Are you truly healthy?

Do you know what it really means to be truly healthy?

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

– World Health Organization

By this definition, health is not a matter of how you feel, it is a matter of how you function in all aspects of your life.

Let’s take a look at the continuum diagram above.

For reference, let’s set the opposite extremes to life and death. If we divide the continuum into thirds, the third closer to death would be unhealthy (sick). In this third, you are not functioning properly. On the opposite third, unfortunately is not experienced by everyone. Here you are expressing health and taking yourself closer to your true life potential. This is what we want to see you achieve. The middle (limbo) third is where you are not sick but also not healthy. Most of us bounce between being sick and not being sick. This is a danger area because we might be functioning properly but we are also not expressing health. This dangerous because symptoms can hide and build up before correction can be made. Half the people who die from a heart attack never experienced prior symptoms. Clearly, symptoms are a poor method to determine health. We can only feel 10 percent of the nerve function in our body, the rest is dedicated to our health function.