I have been thinking about and sort of meaning to post here for a while. . .
1) you can do anything - you can get to any health you wish to, if you want to. .
The most important things are what you eat and above all, drinking enough water. . . If you only drink water when you're thirsty, you're not drinking anywhere near enough. . . It is possible to drink too much, but most people - at least around here - are dehydrated a lot of the time. When you are, then your other organs suffer, because your body is always depleting itself of water, and when it doesn't get enough through drinking, it takes water from the brain, liver and kidneys. . .
So that alone is like huge, #1. . . then, eating healthy foods, natural foods. . .that accounts for so much.
But then, it's not just what you eat, but how you eat it. . . if you eat something in an anxious state of mind, or angry, it can actually do your body some harm. . .
Then - besides these things, there are like, literally hundreds of things, sort of secret things, you can do to keep yourself in perfect health. . . I won't go into all of them here - but things like relaxing. . . stretching. . . Above all how you feel about yourself, how healthy you believe you are, makes a bigger difference than you might think. Chapter 4 of Varieties of Religious Experience, about healthy-mindedness and the mind-cure movement (of the 19th century) is an extremely interesting and useful treatise on the subject.
Besides the mental aspect, mental formations and what not, there are other secrets (not because nature is tricky, but because she is sublime) to reaching perfect health. . . connected with the relaxation one. . .there's a method you can use, sort of a shortcut to meditation. . . it's more or less a physiological 'button' that you can do to send waves of relaxation throughout your body. In a very calm, peaceful, state of mind (because it's mutually beneficial to the technique), close your eyes, and gently roll them up towards the back of your head. This relaxes muscles and tension, and strengthens them, because relieving stress is usually one of the best ways to strengthen the body. . . My dad taught me this ever since I was a little kid. . It's super, super, useful and beneficial - more so when coupled with the literally dozens of ways you can give yourself small edges in the health and wellness area. Using it - when you're tired, when you've got a difficult task - can allow you to perform at a much higher level for much longer. . . For instance, if you ever have to stay up for longer than usual, especially if it's a whole lot longer, this method is invaluable.
Time I use is usually just 15-30 seconds.
So - anyway, as long as you believe in yourself, you can basically accomplish anything as far personal health is concerned. Don't let anything hold you back from achieving whatever state of healthy body you wish to achieve.
