Moderation and listening to your body- when you strike a balance in life

“Too much is too bad” most of us must have heard this phrase sometime or the other in our lives. It simply goes on to say that anything in excess and even not to the required amount is considered imbalanced. For that matter take even the so-called healthy food. Even that in excess for the body is not considered good. Water is considered excellent for the body, but even that in disproportion is not good. this only leads us to one understanding “moderation”.

Sometimes, we are so obsessed with having excess of everything that we merely bother about the need to have moderation. Desires could be one of the reasons to have the thirst to have in excess. 

Everything in moderation. Nothing in excess.”  These words have been attributed to many wise individuals over time, including Socrates some 2,500 years ago.  Moderation is the idea that an individual should avoid extremes and instead focus on having a life committed to balance and wholeness.

In a society that promotes pleasure-seeking and erroneously equates having more with happiness, the idea of moderation is often ignored.  Many a time we hear people saying I want more of this and that. However, the truth remains that we hardly pay any attention to the golden concept of “moderation”

How does moderation help maintain a healthy lifestyle

Balance in Life: 

let’s take an example of having an excess of your favorite food. Well, maybe you can eat to your heart’s content, what about having it continuously for the entire day? Then may be the word “favorite” would not have the same meaning it earlier had. Which means, eating in moderation will actually help you attain that balance in life. This can be applied to so many other concepts of our life.

Disruption can be kept in check

Neither of the two, excess or deprivation is good for you, doing things in excess may bring chaos into your life, and cause problems that will disrupt balance and disable you from living in harmony.

Helps avoid extremes

When there’s moderation in everything, from food and drinks to sleeping and working, a person is more likely to feel as if they are in control of their life, and all the decisions they’re making are more likely to bring them joy than make them feel miserable, as is often the case with going to either of the extremes.

Can help avoid addiction

Smoking too much or drinking excessively can cause a person to develop an addiction, and when things get out of control completely, people often turn to drugs as their way of coping with day-to-day problems.

Freedom to do things you love

Doing things in moderation will also help you be more productive, which will result in overall better time management, making it possible for you to accomplish more things during the day. If you think you’re using your time properly, it may be time to reevaluate.

So the next time, you just feel like having excess of anything, then just remember the magical word “moderation”. After all, isn’t life also a combination of ups and downs? Don’t we have challenges and happy times too? Nothing is permanent, so if you are going through the urge of running after excess, then understand that even that isn’t permanent. Even nature tends to teach us the same, after rains we do see the sunshine and after pain we see joys too. Then let’s transform happily toward moderation.