Your Weekly Inspiration: Take What You Need

August 26, 2013

Water. Food. Shelter. These are all essentials to daily living no matter your age, background, gender or location. We all need these necessities to survive.

But what about the things we can’t physically see or touch? Things like love, courage, peace and understanding. We need those things just as much as we need the physical things. Our health – both mental and physical – depends on all of these items.

For optimum health and lower disease risk, we all need to be happy. And having things like love, courage, peace, understanding, motivation, strength and passion can help us to be our happiest selves. Take what you need so you can give your body and mind the essentials they need to be happy and healthy.

Your Weekly Inspiration: All You Need is One Reason

August 19, 2013

There may be a million reasons why you think regular exercise won’t benefit you. It’s too hard to stay motivated. You’re too tired. You don’t have enough time. You don’t get enjoyment out of it. It feels like work.

Whatever the reasons may be, they don’t matter. Why? Because there is one reason why regular exercise can benefit you that overpowers them all: it’s good for you – both mentally and physically.

At the end of the day, the benefits of staying active heavily outweigh the disadvantages. Sure, you might be tired or busy, but both of those reasons are not nearly as influential as the improvement of your health or lowered risk of disease. Remember that in the long-term and don’t let the negative reasons overpower the positive one.

Your Weekly Inspiration: Love Yourself

August 12, 2013

If you don’t love yourself, how can you be healthy?

It takes a love for yourself to fully enact a healthy lifestyle that can help prevent disease. Preventive measures have the power to lower your risk for several serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes. If there’s one person who can keep your health strong by practicing prevention, it’s you.

Take this week’s inspiration into consideration. If you love yourself first, you will be more likely to take care of your health. And if you’re taking care of your health, you are less likely to suffer from a debilitating and life-altering disease. So, in a sense, everything will fall into place.

Your Weekly Inspiration: Take the First Step

August 5, 2013

When it comes to staying active, the beginning is usually the hardest. Whether you’re highly motivated or not, the beginning of a new fitness regimen is often difficult to stick with because it’s not yet habit. You’re not used to it and you may not be seeing immediate results.

The important thing to remember is that the difficulties won’t last. The first step is the hardest, which means every step after that is easier. Keep going. If you stick with your new fitness journey, you can benefit from it in more ways than one.

You know that regular physical activity helps keep you healthy by lowering disease risk, keeping blood pressure and cholesterol levels healthy, preventing obesity and more. But did you know that exercise can also:

• Make new skills easier to learn
• Strengthen the potency of vaccines, like the flu shot
• Improve your memory
• Help you make better decisions
• Improve your skin health
• And more

Take the first step in your journey to stay active today.