6 Things You Need to Do To Be Healthy
To attain a state of magnificent health and boundless energy, you’ll need to address six important facets of lifestyle. These include thought management, sleep quality, breathing patterns, hydration, diet and exercise. Let’s run through them all briefly, so you can get a sense of what issues need to be addressed under each ‘pillar’.
Get Healthy: Get More Sun!
Although the importance of vitamin D has long been accepted in the older, more traditional areas of health-care, it has recently made headlines in allopathic medical circles and is being touted as one of our most essential health-building hormones (although called vitamin D, it is, in it's activated state, a hormone).
Vitamin D cannot be manufactured by the body without exposure to ultraviolet rays, which are supplied by the sun. This makes it vital for you to spend time outdoors on a daily basis. Previously, we wrote about the incredibly positive effects of spending time barefoot on the earth, so in essence you could kill two birds with one stone and make Vitamin D and discharge electrical stress at the same time.
Think Yourself Lean And Healthy
While many people may underestimate the power of the mind in helping to improve both performance and health, it’s indisputable that what you think can affect your state of being.
Do you start your day feeling positive or negative? Do you consistently visualise yourself winning your next race, or would you never dare to dream it possible? Understanding just how potently our inner thoughts (the script in our heads) impacts on our emotions, which in turn impact on our physical state, is the key to changing this powerful health detractor/enhancer.
Why You Should Walk Barefoot
In our reading over the past few months, we came across a most fascinating subject and one that could have a major health-enhancing impact on absolutely everyone. We’re speaking about earthing, or grounding.
Our bodies are electrical in nature - the heart, brain, muscles, cells and all body systems function electrically. Throughout our history, and until very recent times, man has walked, slept and sat on the earth – skin to skin, as it were. In this way and without knowing it, we were naturally discharging electrical stress and restoring the body’s natural and stable electrical state.
Sleep Well: Improve Health And Avoid Weight Gain
Sleep is another really important factor to consider in your quest for optimal health.
Ideally, according to our in-built biorhythms, we should be preparing for sleep within a short period after sunset (or as close as possible) and rising with the sun.
Obviously, given most people’s lifestyles, this is not necessarily realistic or even manageable, but there are many other things you can do to create better sleep habits, and therefore better health.