What's Systems Thinking and Change Theory Got to Do With Lifestyle Behavioral Changes that lead to Optimum Health?

Every system is made up of energy. Our systems (whether individual, group, organization or community) contain forces for change and forces that want to maintain the status quo. Our brains are actually hard wired to maintain that status quo. Unless we acknowledge and manage that energy that feels like "digging in our heels" it will grow.

Systems thinking informs us that we need to view the interrelationships among all parts of the whole. This requires feedback and planning. How well do you understand and experience the interrelationships of all of the parts (systems) within you? What feedback are you getting from your body, mind and spirit and are you listening?


So, you want to make a behavioral change in order to become a healthier individual. How can theories of change be helpful?

Understanding that change is a process allows you to take a more kind and forgiving view of yourself. Change takes time, and can be "two steps forward and one step back." Or even one step forward and two steps back.....and so on.

What changes are you ready to make? How do you know?