What is a healthy lifestyle ? Do we really have any personal health obligations? These obligations that force us to restrict ourselves on certain pleasures in life. Do we really have to follow a precise and strict protocol in order to avoid a disease?
When you are followed by a natural health professional such as a naturopath, you are often persuaded - wrongly - that you will have to confine yourself to certain dietary constraints (veganism or vegetarianism) and to a healthy lifestyle in general. In fact, how many people give up on the idea of making an appointment because they think it will be too much for them to handle?
How many people do not dare to consult a naturopath because they are too afraid of change?
Clichés!
Living a healthy life does not mean eating raw vegetables, sprouted seeds and practicing meditation 4H a day between yoga and baking homemade gluten free bread, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. However, these clichés are increasingly conveyed, wrongly. Let's remember this famous quote: "In all things, excess is bad. "And this maxim could be used for both positive and negative elements. Indeed, life must be, for it to be healthy and alive, a balance and equilibrium between good and bad, evil and good, hot and cold, healthy and unhealthy.
Isn't this what the symbolism of yin and yang is trying to teach us?
Will eating a hamburger once in a while have a negative impact on your entire health? Will eating ice cream in the middle of summer, with your kids or friends, affect your overall health? Certainly not, as long as everything is measured and everything is at its fair value.
Let's stay within reason so that the balance can find its place and the energy of life can circulate as well as possible. Indeed, by consuming only healthy foods (sprouted seeds, super foods, raw green vegetables, green juices, etc.), we could cause some frustration and therefore an emotional impact that will inevitably act on the physical body.
Is it finally better?
This awareness is obviously not general and does not concern a minority or a majority of the population. We are all different with different needs and here again, taking a step back from what the other person is doing and how they are doing it is very important.
Personal life balance.
The important thing in life is not to fall into extremes but to find your personal balance. If tomorrow you are invited to a heavy meal with a nice aperitif, very rich dishes and a rather sweet dessert, you can compensate for these excesses with a lighter next day with soup, broth or why not a young intermittent. A sport session and a meditation focused on breathing could also positively benefit the elimination of toxins related to this evening.
There is no need to deprive ourselves of the social benefits that this type of evening can have because they are important for our life balance and our emotional hygiene.
Indeed, cutting ourselves off from the social world could also pollute us because we need it to advance and evolve. Obviously, the idea is not to get bogged down in the meanders of industrial consumption that pollutes the physical and even emotional body but, as I mentioned above, to find a personal balance in life.