WELLNESS
Redefining Healthy
What is your definition of being healthy?
Joyce Loucks Member Wellness Committee ARTA
Not the Webster’ s Dictionary definition or the top result on a Google search, but your definition. Knowing this matters, because once you can clearly state what health means to you, you can begin to build a realistic plan to maintain it as you age.
Health has many dimensions: physical, social, emotional, mental, and spiritual. If you can step outside your ego and honestly assess where you stand in each area, you give yourself a baseline to measure progress. Your physical health is a foundation for all the other pillars; when it’ s in poor shape, it becomes much harder to have a positive outlook, to be social, or to engage fully with life.
My own definition of health is everchanging, often depending on what my body has recently been through. When someone asks me how I am, I respond with how I’ m feeling in that exact moment. I take my pursuit of health minute by minute, day by day.
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