The Greatest Wealth Is Health: A Real Love Diet Reminder to Appreciate Your Life While You’re Well
When we are well, life feels filled with problems.
Deadlines. Traffic. Relationships. Unanswered emails.
Small frustrations that quietly take up enormous space in the mind.
We replay conversations.
We worry about tomorrow.
We carry stress as though it matters urgently.
But when illness enters the room, everything becomes simple.
There is only one prayer.
Please let me feel better.
Suddenly, the argument loses importance.
The schedule softens.
The ego grows quiet.
Only health matters.
The Roman poet Virgil wrote more than two thousand years ago, “The greatest wealth is health.” And still, many of us move through our days unaware of how wealthy we already are.
An Italian proverb says, He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
Wellness is silent wealth.
It sustains every dream without asking for recognition.
We assume tomorrow will feel like today. We assume strength is permanent — until something small reminds us otherwise.
Even a minor illness or injury reveals the truth:
Health is the foundation beneath everything we love.
Without it, nothing else truly matters.
Gratitude as Preventative Medicine
In the Real Love Diet, appreciation is medicine.
What we appreciate, appreciates.
Gratitude calms the nervous system.
It softens stress.
It restores balance to both mind and body.
Modern research continues to show that chronic stress contributes to a large percentage of illness. The body responds continuously to what the mind rehearses.
When we live in complaint, tension increases.
When we practice gratitude, resilience grows.
Gratitude may not only be spiritual — it may be biological.
The body listens to the emotional tone of our thoughts.
When we focus on vitality, strength, and well-being, we reinforce them. When we rehearse fear and worry, the body absorbs that as well.
Attention is influence.
And gratitude gently guides the body back toward harmony.
The Real Love Diet for Health
If health is wealth, caring for it becomes sacred work.
Slow down.
Move your body daily — gently and consistently.
Eat to nourish rather than inflame.
Choose thoughts that calm instead of agitate.
Rest deeply.
Laugh often.
Release resentment quickly.
Surround yourself with steady, loving people.
Breathe. Pray. Give thanks.
And most importantly — give thanks while you are well.
Not after the diagnosis.
Not after the scare.
Not after the wake-up call.
Now.
Because when we are sick, we realize we never truly had millions of problems.
We only ever had one.
Health is the quiet platform beneath every relationship, every trip, every success, every ordinary beautiful day.
It is the foundation from which we love.
And in the Real Love Diet, we protect what allows us to love.
Today, pause.
Place your hand on your heart.
Feel your breath moving in and out.
Feel the life already present within you.
And whisper:
Thank you for my health.
Thank you for my vitality.
Thank you for this body that carries me.
Because the wealth you already possess may be the greatest wealth of all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. ❤️
A Gentle Real Love Diet Reflection
Before you move on with your day, pause for just a moment.
What in your body is working well right now?
What strength, comfort, or ease have you been quietly overlooking?
Take one breath and offer gratitude for something that allows you to live, move, love, or simply be today.
If this reflection touched you, consider sharing it with someone who may need a reminder that wellness itself is already a form of abundance.
Sometimes the greatest act of love is remembering what is already good.
P.S. Remember to always, always, always go where the love is. Also, come join us March 1, 2026 at 6:30pm for “THE REAL LOVE LOUNGE LOVE SHIFT LIVE”
