You are invited to look at yourself in a new way, to see how healthy you are. This isn’t about you as a body, a bank account, or as a beloved spouse or friend. It’s about the person who takes care of your body, your bank account, and your relationships. How healthy are YOU, as a person?
Until the last hundred years or so, the western world has always considered the healthy choice for people and groups to be whatever does good to everybody in the long run. So the traditional view of well-being is what works for the common good over time. By contrast, now we use the psycho-medical model of symptom relief: healthy is whatever feels good to my body today.
The traditional model of wellness portrays what people throughout history have most often considered to be sick and what they’ve seen as healthy. We offer a personal wellness test here that is free, anonymous (privately encrypted), requires just 10 minutes to take, and explains your 27 scores ranging from 1 to 9, with links to free learning tools. If you’re ready to go ahead and take the test without knowing anymore about it, skip to the last two lines of this page. But if you want to know a little more, just keep reading this page. To learn a lot more, you can go to mynewlife.com/about-the-blt .
Find yourself in the flowchart, in the middle row between the healthy green above and the toxic red below. You’ll see listed in the neutral blue nine experiences we all need to feel healthy and alive. These nine resources we are all made to long for and to share: TRUTH, PEACE, RESPECT, LOVE, MERCY, SEXUALITY, MONEY, PURPOSE, and physical HEALTH. They affect the core of our true self, by feeding our confidence and self-worth. We can think of these experiential resources as soul foods.
Healthy, life-giving expressions of these soul foods are colored green and listed above you. Green means go and shows growth, so we call these whole foods. These beliefs and habits all come from a mindset of personal abundance. We give and receive these experiences when we believe that we have wellsprings for these soul foods, both within us and around us. Believing and living by this view of supernaturally overflowing fullness, the more we give, the more we are able to give, to others, and also to ourselves as caretakers. Acting on this belief motivates compliance with medical directives.
By contrast, unhealthy, life-draining expressions are colored red and listed below. Red means stop and shows infection, so we call these junk foods. A natural, self-centered, deficit mentality teaches that we must manipulate others to give us our nine soul foods, and if they don’t, we must just take their soul foods from them. When others tap into us for these same resources, we seem to spring a leak: the more we try to get, and the more we do get, the more we need to get.
Now to take an even closer look at yourself in this way, you can take a new, free, anonymous test, the Better Life Test(the mini version, the BLTm). You’ll get scores for each green whole food, each red junk food, and one for each blue soul food. The BLTm feedback will help you
· examine where you get each soul food from, and how to exchange unhealthy sources for healthy ones;
· examine both what you take in and put out of all nine foods, in private, at home, and out in public; and
· use our 18 Learning Tools, one of each for the nine soul foods: Life Lessons from psychology,
and Parenting Tips for raising healthy children.
For personal growth and healing, take the test at mynewlife.com/blt ,
and get a personal health check-up that is free, anonymous, and emailed to you immediately.