A Healthy Lifestyle Leads To An Optimal Health

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Our Health is entirely dependent on the lifestyle choices that we make. When we talk about our health, it is a reflection of our way of life. If our lifestyle is healthy, we are bound to have great health, and if we have an unhealthy way of life, our health will suffer for sure.

So, what does our lifestyle include?

– Sleep- Diet- Physical Activity- Work Life/ Finance- Relationships/ Social Life- Thought Processes- Passion/ Hobbies- Other Stressors and Destressors

Our lifestyle is our everyday routine that includes all of the above elements. A healthy routine leads to a healthy lifestyle and a healthy lifestyle results in the optimal health. A routine is like a potter’s wheel upon which our health and our life are shaped. For excellent health, you only need to take care of your routine.

It is important to have a relatively fixed time for almost all everyday activities from sleeping to dinner. You only need to be in a healthy routine for a couple of weeks. After that, it will become your natural lifestyle and natural way of living life. You will enjoy amazing health benefits with minimum efforts on your part, once you adapt to a healthy way of life.

So, let’s look at different elements of a daily routine.

Sleep

It’s tough for a person to have an excellent health without being able to get a sweet sleep. You need 6-8 hours of sound sleep every day for the rejuvenation of the body and mind. You may not get that in the beginning if you suffer from sleep disorders at the moment, but once you start taking care of all different health factors, your sleep will improve naturally.

Diet

Make sure you include wholesome foods in your diet. Avoid highly processed and junk food. If you are addicted to unhealthy foods like soft drinks, chemically processed cheese, GMO foods, you need to give them up. Giving up unhealthy, but tasty food does not have to be a difficult thing to do as you may think.

Taste is all about the method of preparation. All healthy food items can be prepared into tasty meals with the right recipes. Be willing to compromise taste for health at times, but never be willing to compromise health for taste. In the end, you will find yourself enjoying both of them.

– Fruits

You must include healthy fruits like Avocado, Indian gooseberries, blueberries, bananas, apples in your diet.

– Nuts & Seeds

You can include nuts and seeds like almonds, walnuts, coconuts, chia seeds, flax seeds, hazelnuts, sesame seeds in your diet.

– Vegetables

Asparagus, Broccoli, Kale, Garlic, Carrot, Tomatoes can give your body the healthy nutrients that it needs.

– Oats

Oats is such a healthy staple food item that you can depend on it to give you energy throughout the day and taking care of your gut as well.

– Beans

Green Beans, Red Lentils, and Legumes can provide you with the extra protein and fiber that you need.

You can add many other food items from dairy products to meat, but make sure that it is organically produced without much processing.

 Smoothies

Sometimes it ‘s hard to consume a lot of wholesome food and veggies by themselves, but blending them is a great option. Blending makes sure that you still consume the whole food item and you can always prepare a tasty smoothy with the ingredients you like the most.

Physical Activity

You don’t need to workout a lot to get into shape. You must understand that we need to keep moving to keep our lymphatic system in good circulation. We have around three times more lymph than blood in our body, we have the heart to pump the blood, but no such organ to pump the lymph. Circulation of lymph depends upon physical activity.

Yoga activities like Surya Namaskar and Sheershaasan can improve the lymph flow in your body significantly within a few minutes. Ten minutes of body weight exercises like squats, pushups or pullups can charge up your energy levels very quickly. If you like to run, HIIT(High-Intensity Interval Training) can work wonders for you.

Work Life/Finance

If you have work related or finance related tensions in your life, nothing else can fix that. You should take care of your finances to avoid financial stress. You must use proper tools to track your finances that include your assets, income, and expenses. Being aware of your financial situation can significantly help you in taking steps to improve it.

If you don’t like your work and it is too stressful, it is better to leave it and do what you like.

Social Life/ Relationships

It is important to spend time and have fun with the people you care about. At the same time, it is equally important to cut out the toxic relationships in your life that are harming you.

Thought Processes

Some of us have never-ending thought processes that just don’t subside even when we try hard. Find out the usefulness of these thought processes. If you cannot control them despite wanting to control them, give yourself a specific time of the day to think about the topics. By doing that, they won’t interfere with activities of your life, and you can still stay in your healthy routine.

Passion/Hobbies

Bringing time out for your passion and hobbies is vital for your well-being. You enjoy your life when you get to do what you want to do just like a child. If you truly enjoy doing something, don’t let anything stop you from doing that.

Vacations

Take time out to go to your favorite place on a regular basis. Vacations have a lot of benefits like getting to spend time with people you love, removing work stress and enjoying a time away in a peaceful place.

Massage

A massage can relax your muscles as well as your mind. They can help relieve the built up tension in certain areas such as lower back due to prolonged sitting. It can prove really good for your health if you take massages regularly.

– Shirodhara

A head massage like Shirodhara in which a stream of lukewarm oil is poured on your head can help relax your brain. It can help in relieving tension and anxiety.

– Shiatsu

Shiatsu can help the flow of energy in the body as the therapist applies pressure to certain points in the body in a rhythm.

– Hong Kong Massage

Hong Kong Massage is another way to get rid of all tensions of your life and increase your energy levels up. It aims to bring chakras and chi in balance and unlock the energy channels for a general sense of well-being.

Once you adopt a healthy lifestyle, you can take your health up to the optimal level within a few weeks.

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