What does autonomy mean to you? What decisions are you making everyday to make sure you’re as healthy as possible? How do you want your life to look like, right now?
Having the life of your dreams is NOT 3 years, 5 years, or 10 years away. You can have it right now. And in order to live a wonderful life, you have to be healthy. My definition of health is this: you’re off all pharmaceutical drugs. You’re off all supplements. You’re dedicated to eating as much whole foods as possible. You’re able to move your body in any way you want, without pain or discomfort.
But the most important is something that you will ALWAYS hear from me: ALL disease, all injury, all pain, all physical discomfort begins in the mind. Even modern science is beginning to open their eyes to this FACT. They just don’t know how to help you.
Whether you’re young or in your forties, fifties, sixties, and so on, you always have a choice. You can either be happy and healthy or you can be unhappy and unhealthy. When you’re happy and healthy, you have your autonomy. Your autonomy is your ability to live life as you see it. You live life independently from others. You are free to make your own decisions and then make your own goals and you go after them.
Maybe you can’t see this happening to yourself, but there are far too many people who at a certain age are forced to give up their autonomy. They get scared. They can no longer take care of themselves. Their families don’t want to take care of them.
Their right to make decisions is taken away from them because their families do it for them. Suddenly, once able bodied and sound of mind, they are confronted with a situation. Go to a nursing home (let’s call it what it is).
But they can no longer function well physically and the reason why is because they didn’t take care of their feelings. They held onto sad, angry, fearful events long after those things happened to them. They lived silently desperate lives, unable to shake off the intended and unintended insults that they perceived throughout life.
If you want to live a truly autonomous life where you call the shots – it can be done. The sooner you get that there is one thing that matters the most, the sooner you’ll be preventing an often contentious situation that pits grown children against their elderly parents. Break the cycle now.
Your peace of mind is your most precious possession. As soon as you realize that NOTHING REALLY MATTERS and that EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT in the end, you will ensure a happy long autonomous life.
Give up pettiness and embrace life and liberty instead. Be vigilant of your sanity and your positive emotional state and you’ll have the life you want until the day you yourself decide to leave it!
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