Not many people are mentally committed towards pursuing a healthy mind and body goal. The main obstacle is the belief that it involves too much work.
Intelligent people would wake up at 5am to have an early breakfast, sacrifice some much needed sleep time to meet friends at the golf course, and yet they won't spent 30 minutes each day doing some simple exercises that will bring benefits to themselves for the rest of their lives.
The same people will spend thousands of dollars going for vacations abroad and yet won't spend a couple hours each week meditating in their own home.
Before you pronounce these same people having their priorities wrong, it would only be fair to say that there are as many rights as there are people on earth.
The only thing is what is your ultimate life decision. Do you want to remain healthy until your last day on earth, or do you want to live as much and as well as you can, without much regard of how your health fare in your waning years?
Since this is a blog all about good health, we would place top priority on well being. Good health means less expenses on medicare, fewer worries about aches and pains in middle age and the years beyond. It also means you can walk unaided either by willing human hands.
Until you actually have to hang on to something or somebody for support either in standing upright or walking, you won't really appreciate what it's like to be physically independent.
Millions of people in the world right now, young and old, are crying for help to ease their pain and discomfort.
Some are born with physical disabilities so they are the exceptions. Others who started off healthy become sick and suffering in pain, due to their own neglect over the years and decades.
It is only wise to decide early in life as to what kind of life's experience you would welcome as you grow older. It all begins with a mental commitment.
If you don't really care much for exercise and other simple remedies to avert a life-long passage of aches and pain, then you will have to work towards that end. The bottom line is everybody can achieve good health.
In other words, you can do it. Do it early. Better still, do it now. It is common to hear young people saying, rather cockily that they have no problems with weight, sleep and energy. They normally say that when they are in their teens.
Give them a few more years, and they may change their perception of good health that they have been taking for granted in their younger years.
I often tell people who complain incessantly about aches in shoulders, hands and knees, that they won't be giving me a litany of their woes if only they had listen to their physical education teachers in school.
Everybody gets a chance to be healthy and stay healthy. But do you want to do it. There's some physical effort involved. Think of the minimal investment that goes such a long way.
If you stay doing the right things at a young age, it becomes routine and easy after a while. Of course, you can start going to the gym in your 40s but it won't be that comforting because by the time you are in your fourth decade on earth, exercises is only one solution towards damage control.
Think of the abuse on your body over the last 40 years. The human body is just like any other living organism. It obeys the laws that govern life on earth and in our universe. You get what you put it, or what you won't and don't put in.
If you are in your teens right now, I will strongly advise you to do it, meaning learn to develop a set of simple exercises and stick to them daily.
In time, you will be the envy of your contemporaries who will be moaning and groaning with pain, while you are blissfully ignorant of the physical discomforts that plague your generation.
Do it now and you won't regret it.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
It's all in the breathing
Everyone of us can breathe since the day we came into this world. Breathing is automatic. It is carried out without thought and done with practically no effort.
To the babies, breathing was part of the package but as you grow older and older, you will begin to find that breathing can sometimes be a chore. We often take our lungs for granted, same for our health.
We all think that breathing is natural and as long as we breathe or can breath, our longevity will not be an issue.
Breathing for health is a technique. The body is a living organism, so why take it for granted. There are some "free divers" who can hold their breaths for as long as 10 to 11 minutes. Normally, a man can hold his breath for about a minute and a half.
After that, he will begin to panic. When you are able to control your breathing, you will begin to control the state of your health. Deep breathing can add more life into your body better than an athlete who train six hours a day.
When a person is physically fit, he is deemed to be healthy. That's the normal run of things.
However, a jogger who runs three miles a day doesn't mean he will have a long life. It has been reported that people who claimed to be physically fit have died during jogging sessions.
Deep, controlled breathing means directing the qi around the body. It is like having an expensive additive in your body, lubricating all the rusty, worn-out parts.
A man who knows how to breath, breathes life into his body and lets it circulate with the form that is called the human body.
Breathe with your stomach and not your chest and lungs. Almost nine out of 10 people believe that the proper technique in breathing is expanding the lung capacity.
The anatomy of the human body allows for the diaphragm to drop if you are doing it the right way.
Deep breathing lowers blood pressure, it aids in better blood circulation and gives your mind a healthy, gentle jolt every now and them.
Next time, when you are anxious or panicking over something, try this: take in deep breath slowly. When you have reached full capacity, hold it for a couple of seconds and then exhale slowly.
Feel as if the inner organ in your body are relaxing. Act like a balloon when it is deflating. You just go woooosh. The art of deep breathing is actually the art of breath control. Make your breath deep and long.
After a while, when you have mastered the techniques of deep breathing you can begin add "strength" to your limbs. Breath control is part of moving the qi.
A man who is a master of breath control is like a walking oasis. He has the attributes to make things grow within his body. Health is his for the asking.
His mind becomes more alert. If need be, he will increase his strength by four folds.
Do not underestimate the merits of deep breathing or breath control. Once you have mastered it successfully, you will reap the estwhile unknown benefits that have been denied many who take this simple art for granted.
Control your breath, and you will control your life. Control your life and you can reach for the stars.
The human body is capable of wondrous feats. Breath control is merely a portal that leads you to attain your fullest potential. You may just awaken those parts of your brain that have laid dormant for decades.
If you can tap 40 per cent of the human brain, you will be hailed as the man who has given the greatest treasure to mankind, and that is to create geniuses for the betterment of mankind.
To the babies, breathing was part of the package but as you grow older and older, you will begin to find that breathing can sometimes be a chore. We often take our lungs for granted, same for our health.
We all think that breathing is natural and as long as we breathe or can breath, our longevity will not be an issue.
Breathing for health is a technique. The body is a living organism, so why take it for granted. There are some "free divers" who can hold their breaths for as long as 10 to 11 minutes. Normally, a man can hold his breath for about a minute and a half.
After that, he will begin to panic. When you are able to control your breathing, you will begin to control the state of your health. Deep breathing can add more life into your body better than an athlete who train six hours a day.
When a person is physically fit, he is deemed to be healthy. That's the normal run of things.
However, a jogger who runs three miles a day doesn't mean he will have a long life. It has been reported that people who claimed to be physically fit have died during jogging sessions.
Deep, controlled breathing means directing the qi around the body. It is like having an expensive additive in your body, lubricating all the rusty, worn-out parts.
A man who knows how to breath, breathes life into his body and lets it circulate with the form that is called the human body.
Breathe with your stomach and not your chest and lungs. Almost nine out of 10 people believe that the proper technique in breathing is expanding the lung capacity.
The anatomy of the human body allows for the diaphragm to drop if you are doing it the right way.
Deep breathing lowers blood pressure, it aids in better blood circulation and gives your mind a healthy, gentle jolt every now and them.
Next time, when you are anxious or panicking over something, try this: take in deep breath slowly. When you have reached full capacity, hold it for a couple of seconds and then exhale slowly.
Feel as if the inner organ in your body are relaxing. Act like a balloon when it is deflating. You just go woooosh. The art of deep breathing is actually the art of breath control. Make your breath deep and long.
After a while, when you have mastered the techniques of deep breathing you can begin add "strength" to your limbs. Breath control is part of moving the qi.
A man who is a master of breath control is like a walking oasis. He has the attributes to make things grow within his body. Health is his for the asking.
His mind becomes more alert. If need be, he will increase his strength by four folds.
Do not underestimate the merits of deep breathing or breath control. Once you have mastered it successfully, you will reap the estwhile unknown benefits that have been denied many who take this simple art for granted.
Control your breath, and you will control your life. Control your life and you can reach for the stars.
The human body is capable of wondrous feats. Breath control is merely a portal that leads you to attain your fullest potential. You may just awaken those parts of your brain that have laid dormant for decades.
If you can tap 40 per cent of the human brain, you will be hailed as the man who has given the greatest treasure to mankind, and that is to create geniuses for the betterment of mankind.
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