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If you feel like something in your life or body has been lacking lately, you might be wondering what you can do to start taking steps to become whole again. Part of feeling whole inside and out means that you need to master your health in several different areas including physical, mental, and spiritual.
If you are lacking control of your life or aren’t sure how to get your next steps, you can use this guide for the 5 easiest ways to begin feeling whole both inside and out.
Take One Step at a Time
Sometimes to change your life, you might think you need to be taking big giant steps to become whole again. If you try to task and overwhelm yourself with big giant tasks, you will never be able to accomplish what you want. Instead, focus on just moving in the right direction with one small step, followed by another small step.
For example, if you want to lose weight, you can start by exercising once a week and cutting sugar once a day. These changes are manageable and doable. If you try to tell yourself you will exercise every day and that you won’t eat sugar anymore, you might find yourself unable to make such large changes in a short period of time.
Once you are comfortable exercising twice a week, you can add on another day or two depending on your work and time constraints. You can also add on another day of not eating sugar and snacking.
Adding on small steps to other small steps is an easy way to eventually start making large and substantial life changes.
You also need to make sure you are not making excuses for not taking small steps. It’s easy to say you are too busy to make changes. If you keep making excuses for yourself, you will fall into a never-ending cycle of never making a change.
Make Goals and Routines
One part of being whole in your new changed life is to make sure you have goals that you are reaching for. For example, you might want to focus first on being whole spiritually. This means you need to have spiritual goals that you are working towards.
You could have a goal of connecting more with people of the same religion. This means you need to start making it a habit to attend services or connect on social media with people. You need to make sure you are taking steps towards creating the fellowship and social groups that you need to meet your spiritual goals.
You can also make routines centered around your goals. For spiritual goals, you can make morning or nighttime routines that involve reading spiritual books or spending time in prayer. You can also create a routine that involves weekly fellowship or attending church services if you are part of organized religion.
No matter what your goals are, make sure you have at least one goal for your physical health, one goal for your mental health, and one goal for your spiritual health. You need to have one goal, but maybe even more, for each aspect so that you can master your health.
Habits and routines are much more powerful than you might think. Routines keep you grounded and allow you to fall into natural patterns that can benefit your health and lifestyle. Bad habits can have a powerful effect just as much as good habits though.
If you find yourself with bad habits, no matter how small they might be, make sure to break them immediately. You can try to replace them with good habits so that you are still filling the time, but with something better.
Eat Healthy and Sleep Better
Part of mastering your health, especially physically, is to make sure you are eating better and have better nutrition. Part of eating healthy means you need to incorporate fresher foods including vegetables, fruit, and lean meats. You might also want to eat more nuts, whole grains, and dairy.
One trick to remember is to try and stay around the border of the grocery store. Most of the time the borders of the grocery stores are where you find all the fresh food like meats, fruits, and vegetables. The inside aisles of the grocery store are where most of the processed food is located including junk food that you might want to stay clear from.
