I am grateful to have 3D Vitality Health Coach Ann Musico share a guest post!
It’s All About Choices by Ann Musico:
Change is a process. You cannot make sweeping changes to your lifestyle all at once and
expect to be successful. You create overload and that’s what leads to thinking, “This is just
too hard; I can’t do it so I might as well just forget it!” Instead, I suggest you look at it as a series of choices you make gradually.
For instance, first you increase how much water you drink. If your requirement based on your present weight is 100 ounces, don’t just measure out the 100 ounces and start chugging! No, each day increase the amount you already drink by 8 or 16 ounces until you get to the correct amount for you. This is what I call “taking baby steps.”
You can make a better choice in every situation. You can choose the baked or broiled fish
instead of the deep fried, batter encrusted version. You can ask for salad dressing on the
side and choose to make it olive oil and vinegar instead of blue cheese. You can choose to
have salad AND a vegetable instead of salad and french fries. You can choose to use
the stairs instead of the elevator.
Every choice creates a result. You have control over that result. The result can be greater
energy and vitality, improved health and appearance or fatigue, excess weight and health
problems. You may have little or no control over many aspects of life—but your choices and
attitude are the two things you have total control over. And those two things drive the rest of
your life! Becoming aware of choices you are making and carefully determining
how you can make the best choice in each situation is a critical first step to success in health and in life.
We all have certain specific genetic predispositions. For example, you may have a genetic
predisposition toward diabetes, obesity, heart problems or cancer. I am not denying that
your family history may predispose you to certain diseases. All of my grandparents except
for one, most of my aunts and uncles and my mother ALL died from cancer. Does it seem to
run in my family? Gallop may be more like it. I acknowledge the history, but I do not believe
it destines me or my children to go down the same path.
I ask you to consider a different question—what really runs in your family, genes or habits? Research
confirms that although heredity and familial disposition toward certain conditions have an
effect on physical health, it only accounts for approximately 20%—lifestyle and nutrition account
for close to 80%! This tells me that while we can acknowledge our family’s health history
and be aware of it, we need not repeat it. Rather than just continue to perpetuate the
habits we may have grown up with, we have the power to choose to change them and improve
the outcome. (There’s that word “choose” again!)
When you choose to believe a problem is genetic or you just inherited it—you are saying it
cannot be changed, you are doomed to be this way and there’s NOTHING you can do about
it! You make yourself a victim and relinquish responsibility for your thoughts, beliefs and
actions. It’s been scientifically proven that your perception of a situation or condition (how
you see it) matters more than the condition itself. What you think and believe is so powerful—
it can change your DNA!
While changing lifelong habits may not be easy, remember, your choices not only affect you,
but future generations as well. We need not feel we’re doomed to suffer from the same
problems and diseases as our parents and grandparents. Deuteronomy 30:19 encourages
us to choose life, for ourselves and for our children. We can choose to do things differently.
Our parents did the best they knew to do. Since we know better, we must make the choice
to do better.
We must also embrace the truth that as Christians we now have a different, better Bloodline,
one in which there is no disease! By doing these things we can change our old perceptions
and create a new “history,” passing down vibrant health, wholeness and faith for generations
to come.
Are you making the best choices you can?
Getting healthy doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated! Let Ann help you make some simple and easy changes that will help you enjoy greater health and vitality. Visit her website at http://www.threedimensionalvitality.com and subscribe for her free weekly newsletter and blog posts and you will enjoy timely, practical information you can implement immediately!
