Mind Body & Soul

Archive for January, 2010

Although smoking is known to be extremely unhealthy, many smokers who decide to quit have an extremely hard time. There are a lot of methods to use, so don’t give up if you fail at first. Keep trying until you overcome this nasty habit. You are harming not only yourself, but anyone you come in contact with. A word of advice: talk to your doctor about quitting before you start any program.

Most people who make up their minds to stop smoking decide to go cold turkey. This means that one day they just stop. Unfortunately, it seldom works. Strong willed people tend to think they can make it, but will power has little to do with the process. Nicotine is among the most addictive of drugs, which can cause you severe withdrawal problems. Some people are successful for a while when they quit cold turkey, but generally they start again soon.

Other available options are nicotine gum and patches. Using these tools help you to come off your addiction to cigarettes, or other forms of nicotine, more slowly. Again, before using either of these methods you should discuss it with your doctor. Once you get the go-ahead, carefully follow all the directions. Unfortunately, part of the addiction is the habit of smoking itself. Besides the physical addiction, you are mentally and emotionally addicted as well. The hand to mouth motion is habit forming as is the oral gratification.

To fully heal, do it naturally!

Soon the morning, head outside a Surya Namaskar. This is a great yoga technique to pray to the Sun God, incorporating the Sun’s pure energy to your senses. The Surya Namaskar is designed to stretch all the muscles in a continuous movement elongated. You will feel fresh and energized and certainly become more flexible while getting in shape the healthy way.

Eating a healthy vegetarian diet healthy. Eat food that grows, so that your body will continue to grow. Water is the elixir if life is sure to have plenty of water through the day. Find a location as a beach in Hawaii and meditate to the sound of the waves as you inhale and exhale the breeze of the sea. Preferably find a quiet and sit on a mat in the lotus position yoga.

If you have a friend take turns every other massage or a massage yourself relax your stressed body and mind. Massages are the best feet and head. By those two parties alone, makes the body from head to foot decompress!

Head outdoors for some nature trails, the smell of flowers and take some vitamin D from the sun. Hiking is a great way to increase the body’s metabolism and get fit. While you probably lose a lot of excess weight you get peace of mind and a great sense of adventure.

Head back for a shower to soothe your feet with aromatic oils. Lounge around in the bath and add the lavender oil for hot water. Light orange blossom-scented incense sticks fresh and elegant.

Every part of our body is all interconnected and therefore rely on each other to do their jobs. If one of these parts is not healthy then it only makes common sense that’is going to affect other parts. There are three very different parts of our being. This is the mind, body and soul. If not healthy then the other two suffer. Let’s look at each of these three components separately.

Mind:
Our mental and emotional well-being as a very strong influence on the rest of the body. If the mind is focused and strong and then can not direct bodily functions to carry out their work. Most often, the mind becomes despondent does the body. In fact, general health gets affected. This can be supported by many doctors that they have exhausted all possibilities for coming up with a diagnosis of a person who can put it off that mental issue. Another good example of how the mind and emotions affect our general well-being with anxiety attacks. These are triggered by the mind is they can be so severe that sometimes mimic a heart attack. Obviously, if they occur, one is not feeling very healthy.

Body:
Body and mind affect other areas as well as when the sick. Look at how an individual becomes mentally exhausted when dealing with chronic pain. It’s not the cause of pain, which is to blame for the mind to’s level of pain. If any body need restrictive in some ways, this could have a significant impact on the mind. It’s that the cliche that the mind is willing but the body in March’t. The authority which is not healthy, is the author of a number of negative factors.

Soul:
No matter what each person believes that there is a link with the rest of the body. If an individual in poor spirits, has a direct impact on the health of mind and body as well.

Eating the superfoods like salmon, alfalfa and green tea and eating lots of fresh meat, fruits and vegetables is better than taking a multivitamin. At least, it is supposed to be. Much of the produce grown in the US has be grow in nutrient deficient soil. It is not as healthy as it is supposed to be. Too many formerly nutrient rich foods are modified or processed in ways that strip them of the very nutrients they are supposed to contain.

Multivitamins have become a necessity if you want to get all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. It is possible to get organic produce grown in nutrient rich soil if you can spend a weeks salary to do so. Other superfoods, like fresh salmon are beyond most families budget, except on special occasions.

Our children need multivitamins as well. Even if you feed them superfoods at home (if they will eat them), once they go to school, the school lunches are very unhealthy. Fresh vegetables just are not seen at schools. A good multivitamin is a lot easier to give a child than a plate of spinach.

The foodstuffs available today make the multivitamin market necessary. Our foods are just not healthy enough to give us the nutrients we need. A good multivitamin can replace the nutrients that over processing of our food has removed.