How about you? How would you rate the importance you have placed on your health up until now?

About 20% of the people that come to the office for the first time have an obvious health problem or concern that is, unfortunately, usually...minimally, chronic.

This means that their health has had to have been deteriorating for a while before consulting me. The other 80% of the people that get started are usually family members and friends of the 20% that may not be experiencing symptoms or have a disease, but are all subluxated in varying degrees of severity.

Well, here are the attributes of the different levels of health priority:

1- Addicted-continuously looks for and adds self-destructive choices.
2- Binges-makes occasional destructive lifestyle decisions-is in denial.
3- Unconscious-doesn't know a healthy choice from an unhealthy one.
4-Tolerates poor health - "maybe it will go away" - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
5-Seeks "treatment" only when they have a problem.
6-Open to prevention of future health problems.
7-Makes effort to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
8-Consciously works at being healthy-makes healthy choices.
9-Occasionally looking for and adding constructive healthy lifestyle changes.
10- Continuously looking for and adding constructive healthy lifestyle changes.

It's easy to see that for a health problem to become chronic, the importance placed on personal health could not have been higher than a 4 prior to consulting me.

Starting care requires bringing your priority up to at least a 5. Unfortunately, what causes many people to raise the priority they place on their health is a serious health problem that doesn't go away with their own approaches to correct the condition.

It should also be obvious that it order for one's health to actually improve, the priority placed upon it must also be higher. So, the question for today is, "if I started living like a 7 instead of a 4 and the problems caused by me living like a 4 were not permanent, are they likely to go away? The answer...of course!

Part 2 coming next week...

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