Health is the most important?

When we think about health, we normally tend to believe that it is the most important thing to have a full and happy life. and that if we ever lost it, we would inevitably be condemned to have a miserable and meaningless existence.

This belief, so widespread in society, It is really an irrational and false idea, which can cause a lot of suffering to whoever communes with her. Firstly, because it can create in us an obsession with health, beyond the normal concern – or rather, occupation – that we should have about it.

We can see it in the psychological disorder of hypochondria, which is born precisely from embracing this idea. Hypochondriacs think that health is more than important and are so worried about losing it or having lost it, even when there is no evidence or data to prove it, that they become filled with anxiety. to such an extent that they perform one test after another to find out if they are sick, or they endlessly search for information about symptoms, disorders or diseases, falling into a spiral with no exit and increasing their discomfort.

Why isn’t health the most important thing to be happy?

From psychology, we say that It is not external circumstances that are responsible for our happiness or unhappiness, but happiness comes from within. of the person: the person ultimately responsible for your happiness is yourself.

External events contribute to making our lives more satisfying and joyful or more painful and unhappy, but they do not determine anything.. There is no linear relationship between situations and emotions. It is each person, with their own way of approaching life, who chooses their emotional state.

Health, as an external circumstance, does not therefore determine our happiness.Although it is true that it can be a great adversity, no one told us that the world was going to be perfect.

The proof to prove that health does not determine whether we are more or less happy, we have it in the different reactions of people to the concept of health: There are people who are overflowing with physical health and are extremely unhappy and there are others, like Irene Villa or Stephen Hawking, who, with a significant loss of health, have declared themselves to be very happy people, with great life goals and concerns.

Another reason why it is unreasonable to worry excessively about your health is that It is something that we are all inevitably going to lose, sooner or later, to a lesser or greater degree.. So why worry or give so much importance to something that we are sure to lose? Personally, I think it is great to take care of your body and mind and want to be healthy, but without making a world of it because as we have said before, we will have two problems instead of one.

If in the end, we are all going to die and we do not know when nor do we know under what circumstances. Today I can be perfectly healthy, but tomorrow I can be dead and you can be sick, but live longer than me. This is reality, there are no certainties. Stop worrying!

On the other hand, we have to be aware that Complaining about our health is a big waste of time that can also work against us.. People always make our pain worse when we focus on it all the time, complaining over and over again without reaching any solution. Enough complaining!

Therefore, The most reasonable and intelligent thing for your emotional – and physical – health is to stop complaining about what you have lost and focus on what you still have. Or you can do it and realize that there are millions of possibilities out there, even if you are sick, go out and look for them!

The most important thing is that now you are alive and you are here, in the world, better or worse, but here you are and you have a universe to discover and enjoy. Even without health, you still have things to do for yourself and the people around you, take advantage of it!