April 2009
Monthly Archive
Healthy Mind Over Healthy Matter
Ok, that’s enough exercise for those couch potatoes! In this post we’ll move back to the healthy lifestyle side of things to get the ball rolling for some more healthy practices.
Here I want to talk about the power of the mind in your daily health routine. A lot of people still vastly underestimate their great store of power that is contained in their very own thoughts on the state of their health. Scientific studies have proved that the mind can not only heal the body in many cases every bit as well as a prescribed medicine, but it can also be responsible for the state of a person’s health as well.
When you’re in a negative, depressed and unhappy state, you are actually thinking yourself ill. You are more susceptible to colds, flu and any other nasty bugs that are flying around when you are run down.
On the flip side, when you are happy, upbeat and positive, you are much less likely to come down with a nasty cold or attract any other disease into your life. That’s because when you are in a happy, positive mode of thinking your own body’s immune system is working at it’s peak of efficiency to repel any virus of bacterial infection that might try to invade your body.
Conversely, when you’re down, depressed and unhappy, your immune system is struggling and will not be as effective at keeping out the continual barrage of airborne and contact germs and diseases that are just waiting for the crack in your body’s armour to infiltrate, occupy and multiply into a full blown disease.
So if you want to stay healthy, young looking and free of disease – be happy!
Healthy Exercises For Couch Potatoes Part 3
The previous post on healthy exercises for couch potatoes continued this theme and right here, we’ll go even deeper with more of the same. So here, for all you couch potatoes is a further little gem that will continue this mini series with another great easy to do exercise that you can do at work and at your desk.
There’s nothing like appearing to be doing nothing when you are actually doing something, especially when its helping to improve your health in some way. So in this one of my exercises for couch potatoes, once again you are sitting idly at your desk – or so you appear to anyone who may cast a casual glance in your direction.
This is similar to the first of the exercises for couch potatoes I showed you only this time, as you are sitting up straight, place your hands palms down on the desk straight in front of you. Now with your forearms level, press down on the desk with as much pressure as is comfortable for you. Hold it for a few second, then release.
As before, repeat a few times until you start feeling that you’ve had enough – but you must be able to feel the muscles in your arms starting to get tired just a little first.
This great exercises for couch potatoes will tone up flabby upper arms and saggy “bingo wings” over time so its well worthwhile doing these simple exercises for couch potatoes as often as you are comfortable with.
As I mentioned in the last post, these exercises for couch potatoes are not meant to be a practical substitute for proper gym training and fitness. They are merely small ways to stave off complete motionless as is typical of a sedentary lifestyle. Instead, they can be slotted into your daily routine where you’d otherwise be dong nothing at all. They therefore become a small part of a healthy lifestyle they can help you to burn a few more calories during your day and tone up muscles as well.
It might not seem like much, but when it comes to promoting a health image to be proud of, every little helps!
