Shsss: The secret to good health

What are the secrets to a healthy and long life?

Is there anyone reading this not seeking the answer to this question?

So is the answer simple? Complicated? Easy to follow? Impossible to achieve?

To understand this, let us start with the simplest version of the truth.

Do we know what you need to do?

The answer is unequivocally yes. The secrets to a long and healthy life are well documented.

Nutrition, sleep, breathing, exercise, meditation to prevent an emergency. Intervention using medical science in the event of an emergency.

So why hasn’t everyone already achieved their goals?

The simplest answer is consistency.

You know that walking is good for you. But ask yourself, how many days did you walk this year?

You know that meditation and breathing reduces stress and anxiety. But ask yourself, how many days did you meditate or practice breathing this year?

If you have been inconsistent, it is not lack of knowledge. It is the ability to practice what you know.

Which leads us to the question, why are we inconsistent?

Strangely, one of the biggest culprits is knowledge. Too much of it.

The constant influx of “knowledge,” often contradictory, has taken over our lives. It takes an impossible amount of discipline to sift through the facts before you can apply it to your life.

Worse, you trick yourself into believing that you did something. But consuming content is not walking, unless of course you are consuming content while walking.

So boring as it may sound, if you want to be healthy, build consistency into your life. Do the same thing over and over again, until it is like brushing your teeth.

Avoid new information like the plague.

Instead, build tiny circles of habits around your life.

Do the same thing over and over again, till you have gained mastery over your mind and body. When you are confident that it is a habit, move on to build the next boring habit.

Good health is not entertaining, there is Netflix for that.

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