What is Holistic Health and Wellbeing?

Holistic Health and You! Resolution Wellness is all about a holistic approach to life and health. But you may be wondering what does Holistic Health mean and how it is going to help me?

There are many occurrences where the term Holistic health is used as an alternative approach to medicine. Although alternative medicines can be used to treat illness and symptoms, whereas a holistic approach looks as you as a whole being, regardless of any illness.

Holistic health focuses on mind, body, spirit and emotions as well as how a person responds to their environment. Even without any illness present, you can still not be your 100% healthy, happy or balanced. In holistic health, each aspect of your being effects your overall health and wellbeing.

Your overall state of being should be positive and when part of you is not working optimally, then other areas will suffer.

Do you find that your poor eating habits negatively impact your moods and thoughts around your body? Or that your long working hours lead to poor sleep and depleted energy?

Living a holistic approach can transform you and balance all areas of your life, whether it means to take responsibility for healing, day to day wellness and achieving your highest state of wellbeing.

Why is Holistic Health and Wellbeing Important?

When Physical wellbeing is jeopardised, it causes people to turn to conventional medicine. Rather than treating the underlining condition and finding the root cause naturally and holistically, people often opt for drugs and other methods to mask and treat the illness.

People believe that they could get away with unhealthy lifestyle choices, and modern medicine would “fix” them as problems arise… 

It is said that lifestyle choices affect 53% of our overall health and wellbeing, however modern medicine only consider the visible problems and how to treat it. This can lead to reoccurring illness and unawareness of how you feel within.

When your physical and mental wellness are out of alignment with one another, this can be difficult to achieve balance creating more problems into your life. Holistic health looks at both aspects of being to improve your quality of life.

When incorporating a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, it can be part of a preventative action for recurring illness, but more importantly, it improves physical wellness, mental health and your internal balance.

When you practice holistic wellness, you will?

· Want to be the best version of yourself everyday

· Feel improved morale

· Have boosted confidence

· Keep healthy, happy relationships

· Feel healthier and happier

· Live more aligned and balanced

How to Apply a Holistic Approach to life

We are all aware that boosting morale and confidence won’t just happen overnight and it takes time to build and achieve balance.

To improve your everyday wellness and happiness there are physical and mental things you can do regularly that will bring you one step closer to holistic health and wellness:

Nutrition

Fuelling your body the right way will definitely make a difference to your physical health. Each individual is unique and not everyone will react in the same way towards food, for instance too many carbs can lead to bloating and weaken your mental health and happiness, were as others crave on carbs to fuel their body and improve energy.

Implementing a diet and nutrition plan into your holistic approach to life will guide you, remind you of your daily health responsibility, and trigger you to make better choices for yourself.

Exercise and Physical Healing

Overall exercise has immeasurable benefits on the body physically and mentally, although the key is to be consistent which can help you reach your goals gradually.

Whether you want to lose weight, build muscle or workout as a hobby, there are many holistic benefits to exercise. Exercise will improve your physical being, which can also reflect your mental being.

When performing any type of exercises into your routine, whether it be yoga, weight training, walking or boxing, weight loss, body image, and confidence can grow along with positive thoughts and boosted functionality.

Therefore, it is important to regularly look after your body in other ways too, such as massage, physiotherapy or posture correction. When suffering from aches and pains or injury it is important you take care of your body and focus on recovery so that you are able to perform at your best.

Regardless whether you are suffering or not, massage therapy is another holistic approach and is a great way to maintain physical wellness by releasing muscle tension, increase relaxation, reduce the stress hormone, and stimulate the lymphatic system.

Mind Therapy

Our mind is an important aspect of our being, because our thoughts reflect our feelings which can then present outward to the world, how we react to situations and most importantly towards ourselves.

Holistic health and wellness considers every aspect of your being, your mind needs to be trained too. This can be through meditation, coaching, journaling, and therapy so that we are able to:

· Identify limiting beliefs

· Increase self-awareness

· Grow emotional intelligence

· Make conscious choices

· Notice patterns of behaviour

· Overcome any metal roadblocks

When you explore and nurture your mind, you have the opportunity to reach your full potential and improve your life precipitously.

Reaching Your Holistic Health Goals

As you can see, there are many dimensions of holistic health, and it will take time, effort and hard work to achieve. Resolution wellness is here to help you achieve your goals, feel aligned and in balance which will transform your life and approach to health and wellness in a whole new way.