Yes, you only have two choices about your health.

“Only two you say? Why I can imagine millions of possibilities of what is available in the health field!”

No, I don’t mean that. Choices of what “to do” is not the problem. The problem develops way before that. If you’re looking for choices, opportunities and the next, greatest thing, you may be motivated to make a change. If you don’t feel that way, well nothing anyone says to do will likely change your opinion.

As I bring you the two choices about your health today, they are approaching your health from the ground looking up. If you’re in super health and don’t need to improve that is one thing. But if your health is far from stellar, then this blog post is for you. Consider the first of the two choices that you actually have.

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One, do nothing. To do nothing means you’re satisfied with the status quo and see no need to do anything differently. Some people do feel this way, but the majority of people do not. The longer each of us lives, the more we realize that our health deteriorates without constant care. Maybe your contribution to “good health” is simply to eat well, exercise moderately (3 to 5 times per week) and get adequate sleep. Maybe your mind, body and spirit require a great deal more to stay even-keeled. Maybe you’re dealing with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fibromyalgia, arthritis, Lupus, chronic Lyme or an autoimmune illness. To do nothing with one of these illnesses means, instead, you’re constantly deteriorating.

Inactivity breeds muscle loss, loss of coordination and balance skills, decreasing mental acuity, reasoning and memory functions and these are to name only a few! Taking too casual an attitude about your health or lack there of may mean that you’re missing out on things you could and should be doing.

Two, do something! If you find deficiencies, chronic health problems, or weaknesses that are not going to clear up quickly enough on their own, then you will be motivated to do something– in the direction of solving the problem(s). Unless you’re one of the rare people who thrive on in-action and doing nothing every chance you get, moving forward, taking the problem by horns feels good. It feels like you’re making progress. It breeds hopeful emotions, as opposed to what a do nothing approach feels like…letting your back side get sore from sitting on the fence…wrestling between one decision or another.

Yes, folks, whether you do something or do nothing, you really have only two choices about your health. In the next few weeks, I’ll be posting more information about “how” to move forward in a positive direction. Stay tuned to the Health Matters Show.

Your host, Cinda Crawford