Holistic wellness is a means of living a healthy lifestyle that includes looking at the body as an entire system, and addressing its needs as a whole. A healthy body should be strong, flexible, resilient, pain-free, resistant to disease, and fun to live, work, and play in. To explore more about any aspect of holistic wellness, choose a category below, or read on for more information.
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Health (or holistic wellness, as we define it) is arguably the cornerstone of a balanced life. Although we will discuss many different important facets of a balanced life, without health, you will not be able to live to your fullest potential in any area. Without a sound and vigorous mind and body, you cannot fully enjoy your wealth, relationships, or spiritual growth, so holistic wellness and healthy living is a major focus of our site.
We use the words holistic wellness to describe our approach, as many people think of "healthy" as meaning dieting, good health care, or visiting the gym every day. However, to truly bring our bodies to their full potential, a more comprehensive approach is required -- one that includes not just nutrition and exercise, but the right sources and combinations of food, exercise that is fun and easy to stick with, a body free from pain, and a connection between our mind and body, which includes learning to listen to what it is saying to us. Holistic wellness addresses all of these areas.
Our bodies were built to be strong, flexible, and active.
Is yours?
Today's modern "conveniences" and economic model have led to a sedentary lifestyle, and slowly our bodies are losing their ability to function as they are supposed to. Heart disease, diabetes, and other weight-related disorders magnify and exacerbate the problem, but it isn't just illness that is the issue.
To practice holistic wellness also means addressing the problem of chronic pain conditions, which have become one of the major health issues in this country. Lack of use causes our muscles to shrink and shorten. Unable to perform their proper functions, muscles are unable to hold the bones in the correct position, and this results in posture, gait, and movement problems, causing the final result of pain. People flock to surgeons, pop pain pills, and, in many cases, continue to get worse, not better.
What if there were a simple way to correct musculoskeletal pain without drugs or surgery of any kind?
Certainly drugs and surgery have their place, in extreme circumstances. But how procedures would be unnecessary, for example, if people focused more on holistic wellness, true nutrition, exercise and maintaining a healthy weight? And how many surgeries are performed that don't seem to provide much relief after all?
Surely there has to be a better way. After all, most of us struggle to get even a minimal amount of exercise each day. How different from the constant necessary activity of our ancestors' lives! Yet today's economy, culture and industry do not afford us these same opportunities (except perhaps in the minority cases of farmers or laborers).
 And the proliferation of nutritionally empty "foods" on our supermarket (and refrigerator) shelves hardly leads to the practice of holistic wellness! Most of our diet consists of junk and empty, fattening calories. (Even if you think you eat pretty well, you may be surprised to find out how much your daily diet is truly lacking.)
But part of living a lifestyle of holistic wellness must be to take responsibility for our own health, including what we eat, our activity level, our exposure to toxic substances, AND our healthcare, and making a reasonable, consistent effort to bring our bodies back to a healthy state of functionality and strength.
We will explore a several different, but related areas of health and holistic wellness, and offer some ideas to maximize, maintain, and improve upon your current health situation, whatever it may be:
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