Your Health in Your Hands: Living and Aging Well

Your Health in Your Hands is a beginner's guide to information and details around actions and attitude changes that will affect the quality of the reader's well being in the area of physical health. Many of the topics discussed in this book will surprise and shock the beginner to this conversation of your health as something you can control. B. Kathy Wright has lived a health supportive, alternative lifestyle for over 30 years. Her family of five children was raised from natural home birth to college life, incorporating health supportive diet and lifestyle choices that included whole foods, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic medicine and massage as an important part of what is needed to create health. Kathy is a Traditional Naturopath, Certified Nutritional Consultant and a Certified Natural Health Professional. She has coached hundreds men and women over the years to change their choices and change their lives. The premise behind this book is the body being a closed self healing unit needs to be nourished and it will heal and present health. The first step behind all the actions suggest an individual must renew his or her mind before any real change will take place in lifestyle and habits. Renewing the mind involves examining lifelong belief about health and how diseases are manifest. Realizing most Americans believe health is illusive and illness is to be expected this author and Naturopath has lived to see that in the lives of her family and clients, this is the opposite of truth. The idea that genes control health is not part of this author's belief system, she along with other health care providers and physicians, has looked beyond how genes affect health to how lifestyle affects genes. This idea that you are the master of your life is not new to everyone but to some this is a remarkably profound statement. The paradigm shift that is happening around the world in reference to health and the ability that human beings have to control their health and their future with their choices is bringing a new awareness to many. In theory we all know our choices determine our future, but in application we avoid the area of health and wellness. Disease is considered something outside of our control and therefore we are all victims. The reader has a choice to examine her core beliefs and agree to act upon the new ideas adopting a new understand and belief, or decide to consider how the actions will fit into her belief system and move on to the next action. To initiate the change the reader will write out a statement, sign and date it, then commit to continuing on the new course towards a healthier life. Your Health in Your Hands is a journey; suggesting we must take every action we can to obtain better health. Interesting and informative topics you may not have considered about food choices and a ��ow to��cooking section give you the tools you need for healthy lifestyle decisions. The author is always present as the coach, teacher, mentor, and guide but clearly believes YOU are the major key to your better health.