It's always a pleasure for me to participate in these challenges. I am glad that I am a part of these very valuable communities,
@NaturalMedicine, @EcoTrain, @Tribesteemup and @Earthtribe. These type of questions really make you look back and reflect on the pathway of life and make us realize if we have evolved or we have gone down in the way we manage life.

The Question that @NaturalMedicine has put up is "Do We Live Healthy Lives to Avoid or Postpone Death?"

For me this really has been a journey from one experience to another and from one thought process to another. I will need to take you back in time to let you all know how this transition evolved for me. One thing is for sure, you can neither avoid death or postpone death. Death has it's own time and it will happen at it's right time.

My Life 15 years ago

Around this time, my life was in too much mess. Though health wise I was perfectly fine but somehow I always had a fear of Death. The fear of death was so much that there were times when I used to cry all night thinking about how I will die and will I have a smooth death, will I have a healthy death, will I have people around me when I die. What if I had a suffering during that time. These questions were disturbing me a hell lot.
During that time I did not even realize that I had this fear deeply rooted within me and why was it there I was clueless on that. Yes but today I know why it was there.
I had a lot of family members with ailing health, the closest one was my father. He was an alcoholic and he had a terrible health. We spent a lot of our childhood days in hospital with him seeing him suffering. His death was also not very easy. Last 3 years of his life he was bedridden. All of this was deeply rooted within me and I was fearing death like hell.

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The Journey that started 10 years ago

I was too much fed up of the chaos around me and I had such a wavering mind. I also had suicidal tendencies then. I was desperately needing help. Thankfully the help came through, around this time things started moving in another direction for the good.
I was very young then so diet wise I was really not bothered much. I was more concerned of my Mental and Emotional Health then my Physical Health. My Meditation and Yoga practices started around this time. I started being more mindful about my life. I wanted to get rid of the destructive patterns of my life completely and live a healthy life. After doing a lot of studies on Life after Death finally over a period of time along with a lot of counselling I could get rid of the fear of death. The understanding prevailed in me that Death is inevitable so then what is more important that till the time I live, how I live is what matters the most. From that time on my journey of living a healthy life began. but as I said the focus was still only on the Mental and Emotional health. Diet was still not in the scope.

Life started going smooth. I was feeling lively and healthy in every way. Things were moving just in the right direction. I was growing as a person feeling happy and contended with myself. The fear of death was completely gone. I was ok if I would die the very next moment also. My Daily Meditation practice was helping me a lot. I was getting mentally stronger by the day.

Another jolt 2 years ago

Everything was going perfectly fine, Life was happening very smooth for me and my family. Then suddenly there was another turbulent period that came up. My husband was diagnosed with an Autoimmune disorder of Myasthenia Gravis.
I was all the time thinking I am doing everything right for my family then why did this have to come up. As I said before that our focus was not much on diet and with this particular ailment our whole focus had to be forcefully shifted in this direction. Besides Mental and Emotional health now the Physical health was getting into the picture. So the diet amendments started in our lives. We cut off many toxic foods. I had to do a lot of study on the diet part particularly supporting the Autoimmune disorder.I realized that there was so much of junk in our daily diet which was causing harm to our body. Though we have always been away from processed foods and aerated drinks, but then there was a lot of other stuff also that was still a part of our diet, which we eventually excluded.
I decided that though I do not have any health issue, I too will start following the same diet as my husband as it would really help my health in future.
Over and above all of this, my Son has also been studying on Naturopathy and he guides us with the right foods for us.

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Conclusion

In this day my focus is on Physical, Mental and Emotional health. I am not doing this to either avoid or postpone death. Death has it's own time and it will be there when it is destined to happen, but I want that till that time I live a healthy life in every way.

My response to the Question of @NaturalMedicine is "I do not want to Live a Healthy Life to avoid or postpone Death; I want to live a Healthy Life to Live a Peaceful and Meaningful life, which is full of Energy, and with that mindset and lifestyle I can make a difference to the People around me" and I desire that everyone can think and act likewise.

Thank you @NaturalMedicine for allowing us to think so deeply through this question.

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