Health Can Occur on Weekends Too

The post How Strong Is Your Arm? - Readers Find Out tells how true fitness does not mean doing a bunch of exercises, then returning to slouching, criticizing, smoking, harming others, and putting damaging things in your body. Fitness is making the many aspects of your life clean and healthy. A reader (who I know to be a good person) wrote:

"Something that I find helpful for people around me and for myself, is to start with setting a milder goal. Like promising yourself you'll only eat sweets during weekends. Many who plan to stop cold turkey can't live up to that and end up feeling bad about themselves all of the time. That's not healthy either. ;-)"

I would not say the same about heroin or binge drinking or hurting the weak. I would not teach a child that it is ok to have unsafe sex or drive drunk, as long as it is "only a little" or only on weekends. Doing something you know is damaging or wrong (not just eating some sweet fruit or small amounts of jaggery, or honey if you are not vegetarian, but junk food that is damaging to body and environment) is not solved by limiting it to weekends.

"Feeling bad 'all the time'" because of it is also not a healthful strategy. Knowing something is not right is useful to change your behavior. If you feel bad and do not change your behavior what are you accomplishing? Don't use it as an excuse to continue unhealthful things just so you don't feel badly.

A useful plan is to think. We teach children not to drink automobile coolant, no matter how sweet it tastes. Pools of coolant on the ground have poisoned many animals who come to drink the sweet stuff. It is sweet as a sugary drink, but damaging to put in your body.

Posts on how to strengthen your health as daily mindset:

• How Often Should You Be Healthy?
• Grate Christmas
• Thanksgiving Health
• Mischief is Not Good Exercise - Halloween Ahimsa
• Fast Fitness Friday - Strong Spirit
• Healthier Heart
• Exercise Common Sense Discipline - Turn Down Halloween Junk Food
• A Little Good Exercise, a Lot of Bad Food - Overweight Still No Mystery
• Which Ancient Exercise Gives Focus and Concentration?

A book to learn healthy ways for all activities, from meals to exercise to daily life - Healthy Martial Arts.

Labels: mind, nutrition, spirit, stress

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