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Saturday, July 26, 2025

ONE DAY IN PERFECT HEALTH

by

Alloy Johnson
2152 days ago
20190904

The World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) de­fines health as “A state of op­ti­mal well-be­ing, not mere­ly the ab­sence of dis­ease and in­fir­mi­ty.” WHO al­so goes on to state that “op­ti­mal well-be­ing re­quires a bal­ance that com­pris­es the whole per­son.” By virtue of the use of the word “op­ti­mal,” one can in­fer that the word “per­fect” is an ap­plic­a­ble sub­sti­tute.

One day in per­fect health can go a long way in es­tab­lish­ing a lifestyle that can re­dound to per­fect health holis­ti­cal­ly, for the rest of one’s life. How can one ac­com­plish be­ing in per­fect health for one day and is this even pos­si­ble based on to­day’s su­per­fi­cial world? Yes, it is not on­ly pos­si­ble but high­ly prob­a­ble. If in 24 hours you can­not treat the body you are liv­ing in for the rest of your nat­ur­al life, with love and re­spect, then you may want to con­sid­er how you treat oth­ers.

Here are a few things you can do to live in per­fect health for one day. Try wak­ing up be­tween 4am and 4:30am, no phones, no com­put­er, no dis­trac­tions for at least two hours. Drink a glass of room tem­per­a­ture wa­ter, take about six deep breaths, sit in a qui­et place for about 20-30 min­utes and al­low your mind and body to just re­lax. Re­mem­ber that stress­ing about any­thing does not make it bet­ter so make a con­scious ef­fort to leave yes­ter­day’s is­sues alone. Note that your body is go­ing to fight you be­cause it’s not used to this, but don’t get up un­til you feel dif­fer­ent. When you’re done, smile and thank your­self. What you are try­ing to ac­com­plish dur­ing this process is the re-wiring of your mind be­cause you must change the way you think. That’s the men­tal part, now comes the re­al chal­lenge if you haven’t made ex­er­cise a part of your life.

In­crease your blood cir­cu­la­tion and low­er your risk of in­jury be­fore an ex­er­cise rou­tine by do­ing some stretch­ing. Af­ter that you can do a 20-30 minute walk at your pre­ferred pace, or you can en­gage the body in some Cal­is­then­ics, that is, jump squats, push-ups, moun­tain climbs and crunch­es. You should at­tempt to do at least three sets of each ex­er­cise at your max­i­mum rep­e­ti­tion whether that is 1, 2, 10 or even 30.

Next is the enor­mous chal­lenge of what to eat for the next 22 hours. I don’t usu­al­ly tell folks what to eat but I do my best to let every­one know what they shouldn’t eat. The most im­por­tant rule, with­out ex­cep­tion, is to elim­i­nate added sug­ars from your di­et. Be re­mind­ed that you sim­ply can­not out­fox a bad di­et; it would trip you up for sure. Some foods to elim­i­nate are sug­ar sweet­ened bev­er­ages, in­clud­ing so­das, juices, non-or­gan­ic smooth­ies, ar­ti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers, cakes, al­co­hol and re­fined pota­to prod­ucts. Most ce­re­als and gra­nola bars are usu­al­ly high in sug­ar since vir­tu­al­ly all processed foods con­tain added sug­ars which, in my view, are sim­ply to en­hance the flavour. This is your 24-hour tri­al in per­fect health. You would love your­self for it.

Re­mem­ber, the cir­cum­stances in our lives do not cre­ate stress, it is how we choose to re­spond to the said cir­cum­stances.


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