I love being true to myself. I love being honest, having integrity, and doing whatever I can to build and strengthen my self-respect. I have a strong desire to be healthy and functional until the day I die. This means that I practice healthy habits daily to continually possess great vigor, muscular and nervous strength, flexibility, endurance, and agility. This healthy practice is my insurance that I am adding 15 to 20 healthy and prosperous years to my life and feel great while enjoying my family, friends, colleagues, and patients.
On July 10, 2010, In Emotional Health, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Spirituality, Uncategorized, By Dr. Israel
Our team recently met an emergency room physician at one of our wellness previews that was the embodiment of one of my favorite scriptural verses. That verse is, “You shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” This physician had the experience of being ill to the brink of death and then learning to live herself fully by properly balancing three levels of her being as outlined in the verse above.
Loving God with all your heart and soul means living inner values like being true to yourself, being-honest, having integrity, and having self-respect while valuing the same in other people.
Loving God with all your mind means growing and using your intelligence to seek the truth even when the truth hurts and even when knowing and affirming the truth costs you a great deal in terms of personal, material or social gain or profit.
Loving God with all your strength means living the outer values like appreciating and taking care of your healthy body, like acquiring adequate material resources, and by building supportive physical and social environments with all your strength.
In short, loving God means loving yourself. When you love yourself enough to live fully, you are doing what is necessary to lengthen your days and to achieve prosperity while doing it.
On December 18, 2009, In Emotional Health, Healthy Body, Healthy Family, Healthy Mind, Spirituality, By Dr. Israel
How does an individual create honest advantages for himself or herself? You create honest advantages for yourself by integrating philosophy, psychology, and physiology. The constructs of spirituality listed below represents that integration through a philosophy of self-interest, a psychology of self-respect, and the physiology of self-preservation.
The eight constructs of spirituality are:
- Spiritual
- Mental
- Emotional
- Chemical
- Nutritional
- Physical
- Thermal
- Electromagnetic
Each of these can become a source of toxic stress when not integrated properly. This causes a breakdown of energy into futile cycles and blocks the production of energy needed to maintain the life processes of the cell. Here are some thoughts on integrating these areas:
Spiritual (Consciousness): Focus on your allegiance to existence.
- Be true to whatever will continue your existence.
- Think, feel, judge, and act as an unbound individual. Have the courage to proclaim and defend what you believe and have the daring to do what you want to do most. Love and guard your independence. Do not lose it to nature or to another human being.
- Set your standards and remain loyal to those standards. Learn about your body’s goal to maintain balance and be loyal to those self-regulating mechanisms.
- Promote justice by making moral judgments. Seek out and cherish the virtuous traits you need in others. Practice the good by choosing actions that purposely benefit human beings and society. Love and support the thoughts, actions, character, and works of those who promote life. Produce the material values you need to need to sustain your life by contributing to making human life more secure, prolonged, and pleasurable. Acquire the values of character that enable you ro sustain your life and that makes your life worth living
- Strengthen and maintain your four basic abilities: the ability to continue learning, the ability to govern or rule yourself, the ability to keep your promises to yourself and others, and the ability to refrain from dominating other men,
Mental
Be loyal to truth regardless of the views, opinions, and beliefs of others. Maintain your freedom to choose. Do not accept things blindly by relying on hearsay or what is accepted by the masses.
Emotional
Do and say whatever will build and strengthen your self-respect.
Chemical
Do not defile your body.
Nutritional
Eat and drink to continue your existence.
Physical
Work and breathe in such a manner that the blood and lymph flow remains normal and in balance.
Thermal
Schedule activities so that they do not conflict with the regenerative and nutritive processes. Live in harmony with your body’s life temperature.
Electromagnetic
Reduce exposure to the disruptors of your body’s electromagnetic field.
