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Here’s another instalment in what appears to be another of my famous mini-series that pepper my blogs and websites, all about how to improve your lifestyle. We’ve already looked at the basics of getting up and away from the mind-sapping television and forcing yourself into a positive frame of mind in order to place yourself in a state of readiness to press forward towards a more healthy lifestyle.

Then we looked at the powerful technique of visualization – using your imagination to place yourself as you wish to be right now in the present. That works so well in itself that it completely upends your mindset into believing that whatever you wish to achieve, you can.

Now to take the next step and actually do it.

You have a powerful picture in your mind of how you want yourself to appear, how healthy and fit you wish to be etc. Now you use that as the template to drive yourself towards that goal. Make sure the goal is truly achievable for you else if you try to aim for too much you may not be able to realize it even in your mind as your unconscious will take over and tell you that its more than you are capable of achieving. But an achievable goal, once set in your mind, will be easy to visualize and materialize.

By being in the right frame of mind and actually having seen how you will be in your mind’s own eye, you will find it a pleasurable and simple task to take the necessary action to achieve that goal.

You will find that you will want to take on that new exercise regime and happily stick to it, because you will not see it as a chore that must be endured, but rather a pleasurable experience that you always look forward to. You’ll find that you will cut out the bad foods from your diet and only eat sensibly and feel happy to do it – rather than miserable at missing out on those fat and cholesterol producing cakes and biscuits that will no longer be a part of your life.

Then you are happily on the road to your new healthy lifestyle!

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Now we can move forward with some serious positive thinking to get you further psyched up to change your unhealthy lifestyle for a healthy lifestyle!

First up is all about visualization and imagination. What the mind can conceive… you can achieve – always believe that and you will be able to do anything that you have a mind to do. The technique couldn’t be simpler.

You relax and clear out any day to day worries or negative programming that has gone on before and then place a picture in your mind of how you want to be. Put it in the present tense, as if you have already achieved your goal, be it some weight loss, or improved muscle tone, or better health, whatever is important to you. You just place that picture of you as you desire to be in your mind as if you are that way right now.

Then you imagine yourself walking around like that. Make a point of feeling and experiencing exactly how good you feel about yourself being your ideal weight, or ideal body shape, or ideal level of health and fitness. Imagine feeling the clothes you are wearing, the sun shining, the day warm and bright and everything else that makes a perfect day for you.

This is all about placing yourself right there in the image you are holding in your mind and really feeling, really experiencing what it is you are visualizing at the moment. Its a very powerful experience and you may surprise yourself at the depth of the feeling that you have while you are going through this amazing process. It can feel so real in the moment that you come out of it feeling really and truly wonderful as if you already had achieved your goal and were experiencing it for real right at that moment.

Practice doing this visualization exercise every day and you will achieve what you set out to do!

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We’ve looked at a lot of things to do with health in this blog, from losing weight to maintaining a good fitness level to eating a healthy diet to improving your mood by being more positive. So this post looks at the overall big picture of the importance of improving your lifestyle to bring about an improvement in your overall level of health.

If you want to improve your lifestyle, you have to work at it. That doesn’t mean sitting on your lazy backside in front of the television dreaming about having a body like that model on that advertisement for perfume, either! That will get you nowhere fast and just add to your feelings of laziness and morose morbidity.

You have to get up onto your own two feet and make that start today. Right now!

Tell yourself in no uncertain terms that you are going to get fit and you are going to do it all by yourself. That’s a powerful self improving statement because it affirms to your own subconscious that you are now determined to make the necessary improvements to your way of life in order to bring about the change that is necessary to improve your lifestyle.

That’s the first step – there are many others to take and I won’t lie to you and tell you it will be easy, because it will not. But you have to make that conscious decision for yourself, because no one else can do it for you – only you.

So start today and amaze yourself at what you can achieve!

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Welcome back to this healthy place where I want to look at the importance of that part of your day that you spend doing nothing much at all. I’m talking about the end of the day when you go to bed and hopefully drift off into peaceful slumber.

You see, one of the most important things you can do for yourself is not to forget to sleep!

Sleep is the body’s repair time, when it goes into it’s own self-replenishment period each day. Old, damaged cells are replaced with new healthy cells, tired muscle relax and repair any minor damage and the organs rest from the daily bombardment of toxins that we throw at them while we’re awake.

But a lot of us are simply not getting enough quality sleep for our bodies to do their full repair workouts at night, which leaves us feeling tired and listless during the day. In fact new research has shown that women are up to twenty percent more likely to come up short with the sleep than men.

Insomnia hits everyone at some stage in their lives, but some people are more prone to suffering than others. If that includes you, there are some simple things you can do to help prevent those sleepless nights becoming a real health problem.

You could try clearing out your bedside table so that it’s not piled high with books, notepads, diaries and puzzles etc. These things send out distracting signals and messages to your unconscious, so by keeping this area clear you ensure that it and your bedroom is reserved only for sleeping.

If you lay awake at night worrying about work-related thoughts, then you can try a re-focusing technique. This works by making yourself consciously remember what you were doing this time last year. As soon as you settle on a memory, run through it in more detail in your mind. Think about how you were feeling then, what you were wearing, what the weather was like – that sort of thing.

By running calming thoughts and happy memories through your mind you create a calmness that you can enhance by then running calming words through and listening to the soothing sound of them. Words like “soothe”; “calm”; “relax”; “breathe”. They will relax you further and help you to drift off to sleep naturally.

So you see anyone can relax themselves enough to let go of the day’s troubles and enjoy a peaceful, revitalizing and natural sleep.

For more information on maintaining a healthy body, there is an older post that covers being healthy from the inside out and is a good addition to this post.

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