What is an ‘Holistic Lifestyle’?

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When we talk about living more holistically, it means to live more naturally. You are connecting your mind, body, and spirit, reducing waste, encouraging natural remedies, and improving your overall wellness. There are so many different ways to incorporate holistic living into your life, and here are some things you could incorporate into your life….

What is an Holistic Lifestyle and How Do I Get There?

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Determine What Matters To You

In holistic living, you need to focus on walking your own path. This means you get to choose in every moment how you would like to move forwards – even if that means resting.

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Eat Mindfully

Eating mindfully means you are aware of why, what, and how you eat.

In the case of why, you understand the reasons you eat certain foods which simplifies keeping a consistently healthy diet. If you start overeating for emotional satisfaction, for instance, it’ll be easier to identify and deal with the problem’s root cause.

Since all aspects that make you human are interconnected, you should find a career that appeals to your interests working under conditions respectful to your values hence creating positive emotions to keep you happy.

Living a life without regrets demands you to identify your interests and by pursuing the interests, you discover your purpose which brings out the passion for living. This is the crux of everything holistic — that you do things that align with why you’re here to achieve satisfaction in every area of your life.

Also, the health state you aim for leads you to identify what type of foods you need. You may want to follow a paleo, Mediterranean, or even a brain health-enhancing diet.

Then there’s how you eat. This is the question of whether you’re eating the right amount for your health, spacing your meals right, and so forth. You have to be mindful of how you take your food to ensure the balance you desire in your life.

Learn To Be And Love Your Authentic Self

A holistic lifestyle promotes mental and emotional wellbeing which is affected by your self-concept — how you view yourself. Do you express the real you? Do you love your authentic self? Sometimes it’s also beneficial to seek out a talking therapy along side Hypnotherapy. We can talk about this in session.

This way, you’d stop compromising your values to please others, and as science proves, loving your authentic self makes you happier, ensures high self-esteem, improves your performance, betters your relationships, and sets you up for overall wellbeing.

Use Natural Remedies

Contrary to conventional medicine, natural remedies are rarely a quick fix to health problems. However, they target a variety of problems at a go which makes them effective for sustainable healing.

This doesn’t mean you completely ignore conventional medicine though. It only means you focus on healing holistically more than temporary problem fixes. You can incorporate beneficial spices and herbs into your daily diet like ginger, turmeric, fenugreek, green teas, plus mint, and take superfoods like fish and nuts.

When seeking healthcare, seek holistic practices like acupuncture, naturopathy, massage therapy, homeopathy, and chiropractic care.

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Stay Present

The past is unchangeable, the future is uncertain but we have a chance to live in the present.

This holistic practice called mindfulness sharpens your focus, memory, and emotional intelligence. You’ll find yourself laughing more instead of missing humour, loving more since you’re in touch with your feelings, and many more benefits that promote your wellbeing.

However, it doesn’t mean you avoid reflecting on the past to learn from it. It neither means you shouldn’t plan for the future because it’s uncertain. It means, whatever you are doing in the present, let your thoughts revolve around it.

Here’s how to practice mindfulness and follow a more holistic lifestyle:

Experience your surroundings through all your senses
Discern joy and meaning in everything you do
Practice mono tasking
Identify impulsive behaviours and pause to reflect
Check-in with your feelings through your day
Take time between bites of your food to feel the flavour and take charge of your eating speed
When in a negative situation, pause thinking and focus on your breathing
Contemplate on your vision

Focus On A Healthy Positive Relationships

Negative relationships are stressful and therefore, harmful to health. Positive relationships on the other hand help you grow and stay happy which is the result of holistic living. These good relationships contain qualities like mutual respect, good communication, trust, and honesty.

Therefore, instead of using your energy to work on perpetually draining relationships, choose to nurture the positive ones more.

So call your mentor, catch up with your friend who makes you smile, spend time with family — we all have someone who favours our peace of mind.

Smartly Guard Your Heart Against Negativity

You can’t completely control your external environment and from time to time, you might have to deal with negativity at work, home, social media — anywhere. So you have to secure yourself.

Guarding your heart means not letting the negativity reside in you such that you become a resentful, negative person.

Here are some tips to help you guard your heart:

Surround yourself with positive people
Whether non-fiction or fiction, read, watch, and listen to more positive content
Acknowledge and deal with negative feelings
Have a vision and follow your values
Regularly check in with yourself to deal with pending feelings

Be Conscious Of Your Thoughts

The thoughts you entertain make up your belief system which is recorded in your subconscious. This system creates a filter through which your thoughts pass through to create emotions. A negative filter brings negative emotions.

Therefore, two people can think about their self-concept but one feels bad while the other feels good. Chances are, one who feels bad doesn’t believe (filter) positive things about themselves while the other does.

Whether you realise it or not, your thoughts affect how you feel and therefore, influence your actions and wellbeing. Positive thinking has been scientifically proven to boost physical, emotional, and mental health which are paramount in holistic living.

Get Quality Sleep

Sleep has numerous benefits for the body, mind, and soul. You can attest to the fact if you notice how energized and clear-minded you feel after a good night’s sleep. But what is quality sleep?

Apart from getting more than 7 hours of sleep per day consistently, you need to be well-rested by ensuring a regular sleeping schedule with limited mid-night interruptions.

Living a healthy holistic life promotes good sleep while sleeping well ensures a holistic lifestyle. Like cycles in an ecosystem, sleep and holistic living relate and are essential to each other. Do your best to master healthy sleeping habits to live a holistic lifestyle with no regrets.

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Next Steps

Begin with small steps, small changes and build them up over time… the problem with drastically changing your routines and relationship to ‘things’ people often can’t quite keep up the changes over the long term. Smaller steps lead to greater changes in the future with a better foundation.

Hypnotherapy is enjoyable, unobtrusive and empowering and we can often make real progress in as little as 3 sessions. Please contact me to find out more about how I could help you overcome your fear.