Welcome to your Personal Health Reboot!

Firstly, congratulations on choosing to be here. Making the time to learn and understand all about your body, mind, and spirit – and how to care for and support each part – is a wonderful first step to a healthier, happier, more balanced YOU! For the month of January, we will explore all the essential components of a Healthy You. This week, we will focus on learning more about your mind and explore a few simple tips you can apply immediately to help you relax, reduce stress, and become more empowered in choosing how you think and feel.

What is the mind?

Your mind can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy. It is composed of thoughts, perceptions, memories, beliefs, programs, habits and tendencies. You can divide the mind into two main parts, your conscious “thinking” mind and your subconscious “auto-pilot” mind. Your conscious mind is the “voice” in your head that has a thought, opinion, or judgment about everything it experiences. The subconscious mind is the “computer” that takes all the information from your senses and generates thoughts, actions, feelings and behaviors which create your reality, or your experience of life.

How does my mind work?

You may have noticed by now that your mind creates, thinks, and processes differently to the minds of those around you. This is because we are all unique. To understand how your mind works, it’s important to first find out more about your physical makeup. Your mind has a unique users manual. If you don’t have your user manual yet, you will be in the dark when it comes to caring for your mind and taking advantage of your personal mental strengths. Take your 3-minute test here to find out which HealthType you are and how your unique mind works.

What works for my mind.. and what doesn’t?

It is important to identify the ways in which you think that support you and keep you moving forward in a happy, balanced way. We also need to determine the tendencies and habits of your mind that may not be serving your best interests, and may actually be holding you back or keeping you stuck in unhealthy situations. Knowing how to change what doesn’t work for you is essential in order to increase your happiness levels and improve your overall health. The thoughts we allow our mind to focus on determine our emotional state, and can make us happy and healthy, or stressed and depressed.