Make Practical Use of Your Education

Used with permission, "Wellness Workbook", © 1981, 1988, 2004 by John W. Travis.

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This brings us to the last stage on the Wellness Continuum: growth. Growth is the ability to put into practice what you have learned through awareness and education. Books on diet or nutrition, for example, reflect the experience of the author with his/her particular diet or health system. Each expert has a different story to tell about the ultimate solution to health, and each author has discovered a lifechanging method. The funny thing is, few of these experts agree. How can this be? Very simply, each one of these experts has become an expert on themselves. They discovered how to understand the Intelligence of their own body, and they translated that understanding into a way of life. And of course, it worked for them. 

In order to grow, you need to do the same thing. You need to become an expert on yourself and your body! It is not up to some doctor, therapist, teacher, parent, or me; it is up to the person who looks back at you in the mirror every day. You need to discover what is right for you.

This is true not only for diet and nutrition but for every aspect of your life,
including structural balance, exercise, movement, diet, nutrition, work, personal relationships, your beliefs and feelings, and above all, your relationship with a higher power. In each and every moment your choice is clear: you can either create health or create dis-ease.

If you choose to create vibrant health, your awareness and participation are
required on every level of experience. Physical health includes finding a balance in both the structural and biochemical components of your health. Mental health results from the experience of stillness in the mind and a belief system that reflects a healthy perspective. Emotional health includes your ability to recover from past emotional traumas and be in the present moment with an open heart. Spiritual health allows space for the awareness, perspective, and guidance of a higher power to enter into your everyday life.

Your choices will determine your experience.