There is no better way to stress out your body than not being honest. And it doesn't matter whether we are talking about being honest with others or with yourself.
Not being honest with others is a sure fire way to a stressed out body. Even if you don't have to go through all the stress of being caught out, you will have the tension of maintaining your lie over time not to mention the worry about the possibility of getting caught out.
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When you are trying to make healthy lifestyle change one of the hardest things can be the lack of support or even open ridicule of those around you. People can be quite confronted by your choices, as if you were making a personal attack on the lifestyle they are accustomed to. So choosing to surround yourself with people who support your choices can be very important to your journey.
Scepticism can be defined as a studied attitude of questioning and doubt. A healthy degree of scepticism is an important tool to have in all aspects of your life and health is no exception. It used to be that a man in a white coat would tell us what we needed to do and we would just blindly follow the leader, but not any more. Now we have access to a wealth of information from a wide variety of sources - some reliable, some not so much - and it up to each of us to find what works for you. It also used to be the case that we could trust our media (to a reasonable extent) to report the facts. Now it seems that we are more concerned with a good story than a truthful one.
In his best-selling book A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle talks about the importance of breath, amongst many other things. One sentence jumped out at me: he said, "Even if you meditate on your breathing for two hours or more, which some people do, one breath is all you ever need to be aware of - indeed ever can be aware of".
We have all done it. Whether it's a boozy night out or an overindulgent lunch, we have given into the temptations of now and paid for it the next day. We have a society that is based around short-term pleasure. Be it our quest for instant pain relief, crash dieting or fast food, we are constantly trying to do things easier and faster. But what are the long-term consequences?
