Health: learning about the importance of it!!

As I talk with friends, family, and new contacts,  I am constantly amazed by people’s inner strength and will to find their way to the other side of health issues.  As a person who has had the good fortune to live in a predominantly healthy form,  I was interested in how people would approach their health issues if they knew that they were going to be lasting or severe.  In other words, what could I learn as a “heads up” to problem solving health signs, but not be paranoid.  The first step appears to be knowing yourself and knowing what is your personal status.  Stay in touch with the health field for baseline health checks. The next step appears to be observing and noting differences, what may have caused them, are things progressing, have there been earlier signs that were unnoticed etc.  One of my original motivators for Selfseeds was how to keep moving forward with personal goals while finding a balance in reality.  My body was often my strength and my weakness.  It has allowed me to experience remarkable elements of feel, fluidity, strength, and flexibility, but it has also been the absolute no in the equation of life.  Blacking out in moments of fatigue were nonnegotiable points yelling, “What are you doing!.”  When going in for health checks, sleep deprivation ranks right up there with smoking, excess weight, alcohol abuse, lack of exercise etc. , but it doesn’t look as bad from the outside.

The changes I was forced to look at led me to a deeper examination of stillness.  I am on my way to Jaipur, India for an indefinite period of time to become a student of this inner process.  A six week stay in April/May wetted my appetite for more.

Please share your processes and observations with your efforts to stay healthy or work with a health challenge.