LIFESTYLE n HEALTH & WELLNESS
“You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.” — Les Brown
Embracing a Wellness Lifestyle,
The Only New Year’s Resolution
By Marie Elmore
W
hy embrace a Wellness Life-
style for your 2019 Resolu-
tion? Many think the answer
is simply to rid the body of
disease. A wellness lifestyle is much more.
A wellness lifestyle is feeling physically,
mentally, and emotionally healthy, happy,
and enjoying the life you live. Overall good
health in these areas is one of life’s greatest
assets. It affects how you feel, think, move,
interact and prosper though out life.
It is widely known by health care pro-
fessions that our lifestyle choices and/or
learned behaviors impact our emotional
and physical health on a daily bases
through poor nutrition, poor stress man-
agement, lack of sleep, lack of physical
activity, excessive alcohol or drug use, and
smoking. Each of these unquestionably
results in poor health and ultimately
contributes to a diminished quality of life.
Today modern medicine fixates on dia-
gnoses and treatment, where a wellness
lifestyle focuses on self—awareness, edu-
cation, and prevention instead of just
treating diseases when they occur. A
wellness lifestyle addresses the causes—
its symptoms, and what changes need to
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occur. One's thoughts, feelings, beliefs,
habits and the choices they make usually
promote that inflammation, pain, and
toxicity resulting in illness. A wellness
lifestyle addresses the root causes of the
occurring illness rather than just treating
the symptoms. You can assist the body in
healing itself with a wellness lifestyle.
Trending today is Integrative Medicine
which combines treatments with alter-
native, non-traditional practices by treat-
ing the whole person and all phases of
their lifestyle. Our bodies are then capable
of healing themselves naturally most of
the time, not requiring synthetic medi-
cations to do the job. Our bodies heal
naturally with the correct natural/plant
support tools to allow the body do what it
has been engineered to do.
Plant remedies, known as essential oils,
have been used throughout the world,
documented from biblical times to
the present as one of the world’s most
supportive tools for the body; in fact most
synthetic drugs are a copy of what nature
has provided us. The overall quality of the
essential oil is extremely important and
should have a therapeutic value before
use. Next, add more plant life to your diet
by eating a diet heavy in Alkaline Foods.
Visit my website to view the Alkaline Food
Chart which can bring your body into pH
Balance to aid all of the body’s organs with
working properly and a healthy balance.
An e-book on basic use of essential oils is
also available. Now join the revolution in
the resolution to a wellness lifestyle for the
rest of your life. n
Marie Elmore,
Certified Wellness Advocate,
Blogger & Author
www.natural-u.com
A lifestyle that lacks wellness or good
health puts one at high risk for many of
the common diseases such as heart attack,
mental health breakdown and many other
diseases that affect many of our population
today. Research shows that sometimes
major life events such as divorce, loss of
a love one or even our finances affect the
state of our health. Our culture depends
almost solely on doctors, drugs and health
care systems to fix our health concerns.