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12 Tips for Healing and Getting Fit Joyfully
For most of us, getting healthy is a chore. We have to drag ourselves to the gym, swallow a gazillion vitamins, go to the physician’s office and sit around for hours until you get in, then follow through on doctor’s protocols.
The annoyance and resistance just makes us more energetically weak and slower to heal or grow fit.
Thus, in order to really tune up your body, you need to look at the healing and fitness process as FUN! You need to shift your attitude into a state of welcome, enjoyment, confidence in what you are achieving, and plain old happiness! The more you are in a state of joy and love for the process, the faster your body will vibrate the energy to meet your mental images and gleeful emotional state. Set the tone and your body will follow!
So here are some ideas that you can implement that will speed up your path to health.
1) Each day envision yourself as completely healed and in an ideal physically fit shape. Create your vision, feel it, enjoy it, believe it. Know that your body is absolutely PERFECT! Do this without fail for 30 days, but try to make it part of your daily routine for the rest of your life.
2) When you take your vitamins, supplements and any other medications, see them as bubbles filled with love going down your throat and then spreading out all over your body, much like the bubbles children blow into the air. You’re sending bubbles to your organs, muscles, tendons and tissues to coat them with love! Personally, I just smile when I envision this image!
3) Dance a little every day with abandon. You may have seen Meredith and Christina “dance it out” on Grey’s Anatomy. They are letting out the stress in a very positive way. This is a very healthy act to get the energy flowing positively through the body. Do this to the radio when you are getting dressed, do it in the shower to tunes in your head, do it when your favorite song comes on your iPod, dance in exercise class at the gym or when you are on the treadmill. My personal favorite is to dance in the pool to music.
4) Never go the doctor’s or therapy without a great book, an iPod with your favorite music, or some other creative endeavor such as a sketch pad. Make waiting time enjoyable.
5) Look forward to the doctor visit or therapy session. See such visits as your opportunity for a “tune-up.” You’re a Maserati that just needs a little tinkering to get you revving down the road again at 120 miles an hour. Or you’re a Dolce and Gabbana gown that needs a bit of redesign to get ready for the next awards show appearance.
6) If you are confident in the doctor’s recommendations, than follow up on his or her instructions. No point in going if you don’t what the doctor says. But don’t make this a chore. Make it a gift to yourself…a gift of your health.
7) Find alternative therapies. If you’re into alternative therapies, I always look at these as wonderful way to expand my world and my knowledge of energy. Personally, I have a wonderful mix of traditional, but holistic practitioners and alternative specialists whose work is generally based in energy flow. I go eager to know more about how my body works and how I can manage my energy better. It’s like going to college classes without paying tuition!
8) Don’t drag yourself to the gym or workout! Go with zeal! Remember how you feel when it’s over and how you love the way you look in your clothes. Put a reminder on your email calendar with an incentive—the favorite pair of pants you plan to buy when you get down to your ideal weight. Or play something catchy like YMCA on your ring tone to remind you to go! See the visit as a chance to make new friends or workout buddies. Going with friends is definitely a way to make working out more fun.
9) Got to Yoga. Who doesn’t like yoga once you start going? It’s peaceful and if you start slow, it doesn’t strain you, but you just find yourself getting more fit. It’s so good for both the mind and the body. Find a yoga studio close to home with classes that fit your schedule so there’s no good excuse NOT to go.
10) Walk! Find a pretty place where you can walk for exercise and inhale the beauty. And with daylight savings times, you can walk well into early evening after work, or even in the morning before you go to work. Pick your favorite iTunes. I have a special iPod file just with great walking music that makes me pick up the pace and puts me in a fantastic mood.
11) Get outdoors…Hiking, bicycling, snowboarding, skiing, etc. You already know that these are beneficial to you, a fun, too. Get up from the computer and go do more of them.
12) Lifestyle eating changes are often challenging, but look at them as a chance to expand your choices or learn new recipes. Go to the health food store and look around for cool new prepared foods, new ingredients and healthy new packaged goods. (I love some of the dairy-free ice creams, for example, and my regular grocery store makes a mean cashew-encrusted chicken ready to heat and eat!)
So give yourself a positive energy boost even before the endorphins kick in and you’ll fine yourself on the fast track toward greater health.
