Wellness is a proactive process through which people pursue healthier habits, improving their health over time.

The benefits for you? A much more active, vibrant and healthy life!

Quite a lot then and even better with a 30% Discount

If you like the sound of this, read on…….

 

How Wellness Started At My Clinic

I embarked on a search, nearly 35 years ago, for ways to get better long-lasting, pain-relieving results from treatment, after witnessing first hand in my own family the inability of our western medicine to heal pain. By definition, if western medicine wasn’t successful enough, I had to look beyond our own medicinal doctrine. This took me on a journey which opened my eyes to knowledge which I could see had real benefits to those in constant pain or suffering with illnesses which could be largely avoided.

Inevitably my communications on alternative ways to treat conditions were met with a mixture of disbelief or derision, quite understandable, as it did not fit with the belief systems of that time.   The latter was very much based on the individual being a passive player in their own health, with the responsibility left to the medical expert with an adequate supply of pills and the occasional bit of surgery.  Also, and probably more importantly, the term ‘Wellness’ had not reached TV or the press with any significant exposure and thus was not in vogue – it was still mostly an unknown term to the general public.

 

If you convert to wellness and book your first wellness appointment in either January or February, then your next appointment can be booked with a 30% discount.

 

Not deterred, 10 years ago in January 2014, I wrote my first book, ‘The 4 Keys To Health’, in which I presented an approach where the individual was enjoying being actively engaged in following a regular drumbeat of healthy habits. My keys considered 4 aspects of health:

I proposed a simple red, amber and green traffic light score for each aspect, making interpretation of score very simple and visual.

This I summarised as a Wellness approach. Unfortunately, ‘Wellness’ was at that time still a term commonly filed in the quackery bin and ‘The 4 Keys To Health’ and my four subsequent books, largely gathered dust, mostly unread.

Undeterred, I incorporated my 4 Keys approach into my treatment, taking account of how the individual client scored. Unsurprisingly, I soon recognised that individuals, although presenting with the same injury and pain, had to be treated differently according to their 4 Keys score. For example, a client with 4 red keys needed a much softer approach, more treatment time and a longer healing time than another with 4 green keys. In fact, a treatment modality which was quite suitable for one, might be quite unsuitable for the other.

Lifestyle

Over the last 10 years, independent research studies have concluded results supportive of my model. For example, in my model lifestyle accounts for factors such as the level of social support and relationship strength with friends and family. An independent life expectancy study has since found that the number one factor to extend life expectancy was strong social support and friendship.

The messages contained in my 2014 book was as valid then as it is today. The benefits which could be derived by following a Wellness approach are still just as relevant today, if not more so. With the NHS on its knees, there has never been a more momentous need for a good immune system, particularly should another pandemic arrive.

The good news is that Wellness is now a term firmly embedded in our culture, evidenced in the explosion of wellness clinics and the ever-increasing number of TV programs only now introducing the very same topics I learnt about and enthused over 10 to 30 years ago.  Back then, it was ahead of the curve, now it’s commonly accepted by the press and on TV. By far the most important, however, is that the general public is increasingly familiar with Wellness and its potential benefits to them. It’s acceptable now to talk about wellness.

Mindset

Sadly, short term pleasure generally wins over long term pain reduction every time. It’s hardly surprising given the never ending bombardment we all get every day to eat foods laden with sugar and calories, but void of much nutritional value. Even when we try to eat more healthily, it’s not readily understood that most ‘healthy foods’ contain a fraction of the nutrient value they once contained, simply because our farming techniques since the 1950’s have supplied far less mineral value than healthy plants need. The result is that the bulk of land in both North America and Europe is now designated as nutrient depleted and huge amounts of chemicals have to be sprayed on plants to maintain some semblance of health.

Our farm animals rely on a healthy food supply just as much as we do, otherwise good health will be a difficult target. Their food supply is also plant life that grows in nutritionally depleted soil with lots of chemical spraying. No surprise then that around 50% of drugs administered each year are given to farm stock, residuals of which are also likely to reach our dinner plates.

Diet & Nutrition

A consequence of our normal food supply system is that it is nigh impossible to get the level of nutrition you need without supplementation.

All of this and whether the individual tends to accept this and then react to it, will all be part of their mindset, their beliefs. It’s an interesting fact that the bulk of my clients are on mywellness program and that circa 80% of them take supplements. Their pain is significantly less and occurrences of exacerbations and setbacks are significantly less. Clearly, when people adopt a proactive approach to their own health, this includes allowing their belief system to accept that supplementation is an integral part of good health.

Fitness & Exercise

This is perhaps the key that meets with the biggest resistance. Most people hate exercise. Yet lack of exercise is linked to obesity, an inability to live a vibrant life and is associated with cardiovascular problems. Inevitably, lack of exercise is linked to a shorter life expectancy. All this is compounded by the increasingly sedentary lives that many suffer in front of computer screens. Yet as the pain and stiffness subsides, exercise becomes more tolerable, muscles become toned and naturally start burning more carbs, and weight begins to shed.Quite simply, you will feel better, more agile, more vibrant. Life will feel better.

Case Study

I’d like to tell you about my parents, both of whom have pursued a healthy lifestyle for most of their lives and the benefits they have gained have been extraordinary. My father passed away at the age of 91, eventually succumbing to asbestosis, a result of working for years in the naval dock yards in Plymouth. It was estimated that without asbestosis, he would have lived for a good 5 years more.  His decline to ill health was relatively short compared to most, measured in months, not years. Right up till then he would often run to the local shop, went to the gym 3 or 4 times a week, and followed that up with 30 or 40 lengths of the pool. He was on absolutely no medication. But he had studied nutrition and its benefits for years and took supplements every day. He had been a smoker while in the dockyards and enjoyed an occasional glass of wine.

My mother is 91 and her story is almost a copy of my fathers. She is on no medication. She is pain free. She walks most days, swims 30 lengths, 3 times a week, has just returned to the gym as well and on her first visit cycled 4 miles to warm up before swimming 30 lengths. And she loved it.

She takes lots supplements and always has. She hardly touches alcohol and has never smoked.

Interestingly, at her last medical consultant appointment, the consultant would not believe her age and asked what her secret was.  We then spent a few minutes while my mother advised the consultant her method and he wrote copious notes.

This is what wellness could really mean to you. A long, healthy life.

In contrast to my parents health, our nation’s health and that of our children, is not going in the right direction. Yes, life expectancy is increasing, but healthy life expectancy, or healthspan as it is also known, is not keeping pace. Sadly, the expectation is that a larger proportion of our lives will be lived in ill health, a slow painful experience due to lack of healthy habits and a dangerously lazy need to pursue comfort.

Who, in their right mind, would want this?  Well nobody of course, but here comes the Achilles heel-

you must take responsibility for your own health and teach your children to do the same.

Your old age will in many ways be created by the choices you make in your early to midlife. Preparing yourself to be in a safer position to survive a long NHS waiting list or the next pandemic is a wise choice. For most, this requires a step change in beliefs. But if you can take that one small step, then adopting a wellness approach to your life can mean you will increase the proportion of your life lived in good health.

The Wellness approach integrated within my ‘4 Keys To health’ model will provide you with the simple tools you need.  By actively taking care of your lifestyle, mindset, diet and fitness, you can become the master of your health destiny.

Start The New Year Positively

Most people start the new year with admirable goals to get fitter, healthier and slimmer. Few, however, achieve those goals, quickly losing the will to succeed and succumbing to short term pleasure again.  That’s where we can help. By joining my wellness program we can help you achieve your goals, made much easier by not being in pain, or too immobile. You will experience advanced mindset techniques and energy healing. By converting to our wellness, proactive program, you will soon start to feel the benefits of less pain and more flexibility.

To make the conversion more appealing, we have a special offer which will run through January and February. If you convert to wellness and book your first wellness appointment in either January or February, then your next appointment can be booked with a 30% discount if booked and paid for by the end of February.. This brings continuity to you. It gets you past those first few critical weeks when your will to keep going is most tested.

 

If you would like help on how to improve your health and get onboard my wellness program, then call now.

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Jean, Erica & Charlotte will be happy to help.