7 Steps to Creating a healthy life

You can chose to create a healthy life. It is your choice even if you feel your depression is just something you have to live with. Well, you don't. Here are some ways that you can improve your general health and well being:
1. GRATITUDE. Keep a gratitude journal in which every day, you write at least 5 things that you are grateful for.  This helps with allowing the brain to recognize the beauty in your life.
2. ENVIRONMENT. Surround yourself with open spaces, organization, flowers, beauty and your life will reflect that. If you surround yourself with clutter, dead plants, and chaos, your life will reflect ill health and chaos. You choose.
3.POLLUTION. Stop polluting your mind with visual images of depressing things. Limit television viewing, loud music, loud social environments. Allow there to be times of peace and tranquility and then your life will reflect this.
4.ASSOCIATION. Check on who you associate with and make sure it is with people who you really like and who reciprocate these feelings. The association must be a positive one for you. Sometimes we associate with people who don't bring out the best in us, be aware of this and change it.
5.LOVE. Always try to do the things that you love, that way, you will always love what you're doing!! If there is love involved, your life will always be a happy place.
6.RELAX. Take time out to relax your entire body including the mind. You could practise meditation or do an activity that brings about profound peace and relaxation to you.
7. BALANCE. Work out your priorities and balance your work, home and health into one. I include health in this as it involves exercise which needs to be scheduled into your balance. Whatever you rate as the most important will be what your focus is currently on. What is that for you? You can change that today by taking some steps to re-prioritize.

I hope this gives you something to think about. I'd like to suggest that you copy and paste this list , print it out and stick it somewhere that you look at every day. This will remind you that you have choices and you will then make the right ones if you are always aware.
Have a great  week making healthy choices !
Take care
Deb