{"id":4,"date":"2010-06-15T13:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/practicalspirituality\/2010\/06\/protect-what-you-love-re-define-your-health-tend-to-your-planet.html"},"modified":"2010-06-15T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:17:42","slug":"protect-what-you-love-re-define-your-health-tend-to-your-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/practicalspirituality\/2010\/06\/protect-what-you-love-re-define-your-health-tend-to-your-planet.html","title":{"rendered":"Protect What You Love: Re-Define Your Health, Tend to Your Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Water_drop_on_a_leaf.jpg\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

When you think about health one of the most significant
\nthings you can change is your perspective. The way you think about health,
\nshapes your health. If you think only your body matters, you might eat well and
\nexercise, but then your worry or anger will negate those efforts. If you think
\nyou are a body and a mind, you might also learn to manage your daily stress,
\nbut then you might not tend to the deeper emotional wounds behind it all, nor
\nfocus on a connection to a higher power or the world around you.<\/p>\n

The question follows, “what isn’t a part of my health?”
\nSpiritual traditions will tell you that you are deeply interconnected with the
\nworld, and what is done to one is eventually felt by all. Science now knows the
\nsame principle to be true. There is no debate, all of life is interconnected
\nand the pollution in the air and water is as much a part of your diet as what
\nyou buy in the store. Everything impacts your health; the world is an extension
\nof your body in a very literal way.<\/p>\n

This means that if you are concerned with your health, you
\nshould be concerned with the health of your planet. You can’t see your body
\nmetabolize Vitamin C, but you know you need it and that your body uses it well.
\nYou can’t see the massive oil spill off the Gulf Coast (partially because the
\nCoast Guard and BP Oil are controlling media access), but you still know its
\nimpacting our world. I am struggling to make a difference and have accepted
\nthat I won’t be flying down to help. But I can make donations to charities that
\nare helping, I can write my Governor or Senator, I can ask my friends to get
\ninvolved, and maybe some of them have connections or time to help. I am sending
\nthis blog to all my posts (which breaks some blogging rules) since it is one
\neffort to help make a difference.<\/p>\n

 Because my next book is about the connection between
\ninspiration and health (Inspiration Deficit Disorder<\/a>), I have found myself
\ntalking to a lot of people about lifestyle changes and how to make themselves
\nhappy. But true inspiration impacts others and makes the world a better place.
\nAnd though it’s unpopular to say, it is not just about being in <\/b>the world it is
\nalso about doing <\/b>– the core of an inspiration deficit is believing one thing
\n(like valuing nature) and then doing another (ignoring massive environmental
\ncatastrophes). This kind of incongruence may not touch you in the short term,
\nbut in the long term it may impact us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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