Is Instant Gratification One of The Biggest Enemies of Wellness?

Few would argue we live in a world of instant gratification where fast is better. After all who doesn’t want a faster internet, faster drying dryers, and faster checkout speeds at your favorite store. But in the world of wellness where steady as she goes, and where the tortoise beats the hare over time somehow doesn’t seem all that appealing.

But there lies the problem. Who really wants to worry about what might happen 5, 10, 20, or event thirty years down the road. Why worry, surely there is a prescription medication that can solve my problem and if not there will be one readily available by the time I get sick. So it just isn’t all that important that I am 75 pounds overweight, my blood pressure is through the roof, and my cholesterol count is so high it could be mistaken for the national debt.

Surprisingly that was even the case over a hundred and fifty years ago when homeopathy was first starting to gain popularity. In fact the primary reason the practice of using diluted remedies (homeopathy) came into the mainstream was that so many people were dying from the right now remedies and medical procedures.

Without a doubt medicine has come a long way since then but once in a while a medication comes along that despite testing and a stringent approval process must be pulled from the market due to its side effect risk. That said, virtually all prescription medications come with some risks, after all they are chemical compounds which generally try to force the body to behave in a certain way. Oftentimes they offer excellent short term results but the longer they are taken the better the chances that something will go terribly wrong.

Once again many people are willing to take the long-term risk to feel better now.

One the other hand there is wellness or preventative medicine. Preventative medicine could be described as living a health conscious lifestyle and possibly supplementing that lifestyle with vitamins, herbs, or homeopathic remedies when possible. A general strategy designed to do no harm in short-term while achieving long-term wellness.

For many it is only after a major health event that adopting long-term wellness starts to look a whole lot better. But while adopting wellness practices is never a bad idea oftentimes the damage is already done.

For example if you have had a heart attack there likely is some permanent damage to the heart. If you have hardening of the arteries chances are blood flow will never quite be the same. If you have diabetes resulting from a high glucose diet and lack of exercise chances are you will be taking insulin from now on just to minimize the damage that is occurring inside your body. If you have lung cancer from the instant gratification received from the nicotine in cigarettes in retrospect you likely wish you had not smoked.

The list above could go on forever. None of us are above the temptation of our favorite vice, or vices, which are sure to kill us over time. But if we can hold them to a minimum, and be smart about health the rest of the time, chances are things will turn out pretty good.

There is no better time than now to adopt a longer term approach to health and wellness rather than a short-term approach. By doing so you will have taken a giant step in the right direction for avoiding what could possibly be a catastrophic illness sometime in the future.

Rob Hawkins is an enthusiastic consumer advocate for natural health and natural living
with over 10 years experience in the field.
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