Healthy Lifestyle Checklist
- Sunshine and time outdoors in nature (the Japanese call it “forest bathing” for health and balance)
- Sleep, especially maintaining your Circadian rhythm by sleeping in the dark and waking in the natural light
- Clean, whole foods unadulterated with chemicals
- Clean water and adequate hydration, using both water and fresh, naturally high-liquid plant-based foods (fruits, green vegetables)
- Use of wider variety of foods, especially plants, in the diet to properly feed the microbiome and maintain healthy gut flora
- Circulation, through movement, your favorite exercise, massage, and also appropriate circulation-boosting herbs
- Natural remedies including light, water, clean air, foods, herbs, sleep, circulation – and spiritual connection.
- Reducing stress
- Doing things that align your life with your purposes.
- Doing things you enjoy. This includes spending time with people who help you appreciate life and your healthy lifestyle.
- Contribute to a better life – find ways to help others in some way.
Steps for Improvement:
- Look over the list.
- Note which are your strongest points contributing to a positive, healthy lifestyle.
- Decide which points you most want to change.
- Decide which points would be easiest for you to improve.
- Decide what you can do now to start in the direction you want for a healthier life.
- Implement something you can do now to make a difference, no matter how small.
- Make a longer term plan of actions you want, and get more information about how to, if needed.
- Work on it now and over time, checking off steps of successful improvement.
- Seek more information, support or fellowship for points you’d like help with.
- Keep on going. Try more things to improve. Don’t give up.
