The Meaning of Health
By Ashleigh Katzenmoyer
Health is an experience of a lifetime, bringing purpose and meaning into an individual’s life. Living a healthy lifestyle means giving your body what it needs, such as proper diet, maintained exercise, and healthy lifestyle choices. To have health means, to have responsibility for your own well-being, along with being in a state of homeostasis (balance). Good health brings a feeling of freedom and acceptance from all our physical, emotional, and mental needs, compared to the negative feelings which result from stress and illness. The word “health” is a constant reminder of our day-to-day experience of freedom from disease and sickness.
Everyone is a patient under some kind of health care practitioner. Each individual patient at some point in his/her life will deal with a health issue or crisis with their own body, a parent(s), or maybe their child’s. If an individual is unaware of his/her own body and does not understand the importance of personal health, how can the patient walk away from a doctor’s appointment feeling satisfied that health needs were met? It is critical to understand the diagnosis a doctor gives you, what is being prescribed, and what alternative options you have available to you.
This website is designed to enable you to learn facts about diseases, prevention, basic nutrition, integrative medicine, anatomy of your body, and personal health in the mind and body section. By integrating this website into your life, our goal at L.I.F.T. is to provide you with a better understanding of how the health and healing world of medicine is evolving and integrating into a new form of wellness. This is your opportunity to become aware as a patient, individual, son or daughter, and parent. Our goal is to encourage you to seek the value of your overall health and apply our tips and practices into your lifestyle.
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