Ideal Healthy living, as we are so usually told, is all about balance! but how it could be possible?
We must follow the GOLDEN rule:
'Do unto others as you want them to do to you'
Matthew 7:12
I think the question is very interesting and important, but difficult to answer in generalized form. It can probably not be answered by the type of answers that is common in RG: to give as short answers as possible in the form of recipes with which you can achieve success as quickly as possible.
The answer to this question is probably part of one's own attitude to life and with increasing age it is reflected all the more strongly, also in retrospect on one's own life.
Anyone who sits at the computer for 8 hours or more every day for many years or carries out a similar activity will hardly lead a "balanced" life that can be described as healthy. It is good to know examples of people who actually manage to lead a "good life" that is balanced in many respects, including their own health and that of the family. Physical work - gardening or sport - is certainly part of this. I don't feel that someone who wires himself up to be a jogger and measures the daily values of running is one of them. Ambition does not seem to me to be part of a healthy life. However, the paths are different. The awareness of wanting to lead a healthy life or approaching this goal is part of it. But to make health a goal in order to lead a good life to mine seems to me to be an error. It is the other way round, to lead a meaningful, balanced life means in any case to lead a healthy life.
Dear Parisa Ziarati
Learning to live from the soul is vital for us, but it does not always appear that healthy to others. It also helps to overcome the paradoxes Ligen Yu talks about.
Warm regards Tina
I think achieving such a balance is difficult. Sometimes emotion at work contradicts this balance and affects health.
Agree with Anastas that none of us can achieve an absolute healthy regime. Yet we may remain in a relatively healthy range, and not fall in sickness.
We have to exert certain movements like breathing, eating or walking/running. All movements will create some degrees of wear and tear. Luckly, our body has self-repaire ability, and it can regenerate the worn cells. So wear and tear may actually good for us, as it may trigger our body's regeneration mechanism.
And if we feel tired, just have a good rest and sufficient nutrition, we can be as energitic as a perpetual motion machine.
Even if sporting activities that one pursues as a hobby sometimes reach the limits of one's capabilities: a healthy life is for me (and I think for everyone) in any case a state in which I feel comfortable. The well known definition of health by the WHO includes the subjective factor: that will feel well in what we do for our health, certain physical stresses that occur briefly are included in this understanding.
If you are doing reasonably well, then you will ask yourself this question again and again at a higher age. Therefore the question is also interesting and reasonable. If, however, you have to struggle with existential needs, then the solution to this question is not as important as the solution to the current problem. I think the answer is based both on one's own experiences and on interactions with the circle of reference persons and the chosen role models.
To treat it fairly is easier than balancing everything.
It is, in fact, the wisdom of life. Some things cannot be learned but only experienced. There are a lot of outside influences and it's really hard to balance everything. But patience, honesty, selflessness, prudence and love help us find the right way ...
All dear friends and colleagues
Appreciate you and admire your valuable answers and discussion!
It is very difficult ,lot of skill and patience required to achieve it
Something that worries me is the fact that the familiar forms of social communication with which we have so far successfully brought our lives into openly controllable social balances have taken on a new dimension through the social media. Of course, we are happy to take advantage of them and are then quite surprised by the devastating effects of social media. Uncontrollable shit-storms that hit individuals, manipulation and evil political and social messages can be easily accommodated here - and are particularly successful.
in addition:
One should ask oneself why digital fascism is much more effective than the call to practice charity. The net is full of messages whose effect is insecurity, fear, threat, but which hardly strengthen peace and friendship. The fear of being a victim of developments that one cannot overlook oneself has grown. You have to protect yourself from not becoming a victim of blackmail (because some criminals "conjure" something into your system unnoticed and then try to blackmail you). The ambivalence of digitalization - which is mistakenly presented by its promoters as "democratization" - should be included in the discussion.
If as a young person one could grow up in the security of an intact family and if the further professional development also proceeded positively on this basis, then one is grateful and the love, which one received, can be repaid.
What is the most beautiful in a harmonious coexistence within a larger community or even in the whole of humanity? That we not only give our parents something of the loving care they gave us as children and that we give them through help and care when they are old and in need of care. We can give many other people something of the love and happiness we have received.
Living in a temperate manner is fundamental, without food abuse. Avoid sedentary life. Play sports. Cultivate friendships.
In my own experience, good sleep is also a tool that helps to lead a balanced life. However, to live a fulfilled life is probably to want to go over the top and do something extraordinary, every now and then. Just looking for balance makes life a little monotonous, I suppose.
Yes, the recommendation to everyone to think positively is something we hear very often today, and I believe that this recommendation is also correct. But I also experience many conflicts that burden friends, acquaintances and relatives. I then always have a strong sense of compassion. Sometimes I think that this compassion is too strong to think "normally". Often I have to ask me: Doesn't positive thinking often reproach us for something that is constantly being challenged by the dilemmas and contradictions of our own lives? When couples who are close friends share the news: We've separated, and divorce is the goal. I always suffer a lot from it. Although I am not involved, I ask myself the question: Have I perhaps become complicit? Of course I would like to think more positively, but it is difficult to see others suffer.
Hein Retter sir..quite convinced by your statements.... but sometimes we get too stressed to maintain balance all the time, that we might get toppled.
Sometimes its OK to be unfair .(in moderation and intermittent)
Thank you so much for bringing in this Dear Parisa Ziarati .. Much regards to you
Listening to your body and mind will give one many clues about balance. Journaling will help greatly in this regard. For example if one indulgences in eating a certain kind of food (say dessert) one day and if they remember it and how the body feels about it, then they can regulate their own behavior and balance it. In all these matters awareness is the key. The body will usually tell you if you are straying off balance and if you sit and spend some time thinking about it it is possible to re-achieve balance and moderation. The key is not to criticize oneself severely or berate over it but be patient and forward looking.
Amina Sultan
yes, thank you for your comment. I think so also. However, I am always aware that I am opposite the majority of other people who are much more involved in the stress cycle: work-money earn-money spend money to live.
Balance and moderation is to give everything something ability without increasing or decreasing. Balance and moderation is a year of life. Moderation and equilibrium makes a person exceed the obstacles and problems, and by balance he achieves what he wishes and aspires to.
Life is most exciting when one loses all balance in order to surrender completely to a great feeling or a stunning insight. Blessed is the one who is capable of it.
It is a certain advantage for a balanced life if, in an emergency (or in general), you still have an option other than the one you normally use. In some areas of life, e.g. in the media, in sports, or in the consumption of food or drinks, or in holiday offers, there is an overabundance of options today - and people waste valuable time to choose from these options, but in the really existentially important things, there is no room for manoeuvre and one feels helpless. This is a contradiction that is worth thinking about.
it is always about the question: What is important for me and my closest caregivers such as the family - and in what respect should I better learn to do without?
Dear @Hein Retter I really appreciate the way you approach the discussions and questions.
I think knowing how to set the priorities is being very crucial these days, and filtering is very important skill in many domains.
Probably you will also experience unfairness and even inhumanity in your own life, but in every situation people have the task of taking their lives into their own hands as best they can.
in addition: I do not try to moderate my life, but live it daily, but pursue certain action goals.
To treat fairly and balance in everything in one modern life is a hard situation. One can hardly and nearly balance between his famly, job, personal hobbies, and other resposiblities. So, it is a difficult one to treat with.
To live on the edge of chaos, which means between order and disorder, cold and warm, known and unknown, visible and invisible, etc.The edge of chaos is other name for complex adaptive systems.The most complex and chaotic complex adaptive system is the human brain.It is important for the answer to the question observe the human brain in the context of a changing environment. In a complex environment, the complex brain evolves.This way the brain adapts to the environment and anticipates changes in it.Only so the brain will treat fairly and balance everything in the moderation of life
In my opinion, the question: How to treat honestly and balance everything in moderation of life? people ask themselves many times during their lives. For example, how to balance the time spent on work and personal life? In a situation where work is also a passion, it often happens that we devote too little time to personal life. In such a situation, it is important to carry out some kind of SWOT analysis, i.e. analysis of life achievements and failures, as well as opportunities and threats to the development of business operations in the future. The results of the analysis will be used to verify the goals and the possibilities of achieving them. In addition, it is important to consistently adhere to certain rules and planned goals to be implemented as part of time management.
Have a nice day. Regards.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
In my opinion, achieve balance in all aspects of life, taking into account good relationships with other people, achieving personal and professional goals, balance time and activity devoted to professional work and family, function in harmony with nature, apply the principles of ethics, social responsibility, etc. This is often one of the important issues of our existence that we have not been aware of and only seemingly easy to implement. Whether we think about it longer and try to reach the ideal in this matter, the more difficult it turns out.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Always be cool and stable in every situation of life, then anyone can overcome everything good or bad.
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