Making a contribution to your well-being and health.

Gustav Klimt, Orchard, 1896

"Each time you do this, you're making a contribution to your well-being and health."  This is Patrick Briody's closing on a guided meditation on Insight Timer.  

The word "contribution" makes it sound like a bank account, a piggy bank.

It's how I've come to feel about eating, too.  You eat wholesome things.  Each time you do, it's a contribution to health.  

I'm also beginning to feel this way about yoga, exercise (both cardio bike workouts in basement or weight lifting)

It's different than how I used to think of exercise or meditation.  Rather than "contribution to..." it was something that I should do.  It was an obligation, a checkbox, then a habit.

Seen in this way -- contribution -- many choices in life thru the day are seen thru this straightforward lens.  Bike to work or drive? Yoga or couch after work? Chips or carrots? The chips can be seen not as a sin, a moral degradation, but simply as not a contribution.  

Daily life can be seen as walking around selecting little good things (like finding $20 lying in the street).  Throughout the day you select contributions as they appear in your consciousness (or calendar).

You can extend this thinking to emotional life... reacting in an angry manner to someone... not a contribution (for you or to the people around you).  Do virtuous things because "they contribute to your well-being and health." Spread kindness.  Be compassionate.