To live healthy today, look at the past and human evolution. There is a definite link between our physical health and our mental health. As far back as the Greeks, the importance of having a sound mind and sound body were understood and “of Sound Mind and Sound Body” became that credo.
So what did the Ancient Greek know that we seem to have forgotten or lost? Let’s take a look back in history and see what we can find, again. For a healthy mind and a healthy body, the following 7 habits have proved to be a valuable tool.
• Daily Physical Activity: Every day, find 20 minutes to exercise at least 3 times a week.
• Feed Your Curiosity: Curiosity is said to have killed the cat, but it has been discovered by taking a few minutes of your day each day to learn something new, it can only expand your brain.
• Nurture Creativity: Every day, find a way for your mind to be challenged with new ideas and new ways to do things. Try to connect ideas that are unrelated to each other.
• Human Accord: Create close-knit relationships with others and find a social network to be a part of.
• Connect Spiritually: Find a source that inspires you spiritually that is bigger than you.
• Find A Balance Of Energy: Minimize the carbon footprint you’re leaving and balance your intake and output of calories.
• Voluntary Get Simple: Find and enjoy the liberty that you can have when you find you can live with less.
Evolutionary Biology versus Today’s Technology
Look at this timeline of inventions that changed the world as it went:
• 1800s: The Steam Engine, The Locomotive, The Telephone, First Electrical Power Plant, Automotive Production Line
• 1900s: The Television, The Jet Plane, The ATM, The Cell Phone, The Internet.
It is amazing when you think how things have progressed the last 20 million years isn’t it? And it can all be created and liked to Herman Hollerith, an American inventor. He would be the first to plant the seeds of invention in the late 1880s with punch cards and electricity. Over the years with time, things kept changing and it went from his invention to being IBM, a world-renowned company that employs thousands.
Human DNA Is Made Of Adventure, Creativity and Unity
Most likely, the Neanderthals became extinct because they didn’t venture far from their caves. For generation after generation, they stayed in their French and Spain using the same simple tools that had been chiseled out years before. However, the Homo sapiens kept pushing themselves into unknown areas and invented new things as they went.
It is believed by many that the 7 habits that we have presented here are a cure to prevent future shock and surprise. By adopting these daily habits, you’ll keep yourself happier, healthier and youthful longer.
