CHANGING YOUR HEALTH MINDSET MIGHT BE YOUR BEST INSURANCE POLICY

If you have insurance coverage through your employer, the Affordable Care Act,  Medicare, or Medicaid, you’ve already seen costs increase and benefits decrease  - costs that create ripple effects that touch every one of us at some level.  

Middle-income households are being forced to choose between paying higher premiums and having their lifestyles interrupted. Lower-income wage earners are gambling with their health, dropping coverage they can’t afford, which creates a vicious cycle of misery. Even the wealthy are complaining as they pass their costs down to us through higher prices on everything we buy.

Now we can keep waiting for the shot-callers to invest in prevention, but don’t hold your breath - it’s not going to happen any time soon in a system that profits off sickness. But there is something we can and must do: We can change the way we think about health.

Is change easy? No. But neither is suffering and struggling to pay mounting medical bills, nor is being caught in the revolving doors of a system that banks on your disease. So the wise thing to do is to choose the hard that improves your quality of life.

For starters, change the way you treat your body - treat it as the temple it was designed to be.

We view temples as sacred spaces and treat them with honor, respect, and gentleness. We protect them at all costs and wouldn’t dream of trashing or vandalizing a single one, or neglecting its upkeep, so why should we behave any differently toward our body?

When we embrace our body as a temple, everything changes. We care for it out of reverence, not obligation –resting it because we know it needs rest and nourishing it the way it deserves to be nourished. We move it daily because it was designed to be mobile. We admire and respect its miraculous design and intrinsic wisdom, and learn to recognize its cues when it needs our attention.

When we truly feel that our body is sacred, we are not so quick to accept medications with side effects that leave us in zombie-like states long before we take our last breaths, or allow surgeons to remove its parts faster than a demolition crew can gut one of the most revered man-made temples in the world.

A shift in our mindset about our health sends a strong message to the sickcare system: 1) We don't need their services as much as they'd like us to believe; and 2) True health comes from within, not from a prescription pad or a scalpel.

Change your thinking; Be Well!

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