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Wellness is now a much-overused term, and its meaning to you may be unclear and confusing, so much so that you have no idea if it would be any benefit to you at all. Here, we aim to clarify exactly why a ‘Wellness’ approach to life, at any age, will pay enormous dividends to both your quality of life and your life expectancy.
Ultimately, it’s your call. But why wouldn’t you want a longer, healthier, happier life for both you and the ones you love?
Where does the following information come from? Nicky Snazell has, to date, written five books on pain and health and has invested thousands of hours researching knowledge worldwide to write these. Thus, you can be confident that this information is not only well-researched but also inclusive of knowledge beyond our Western medical approach. Nicky continues to research and is writing her sixth book. Thus, her knowledge is right up to date.
Depending on where your beliefs and understanding of health are now, it may be that the concept of ‘wellness’ is too big a jump for you. That’s ok. Bear with us, and we will try to take you on a journey of understanding so that by the end, you, at the very least, will have sufficient knowledge to make the best decision for yourself. You may wish to skip some or all of the following if you feel you already understand enough to make the same decision.
There are links to further information on the topics raised that may help you understand.
For many, this is understandably a crunch issue, and it may well be for you because it's turning upside down what you may have believed all your life. Many will struggle to accept this reality and not be able to take on board the need to take personal responsibility.
If, on the other hand, you can accept that responsibility, your actions will inevitably change to lead you, and those that you love, to a healthier, happier, and longer life.
An analogy will help here. Most people fully understand the need to look after their car and to have regular preventative maintenance. How fast your car gets to the junkyard and how many times it breaks down on the way depend on how well you look after it. The difference can be both a lot of unnecessary expense and hassle, plus a much shorter life.
Your body is no different to a car, except that it's the only one you have got and it's a lot more complicated than any car. So it's infinitely more precious and needs a lot more care. It stands to reason that the number of problems you will have also depends very much on how well you maintain your body.
So, ask yourself this. If you are completely comfortable with the idea of servicing your car being a lot more sensible than suffering a lot of breakdowns and potentially a much shorter life for your car, then surely you can see the same logic applies to your body, your health, your happiness, and your life expectancy.
Let's look at a case study on this topic:
Anona first came to see Nicky 13 years ago for help with her low back pain, caused by many years of bending all day as a primary school teacher.
Nicky killed her pain, and Anona did what most patients do, which was to stop treatment and get on with her life. At the time, she was newly retired and thought that a couple of treatments would get her fixed and that would be that.
Unfortunately, a 60-year-old spine will have suffered a lot of wear and tear, whatever her lifestyle had been. It was, however, more prone to damage from 40 years of constantly stooping.
Inevitably, the low back pain returned as a niggle, was ignored, and just got worse until the pain was bad enough to force more treatment.
Thus, a pattern emerged of breaks in treatment, a slow build-up in pain until intolerable, interspersed with periods of intense treatment with David to get the pain removed again.
Eventually, after many years of this pattern, it dawned on Anona that it might be smarter to get regular maintenance to keep the problem at bay.
It occurred to her that she had no problem with going to the dentist every 6 months for a cleaning and check-up, because she knew this would most likely prevent any serious tooth decay and the pain and cost of dealing with that. And yet for some reason, she had ignored the rest of her body. Why on earth would she do that? she pondered. Were her teeth somehow more important than anything else?
Well, everybody knew that it was the norm for a 6-month dentist check-up. Everybody knew that you would be daft if you didn't get your car regularly maintained. Yet she didn't know anyone whose body was regularly maintained.
The more she thought about this, the more illogical it was. Just because most people didn't get regular body maintenance, that was no reason not to as well.
The realisation sunk in that she had been daft to wait until her body broke down before she got treatment.
In November 2017 she switched to a monthly maintenance routine with David, with the aim of extending the time between appointments until an optimum was found.
The result has been no return of her pain, no return to the restriction on her lifestyle that the pain caused, and a saving on her treatment cost.
Not only that, Anona is now able to do a 2-mile walk every day, which is helping her tackle a blood sugar problem, which, if left untreated, could develop into diabetes. She wouldn't have been able to consistently do this unless she had switched to maintaining her body.
Well, everybody knew that it was the norm for a 6-month dentist check-up. Everybody knew that you would be daft if you didn't get your car regularly maintained. Yet she didn't know anyone whose body was regularly maintained.
The more she thought about this, the more illogical it was. Just because most people didn't get regular body maintenance, that was no reason to as well.
The realisation sank in that she had been daft to wait until her body broke down before she got treatment.
In November 2017, she switched to a monthly maintenance routine with David, with the aim of extending the time between appointments until an optimum was found.
The result has been no return of her pain, no return to the restriction on her lifestyle that the pain caused, and a saving on her treatment cost.
Not only that, Anona is now able to do a 2-mile walk every day, which is helping her tackle a blood sugar problem, which, if left untreated, could develop into diabetes. She wouldn't have been able to consistently do this unless she had switched to maintaining her body.
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