Another Medicine

Daily Meditation — 4/30/2022
Physical Wellness Segment of YouDaimonia

Your body rebels against you, furious for staying up to the wee hours scrolling on your phone until your brain was nearly shutting down.

Your hormones ache within you, depriving you of the positive feelings they can soak you in because you aren’t moving enough.

Your weight grows more and more, addictions to laboratory-created, mouth-feel-enhanced “foods” and carb-rich meals fueling insulin resistance and making your brain into a foggy quagmire.

All these feelings combine — exhaustion, depression, and gnawing hunger — as your doctor prescribes you medications to feel emotionally better. More stable.

While some of us truly need medicated help, another medicine is in maintaining good focus on movement and eating well, calorically, each day…In doing this most of the time.

Challenging your body — putting the muscles and energy you consume to work — improves and sharpens your mind as a whetstone sharpens a sword.

Eating well — taking in just enough calories to maintain or to gently lose weight —with quality foods rich in nutrients and of few ingredients fills your body with nourishment it craves, turning the dying crackle of energy into a roaring blaze.

Sleeping fitly — having outstanding sleep hygiene and a rock-solid routine — without your phone or television, without lights and no disturbances sets your mind to work, organizing the day’s experiences and healing your body.

Staying up, eating highly palatable sweets, and sitting around are the easy things. Avoid that which is easy, most days, and instead do what is right!

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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”