What is Health? A Fundamental Question!
After almost half a century of practising osteopathic and holistic health care, I have come to believe that we give too little attention to this question.
Our National Health Service provides essential care, but it focuses largely on preventing, managing, and treating disease. As important as these services are, I believe we can also place greater emphasis on understanding health and helping people nurture it in everyday life.
I explore this question in my video, “What Is Health?”, which you can watch HERE.
Putting Health Into Your Hands
To complement the care offered by the NHS, I developed my website, TotalHealthMatters! It brings together a wide range of free resources to help you explore your health and make informed choices about your wellbeing.
Whether you are interested in breathing, nutrition or the connections between different aspects of health, here are some places to begin.
Start With Your Breathing
A simple starting point is my 60-second breath test, designed to help you take a closer look at your breathing.
For a more detailed introduction, my free Buteyko Method Breath Training Podcast Course explores breathing techniques and how to practise them.
If you have asthma, my free podcast course, “Escape From Asthma”, explores breathing techniques to help asthma sufferers control their asthma safely with less medication.
Explore Food and Nutrition
What we eat is another important part of caring for our health. “The World’s Finest Diet” offers a nutrition approach informed by epidemiological studies and decades of clinical research. It explores the relationship between food, weight management and long-term health.
Perhaps you already have an eating pattern that suits you but would like to understand it better. The nutritional screening tool offers a quick way to explore possible gaps or excesses in your diet. It is a starting point for reflection, not a diagnosis. Try it HERE.
Listen, Read and Learn
For a broader exploration of health, listen to my 32 free podcasts covering a wide range of topics. Search for “Your Health in Your Hands” on your preferred podcast platform, or find them HERE.
You can also browse my free e-books:
Take the Next Step
I hope these resources encourage you to look beyond the absence of illness and explore what healthy means for you.
If you would like to delve deeper, you may also wish to purchase one of my books. Your support helps keep the website running and the podcasts freely available.
You can view and purchase Michael Lingard's books HERE.
Enjoy exploring. Be healthy and happy!
Michael Lingard BSc (Econ) DO
About the author
Michael LingardHealth Practitioner & Author
Michael Lingard, a regular contributor to Wellbeing Magazine for the past 18 years. A passionate promoter of real health care and would like to see a paradigm shift in modern medicine; from a disease & pathology based system to a health & ethology based system.
