3 Ways You Can Prioritize Your Health

It’s Almost Summer: Time To Prioritize Your Health!

Are you doing little or nothing to prioritize your health? Yes, we know you’re busy and stressed and maybe overwhelmed by cascading bad or unwelcome news day after day. All these are excuses people make when they don’t want to bother with health maintenance. But health maintenance is what your body and mind crave to best serve you. What does it mean to ignore your health in little ways?

When You Don’t Prioritize Your Health

Mom doesn’t bother hydrating with water and wonders why she faints in hot weather. Fainting can be dangerous for senior, or anybody else. John, in middle age, has blood sugar rollercoaster highs and lows resulting from a poor diet.

All that sugar and fat at lunch, and he falls asleep at work. Then he needs a caffeine boost two hours later. That makes him edgy and irritable on his way home. Not great for family harmony later on. Food is a big component of a healthy lifestyle. Not to mention people who suffer from chronic pain and don’t manage it well. What about all that worry and stress your teens experience that prevents them from enjoying life, and sleeping well at night.

These are a few tiny examples of not taking health seriously and experiencing negative consequences that could be avoided. We need to drink water, watch what we eat and when we eat it, and have a strategy for stress and pain management. This is what prioritizing your health is all about.

Prioritize Your Health: Emotional Wellbeing

We’re going to start by taking a look at your emotional wellbeing. For some reason, as a society we have decided that talking about your emotions if they are negative is not allowed, and if you dare to do so you are going to be called a complainer or worse. Well, this narrative needs to change, because emotional wellbeing is just as important as any other aspect of health, and it’s time you started taking it seriously.

To take care of your emotional wellbeing, you need to first acknowledge your issues. Speak to someone and start learning more about your emotions and how you can feel better.

Here Are 5 Signs Of Emotional Wellness

Do you have someone you can share your concerns and feelings with.
Can you say “no” when you need to without feeling guilty.
How do you feel? Do you feel content most of the time.
Do you have a strong support network. Are their people in your life who love you? Can you love them back?

See red flags? Time to get help.

Prioritize Your Health: Have A Stress And Pain Management Strategy

Are you someone who suffers with regular chronic pain or are overwhelmed by stress? Don’t try to push through it or take too many meds. Explore pain management methods and find healthy solutions. If it’s hurting you, it’s an issue and pushing it to the back isn’t going to help.

A great option for stress is the services of someone who offers registered massage therapy. You can use natural products, physical therapy, over the counter medication, and if it’s still not enough, then you need to speak to your doctor to get further assistance.

Prioritize Your Health: Consider Lifestyle Changes

Finally, if you regularly indulge in bad habits then it might be time to make some lifestyle changes to prioritize your health. Bad habits all add up and you don’t see the harm they could be doing to the inside of your body, they can also affect the parts you can see. For example, smoking impacts your lung and heart health. Giving up smoking could increase your life expectancy and your lungs can heal themselves if they have a break from the toxins.

8 Healthy Lifestyle Elements

Eat a balanced diet (You see our image? Limit your sugar)
Make time for exercise
Drink lots of water
Manage your weight to help your heart
Avoid tobacco products
Limit alcohol use
Get enough rest (turn off your devices before bedtime)

Need to quit some bad habits? There is help out there if you are trying to quit your bad habits, speak to professionals about how to make healthy lifestyle changes, and they will be able to recommend healthier alternatives and how to combat cravings.

So there you have it, when you take time to prioritize your health then you will instantly feel better. Your body and mind will thank you for taking them seriously.