This information is excerpted from the book, Recapture Your Health, by Walt Stoll, M.D. and Jan DeCourtney, C.M.T. Feel free to use up to 10 tips in an article or story as long as you quote the source and ordering information for the book (at bottom).

Health Tip No. 7: Be Prepared to Change Techniques as You Get Better

If you are committed to regularly practice a Wellness Program, your health condition will change. Thus as you heal, you may have to change paths, since each of us becomes different as we get nearer to being well. Thus, healing approaches that worked in the beginning may lose their effectiveness, and so you may have to select new techniques and methods to continue to see progress.

For example, if you are practicing a relaxation technique, the one that worked for you in the beginning may stop working as well and you may need to find another. The same is true of diet. With better health, your metabolic processes will likely change, so any dietary approach used alongside eating whole foods that helped when you were over-stressed may need also to change. Staying with that previous diet might actually make you sick, and so you must adapt to the new situation. Also, many people who start on any kind of exercise program eventually get interested in adding other varieties, so your exercise program will likely change as well.

Change is what you want to have happen, so all of these events are good signs that you are moving forward with your healing program.

Walt Stoll, MD, and Jan DeCourtney, CMT, are co-authors of the book, Recapture Your Health: A Complete Step-by-Step Program to Reverse Your Chronic Symptoms and Create Lasting Wellness, (ISBN 0965317129), available at local and online bookstores, and from Sunrise Health Coach Publications, 1-877-357-9355 or www.sunrisehealthcoach.com.