Welcome to The Way to Real Health! On April 7, 2010 I will leave on a journey to complete a 500 mile trek through a popular pilgrimage route traveled by many over the past 1200 years. I am taking this journey because I’d like to create awareness that health is more than simply the absence of disease. I contend that there are four pillars to health; physical, emotional, intellectual as well as spiritual. All four aspects must be in balance to achieve real health and thereby live with purpose of becoming the best that you can be. This website will serve to not only chronicle my journey, but to inspire others to take their own personal journeys towards real health – inside and out.
My Journey
My trek of El Camino will begin in St. Jean Pied De Port, France and will continue through the Pyrenees’ Mountains to Santiago de Compostela, Spain….783 km’s -a little over 500 miles which I intend to accomplish in 5 weeks (100 miles/week + travel). It’s referred to as Compostela De Santiago, El Camino, The Way of St. James, or simply The Way.
El Camino Santiago means freedom, culture, sport, nature, tradition, challenge, peace but above all it is freedom. Numerous emperors like Charlemagne, popes like Calixtus II, kings like Alfonso II, brave knights like the Spanish “El Cid” or the, noblemen, thousands of priests, farmers, beggars, travelers, the healthy, the sick, the blind, the lame, the rich and the homeless; all of them were pilgrims and all of them were treated the same, because no one knew if the dirty, tired and blistered pilgrim that just arrived in the village before sunset was a king, a bishop or a pauper. They were and still are all pilgrims always looking for something, always bringing new ideas. [Read More]
The Four Pillars of Health
Health is more than simply the absence of disease. Bold, but true statement. We must consider the physical components of health without neglecting the emotional, intellectual as well as spiritual. If we let one pillar deteriorate, so goes our health. It is finding balance in each of these areas that we find the way to real health. [Read More]
The 35 Day Challenge
Walking 500 miles in foreign countries isn’t for everyone, perhaps a bit Forest Gump like, but becoming the best you can be should be for you! My challenge is for you to look at each category of the 4 pillars of health and select a positive change each and every day. By day 35 you will have created new habits, a new lifestyle, which will serve you better. While you are becoming the best that you can be, you create the same for those around you. You will be a better version of you physically, emotionally, intellectually as well as spiritually by the end of this 35 day challenge. So commit with me here. Sign up for the 35 day challenge. Share your stories with others which can inspire and motivate everyone you encounter to become the best that they can be!
Dr. Evelyn Higgins
Dr. Evelyn Higgins is a recognized international expert on fitness, diet and health. She is a graduate of the State University of New York and New York Chiropractic College. She is a radio show host, 22-year practicing physician, author, health care commentator, columnist, and lecturer. For more information, visit her web site at doctorhiggins.com.
My trek embodies all four pillars.
Starting with the physical; 500 miles requires optimizing nutritional intake, quality sleep, along with good physical conditioning.Emotional health will be integrated by mentally pushing my mind beyond its daily comfort zone.2O miles a day will require a strong sense of purpose, and realizing that all of life is manageable by taking one step at a time.Intellectually, experiencing and integrating into foreign cultures along the trail will require creativity and problem solving along with plain old adaptability to whatever will go wrong, and I’m sure I’ll have numerous experiences to write about, but the goal will be reached. Spiritually, the trek has an incredible 1200 year history.While walking alone for 500 miles the inner peace and freedom will be life changing.Requiring use of all the four aspects of health is walking the walk while talking the talk.Personally, this life altering spiritual journey will conclude on my 50th birthday.During this journey I challenge you to be inspired and motivated to take action in all four areas of your health by as I say on my radio show: Your Body Is A Wonderland taking realistic, attainable steps every day to create a new lifestyle through new habits which allow you to become the best you that you can be.
The Way to Real Health
Welcome to The Way to Real Health! On April 7, 2010 I will leave on a journey to complete a 500 mile trek through a popular pilgrimage route traveled by many over the past 1200 years. I am taking this journey because I’d like to create awareness that health is more than simply the absence of disease. I contend that there are four pillars to health; physical, emotional, intellectual as well as spiritual. All four aspects must be in balance to achieve real health and thereby live with purpose of becoming the best that you can be. This website will serve to not only chronicle my journey, but to inspire others to take their own personal journeys towards real health – inside and out.
My Journey
My trek of El Camino will begin in St. Jean Pied De Port, France and will continue through the Pyrenees’ Mountains to Santiago de Compostela, Spain….783 km’s -a little over 500 miles which I intend to accomplish in 5 weeks (100 miles/week + travel). It’s referred to as Compostela De Santiago, El Camino, The Way of St. James, or simply The Way.
El Camino Santiago means freedom, culture, sport, nature, tradition, challenge, peace but above all it is freedom. Numerous emperors like Charlemagne, popes like Calixtus II, kings like Alfonso II, brave knights like the Spanish “El Cid” or the, noblemen, thousands of priests, farmers, beggars, travelers, the healthy, the sick, the blind, the lame, the rich and the homeless; all of them were pilgrims and all of them were treated the same, because no one knew if the dirty, tired and blistered pilgrim that just arrived in the village before sunset was a king, a bishop or a pauper. They were and still are all pilgrims always looking for something, always bringing new ideas. [Read More]
The Four Pillars of Health
Health is more than simply the absence of disease. Bold, but true statement. We must consider the physical components of health without neglecting the emotional, intellectual as well as spiritual. If we let one pillar deteriorate, so goes our health. It is finding balance in each of these areas that we find the way to real health. [Read More]
The 35 Day Challenge
Walking 500 miles in foreign countries isn’t for everyone, perhaps a bit Forest Gump like, but becoming the best you can be should be for you! My challenge is for you to look at each category of the 4 pillars of health and select a positive change each and every day. By day 35 you will have created new habits, a new lifestyle, which will serve you better. While you are becoming the best that you can be, you create the same for those around you. You will be a better version of you physically, emotionally, intellectually as well as spiritually by the end of this 35 day challenge. So commit with me here. Sign up for the 35 day challenge. Share your stories with others which can inspire and motivate everyone you encounter to become the best that they can be!
Dr. Evelyn Higgins
My trek embodies all four pillars.
Starting with the physical; 500 miles requires optimizing nutritional intake, quality sleep, along with good physical conditioning. Emotional health will be integrated by mentally pushing my mind beyond its daily comfort zone. 2O miles a day will require a strong sense of purpose, and realizing that all of life is manageable by taking one step at a time. Intellectually, experiencing and integrating into foreign cultures along the trail will require creativity and problem solving along with plain old adaptability to whatever will go wrong, and I’m sure I’ll have numerous experiences to write about, but the goal will be reached. Spiritually, the trek has an incredible 1200 year history. While walking alone for 500 miles the inner peace and freedom will be life changing. Requiring use of all the four aspects of health is walking the walk while talking the talk. Personally, this life altering spiritual journey will conclude on my 50th birthday. During this journey I challenge you to be inspired and motivated to take action in all four areas of your health by as I say on my radio show: Your Body Is A Wonderland taking realistic, attainable steps every day to create a new lifestyle through new habits which allow you to become the best you that you can be.