N.E.W. S.M.A.R.T. Living! Part 1

Today’s post is a follow up to my Canceling COVID story that I wrote about a couple weeks ago. As I was telling my friend about my COVID experience and some of the home treatments I used, which I call NEW SMART, she wanted to learn more. So, thank you to my friend for the inspiration to write about it.

If you grew up in a health conscious family like I did, you might be familiar with the acronym NEW START. Click on the link and you can learn more about this healthy lifestyle program in California. This acronym actually is based on an old book by the late prophet Ellen G. White titled The Ministry of Healing p. 127.

However, as I’ve researched many ministries over the past 20+ years, I’ve tweaked this acronym to NEW SMART. I realized that as I changed my thinking, beliefs, and learned more about spiritual roots to disease, my health and my families health improved dramatically. The two acronyms have the same basic foundation, but I wanted to emphasize the importance of a healthy mindset and so I called it NEW SMART.

NEW START stands for Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunshine, Temperance (abstinence and/or moderation), Air, Rest, and Trust in God. I simply changed the T - temperance and expanded it to not only include abstinence and moderation, but also include a healthy common sense mindset. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 Our thoughts and our belief systems trump our physical bodies, so it is vital that we understand these as well. I will go more in depth about what each letter of the acronym means to me and how I apply the principals in my next post.

In the meantime as you think about your life, may you have “a happy heart that works like medicine” (Proverbs 17:22), so that you will be blessed and be a blessing In Jesus Name! Go forth bold, blessed, and brilliant! Thank you for sharing, subscribing, and commenting below.