate and sleep early to give yourself a chance to reboot.
Treat yourself to a massage or Reiki session to release all those pent-up and negative energy.
Sometimes, it’s all about you. Keep the happy thoughts and just focus on the positive energy. Worrying a lot about what the future may bring can take a toll on your health and outlook in life.
Channeling this away from you relieves the stress and burden, and leaves you with a lighter and cleaner self.
3. Upgrade With Better Career Opportunities
Pursuing a new career path or business venture may be met with a lot of hesitation and doubt—even when it promises a better financial opportunity and growth. Never miss out on this chance when you’re better equipped with a more confident aura, clearer mind, and self-esteem that you deserve this.
A strong support group would always confirm your skills, abilities, and values. Having a family you’re dedicated to gives you motivation and quest for a happy and productive life. This brings enough confidence for you to step out into the world and seize that job interview.
Learning new skills and expanding your horizons are other ways to improve yourself and your CV. Taking advantage of academic opportunities and leadership roles show your appetite to learn and lead—and if there’s anything more appealing to bosses, it’s a go-getter with initiative.
Keeping a sound and concentrated mind is best achieved with a nutritious diet—none of dulling and caloric ingredients that can make you sluggish and slow. Instead, with the right food and active lifestyle—boost concentration and promising thoughts.
With amazing energy and zeal, you’ll be ready for any endeavor—and impress those buyers, employers, and new business partners.
4. Get Older, Wiser and Stronger
Blowing out the birthday candles won’t be that bothersome anymore. You can grow old and do it the amazing way: wiser and stronger.
Holistic health is all about prevention—so preparing for old age with natural remedies, strength training, relaxation activities like yoga and tai-chi, and plenty of healthy conversations help build your stamina and mental core.
Simply basking in the joie de vivre (joy of life) is one way to appreciate life. Allot time to spend in nature, enjoy mentally challenging games, and keep in touch with the grandkids.
The practice of eating well-balanced meals and forgoing cravings ensures improved gut health to help stave off heart disease, cancer (among others), and improve your mental cognition.
Journaling and mindfulness meditation keep your mind focused on the now. With the next generation forging their path, volunteer to teach or train others in your craft or specialization. Share what you know and leave a legacy to the next generation.
At the end of the day, having a belief or value system that you uphold helps you feel safe, calm, and satisfied. Prayers (or positive affirmations) and healing stones or even end-of-day massages help clear your mind and be the source of enlightenment.
5. Never Be Afraid To Do Something New
Leaping out of your comfort zone may seem scary—but with a balanced mind, lean and strong body, and positive attitude—you’ll feel that anything is possible. Consider traveling to different places, immersing in new cultures, or even learning a new skill.
An empowered soul takes control of one’s life choices, diet, destinations, and decisions—with zeal, clarity, and commitment. With enough excitement, optimism, and physical strength to accomplish all these—then the mind and body will work together to make this happen.
Exercise and stamina still play a role in getting you to rise to the challenge. Go, grow, glow foods keep you steady on your feet as you savor in new sights and sounds. Personal and new social connections keep your mind and heart brimming with curious and happy thoughts.
The ideas of learning novel ideas, discovering things you never knew existed, and meeting foreigners or friends—the excitement is enough to remove doubts and anxiety. It’s a social boost.
Group activities, solo walks, or just reading in the solace of nature. Good health is not limited to just staying indoors and shielding yourself from the world.
The recreational pursuit and enthusiasm it brings are enough to feed a lonely or hungry soul. Bring a friend with you or explore solo. It’s all about the now and where your decisions lead you.
Food for thought…
“Wellbeing isn’t just about being happy, wealthy/successful or in good physical health/wellness. It is about a combination of our love for what we do each day, the security of our finances, the quality of our relationships, the vibrancy of our physical health and our role and contribution to communities” (Rath & Harter 2010).
Being receptive, alert, and conscious will make you better reach your goals. Exercise and the right food will keep you going and going.
Taking the time to breathe and meditate to enjoy life is a confirmation of your being. If any, having faith and fearlessness makes you seize the moment—your moment.
Holistic Wellbeing
A holistic approach to health is important because it considers all the dimensions that interact harmoniously to make a person function well. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but instead, you’re the one in charge to discover the potential and put them together to lead a life that is meaningful, joyous, and supercharged with health.
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