What is lifestyle medicine? Managing your health care
Q/A
U.S. medical system Correct Answer-Access to health care is important
to your well-being and it is important that you know how to use the
health care system in a pro-active way. The U.S. medical system offers
some of the best-trained health professionals and cutting-edge treatments
in the world. Traditionally, doctors and nurses are perceived as healers
of the sick and injured. Why would you see them when you are healthy?
As discussed in other chapters of this textbook, your attitudes and
behaviors are important to your health care. Being positive,
knowledgeable, and pro-active about your health will not only reduce
your chance of getting sick or injured, but it will enhance other areas of
your life.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, an education counselor, writes, Correct
Answer-"Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless,
but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and
take on a counterfeit nature." Is it possible to shed this unwanted facade
and truly be the person you really are and really want to be? Yes—
certainly you can release yourself from the chains of the past and the
excuses that have kept you stuck.Dyer also absorbed the ideas from the
work of Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cell biologist whose research is challenging
the whole concept of genetic determinism. Lipton and others have
discovered that genes are not self-emergent; they cannot act for
themselves. Genes are basically the blueprint for our foundation. It takes
some stimulus or energy in the form of chemicals, frequencies, thoughts,
or other sources to make the genes function. This means that our DNA
does not completely control our destiny but rather, for the most part, we
do
,Positive thoughts Correct Answer-In this chapter, we will look to living
a healthy lifestyle as a privilege and an opportunity, not a chore. It could
be a challenge to think of being physically active and eating well as
drudgery or no fun. Those who just love living these healthy lifestyle
behaviors are fortunate folks. The hard work most of us need to do is on
our attitudes. If we can be positive about doing what it takes to be
healthy, we are well on our way to wellness.
Free Yourself from Fatalistic Thinking Correct Answer-Ridding
ourselves of fatalistic- or deterministic-type thinking will free us to put
our excuses behind us, such as "I'm not good enough/athletic
enough/capable enough, I'm getting too old, I just don't have time, I was
born (or raised) this way, I can't change." As Dyer has written, "any
thought patterns that do not enhance and expand your joyous
development are excuses." We can become what we believe, even
genetically, according to Dyer and Lipton. Try this affirmation: "I am
much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that
I absorbed in my childhood."It is time to eliminate blame from your life.
You have the power to choose. When you blame, you are denying that
power; you are giving your power to someone or something else (Figure
2). Be willing to give yourself permission to express the power of your
positive choices. As you rid yourself of blame, you will rid yourself of
much negativity. When you believe in your power to choose, you will
find that you are more compassionate, more interested in being kind to
others and respecting their power to choose. Several of the health-related
principles put forth by Dr. Dyer to help us be rid of excuses include "be
willing to allow health, happiness and success to flow into your life, and
live here and now in your mind as well as in your body."
-
"I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind
viruses that I absorbed in my childhood."
,-
Make wise choices, not lame excuses.
The Power of Being Aware Correct Answer-It is amazing what
awareness will do. Dyer discusses a study done at Harvard University
and reported in Psychological Science in 2007. The study involved 84
women room attendants at seven hotels. Half of the women were told
that their work met their daily requirement for fitness and the other half
were not given that awareness. This was the only intervention of the
study; there was no change in the normal routines of any of the women.
In just 4 weeks, the researchers found that in the group whose awareness
was raised regarding their physical activity there was a significant
decrease in key parameters including body fat, BMI, blood pressure, and
weight. The researchers called their study "Mind-set Matters: Exercise
and the Placebo Effect."Dyer poses these questions that form the essence
of the Excuses Begone! paradigm. Think of an excuse you use and take
it through these questions.
Is it true? (Probably not.)
Where did the excuse come from? (I allowed it.)
What's the payoff? (I get to avoid risks and stay the same.)
What would my life look like if I couldn't use this excuse? (I'd be free to
be myself.)
Can I create a rational reason to change? (Easily.)
Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits? (Yes, by
simply aligning with my source of being.)
How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being? (By being
vigilant.)
, Take the excuse through these questions and this thinking process as
many times as necessary to set the foundation for your willingness to
eliminate that excuse.
Intervention Correct Answer-procedure or treatment designed to expand
knowledge & relieve suffering.
Placebo effect Correct Answer-An improvement in one's health or life
that is due to an unidentifiable medication or treatment.
Dyer poses these questions that form the essence of the Excuses Begone!
paradigm. Think of an excuse you use and take it through these
questions. Correct Answer-Is it true? (Probably not.)
Where did the excuse come from? (I allowed it.)
What's the payoff? (I get to avoid risks and stay the same.)
What would my life look like if I couldn't use this excuse? (I'd be free to
be myself.)
Can I create a rational reason to change? (Easily.)
Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits? (Yes, by
simply aligning with my source of being.)
How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being? (By being
vigilant.)
Q/A
U.S. medical system Correct Answer-Access to health care is important
to your well-being and it is important that you know how to use the
health care system in a pro-active way. The U.S. medical system offers
some of the best-trained health professionals and cutting-edge treatments
in the world. Traditionally, doctors and nurses are perceived as healers
of the sick and injured. Why would you see them when you are healthy?
As discussed in other chapters of this textbook, your attitudes and
behaviors are important to your health care. Being positive,
knowledgeable, and pro-active about your health will not only reduce
your chance of getting sick or injured, but it will enhance other areas of
your life.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, an education counselor, writes, Correct
Answer-"Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless,
but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and
take on a counterfeit nature." Is it possible to shed this unwanted facade
and truly be the person you really are and really want to be? Yes—
certainly you can release yourself from the chains of the past and the
excuses that have kept you stuck.Dyer also absorbed the ideas from the
work of Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cell biologist whose research is challenging
the whole concept of genetic determinism. Lipton and others have
discovered that genes are not self-emergent; they cannot act for
themselves. Genes are basically the blueprint for our foundation. It takes
some stimulus or energy in the form of chemicals, frequencies, thoughts,
or other sources to make the genes function. This means that our DNA
does not completely control our destiny but rather, for the most part, we
do
,Positive thoughts Correct Answer-In this chapter, we will look to living
a healthy lifestyle as a privilege and an opportunity, not a chore. It could
be a challenge to think of being physically active and eating well as
drudgery or no fun. Those who just love living these healthy lifestyle
behaviors are fortunate folks. The hard work most of us need to do is on
our attitudes. If we can be positive about doing what it takes to be
healthy, we are well on our way to wellness.
Free Yourself from Fatalistic Thinking Correct Answer-Ridding
ourselves of fatalistic- or deterministic-type thinking will free us to put
our excuses behind us, such as "I'm not good enough/athletic
enough/capable enough, I'm getting too old, I just don't have time, I was
born (or raised) this way, I can't change." As Dyer has written, "any
thought patterns that do not enhance and expand your joyous
development are excuses." We can become what we believe, even
genetically, according to Dyer and Lipton. Try this affirmation: "I am
much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that
I absorbed in my childhood."It is time to eliminate blame from your life.
You have the power to choose. When you blame, you are denying that
power; you are giving your power to someone or something else (Figure
2). Be willing to give yourself permission to express the power of your
positive choices. As you rid yourself of blame, you will rid yourself of
much negativity. When you believe in your power to choose, you will
find that you are more compassionate, more interested in being kind to
others and respecting their power to choose. Several of the health-related
principles put forth by Dr. Dyer to help us be rid of excuses include "be
willing to allow health, happiness and success to flow into your life, and
live here and now in your mind as well as in your body."
-
"I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind
viruses that I absorbed in my childhood."
,-
Make wise choices, not lame excuses.
The Power of Being Aware Correct Answer-It is amazing what
awareness will do. Dyer discusses a study done at Harvard University
and reported in Psychological Science in 2007. The study involved 84
women room attendants at seven hotels. Half of the women were told
that their work met their daily requirement for fitness and the other half
were not given that awareness. This was the only intervention of the
study; there was no change in the normal routines of any of the women.
In just 4 weeks, the researchers found that in the group whose awareness
was raised regarding their physical activity there was a significant
decrease in key parameters including body fat, BMI, blood pressure, and
weight. The researchers called their study "Mind-set Matters: Exercise
and the Placebo Effect."Dyer poses these questions that form the essence
of the Excuses Begone! paradigm. Think of an excuse you use and take
it through these questions.
Is it true? (Probably not.)
Where did the excuse come from? (I allowed it.)
What's the payoff? (I get to avoid risks and stay the same.)
What would my life look like if I couldn't use this excuse? (I'd be free to
be myself.)
Can I create a rational reason to change? (Easily.)
Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits? (Yes, by
simply aligning with my source of being.)
How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being? (By being
vigilant.)
, Take the excuse through these questions and this thinking process as
many times as necessary to set the foundation for your willingness to
eliminate that excuse.
Intervention Correct Answer-procedure or treatment designed to expand
knowledge & relieve suffering.
Placebo effect Correct Answer-An improvement in one's health or life
that is due to an unidentifiable medication or treatment.
Dyer poses these questions that form the essence of the Excuses Begone!
paradigm. Think of an excuse you use and take it through these
questions. Correct Answer-Is it true? (Probably not.)
Where did the excuse come from? (I allowed it.)
What's the payoff? (I get to avoid risks and stay the same.)
What would my life look like if I couldn't use this excuse? (I'd be free to
be myself.)
Can I create a rational reason to change? (Easily.)
Can I access universal cooperation in shedding old habits? (Yes, by
simply aligning with my source of being.)
How can I continuously reinforce this new way of being? (By being
vigilant.)
