Healthy Lifestyle

Essay
Healthy Lifestyle

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important to everyone, whether doing exercises in the gym, eating healthy food or just assuming positive energy in some other way. Healthy lifestyle means different things to different people - while health is different for each of us, we all have the ability to make healthy lifestyle choices the most available and appropriate to us. In this essay I will express my personal point of view on what I understand with „Healthy Lifestyle”. In this paragraph I will express my opinion on the importance of person's physical health in one's lifetime. The first condition for good health is our physical health - what we eat, how much sleep we get, how often we exercise - all these things affect our physical body. Many people when they feel good doesn't really value the greatest treasure they have - good health. Only when they start to feel some problems with their health (such as depression, diabetes, heart disease etc.), they start to think seriously about their health. Actually, the importance of physical health I also understood quiet recently when I started to suffer from health problems. It made me re-arrange my attitude to my body, physical condition and life overall. I can definitely say that good physical condition - it is the key for being happy, successful and beautiful. In this paragraph I will explain my opinion on the importance of person's mental health during one's lifetime. The second condition for healthy lifestyle is our mental health - what kind of job we do, whether or not we enjoy what we do in everyday life, how we cope with stress, our personal and professional relationships. High-pressure jobs, family problems, financial problems - there is no end to it, are contributing factors to the stress. We can’t completely exclude stress from our lives, but we can learn to prevent it by understanding that we are alive human beings not machines and sometimes just to say „NO” to the things that are not so important. Avoiding stressful situations in our lives as much as possible - it is the key of our mental health. In this paragraph I will explain my opinion on the importance of person's emotional health during one's lifetime. The third condition is our emotional health - what energy we assume in our everyday life. The environment we are surrounded - home, office, university etc. and people we meet also affects our body and influences our health. I can say from my personal life - I was in the environment, which I found depressing for about three years. After these three years when I was out of this place, I started to feel that my health is getting worse, even though I wasn't there any more for a quiet long period of time. With this I want to say that caused harm to our health doesn't develop immediately. It might be developing for years by the time our body begin to suffer health problems. Emotional health - it is the key to our inner peace and satisfaction. Our bodies need to be in optimal health in order to reach all the goals we have settled for ourselves. We can reach it only when we are physically, mentally and emotionally healthy. We can increase our bodies’ strength and capacity by eating healthy food, exercising regularly, doing fun things and practicing relaxation techniques such as meditation, hiking, running, yoga, swimming, walking, being surrounded by people we like or doing other things we enjoy. When we focus on things we love, when we arrange things according to our values - we get control of our lives and find inner peace in ourselves, and as the result we get „healthy” attitude to life overall, which makes us a healthy person.