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Conclusion On Your Journey Into Self Improvement

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Your Physical & Mental Health

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Conclusion On Your Journey Into Self Improvement

Your Physical & Mental Health

• Exercising: This helps you to control your stress levels, and also conditions your body into handling day-to-day activities more comfortably. Resistance training, like weight training is great for your posture, and any form of aerobic activity is great for your cardiovascular health. A program that includes both types of activity is ideal, as they both compliment each other. You should choose an exercise program that is compatible with your particular situation and circumstances.
 
• Meditation: This can be as simple as a quiet walk in the park or as deep as transcendental meditation. It clears the mind in removing all mental toxic wastes. Regular meditation will calm your mind and slow your tempo down. You will find your self functioning at a more moderate, but healthier pace as you go about your moment to moment activities. You will learn to "live in the moment".
 
• A Balanced Diet Including Lots of Fruits and Vegetables: This strengthens your body’s immune system in fighting diseases. Increase your intake of fiber. Fiber (found in legumes, nuts, vegetables, whole grains and fruits) keeps your digestive system healthy, helping to absorb toxins and bacteria. Always eat a healthy breakfast. Skipping breakfast will zap your energy and make you moody and irritable. Drink lots of water daily. Fish is always preferable to meat, and cut back on sodas and fast foods.

• Get Enough Sleep: This provides the body time for muscle repair, memory consolidation and biochemical house keeping. In sleeping well, you will wake up feeling refreshed and alert for your daily activities. Sleep affects how you look, feel, and perform on a daily basis, and can have a major impact on your overall quality of life.

• Learn to Breath Deeply: Quick shallow breaths are signs of being under stress. Deep breathing slows the stress response by getting more oxygen into your body. It is a good idea to take occasional 5- to 10-minute breathing breaks during the day. During these moments, take a few deep breaths, allowing your belly to bulge out and flatten with each breath. This is mentally relaxing.

• Stretching: We tend to get tight with normal and sometimes repetitive activity, with the soft tissues in our body tightening up, squeezing nerves and blood vessels, creating poor circulation. Stretching restores flexibility and mobility, greatly enhancing blood circulation especially in the finer vessels in our body.

• A Good Sense of Humor: Learn to laugh. Rent funny movies, read comics, go to comedy clubs. Develop a sense of humor. Laughing decreases stress hormones in the blood stream and relaxes facial muscles. Learn to put a smile on your face.
 
• Eliminate Binging Habits: Excessive intake of food, cigarettes, alcohol and recreational drugs are due to self-medicating one’s self out of depression. These temporary mental mood boosts are replaced by even deeper negative moods that can spiral out of control. The process of eliminating binging habits is a very slow and painful one, as you will have to fight your way through withdrawals and occasional relapses during your recovery. A strong and determined mind can take you through this period. At the end of this journey, you would have developed a healthy mind that has a natural high.