Tha Lifestyle Feb,2014 | Page 28

THA LIFESTYLE | HEALTH & WELL BEING I t is fair to say that most of us prefer to live a fit and healthy life. The main focus is always on the physical aspect of fitness when health is discussed – be it with your doctor or casually with friends and family. It is a well-established fact that to achieve a healthy life, we have to live on balanced nutrition and perform reasonable physical activity. However, when we think more seriously, it becomes apparent that there are many more vital ingredients other than weight and fitness that make up a “healthy life”, such as, taking enough rest (sleep), having a clear and calm mind (ability to handle and overcome workplace/other stresses of life without breaking down) and many more. Mind controls the body and therefore we need to take very good care of our mind to start with. Now to include this additional “mind” parameter we ought to redefine the health-form