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In the wholelife action area you can visit the following sections:
> Getting to know myself
better
> My working life
> Personal relationships
> Health – mind and
body
> Leisure, social & ‘me
time’
> Mindercises for thinking
and being...
In these sections you will have the opportunity to select and
answer a range of questions which have been specially developed
to help you find the best way forward in your particular circumstances.
There are no right or wrong answers
to these questions and only you need to see the answers.
If
you’ve arrived at the WholeLife Action Area and are wondering
what’s in store, a brief explanation of the WholeLife concept
will probably help.
About ten years ago cosmic-cherry developed a system called WholeLife
Choices. The idea came after years of observing the ways in which
people, like you and I, actually make
themselves unhappy, ill, stressed out
and generally discontent. We do this in a number of ways including
making poor choices and not taking responsibility for our physical
and mental well being.
Although I am beginning to sound like a disciplinarian, please
bear with me – it really is time we all thought a bit more
about personal choice and active commitment to the health of our
minds and bodies. Before you start to think that I am goody two
shoes personified – let me say that I counsel people to do
‘whatever they think is appropriate’. The point is simply
that you have got to ‘think’
in order to work out what is and is not appropriate.
So the thinking process is essential if responsibility is going
to be taken for running your own life, rather than your life running
you! And what is appropriate for me, may not be appropriate for
you – no judgements, no regrets. Just
know what you’re doing, why you’re doing it and what
the likely effect on yourself and others may be.
In today’s frenetic world we do so much without really taking
any time at all to consider our options or to think things through
properly. The well known saying ‘if
you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep
on getting what you’ve always got’
illustrates the importance of taking a fresh look at life and
having a ‘re-think’, if indeed you want to make some
changes.
Another of today’s buzz sayings is ‘what
you sow, you will also reap’ –
but do we put that into everyday practice? Sow anger, frustration,
unhappiness, stress, envy or discontent and what do you reap?
Taking a WholeLife approach means recognising that everything
in your life is related to everything else.
Your working life, your personal relationships, your health, your
leisure and social life, or lack of it, are all dependent on YOU
and your habits – good and bad.
Common sense maybe, but most of us are entirely inconsistent when
it comes to our own well being! We
make ourselves dis-eased by sowing poor quality seed
- an endless catalogue of unhealthy choices. For example, do we
consciously choose to eat junk food, to drink too much, to sit
down all day without using our bodies as nature intended, to watch
rubbish on TV or in the cinema, and generally to pay little attention
to our real needs while consuming materialism takes us over? I
suspect that most of the time we’re on automatic pilot -
thinking and conscious choosing is not something we’re very
good at!
People who adopt the WholeLife way of living look at their thoughts
and actions in the round – work, rest and play - and find
a balance that suits their individual
mind, body and spirit. By being true to themselves, they are free
to be themselves!
Some of the information herein can act as a catalyst for radical
change. This may include opening up the past – both good
and bad. Be prepared to look at yourself, warts and all, in the
same way that you would were you reading this in a self-help book.
If, during the course of your explorations, you feel at all disturbed,
please talk to your GP or seek appropriate alternative professional
help.
Disclaimer - please read
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