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Nothing is good for your body and nothing is bad: everything can act as healing for a body and everything can be poison for a body: the difference is if you exceed your body’s ability to utilize the food or another external energy (as activities, pleasure of different kind, experiences or more) which your body uses daily in order to build the amount of energy enough for internal reconstruction and cleansing processes and for external work: physical, emotional and intellectual – you are in trouble! Balance in your body shows that you (and your body) are good working team and rewards are the good health and happy meaningful life. From this we draw the first rule:

Rule N.1 (Thumb finger): Nothing should be too much or too little in life: neither food, nor work activities, rest, pleasure, excitement – find your own Golden Path.

One wise man was asked: what is good for you and what is bad. His answer was very short and fully complete. The correct question is not WHAT but HOW MUCH…. Think about it.

How to learn about the right measure? Only one way – to make the mistakes and to analyze them, what means:

Know yourself!

You are the most important person in your life! You share your own company all of your life! Nothing can change this marriage! Be curious: who are you? What are yours likes/dislikes, habits, special feature? Are you happy/unhappy with your life as it is now? Have 10 minutes everyday to reflect your personality. Only 10 minutes, which will change your entire existence – it is not a big issue.

Start to have reflection by several questions:

How about my… (fill this dots with questions below) today?

– Health – the same? Some positive/negative changes? Would like to do something about it?

– Eating habits – the same everyday? Overeat? Big party? What, when, why? Would like to try something new?

– Personal body habits – hygiene, hair, cloth, appearance (face) – the same everyday? Any news? What you would like to try different? Why?

– Physical activities – was I active 1 hour per day (at least did I my 10.000 steps today) – the same everyday? Any news? What you would like to try different? Why?

– Social activities/personal network/family – any news here? Are you satisfied as it is? Plans? Challenges?

– Job/work/obligations – repeat the same problems, repeating patterns? New projects? New position?

– Emotional input – how many positive/negative emotions did you experience today? Why? Do you feel ok? Why not?

Be honest! You can right, you can tape you voice, you can do this mentally. Everything is OK but you need to do it! Only one minute per question. It could be the best new habit in your life!

And the conclusion you should make: what NEW did you learn about yourself today? In what area? (1—7)? What should happen with these areas tomorrow? How will you use this knowledge to make your life better/more interesting/different?

It is so easy! It this way you will notice about coming changes before another person will notice them (as it happens usually). Do not wait the question from your friend: “What is going on with you, dear? You look bad/depressed/fat/unhealthy/different”. Be your own reflector! Be your own coach! Be your own expert!

As Socrates told once: Know who you are!

In order to be your own expert you need to build your expertise procedure. It is very individual, but the elements as was mentioned before approximately the same: 7 areas of existence give us 7 directions of life excellence!

Why it is important?

Growth is natural for life. Question is: in what direction of your life you would like to travel and with what speed? Stagnation (absence of movement) in any of these 7 areas is sign of misbalance and death at the end. When the fruit is not growing it becomes rotten. It is important to watch and observe yourself in order to se first sign of stagnation. It is life saving procedure for YOUR self.

Nobody can help you except yourself. Others can motivate you, share their experience, show some possibilities, inspire, but you are the captain. Your team (body/mind/spirit) is eager to serve you in your life traveling adventure. But you need to be a good team leader.