Strategies for maintaining your general health: Different ways to help you maintain your overall general health

January 2007     View PDF     View Schedule     En español

Building a strong foundation

Maintaining your general health, includes addressing the mind, body, spiritual and social connections of who you are and how you live. By viewing health this way, the idea of a general health strategy being overwhelming begins to fade away.

People make choices daily about their health through both action and inaction. You probably already do things now that maintain your general health. Taking a moment to look at what they are, name them, refine them and explore ways to improve them is the very foundation of health.

No one strategy works best for everyone. Rather, the best answers are those that best fit your life. There are resources, tools and some basic principals to consider. A good strategy includes goals you can achieve, is tailored to your needs, fits into your life, and makes you feel better as you implement it.

This doesn’t mean that your strategy is failing if you come down with a cold or if you have a bad day. A general health strategy is not something one achieves or completes. It’s an ongoing process that needs to be revisited at times and altered as your life changes—as you change.