A while back, I watched a documentary released on YouTube called Billions in Change that changed my entire perspective on health. Although the video was not about changing our perspective on health or wellness, it did a pretty convincing job in making me get out there and start running again.
The view of medical science today has changed from what it used to be in the the past 50 years. In the past, it has been to cure diseases. A noble cause I must say. But now medical science has realized that the answer has always been Immunotherapy. The ultimate goal of Immunotherapy is to make somebody stronger internally so that disease doesn’t happen, or that the immune system attacks the disease so well that the disease disappears. The bottom line is that if you’re healthier, better, stronger then there’s less chance of you falling ill.
Sir David Lane, who is regarded as one of the foremost scientists and experts in the area of cancer and oncology. put it in the simplest possible manner:
“The idea is not to treat illness. It’s to treat wellness. It’s to make wellness better. That’s how you treat illness.”
We tend to think either about being well or being unwell as if they are two sides of a coin. But the reality is that it’s really a continuum. And what we should be aiming for is great wellness and no illness. When you are down with a flu, how many times have you felt that those who are fit and healthy are so lucky? I think what we tend to do is think we’re well until we’re ill and that’s actually the wrong way around. We need to start thinking about maintaining health as a much more proactive process. Everybody wants a shortcut and that makes us think that maybe if we just take a pill we’ll feel better but what we really need to do is think about fundamentals.
Make wellness better than illness – that’s your health motivation.
But how will you do it?
- Set your alarm across the room so that hitting snooze isn’t an option
- Go to sleep early to wake up early
- Fight off the urge to come up with excuses. Know that once you remain awake for a while, you don’t feel sleepy anymore.
- Getting out there is the hardest. Know that you’ll enjoy running while breathing in the fresh morning air. It’s also a great time to ponder about life.
- It’ll hurt on the second day. Take that day off. Let your muscles recover.
- On the third day, go out there and do it all over again because by now you know that running makes you happy and stress-free.
- Lastly, just put a healthy spin to life. Be active – take the stairs; walk or bike to do nearby errands; avoid carbs because they’ll slow you down; have almonds or bananas to satisfy your sudden cravings.
Now go out there and just do it!
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