Our health comes down to a combination of actions associated with the 6 life principles that we do everyday without being very conscious of them. These principles are the foundation for our health. Doing them poorly over long periods of time results in lack of health, vitality, energy, self-esteem, image and eventually disease. Improving any or all of these will significantly improve health and vitality for us.
Thoughts -
Everything we think, feel,do and say, believe, value, impact on our overall state of health. This will have an influence over all the other life principles, and can cause a stress response within the body, triggering the release of a hormone called Cortisol, limiting our ability to recover and repair.
Hydration -
Drinking high quality water with the right mineral content, and in adequate volumes is vital to health. Dehydration can cause chronic fatigue, high blood pressure, toxicity, headaches, aching muscles and joints…
Breathing –
Good breathing helps to deliver oxygen and remove waste products and toxins from your cells, it massages your organs and helps your digestion and elimination. Shallow breathing with your accessory respiratory muscles can cause neck, and shoulder pain, headaches and many more dysfunctions within the body.
Nutrition –
We are what we digest, absorb, assimilate (use in our cells), and don’t eliminate (get rid of as waste). Eating the right quantity and balance of whole food for our individual requirements can make us healthy and vital. Food is the most powerful ‘drug’ we take on daily basis, so poor quality food (or foods that don’t suit you) and eating habits, can cause many health problems.
Exercise –
Getting the right amount and kind of exercise on a daily basis can improve your energy levels, help your heart, and digestive system pump more efficiently, and help in the delivery of nutrition, and the removal of waste in the body. Exercise of the wrong amount or type (including no exercise) can result in heart disease, digestive problems, back pain, RSI and many other dysfunctions.
Sleep –
This is when we repair and recover from daily stress, and manage the energy we have taken from our food. Lack of good quality sleep during the hours 10pm – 6am can cause many dysfunctions in the body, including obesity, inablity to recover from illness or injury, muscular and joint pain.
Which one of these principles needs your attention?
Tune into part 3 to find out what you can do, to make the changes in one or more of your life principles you need to supercharge your health!
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