6 powerful lessons from Japan that helped me heal my health
Health which no longer feels like treading water, simply leaning back and floating
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I was not born into this world with an intuitive understanding of how to take care of my body and mind. I know some people are– I found myself wondering for years, how do they just live and everything falls into place?– but I was not one of them. I had to learn.
For many years I overate, underate, stressed about food, did every kind of exercise and diet that was supposedly life-changing, stressed about my body, and couldn’t find peace with it. For a time, I believed that stressing about my health would be something I had to deal with forever, that I couldn’t escape it.
But I’m glad I didn’t stop searching for answers. Through courage, love, understanding, and luck, I find myself today in a very different world– my health no longer feels like treading water hoping to stay above water, but a life where I can simply lean back and float.
6 powerful lessons from Japan that helped me heal my health
Find the one or two contaminating habits to quit
When it comes to personal health, and especially when we find ourselves in a desperate situation, we are often told that we must do a complete overhaul of our lives to become healthier. But I believe that 90% of our health struggles actually stem from one or two (what I like to call) contaminating habits– habits which lead to other bad habits.
This is why you find articles of people giving up beer, soda, cereal, or even social media, and they profess that it changed their life– and it does, because that one habit would set off a whole chain of reactions.
In Japan I saw that the way I lived (ie. unhealthy person at the time) and the way the average Japanese person lived (ie. healthy person) was 90% the same– minor changes can make major impacts.
