The Four Main Aspects of Life

All of us want to stay healthy. And individually, we have different opinions, beliefs, viewpoints, and statements regarding this matter.

What is your lifestyle to stay healthy? Does it require a lot of effort and endeavor? Are you happy with the result? Or you're still doing a lot of self-discipline?

We all know that having a healthy lifestyle results in a long and happy life. We're struggling for that achievement as this civilization doesn't help us with that objective. But still, we're doing the best that we can to achieve the healthy lifestyle that we require.

In this article, I will share some of my ideas and my suggestions on how to stay healthy. And I will tackle the 4 main aspects of an individual that work together to guide us along the path of life.

📌Physical health

As human beings, we're created to maintain our bodies clean. In our school, teachers always demand us to do that. Take a bath regularly, brush your teeth after meals, cut your nails and make them clean, etc. Since we're kids, we know that having a clean body results in a healthy physique. And that's what we do until now. Maintaining the cleanliness that it obliges. How about the food we eat? Some of us don't know how to have a healthy meal. Just eating everything, as long that it's delicious and suits our taste buds. By the way, my Dad trained us to have a 2 dish per meal.

One for the meat or fish, and the other one for veggies. Vegetables need to be present always. He got angry and don't enjoy eating without it. So, I adopt that healthy way of living when it comes to nutrition.

📌Mental health

How can you rate your IQ? Some of us try to answer an examination to know how high our IQ is. Some just join competitions where people know who is the smartest.

Well, having a healthy brain is a must. It gives us confidence if we are wise. But how can you say if you have a healthy brain?

According to Mental Health Foundation, "Good mental health is characterized by a person's ability to fulfill several keys functions and activities, including the ability to learn, the ability to feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions."

It means having a healthy mind, requires you to learn easily, and to organize your emotions. It's true, some of us cannot handle that much, so it leads to stress or worst, depression.

Another part of mental health is what we insert into our brain. For example, what kind of movies do you watch? What entertainment do you enjoy playing? What type of music do you love to listen to?

These are the daily activities that we love doing. But did you know that the things that we see and hear can affect our mental health? Yes. Take music for example. Some songs are composed of unpleasant lyrics. It is common for us now. Sometimes because of the beautiful beat, we tend to enjoy music without thinking about the verses of the song. Little did we know, we hymn the song until we memorize it whole. That's what other call LSS (Last Song Syndrome). Then without knowing, the unpleasant lyrics already affect our way of thinking. It influences us and results in bad behavior.

What about people that we socialize with? Can it affect our mental health? Yes, they can.

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People are like sponges. Even though we don't want to be influenced, we can easily adapt to what people around us think. In no meantime, we will just realize that the way we speak is the same with the people we're always socializing with. So make sure to choose your friends wisely.

📌Moral values

How high our standards when it comes to morally? In this world, I can say that it's not that outstanding. A lot of people get used to same-sex marriage, sex before marriage, or even immorality. Sadly, it's being common for us to read some news or hear an announcement regarding the low moral standard. How about you? What's your viewpoint regarding this matter?

As for me, I will stick to a high standard of the Bible. I know people view it today as an old model book. But I trust the author of it, which is God. He created us so He knows what's the best for us.

I and my husband have been in a relationship for about 7 years. We love each other dearly. We spend our time together on a date, or in a simple conversation. We hold hands, hug, kiss, yeah we do that. How about sex? Honestly, we never did that for 7 years. A lot of people who are in a relationship spend their night together. Doing things that belong to a married couple. It's true, we struggled so much about this matter. We are tempted to do it, but because we love each other and respect each other... We won the battle. 😊 We are married now and didn't regret that we follow the high moral standard. I am happy that I gave him the whole me when we're already married. That builds trust more.

Surely, if we follow the high moral standard... We will be happy. We will avoid the possible illness that it brings. And certainly, our conscience will be clean.

📌Spiritual values

How strong your relationship with God? Are you aware that in life, spiritual well-being is required?

We are all busy with our daily work, activities, and chores. But do you somehow set a schedule for the spiritual routines? How do you do it? Can it strengthen your connection with Him?

Some rich people or famous ones share a story of being lonely. Out of popularity and wealth, they still feel that something is missing. Until they found out, they lack spiritual health.

Yeah, it's true, we are created to develop our spirituality. It is part of our human being. And little did we know, God provided everything that we need. The only thing we need to do is effort. Learn to balance our time not just on material things, but also on spiritual things. It's like eating a dessert.

We all love desserts, surely. But imagine if it's the only food that we eat... For breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner. What do you think will happen to your body? Because it doesn't consist of all the nutrients that our body needs, we will get sick. Same with our life. Material things and entertainment are like dessert. We enjoyed having it. But make sure not to use our whole life on it. We will get sick and unhealthy. Try to read the bible. Understand its message. Pray to God. Talk to Him. And make sure to have a strong relationship with Him no matter how busy we are.

Thanks for reading. 💕

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