“Good Health can­not be bought”, those words are of­ten­times tak­en for grant­ed. Mon­ey cer­tain­ly can­not buy every­thing, that’s be­cause every­thing is not ma­te­ri­al­is­tic in na­ture.

Truth be told mon­ey sim­ply can­not buy health and it can­not buy dis­ci­pline. While some folks are in a po­si­tion to af­ford the lux­u­ry of ex­pen­sive health clubs, MDs and or in­sur­ance, even vi­t­a­mins, the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and abil­i­ty still fall on the shoul­ders of that in­di­vid­ual to take care of him­self. I am about to get a bit per­son­al as I think it’s im­por­tant es­pe­cial­ly in this present time, we are cur­rent­ly fac­ing dai­ly prob­lems.

As I peel back the lay­ers of my health this past year, I re­al­ly ap­pre­ci­ate the stri­dent, true and me­thod­i­cal steps one must take to find strength to get through yet an­oth­er day. It’s both a phys­i­cal and men­tal one. There would be no ques­tion if I had to choose. We can’t buy health no mat­ter how much mon­ey we have, yes, we can cer­tain­ly buy med­ical treat­ments, but ac­tu­al good health isn’t for sale any­where on this plan­et. Your health is a price­less gift and it’s on­ly when we are se­ri­ous­ly ill do we re­al­ly ap­pre­ci­ate the price­less­ness. How com­mit­ted are you when it comes to your health and well be­ing? Are you proac­tive and im­mersed in build­ing health dai­ly? That might in­clude sim­ple ac­tiv­i­ties like, walk­ing, drink­ing lots of wa­ter, eat­ing clean with­out re­fined in­gre­di­ents, less meat, tak­ing ad­e­quate vi­t­a­mins. Or are you us­ing this lock down thing as a rea­son to be a vic­tim of a more seden­tary lifestyle? Be­cause that’s a very good ex­am­ple of what not to fol­low.

In to­day’s world with all the pres­sures, it is easy to al­low stress to take cen­ter stage and de­rail you from main­tain­ing good health. How­ev­er, one must be mind­ful of our be­hav­iour­al pat­terns which can have dev­as­tat­ing ef­fects on our health. If you have a poor and un­healthy di­et you can run the risk of some se­ri­ous weight gain and or in­crease your risk of chron­ic dis­eases like di­a­betes and high blood pres­sure. To have a gen­er­al­ly healthy lifestyle and an ac­cept­able body you must be mind­ful of the gro­cery list, be­cause what we eat is the de­ter­min­ing fac­tor. We were so­cialised to be­lieve that some­how, we can pray or buy our way to good health and this sim­ply isn’t true.

Good health is a gift and if you lose it no amount of mon­ey can pro­tect you from ill­ness. You don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly need mon­ey to be hap­py be­cause hap­pi­ness is a state of mind, but if you are de­ter­mined to be mis­er­able there’s ab­solute­ly no doubt you’d suc­ceed at it. How­ev­er, on the oth­er hand if some­one has a pos­i­tive mind­set and looks at the glass half full, then be­ing hap­py wouldn’t be out of reach. No mat­ter the amount of mon­ey in the bank, I be­lieve a per­son is able to cre­ate their own hap­pi­ness de­spite the great­est of dif­fi­cul­ties. At the end of the day try to imag­ine hap­pi­ness with­out good health.

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Al­loy John­son

Lo­cal­ly known as Doc­tor Groove, he brings a savvy un­der­stand­ing of fit­ness, nu­tri­tion, and psy­chol­o­gy to his train­ing and em­pow­er­ing regimes. A stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of West­ern On­tario, he be­lieves in a holis­tic ap­proach to achiev­ing well-round­ed in­di­vid­u­als. He has been com­mis­sioned to in­vig­o­rate many a youth em­pow­er­ment project and has co-opt­ed to dy­namise mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­ing en­gage­ments and in­spi­ra­tional work­shops through­out To­ba­go.