How To Make 2025 Your Best Year Of Health
With the New Year comes a perfect opportunity to focus not necessarily on your physical fitness, but your overall health, wellness and prevention of future diseases. The number one focus in the New Year is typically weight loss. Yes, losing weight is a great way to help gain a better level of health and wellness for many people. However, weight is only one of many health problems most Americans face and some are in our control, we just have to implement some constructive strategies to get control over our health. Reducing stress is a big one. Lowering anxiety is another thing to improve our overall health and improved sleep helps your health in innumerable ways. Thankfully, acupuncture is the go-to natural medicine to help improve mood, healthy metabolism, stress and even how long and how deep you sleep. Here are some other proven ways in which you can take control of your health in the year to come!
Incorporate Acupuncture into Your Weekly or Even Monthly Routine
If you’re not already getting regular acupuncture sessions for your general health and wellbeing, we strongly suggest that you start with simply scheduling a monthly appointment. Even once a month, acupuncture can have a profound impact on your health, your mental wellness and your physical complaints. Acupuncture has been shown to help with many ailments, physical injuries and diseases, both internal and external. But did you know that it is also just generally good to get a full body acupuncture session on a regular basis? That’s right! You don’t have to wait until you have an injury, chronic pain or a chronic illness to seek out acupuncture therapy. It is a fantastic way to be proactive and preventative, by treating yourself with the gift of better health.
Learn The Art Of Self-Care
If you’re like many other busy adults, then you may think that self-care amounts to listening to your favorite song every now and again as you drive hurriedly from one errand to the next. This is a bit like applying a band-aid to a hemorrhage. Real, meaningful, self-care is something that you will want to learn to incorporate into your daily or at least your weekly routine as seriously as you would brush your teeth. Let's be honest, no one goes an entire week without brushing their teeth. That is a learned behavior that really allows for greater overall health including your teeth, gums and even your heart. Booking your self-care is just as important.
Here are some quick tips for self-care for 2025:
Schedule self-care sessions on your calendar and stick to them.
Think about what really relaxes you. Then book that session. We love the naps and nervous system reset we get while getting acupuncture. Other ideas include: massage, a salt therapy session, sound bowl immersion or a restorative yoga class. Budget real time to enable you to feel less stressed and overwhelmed. Making this a priority is important to obtaining optimal health.
Keep yourself hydrated! Program hydration reminders into your phone or calendar and stick to them. One major factor to feeling stressed is lack of water or dehydration. No need to overdo it though. A few glasses a day of water should suffice and doubling that amount on workout days is a must.
Incorporate mindfulness breaks into every day if you can. They can be 10 to 20 minute blocks where you can meditate or pray, focus on your breathing and best of all, relax.
Harness the Power of Herbal Medicine
One way to feel less stressed and healthier in the new year is to use herbal medicine, prescribed by your doctor of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine. These have been used effectively for thousands of years and work for so many health problems whether chronic or acute. We often set our patients up for success, in their in-home herbal pharmacy, so they are ready and prepared to treat their most common ailments as soon as they arise.
Some common ailments herbal medicine treats well include, but are definitely not limited to: allergies, heartburn, constipation, traveler's diarrhea, cough, sore throat, headaches, menstrual pain, insomnia, anxiety, S.A.D. PMS, chronic skin problems, viral infections, hormonal imbalance and pain. Reducing the amount of pharmaceutical chemicals in your body can go a long way to promote better health and reduce side-effects that often require yet another prescription.
We want to work with you and your body for complete healing. Together we can find the path to wellness this year. Here's to a healthy 2025!
For The Road
We hope you enjoyed learning about ways to take better care of yourself in 2025 and beyond. If you would like to know more about this or anything else along these lines, we are happy to help. Just contact us and we can go over your options and help you find the best path for your health and fertility goals. Schedule a consultation for acupuncture, herbal medicine, functional medicine, supplements or lifestyle modifications, by reaching out to Dr. Burris or our other medical providers HERE. We offer telemedicine for those who are not within driving distance from our office.