Keri McKibbin Personal Training

I heard a great thing off one of our members this morning. She heard a doctor say that many people feel “safe” in their houses because they felt they could escape life’s pressures and not have anything demanded off them, so it was an “EASY LIFE”.

The doctor continued, saying that staying in your house all the time only ADDS to pressure in your life. You never go out so you don’t see anyone, we ALL need human connection, human touch, human interaction, it’s what we are put on this earth for and we feel enriched for those interactions. 

We need people to make us laugh, occasionally make us cry and we definitely need people to encourage us, support us and understand our problems.

If we don’t do much, then we never build any self-confidence, any self-esteem or ultimately any self-worth. We haven’t got any sense of purpose anymore and although life is somehow “easier”, it can easily become more depressing, less meaningful and every day “becomes the same exactly like the last one”.

Our health suffers because we don’t seem to do much anymore, our mental health declines rapidly and the more we decline invitations to go out, the more people stop asking us to do things.

Before we know it, taking advice off people who “thought they knew best” isn’t so smart after all the doctor continued.

Be careful who you take advice off, those who tell you to stay in all the time, don’t do so much, advise you to never take a chance or take an opportunity, are the REALLY acting in your own best interests?!!!

We all have a fork in he road at times, to follow those who have a go in life or follow those who retreat in life and in many ways give up on themselves with all of the negative implications. 

Whatever you focus on, you automatically tend to use energy on it.

I know people who focus all their energy on their cars, they shine it once a week, it’s spotless inside and it means the world to them, they often treat their cars better than they treat their own body.

Some people focus on eating out, going to the best restaurants, avidly following the latest reviews and trends, and are proud to be called a “foodie”, or are wine “experts” and are highly knowledgeable about wines around the world after a lot of research.

The truth is for many that they don’t focus on their health until something goes wrong. A visit to the doctor may include a high blood pressure diagnosis, so reducing salt in one’s diet, reducing alcohol consumption and exercising regularly suddenly becomes a big focus.

I’ve seen some people being referred to a scooter shop so they can manage to get around in the future because of breathlessness and weak legs, but I’ve also seen the same people RE-focus on getting fit and healthy again, getting their legs stronger and not accepting the help  of a mobility scooter, because they know once they accept it, they are never likely to walk much again.

When things go wrong with our health, eating well turns from something we put off to “someday” to something we do with great urgency, because time is ticking quickly to our next doctor’s appointment, and we don’t want a bad reading and diagnosis that means we end up on medication to treat it.

Prevention is always better than cure, and staying in a good routine with our food and drink, as well as our workouts keeps us in good health and avoids the need to suddenly start panicking about our health.