Fulfillment is an inside job

I am a big believer in healing the mind and body. After all, each of us is a spirit, having a soul (mind, will, emotions) and we live in a physical body. Having all aspects of your being aligned is really the only path to true wholeness. You cannot just focus on the physical and ignore the spirit and soul and think that you will be truly healthy. It’s just not possible. We are integrated beings.

We often jump from one ‘health’ product to another all the time, still feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, confused and riddled with physical symptoms. The problem is that we never really address the root problem. You can’t just take a bunch of supplements and think that they will magically solve the problem any more than taking any medication is the total answer for healing.

Being well is as much an inside job as it is an outside job. What you eat, how much, the quality of that food, is definitely important for health and weight loss. I would never dispute that. However, what you believe about it and how you think about what you do informs your choices and impacts how your body responds.

If you believe that making a certain change will result in healing or more energy or weight loss, you will be more consistent with it and do what you expect most of the time. That is the entire premise behind the placebo effect. People are given inert sugar pills that have absolutely no power to heal. However, they are told that the pill will cure their problem and that the power of their belief is what actually causes the cure.

If our thoughts and beliefs are so powerful, and they are, shouldn’t we pay more attention to them? This is true in all aspects of health, including weight loss.

I found that combining what you put on your plate, what you think about it, and about yourself, is the KEY to going from unhealthy to healthy, from burnt to balanced. While it’s imperative that you properly fuel your body with high-quality, single-ingredient foods and clean water, it’s just as important to nourish your spirit and soul! That’s one aspect of Today is Still the Day that I think gets overlooked in a lot of other plans. You can be skinny and still be unhealthy! Changing your diet is only part of the puzzle.

I think the bottom line is that we have to consider our ultimate goal. Sure you may want to lose 25 pounds and maybe for the sake of your heart or your knees, you desperately need it. It is important to realize that being overweight is a symptom. To change that for the long term, you need to find the root of the problem. That’s why “diets” don’t work: they’re temporary and only address the symptom. Ultimately, you want to be a healthy and vibrant person who can live life with ease and joy.

That is true health and wholeness. To achieve this, you can’t ignore your spirit and soul and just focus on losing a certain number of pounds or wearing a specific size of jeans.

Health is more than the absence of disease and it is more than being a certain size. So instead of just focusing on diet or the scale, pay attention to the whole person, and I’d be willing to bet you’ll experience much more success.