We’ve only got one body…

“We’ve only got one body, just like we only have one planet, and we need to look after what we have while we still have it.

At Osteo Republic we value Sustainability but this is a very complicated word so let’s look at a really simple definition before we move on.

Sustainability: The quality of being able to continue over a period of time.

Forget the greenwashing that the word Sustainability comes with these days, whether we talk about sustainable eco systems, sustainable economies or sustainable communities, we’re really talking about balance over time and the ability to keep doing what we’re doing.

In reality, people actually talk more about balance than sustainability – we’re always suffering from too much or too little of something and we just can’t seem to ever get it right.

But think of someone balancing high up on a tightrope. Someone with really really good balance. They are never completely still. They constantly overbalance one way or the other and have to make corrections to stop falling.

Balance in our lives is something that we have to keep working on. We have to make small adjustments as things come along in life and throw us out of balance again. And exactly the same thing happens to our bodies.

You’ve only got one body and you need to look after what you have while you still have it.

Most of us actually know what our bodies need…. food, water, rest, sleep; but balance is hard because our lives are busy.

Thankfully our bodies keep working on the inside because of “homeostasis”. This is the autopilot inside you that controls all the internal systems of your body, keeping you alive and healthy.

So while we all know what our bodies need in terms of food, water, sleep etc, our internal body systems also inherently know how to maintain the stable conditions necessary for survival.

Pain can be one of the signs that your body isn’t in balance and can’t cope any more. At Osteo Republic we use Osteopathic treatment to help you regain balance in your body so your natural healing systems can take over again and you can continue doing what you need to do over time without pain or stiffness slowing you down.

We’ve only got one planet and we need to look after what we have while we still have it.

At Osteo Republic, just as we see we have a role in restoring sustainable function to people’s bodies, we also see we have a role to make sustainable choices for our planet.

We may be waiting a long time for governments to find the right balance for the place where we live but that doesn’t mean we can’t start now by making smarter decisions about how we do things.

We’ve made the change to a paperless office, we avoid plastics and packaging, we minimise our waste production and utilise renewable energy . We’ve also changed to a green bank and keep looking for more sustainable ways to do things.

At Osteo Republic we’re consciously making better decisions all the time and if you want to know more, or see something in the clinic that we can do better, then we’d love to hear from you.

“We’ve only got one body, just like we only have one planet, and we need to look after what we have while we still have it.”