Lifestyle Master Program

SR No.: 007602
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston
Total Pages: 61
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 3 MB

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
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Whatever form or pace your dietary transition takes, it's important to remember to also give attention to other equally important requisites of health. To help your create a "snapshot" of where your health stands, and where you could most effectively focus your attention, we've included a worksheet titled "The Wheel of Health". A wheel with spokes makes an appropriate metaphor: if any spoke does not come right to the rim of the wheel, it will impair the smooth function of the entire wheel. You can see the importance of "bringing all your lifestyle spokes to the rim," or bringing to fruition all the factors that together make up holistic health.
To complete the Wheel of Health worksheet, notice how the spokes are labeled with various requisites of health, and feel free to label any of the blank spokes with other things that you feel are most important in a healthy lifestyle. With a colored marker draw a short, medium, or long line right over each spoke, representing the level of development of that area of your life. Some colored lines will come just to the rim, indicating an area that now requires maintenance only. Other lines will come only part-way to the rim (or maybe will barely leave the center axis), indicating areas which are most in need of your attention. A spoke or two may even extend beyond the outer rim of the wheel, showing an aspect that is actually over-developed (for example, some people exercise too much, or focus on diet to the exclusion of other things).
By identifying your "weakest links" and focusing your primary attention in those places, your efforts will be most effective. Most people have a weak link in the area of diet and will benefit initially by putting effort there. But no matter how good your dietary habits, if you are not getting enough sleep, or enough sunshine on your skin, or you are not managing stress, your health will continue to be
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