Bruno Šimleša: What You Ingest Through Your Stomach, Heart, and Mind is Important for Health

One should start caring about health while still healthy! This is emphasized by sociologist Bruno Šimleša, author of about ten books, whose latest bestseller is (P)ostati zdrav – How to Make Your Heart and Mind a Factory of Medicines.

Before the conference Art of Leadership: BodyBrain Leadership, which will be held at the International Hotel in Zagreb on Thursday, May 23, 2024, he was a guest on the podcast How to Lead Yourself and Others. He pointed out that his volunteer visits to oncology departments in Croatian hospitals forced him to adopt a different perspective on health. Patients in those departments do not lament poorly executed presentations and missed promotions at work. They lament not having followed their dreams. Therefore, he will hold a lecture at the conference titled In a Healthy Spirit, a Healthy Body, playing with the order of words from the famous Latin proverb.

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Bruno Šimleša

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– Everything that falls under the paradigm of a healthy life is important for health: sleeping well, eating healthily, exercising regularly, not drinking, and not smoking, but it is also important not to smoke life’s tricks. Good interpersonal relationships and regulating stress levels are also important. Some things strengthen our immunity, while others weaken it. For my health, having a good marriage is as important as exercising regularly. I need to regularly exercise my heart and my body – said Šimleša.

He added that people must not neglect relationships with others due to fixation on healthy eating.

– What you ingest through your stomach is important, but so are your heart and mind. I advocate for healthy eating, but also for healthy thoughts, feelings, and relationships. Instead of cooking food for two hours, I would rather prepare something in 45 minutes and spend an hour and 15 minutes with a loved one – explained Šimleša.

Negative thoughts, negative relationships, and unexpressed emotions negatively affect our health.

– Unexpressed emotions are harmful! Anger is not the problem, but swallowing anger for years! Men have more problems expressing emotions than women. We are told from a young age that emotions are not good. We are told not to cry. The problem is not crying. Crying is expressing sadness, and sadness is one of the fundamental emotions. If you deny sadness, you deny emotions as such. There are no socially unacceptable emotions! A man can be sad, and a woman can be angry. All emotions are human. We need to choose how, when, and to whom we express them, not ask whether we should express them. Every emotion should be expressed! We can look to children aged three or four for guidance – advised Šimleša during a conversation with Mirta Fraisman Čobanov, director of Partus Academy, leadership trainer, and organizer of the BodyBrain Leadership conference.

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Mirta Fraisman Čobanov

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Academician Vida Demarin, a specialist in neuropsychiatry, psychiatrist Maja Bajs Janović, and specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation Branimira Pašalić will also speak at the conference about the impact of health on the quality of personal and business life.

Saša Bilić, CEO of APIS IT, Nataša Odak, HR Development Manager at dm – drogerie markt Croatia, and Goran Marković, owner of Motus Melior, will share their experiences from a business perspective with the attendees.

The conference is intended for directors, entrepreneurs, managers, human resources professionals, doctors, and employees who want to improve their careers and quality of life.

Tickets for the conference can be purchased via the link.