How to nurture yourself
Which part of you needs some work: body, mind or spirit…or all three?
There are some things you can do which will interconnect. You think you are nurturing your body for example but there are good effects on your mind and spirit too.
For example you decide it’s time to start eating more healthily so you look through your food stores and throw away or give away all the junk you have there: the high sugar foods, the high saturated fat foods and instead buy lots of fruit, fresh frozen and canned all are good so long as they are as natural as possible without additives and without sugar.
You replace your saturated fats with olive oil or other healthy oils and fats: which can include some nuts and avocado pears too. You buy lean organic meat, chicken, low fat beef and lamb and lots of fresh fish too. Finally you fill any remaining spaces with plenty of vegetables and fresh salad ingredients, as much as possible organic.
You make lots of healthy meals with these ingredients supplemented with wholemeal bread, brown rice and brown pasta. As a result you may lose weight and your skin will probably become clearer and healthier looking. Your whole sense of well being will improve just by improving the way you eat.
Do you know what will follow on from that as sure as night follows day? Because you begin to feel better you will actually want to do more exercise. Exercise will be a pleasurable activity and in so doing you will feel your mind become clearer, as you exercise solutions to your worries will pop into your head almost effortlessly and you are very likely to find that challenges which have been causing you stress for some time become clearer and you know exactly what you will do.
So looking after your body affects the well-being of your mind and that in turn improves your spiritual and emotional well being too. You will begin to notice and marvel at sunrises and sunsets, at the wonder of the seasons and nature changing through the year.
All these wonderful benefits happen by just changing your diet mindfully and knowing you are not doing this to lose loads of weight or be strict on yourself. You are doing it because you want to live in a healthy body and be looking after your mind and spirit too. However the unexpected outcome of doing this will be that you will eat what you need to become the weight you truly want to be.