Are You Really Healthy, or Do You Just Think You’re Healthy?

Health is most commonly defined as the absence of symptoms of illness. I have talked with countless people about health. Most of them adamantly profess to be healthy. However, they usually follow it up with a statement like: Well, I do take prescriptions to treat my ______, but I’m totally healthy. The interesting thing is: they don’t perceive taking prescription drugs to be contrary to healthy. It’s the normal thing to do. Everybody takes prescriptions…..don’t they?

Let’s say for a moment that you are one of the few who don’t take prescription drugs - that you are actually symptom free. Does this mean you are healthy? My answer is: maybe. The fact that you are symptom free simply means that you are not experiencing any symptoms of illness! It is a well known fact that many types of illness lie quietly for years before symptoms manifest.

The Communication Super Highway and Health

Sickness and disease happen when there is an interruption in the communication super-highway within your body. This was quite a new thought for me a few years ago. I truly did not relate sickness to something that happened as a result of a mis-communication within my body!   I thought I just ‘caught’ a bug.

Your body’s ability to fight off sickness - your body’s ability to prevent disease is directly related to how good that communication line is. And sadly, one only has to look up statistics of how many people in our world take prescription drugs to realize that the communication is not all that good.  So, how healthy are you really?