I’ve said it before, and I will continue to shout it from the rooftops! Maintaining a healthy lifestyle isn’t a massive undertaking. It’s as simple as integrating a few positive habits into your daily routine.
Selecting one habit to work on at a time and slowly building up a health-focused daily routine will help you get on track and stay on top of your physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Here are my top simple and positive habits that I schedule into my day to maintain my health, inside and out.
Taking Care of Your Physical Self
Your overall physical health relies on two factors; what you put into your body and how you move your body.
Managing Your Gut Health
Your digestive system is full of good bacteria that help you digest your food and utilize the nutrients. However, poor eating choices and lifestyle habits can lead to an overgrowth of harmful bacteria that inhibits your digestive system from working efficiently. Supplementing with probiotics can help you heal and maintain your gut flora.
Juicing is another fantastic way to help maintain gut health. Vegetables like cucumbers and celery have proven health benefits and are even recommended daily for chronic disease patients.
Cucumber juice aids your kidneys in their detox function, has powerful anti-inflammatory abilities, and is incredibly hydrating to the whole body. And celery juice provides a significant source of healing for every single cell in the body!
Eating to Fuel Your Body
You’ve probably heard before that you should eat to fuel your body, not eat for pleasure. But why can’t you do both?
Search out recipes packed full of colour, nutrients, and flavour so you can feed your body and your taste buds. Healthy eating that is fun and enjoyable is much easier to integrate into your daily habits than boring and flavourless foods.
Eating foods in season and as close to their source as possible is a great way to nourish your body and prepare it for external signals that come with that season.
Moving Your Body
A daily movement practice is vital for both your physical and mental health. Strong muscles and flexible joints make daily movements as simple as getting up from the couch easier and helps you to avoid injuries.
The endorphins released into your bloodstream from physical activity elevate your mood. And studies show that daily movement can help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Try many activities and mix it up occasionally; making movement a daily habit is easiest when you find activities you enjoy.
Taking Care of Your Emotional Self
Maintaining your health isn’t just about your physical self. It’s absolutely about your emotional self as well. Creating balance within your mind with mental health and spiritual practices is essential to your mental health.
Building Mental Strength
Likely the most critical element to emotional health is sitting with, knowing, and getting right with your “You.” Not the voice in your head that talks to you all day; that voice is usually a result of external conditioning. I mean the true you, the you that is deep down inside, the you that you find in the stillness and the quiet.
You’ll find your “You” by practicing stillness, and you can do this in a few ways. Not every method will work for everyone, so try out one or two and see what works for you.
Journaling – Instilling a daily journaling practice can help you get the heavy things off your chest and more appropriately navigate difficult emotions, reducing the internal chaos and noise.
Meditation – This can be as simple as a quiet 5 mins focusing on your breath. Allow your thoughts and stress to melt away and focus on stillness. If you find you have a hard time taming your wandering mind, try out a guided meditation (you can find tons on YouTube).
Stillness can even be as simple as reading a book in the bath, anything that allows you to slow down and just be with yourself.
Committing to Spiritual Practice
I don’t care if you find your spiritual fulfillment in the pews of a church, in serving food at your local drop-in centre, or in dancing naked in the forest. Every person needs to find and relate to something outside of the self.
To maintain your emotional health, you need to find your community and commit to a practice that nourishes that outside relationship.
Maintaining Your Health: Your next step
Choose 1 or 2 new habits to work on. Make a plan and schedule your activities until they become second nature. Once you feel like you have mastered one, then choose a new one to start on.
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