Many people fail to create an appropriate approach to their healthcare that focuses on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. When this occurs, healthcare becomes sick care. Assessment of your particular situation is necessary in order to determine whether you need to make some changes in your health options.
Sick Care
Recognizing the problem is one of the most important aspects of creating a new approach that works for your specific needs. Consider some of the signs that your health care plan has become a sick care plan.
1. No regular check ups with a physician. When patients avoid seeing their doctors unless they are ill, they are using a sick care plan.
2. Absence of relaxation techniques like meditation or hypnosis. Stress can have an adverse effect on health.
3. Failure to adhere to an exercise program. Exercise helps regulate various systems of the body, ranging from blood sugar levels to stress reduction.
4. Poor diet and nutrition. Eating processed foods and avoiding fruits and vegetables may lead to some health problems.
5. Self-medicating with over-the-counter products or alcohol rather than using healthier alternatives.
6. Ignoring aches, pains and headaches. The body is sending signals that something is amiss in psychological or physical realms.
2. Absence of relaxation techniques like meditation or hypnosis. Stress can have an adverse effect on health.
3. Failure to adhere to an exercise program. Exercise helps regulate various systems of the body, ranging from blood sugar levels to stress reduction.
4. Poor diet and nutrition. Eating processed foods and avoiding fruits and vegetables may lead to some health problems.
5. Self-medicating with over-the-counter products or alcohol rather than using healthier alternatives.
6. Ignoring aches, pains and headaches. The body is sending signals that something is amiss in psychological or physical realms.
Sick care involves ignoring your body’s signals until they become overwhelming. Once the symptoms become painfully apparent, the health problems have already begun.
Health Care
Health care involves listening to your body before symptoms become too uncomfortable. This type of self awareness exists on different levels. Alternative medicine often seeks to help promote awareness in mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual realms.
• Mental health involves cognition and conscious thought patterns. Proponents of The Secret suggest that positive thinking processes lead to overall health and happiness. The Law of Attraction offers an argument for using positive thoughts to attract positive outcomes.
• Emotional health is a little more interested in the subconscious realm of the mind. Emotions are signals that tell us that something is right or wrong with perception and thinking patterns. Stress and anxiety are excellent examples of how thoughts lead to emotions. In turn, emotions have an effect on the body.
• Physical health is the primary concern of medicine. However, mental and emotional health need to be addressed in order to assure that treatment exists as health care rather than sick care. Behavior is a manifestation of thoughts and emotions. A person is more likely to adopt healthy habits when she is emotionally and mentally inclined to do so.
• Spiritual health is highly personal and it can help to create inner peace and deep faith. Meditation and prayer are examples of spiritual exercises that can promote relaxation, focus and better health.
Taking a proactive approach to your healthcare is the best way to ensure that the focus is on health rather than illness. This requires putting your mind to the task. Preventative medicine is a wonderful strategy to creating a healthier lifestyle that can make the majority of visits to your physician well visits
