How to be healthy and happy

What does being healthy and happy mean to you? Perhaps you feel it’s got something to do with your outer appearance, or maybe you’d like to be less sad or anxious. Whatever your interpretation of those two words, healthy and happy, I’ll guarantee the answer isn’t as simple as you think it might be. Life doesn’t work like that because if it did, as soon as the ‘gift’ you wished for had arrived you’d no longer be looking for the next thing to make whatever ails you better. Let’s face it happiness isn’t delivered by Santa or by the latest gadget or must-have look. So if health and happiness aren’t delivered to us, how can we ever expect to be healthier or happier? The Cambridge Dictionary defines health as “the condition of the body and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of being well“. And the medical dictionary defines it as “a relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one’s unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living. In the words of René Dubos, “health is primarily a measure of each person’s ability to do and become what he(/she) wants to become.” Personally, I prefer the latter definition because it fits with both my own lived experience of health and happiness AND my observed experience of working with many thousands of women over ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health happy healthy Source Type: news