Tip of the Day

Need a little extra energy in the afternoon? Try getting up and moving around for a few minutes, get your blood flowing, get some more oxygen to your brain, and push past the 3:00 crash!

Tip of the Day

Keep yourself connected: Get your mind and body working together on one task, maintain focus, and let everything else go.

Tip of the Day

5 Minute Coffee Break

Stop whatever you are doing, and get up to make some coffee or get yourself a drink. Keep focused on your task and don’t think about anything else. Sit down close your eyes and take a deep breath inhaling the aroma. Now take a sip, taste it enjoy it a keep your focus on it. If you start to think of something else let the thought go and return to your coffee. Avoid any distractions if possible, co workers, and telephone, whatever. Do this until you finish your coffee. When you have finished take just another minute and notice how you are feeling. Enjoy all your breaks this way!

Healthy body Healthy Mind

We are all connected, body and mind. Keeping ourselves happy, healthy, and well, requires us to take care of both. We need to keep our bodies in shape, fed properly, and find time to rest and relax. Our minds need the exact same things. The good news is what we do for one can positively affect the other.

EXAMPLE; you are overworked, mentally stressed from your job, that mental stress can cause physical illness. Even though there is nothing outside, physically affecting your health, your overworked mind is causing stress to take its toll on your body. The good news is regular physical exercise cam calm your overworked mind reduces stress and keeps you well.

Now we flip it around. You are physically exhausted, you have been running all day heavy lifting, you name it your body is ready for rest but your mind is racing. If you want sleep for your tired body you will have to relax your mind. Meditation, relaxation exercises, visualization, or guided imagery can help calm your mind and allow the body to relax.

We need a healthy balance in our lives to keep us well. Regular practices to relax and energize our bodies and minds can help you to create that balance. Find physical activities and exercises that allow you to let go of everything else while engaging in them. Keeping you mind on what you are physically doing keeps you connected in the present moment, allowing all the stress and strain to dissolve away for the time being. Making time to be quiet and still, turning your focus inward creates time, space and calm feelings.

Whatever you decide to do, pay attention stay focused and get the full experience, make the most of your time by tuning in, to all you do. 

5 ways to focus on you in the New Year

 

1: Meditation, meditation is the practice of focusing your attention on one thing, an object a word or phrase, shapes colors, or your own breathing. With practice you can relax you mind, by pulling your focus to the one thing you choose, instead of trying to process and deal with all that is going on around you as well as random thoughts of past and present problems and situations. Like most other things in life the more you practice the easier it gets and the more you benefit.

Check out Tip of the Day for a simple Mantra Meditation

2:  Eat healthy; eating healthy doesn’t have to mean depriving yourself, or never eating your favorite foods again. The best advice I can give you is…

1: Don’t make any drastic changes without out consulting your doctor.

 2: Start by adding healthy foods into your regular diet, instead of cutting things you enjoy out. For example, add fresh fruit to breakfast and green leafy salads at lunch and dinner. Eat the fruit and veggies first then move on to the rest of the meal. The idea is to fill up on the healthy stuff and have less of the food you are trying to avoid without feeling deprived. It’s worth a try.

3: Exercise; make some time to exercise, you don’t have to run out and join a gym or start an extreme workout plan you’re not ready for, start simple. Get out and go for a walk when the weather is nice, or try taking a class. Go by yourself if you need some alone time or with a friend if you feel you need to get out and socialize more. My husband and I have been taking martial arts classes together, two to three times a week for the past three years. We have met some wonderful people and look forward to going to class each week.

4: Manage your time; always remember it’s your life, your schedule needs to work for you. If things are crazy and difficult to keep up with make necessary changes. Cut back on extras or fine someone to help you with things you are not keeping up with.

5: Be happy; being happy is a choice, your choice. It doesn’t matter what the circumstances are, what matters is you and your outlook on life. Choose to be happy and good things will find you. Even on your worst days when everything seems to go wrong, just fake it! Put a smile on your face and sell the good mood until even you believe it.