How to Own Your Health in 2025
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Create a personal wellness code for a healthier New Year.
A personal health code is the best way to own your health. How you conduct your life in relationship to your body’s health and disease prevention matters. What you do everyday matters. Living by a wellness code creates lasting health benefits and promotes longevity, but only if you make it a positive daily habit.
Your comprehensive personal health code includes disease prevention, wellness, fitness, and reproductive health. Likewise, it embraces the daily details of how you live. This includes dietary choices, what nutritional supplements you take, how much time you devote to exercise, and how long and well you sleep.
Additionally, it looks at the big picture, including spiritual practices and healthy aging.
A personal health code embraces your nutritional philosophy. Are you a vegetarian, vegan, cooked food, or raw foodie? Did you adopt a paleo diet, or are you a healthy omnivore? Do you follow a traditional Chinese or another ethnic diet? Avoid gluten and GMO foods. Eat all organic? Raise your vegetables or buy local?
I don’t believe we can exercise our way out of the harmful effects of an unhealthy diet. But exercise, like a healthy diet, is essential to creating and maintaining wellness.
A lot of people don’t like spending hours at the gym. Many do, however. And most gyms offer more than weight and cardio equipment. They may also have yoga and other exercise classes. With the busyness of everyday life, it becomes all too easy to blow off exercise. But being sedentary is dangerous, so make time for mindful movement daily.
A good starting point includes life-affirming principles, like daily affirmations and staying motivated throughout the year.
When I don’t have time, which is nearly always, I have my “bare minimum.” Ten minutes total time, including stretching, light weights, balancing, and finishing with five minutes of mindful awareness in the form of an ancient Chinese meditative exercise called Qi Gong.
Making lasting change and getting good at anything requires consistency over time. But it doesn’t have to be hours a day. Change happens even if you devote only ten to fifteen minutes daily to movement.
Set aside enough time to plan your New Year right. Make time from January 1 through 10 to get started on the best personal health code ever. Write it out. Then follow through. Do it! And stay with it.
Your personal health code is not a list of “do not” and “avoid this”. It’s not about resolutions you won’t keep. It’s a decisive, proactive approach to life and health.
To be effective, it can’t be generic. It must be personal.
Remember, it’s your life. You’re worth it.
What’s your health code?
