Holistic self-care is a lifestyle that can simply, naturally and effectively support your health and well-being. We are a whole 'being', consisting of a mind, a body and a spirit that each need attention and care on a regular basis. Holistic self-care is the way we can go about giving our whole 'being' the required care and attention needed to thrive by simply promoting and restoring our intended function. Our intended function begins with a consistent and health-promoting interaction between our aspects of 'being'. This means that our mind, body and spirit work together in determining the options we have and then making the best choices in fulfilling our basic functions.
The basic functions are shared by all human 'beings' and comprise of everything that is needed by the body or imposes a demand on us in some fashion. Everything we can do including thinking and breathing are necessary to maintain life but also create demands on the whole person. The basic functions of breathing, thinking, choosing, moving, eating, drinking, eliminating, sleeping, grooming and socializing are all necessary but impose demands on our 'being'. These demands are called 'stressors' which can be positive or negative.
Holistic self-care seeks to support or improve the function of our whole 'being' with a commitment from the mind and spririt to consistently nourish our whole 'being' with optimal choices. The optimal choices which constitute holistic self-care are positive 'stressors', while we really focus on avoiding the all too common negative 'stressors'. Our physical expression or our body can make serious improvements and reach true health and vitality when we commit to making optimal choices by following holistic self-care.
The manners and sources we use to perform and fulfill the basic functions largely determines the health of our whole 'being'. This health is actually our functional status, or ability/inability to function as intended. Intended function occurs when our mind, body and spirit reach and maintain the specific states they desire and require to interact with each other enabling us to thrive on Earth.
Our functional status is actually the 'holistic health status' which can be determined by the forthcoming text entitled "The True Health Lifestyle: Guide for Holistic Self-Care". Our 'holistic health status' represents the states of our mind, body and spirit which are represented by the thought process we use, the outlook we have and the physical pH and 'energy' flow in our body. Improving our 'holistic health status' is the intention and focus of holistic self-care and can be achieved by balancing the positive and negative 'stressors' from the basic functions.
'Stressors' may be inevitable, but are for the most part controllable with a little bit of knowledge and willingness to take some control over the factors that determine our health and well-being.
This is accomplished with holistic self-care which leads us to and focuses on making the optimal, nourishing choices of the manners and sources used to perform and fulfill the basic functions. The optimal, nourishing choices are positive 'stressors', which benefit our 'being' considerably more than the risks or costs they impose.
However, when the manner or source used to perform and fulfill a basic function has more cost/risk than benefit it becomes a negative 'stressor'. The costs of 'stressors' includes the acids formed and the 'energy' flow impact within the body while the benefits of 'stressors' include anything that may assist our whole 'being'. These benefits include things which support our ability to 'adapt' to 'stressors', improve peace of mind, outlook or thought process. Modern living has supplied us with a surplus of options in the manners and choices we can use to perform and fulfill the basic functions.
Sadly the majority of these options from modern living are negative 'stressors' which, over time have lead to chronic disease and mental disorders becoming common, even expected by the modern public. Our body for the most part is simply a reflection of our personal balance between positive and negative 'stressors'. Appearance can be quite deceiving in this aspect, but the internal environment of our body does not lie. Symptoms, noticed or unnoticed will arise and for most of us, represent the positive/negative 'stressor' balance. My forthcoming text, "The True Health Lifestyle: Guide for Holistic Self-Care" provides the scientific rationale of determining negative 'stressors' (which are far too common!) followed by practical strategies to reduce and replace them with positive 'stressors'.
The 'holistic health status' of our whole 'being is represented by the efficiency in which we 'adapt' to 'stressors'. A thriving, vital individual with an efficiently functioning mind, body and spirit will be in the 'optimal function' status. Whereas the individual with less than efficient 'adapting' to 'stressors' will have the 'challenged function' status, which has a variety of stages and expressions.
The states of our mind, body and spirit largely determine the efficiency we 'adapt' to 'stressors'. Therefore, 'optimal function' will occur when the mind, body and spirit are in the states which they prefer and desire. Conversly, 'challenged function' will occur when even one of the states of mind, body or spirit fail to reach or maintain the desired and preferred state of 'being'. Holistic self-care includes a variety of techniques and strategies intended to restore and maintain the states of mind, body and spirit which enable 'optimal function' to occur.
Our state of mind is based on the thought process and outlook we use to evaluate and consider emotions, feelings, situations and choices. Improving our state of mind requires patience and commitment, but the results sure are worth it. Our spiritual state is heavily based on the inner conflict and inner outlook we have; which may be referred to as our subconscious and unconcious levels of pyschology. The states of mind and spirit are instrumental in holistic self-care as they interact with each other, draw some input from the body and present options and make the choices in the basic functions.
Our physical state of 'being' is quite sensitive to these choices made, which can be described as a function called our character. Our character in combination with the less important aspect of genetics, plays the largest role in ultimately determining our 'holistic health status'. The 'holistic health status' is manifested physically within the body, which has a status based on the pH of the body fluids along with the amount of and balance of 'energy' flow. The physical state of the body is quite sensitive not only to the balance of positive and negative 'stressors' but the specific types of negative 'stressors'.
Therefore, 'challenged function' is most likely the result of the less than optimal choices we make in fulfilling our basic functions, we have an imbalance between positive/negative 'stressors'. We may have chosen the negative 'stressors' for a variety of reasons including mindlessness, misguidance as to what good choices are or we are simply self-absorbed and dicsard the optimal choices or even performing self-abuse by deliberately sabotaging ourself. 'Challenged function' is the result and can be expressed mentally and physically in a variety of manners from minor symptoms to chronic diseases and mental disorders.
Holistic self-care empowers us to take control of our state of mind, body and spirit which integrate to form our 'holistic health status' as a whole. Holistic self-care is broken down into three aspects, a basic living plan, a nutrition plan and an exercise plan. The forthcoming text "The True Health Lifestyle: Guide for Holistic Self-Care" provides scientific rationale and practical guidance to make the optimal choices in fulfilling and performing the basic functions.
Please e-mail at truehealthservices@gmail.com with any questions or comments regarding my forthcoming text. Keep reading and start considering your own holistic self-care this very day.
