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1st October 2017 17:47
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A few words on health/well-being
For quite some time now I've studied positive psychology and its relationship to a human's overall health/well-being.
What I have found is quite interesting, I thought why not share, it might improve someone's life...
In regards to improving your health/well-being, very roughly speaking there are things you should do and things you should not do. A better way of saying it is probably that there are things you should think about and things you should not forget about relating to your health/well-being.
The first thing not to ever forget, is that great health/well-being requires "maintenance". In other words over a long period of time you can expect some degree of health/well-being decline if you do not explicitly "maintain" your health/well-being.
But that does not mean what you think it means. When I've studied, I have found that "maintenance" for health/well-being is greatly misunderstood. The reason for this is that most think of "maintenance" as a static recipe you have to stick to over the long term and then over time you see results. Things like brushing your teeth twice a day. Eating two warm meals a day. It is stuff like this that is where all of your health/well-being issues are rooted.
For proper "maintenance" towards maximum health/well-being, the "maintenance" should NOT be a static recipe you should stick to without thinking. The "maintenance" should be dynamic. When you for whatever reason experience low levels of joy, the "maintenance" factor is extremely important - you should now eat and drink A LOT. I'm not kidding. Low amounts of joy pushes your energy levels to the bottom and over the long term that is going to start to "eat" (heh) on your health/well-being - A LOT. So it's not about being picky about what you drink and eat, it's not about staying within some certain amount of calorie intake and stuff like this.
Secondly, for good health/well-being you should not exercise too much and you should not exercise too little. The way to do it is to listen to the body. If you do that well you will discover when your body tells you to exercise. That is when you should exercise. So this is also not a static fixed recipe you should follow. Exercise is something to do dynamically. Because you are now on good "maintenance" those exercise sessions are going to provide you a certain amount of pleasure because your energy balance is such. Now health/well-being is beginning to pick up.
One can say that these two combined form a kind of base layer for good health/well-being.
As your health/well-being increases significantly, it is still important to maintain, but the "maintenance requirements" are now a bit lighter. So remember that the base layer is dynamic, high health/well-being relaxes and balances your "maintenance requirements". You will naturally eat and drink less and you will not even notice it.
How to best improve your health/well-being from this level is something I'm currently working on, but it currently appears to me that you should do whatever that maximizes your chances for joy - you need to maximize your joy potential. That can be done in a number of ways, but I'm looking into this approach of engaging broadly and deeply towards various excitement types. Rather than waiting for motivation and then doing, do instead and let that doing result in motivation. Then focus that motivation towards doing additional stuff within additional excitement categories, while monitoring your energy levels. The "maintenance" in the base layer for health/well-being I mentioned earlier is still extremely important on this journey towards higher and higher levels of joy. But this chapter is about discovering your joy and maximizing potential for it by exploring your excitement/excitement types broadly and deeply.
I hope this makes sense. Please comment to let me know what you think.
If you do not feel joy NOW, go get something to eat and drink...
Last edited by WhiteLove; 1st October 2017 at 18:02.
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1st October 2017 19:02
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