Our health and physical/mental well-being is very important to our family, to the community and to the nation. If we fall in sickness, we will be the burden of our family, our community and to the nation.
So to be responsible for our family, our community and our nation, we should take good care of ourselves.
According to Birgitta Haga Gripsrud I would really like to know why so many people harm themselves by using so much mobile phone, watching TV, waste their microbiom by eating industrial sugar, industrial meat, fast food etc. or by taking pills which are not useful just because any physicain prescribes etc... We definitely need more self-authorization in handling our health-skills. Therfore a lot of new science and teaching is needed!
We human beings are vulnerable. Don't ever over-stretch yourself. If you feel tired or sleepy, just stop working, take a rest, and have a good sleep. Even if your family members or colleagues don't understand and blame you of "being lazy", don't feel guilty. Helping yourself is as important as taking care of your family and your work.
I agree, Ligen Yu, that care of self/taking care of one self is important. The question which is even more interesting to discuss is why some people don't take care of themselves, or even act self-destructively, despite this knowledge.
Dear Dr Birgitta Haga Gripsrud,
Thank you for your contribution to this discussion. You have presented a very important question: why some people don't take care of themselves, or even act self-destructively, despite knowing that one should take care of himself.
There are a lot of causes for this problem. One is that, from childhood, we have been taught that we should be selfless and altruistic, which implies that self-care is selfish and unethical.
However, there is another more fundamental cause of this problem: our mind has negative bias, which is evolutionally valuable, but is redundant in the modern civilized society:
Book Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of...
And when we have a negative mind, we will be controlled by our negative feeling to escape from some imaginary “risk” by the fight-or-flight response. we will use a rather destructive way to “protect” ourselves. In such situation, we have lost any free-will, and all the behaviors are controlled by our emotions, and in the worst case, controlled by the traumatic experience in our childhood:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
People can only have free will and be responsible to themselves when they have a level of consciousness of Neutrality and above:
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/levels-of-consciousness/
Thank you!
Best regards
According to Birgitta Haga Gripsrud I would really like to know why so many people harm themselves by using so much mobile phone, watching TV, waste their microbiom by eating industrial sugar, industrial meat, fast food etc. or by taking pills which are not useful just because any physicain prescribes etc... We definitely need more self-authorization in handling our health-skills. Therfore a lot of new science and teaching is needed!
An important subject .. I agree with you completely, taking care of ourselves is important and this is the right of ourselves to our health and we deserve it .. In fact the difficulty lies in how we apply it with the pressure of work and the requirements surrounding us.
Dear Dr Christian Jost , thank you for joining this discussion. I have to say that we human beings are irrational. It is very hard to reach a healthy harmonic state with the reconciliation of mental and physical well-being. We need more knowledge, dedication and practice to gain the self-authorized health handling skills to avoid those self-harming behaviors.
Especially, we need the right knowledge about microbiome. I suspect that, most of the health problems facing us today is related to the fact that we have used too much antibiotic medicine in killing the microbiome, which some people say it is actually another organ in our body, and it has the same importance as our brain.
Dear Prof Ekhlas A. Hussein , thank you for your contribution to the discussion. You are right, for a lot of things, we find that it is easy to know, but very difficult to put into practice. Yet we still have to practice it firmly. That is, our health and well-being is the first priority, everything other than that is subordinate and can be sacrificed if it is harming our health. Cheers!
People do on self because they love themselves. We must first take care of ourselves that we would be capable to help those we love.
We must maintain our health because it is the most important thing in the human being through periodic review of the doctor and conducting tests to avoid a lot of health problems, especially when the initial detection.
Despite the attention and care of health must come the day when the human stop and die. It's the inevitable truth.
Dear Dr Ahmed Saeed Mohmed, thank you for your contribution to the discussion! It is true that death is inevitable for everyone of us. However, illness and degradation of organ function can be avoided by proper diet and lifestyle change. And it is my sincere wish that everyone of us can live a healthy happy long life like Luigi Cornaro. Cheers!
Sure, of course, Dear Dr. Ligen Yu , my wishes for you and your family healthy and wellness.
Dear Mubashar Shah ,
Thank you for contributing to the discussion. Agree that all humen love themselves. Yet, not all humen have the right skill of loving and being loved. Our skill of loving and being loved is not innate, but is learned from our environment when we are growing up, just like we learn our culture.
And because of lacking of such skill, a lot of people harm thenselves and their loved ones unconsciously in the name of "love".
I agree with Ligen yu sir
Nobody will take care of your health when in trouble except you
Hi,
One needs to take care of himself, which would make him stay healthy and productive throughout his life span. Else, such a short life may easily come to an end and you may have your loved ones suffering because of you.
- Badges
- Science topic