Your Wellness Is All That Matters

In the world hat is subjective reality enough research has been done to categorize what wellness for humans is. We have different ways of going about it but ultimately we all want the same things whether we realize it or not.

Maslows hierarchy of needs has been debated with different models and what we need sometimes is defined differently but one thing is certain, our wellness comes first and foremost even though many of us judging from the behavior we exhibit don't seem to believe so.

Aside from the he obvious food, water, air we have emotional needs. Our emotional and psychological needs tend to be out on the back burner particularly in western cultures. One of the reasons for this is because capitalistic enterprises prey on our emotional and psychological short comings. We are routinely convinced we need things we want. Stripping these needs down we all seek love and to be loved, we seek to pursue a purpose and build mastery, we seek to be a part of something larger than ourselves. Where we get our signals crossed is using our love of a com active sport to be that thing we use to fulfill our sense of being a part of something bigger than ourselves.

As social beings we not only crave interaction, attachment, and belonging, we need it. Research shows that loneliness is as bad and possibly worse for ones health as smoking. We have at times a convoluted way of measuring wellness. The number of people in the United States who are clinically obese is now at 39.8%, the highest it has ever been and it shows no sign of slowing down traveling in this direction. There are too many people that believe eating themselves into a food coma on a regular basis is good living, it isn't. Alcohol consumption is way up over the last thirty years particularly amongst women and minorities. Alcohol is toxic to the body. It doesn't matter that civilizations have been drinking wine for ten thousand years, alcohol is bad for our system.

There was a time in our ancestral history where we traveled on foot no less than six miles a day and we all had the bodies of Olympians. Today the average person moves sixty to ninety minutes a week.

Martial artists have know for thousands of years that movement of the body result in spiritual wellness. Power movements, stances and motions have positive effects on our mental well being. If we are to increase overall wellness we have to start focusing on those things that truly result in it. Getting enough sleep, eating healthy foods in healthy portions, moving more regularly and developing healthy and loving connections are where our focus needs to be to increase our wellness. What you have in life is not even fractionally as important as what you do which leads to what you become.