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New Year's Resolutions are Healthier than Medicines

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Beverly Sills - by Carl Van Vechten





“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
 Beverly Sills




At this time of the year, we think of New Years Resolutions. We resolve to do better and to be better. 


are New Years Resolutions healthy? Do they make you healthier?


Many new year's resolutions are about health.  It's interesting to look at the hierarchy of healthicine, and see where we can make healthful New Year's Resolutions.   







A glance at The Hierarchy of Healthicine shows where resolutions can help us.  We can resolve to build healthy communities, healthy spirits, a healthy mind, and a healthy body.






We often make resolutions about nutrition - diet, which we believe will improve the healthiness of our bodies, thus our mind, spirits and communities. There are no medicines that can replace nutrition. No medicines better than resolving to improve your diet. 





We seldom make resolutions that address specific bodily systems or organs - with the exception of smoking.  Tissue healthiness, cell healthiness is tied to nutritional healthiness - and few people resolve to have 'healthier skin'. Most of us assume that our genetics are beyond our control. We cannot make resolutions that have a useful effect on our genetics. 


Medicine is designed to tackle specific illnesses, not healthiness.  Medicine focuses attention on specific organs, tissues and systems. There is no medicine for an unhealthy body, nor for a weak spirit. New Years Resolutions tackle aspects of health that are NOT well handled by medicines. Our communities, our spirit, our mind - medical systems hardly recognize these aspects of health. But our New Year's Resolutions work to improve them.  


Do our resolutions make us healthier? Of course they do.  The act of 'resolving' to make changes is healthy - even if some of the changes do not directly improve our health. 



According to the US Government website, the most popular New Year's Resolutions are: 
















ResolutionHealthiness
Drink Less AlcoholNutrition, Body
Eat Healthy FoodNutrition, Body
Get a Better EducationMind
Get a Better JobSpirit, Community
Get FitBody
Lose WeightBody
Manage DebtCommunity
Manage StressMind, Spirit
Quit SmokingBody, Respiratory system
Reduce, Reuse, and RecycleSpirit
Save MoneyCommunity
Take a TripSpirit, Community
Volunteer to Help OthersSpirit, Community






The important thing about New Year's Resolutions is choice. New Year's resolutions help us to exercise choice about our healthiness.  Even if our resolutions fail, we gain practice creating resolutions, and acting on them. When we resolve, we work to make a better world, to create a positive new beginning.


Healthiness is about balance - and balance is about movement.  New Year's resolutions require us to consider movement - and to act on our decisions.  This heightens our awareness, and ultimately our healthiness.



My resolutions for 2013?  I resolve to be happier in 2013. To be grateful for what I have.  That's for my spirit health. And I resolve to stand up for health, healthicine and health freedoms - for your health, for my health and for the community of healthicine


Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of healthiness. When we make New Year's resolutions, we are exercising this right.  Exercise makes us healthier, even exercising our rights.



to your health, tracy








Tracy is the author of two book about healthicine: 







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