Sign up for the Free Course The Essence of Ayurveda: https://bit.ly/ea-vida-saudavel THREE TIPS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE 00:00 If you want to be healthy, there are 3 things you should give up 03:26 Short-term mindset 20:20 Feeling that health is an individual phenomenon 26:36 Health is a collective phenomenon If you want to have a healthier life, there are 3 things you should give up. And today you will find out what these three things are. 1. SHORT-TERM MENTALITY Short-term mindset is your biggest enemy when you want to have a healthier life. The short-term mindset means that you have choices now that affect your future. And health is a long-term phenomenon. So if you take action now and these actions generate consequences for you in the medium and long term, this is one of the biggest enemies you can have for your health. This is where sugar and white flour come in... foods that are bad for you. Most people who have a bad diet are juxtaposing a long-term mindset with a short-term mindset. You need to abandon this short-term mindset. What you are doing is mortgaging your current health with the decisions you are making now. You are deciding that you only want pleasure and leaving your health aside. You often make choices that do not bring benefits in the long run. They bring short-term pleasure and you pay the bill for years to come. 2. SOCIAL PRESSURE THAT DOES NOT BENEFIT YOU The second thing you should abandon is social pressure that does not benefit you. Sign up for the Free Course The Essence of Ayurveda: https://bit.ly/YT-Essencia You were socialized in a specific way. Sometimes you have eating habits that are not yours. They are from your family, your friends, your culture. For example: you are Brazilian so you have to eat meat, but you know it is not good for you. You can continue to give in to social pressure and feel sick when you eat meat, or you can simply stop eating meat. If you feel that alcohol is not good for you and you go out with your friends, give in to social pressure, drink and the next day you have a migraine, you are harming your health. Do you need to abandon your family, your friends, your life to be healthier? No. You just need to keep in mind that if the social norms around you do not help you be healthier, you can give up those norms. 3. THE IDEA THAT HEALTH IS AN INDIVIDUAL PHENOMENON We treat health as if it were an individual phenomenon. And then we think: I will make changes to my lifestyle and these changes will make me healthier. But health is not an individual phenomenon. It is a collective phenomenon. True health is public health, because there is no point in being healthy if other people are not. If you have the idea that you can be healthy regardless of the rest of the planet, forget it, because in the medium and long term, that is not sustainable. There is no point in taking a plant that will make you healthy, but that is causing deforestation in the Amazon, for example. If your habit of being healthy deforests, pollutes, and promotes fires, you will be healthy in the short term. Because there is only one planet. If you want to be truly healthier, you have to take care of your health and the health of others too. If you have the privilege of being healthy, having food on your table, being safe, and not being threatened, you have the responsibility of taking care of other people. Privilege comes with responsibility. Health comes with responsibility, because you can't be healthy alone. #ayurveda #health #responsibility #freedom