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Fitness Follows Exercise and Healthy Eating
Posted by: | CommentsThe definition of fitness can vary depending on to whom it applies. A professional athlete has to be fit to a higher standard than the layman. The weekend warrior can be fit to a higher standard than a person who only walks for exercise. The walker is more fit than the person who gets very little exercise but eats healthy.
One result of fitness is health. The healthy person rarely gets sick because they have a healthy immune system. That is acquired by having an alkaline based blood supply. Alkaline based blood supply is created from eating food that grows out of the ground to a greater extent than sugars, flours, processed, and other dead foods.
The purpose of exercise to gain fitness is to burn muscle. When muscle is burned some cells die and are replaced by stronger cells. The person who starts doing ten push ups might soon be able to do 100. The body knows how to make itself stronger if it is properly exercised.
The level of fitness is fluid. You can keep getting more fit. The pace of fitness depends on how much muscle you are burning every day. If you exercise daily, you get fit faster. Week end warriors get fit over time. I experienced getting stronger surfing where everyone starts off in deficit. Paddling in the ocean requires muscles you really can’t train in advance.
The combination of healthy eating and your level of exercise will take you to an appropriate level of fitness that you can subjectively measure. Those who get carried away and want to test what the human body can endure get involved in competitions that include triathalons, marathons, ocean swims and so forth.
We might not yet have discovered the upper limit of fitness, but some people are always pushing it.
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Doing the Right Things Everyday for Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsHappiness can be at the end of the curve, but health and fitness are just as important in building a foundation for a successful life. When I say successful, I am not talking about money and fame. I am talking about having gratitude and enjoying every day.
Good results do not happen in a month or even a few months although they can start to indicate progress. The best results start showing themselves after years of developing the right healthy eating, exercise, and spiritual daily routines. You chip at the stone with your hammer and chisel and pretty soon you have a beautiful statue.
Healthy eating begins with getting the right foods into your diet and eliminating the harmful sugars, fats, processed and restaurant foods. Exercise begins with even walking and should progress to stretching, building core, building upper body strength and adding aerobics.
Spiritual work develops from engaging in activities for which you have passion and developing your skills. If they are outdoors, you start increasing your connection to Nature and yourself. It also includes appreciating your self and your opportunity to make a difference while you are here. You don’t have to invent a vaccine, you can make those around you better enjoy their lives.
If you start developing a life that rewards you with pleasure, those around you will have more pleasure in your company and start to emulate some of your thinking and habits. The greater empathy and kindness you can show your circle of influence the more likely they are to pass it on.
Everyone can start building more happiness for themselves and those around them.
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Why Health and Fitness Can Lead to Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsHappiness often seems like the elusive dream. It is the goal of so many worthwhile pursuits. We have dreams as children of being successful and then being happy. What goes wrong so often in the process?
We confuse pursuit of worthwhile goals and achievement with behaviors that are the foundation of happiness. We are born happy and we can have happy anytime. We can have as much happiness as we can stand. Gay Hendricks in a great book called The Big Leap says our biggest obstacle is mostly that we don’t feel we deserve it.
Well that’s a slap in the face. Can you imagine that we are our own obstacle to what we want? Things happen to us when we are young that make us feel guilty about success, feeling better than others, feeling happy while others are suffering, being all that we can be and so on.
I found my path to happiness by building it anew from my own foundation. I had been pretty good in my life about achieving, making money, buying lots of toys, but happiness seemed to be hiding behind the next thrill. When I started eating healthy, I began a road of establishing a connection with myself and nature that delivered the goods.
Finding the beauty of health and fitness in our bodies that Nature, the Universe, or God gave us makes us appreciative that we weren’t just created to live a life of separation and toil. We are at one with all that is around us and we only need appreciate that after 3. 5 billion years of life, we have arrived. This is our day in the sun.
Be appreciative. Have gratitude that your mind, body, and spirit can achieve great self expression of what you believe, feel is important and/or want to contribute. The discipline, openness to risk, and courage I developed along the path gave rise to a life more in flow.
Flow is the engagement in activities that are your passions and yet are still challenging. In the process, you are lost in your own world without regard for time, judgment or reward. This produces dopamine which is the brain telling you in a natural process that you are on the right track.
Don’t buy more stuff. Get in touch with your own body and make it clean and exercised.
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Do We Feel We Deserve Happiness?
Posted by: | CommentsThe one experience philosophers from the beginning of time have said we seek is happiness. The Greeks said we seek it above all other experiences. Thomas Jefferson said we are entitled to live in happiness. Is it possible that we sabotage our happiness when we reach it or come so very close?
I feel that in my younger days I may have ruined perfect occasions when the feelings that I didn’t deserve it cropped into my subconscious. There are times when we have earned money or achievement or have a great relationship that we will do something to test it. If someone loves us we might test it with s0me negative behavior. If we have a great job, we might risk it with something unexpected.
Gay Hendricks in his book The Big Leap says even the most accomplished individuals hit a ceiling. At this limit point that pops up in their subconscious, they feel they don’t deserve any more good fortune. He points to the several reasons people often create to deprive themselves of the opportunity to move higher.
It is all too easy to point to the people we read about who achieve everything we would dream and then they totally self destruct. So many psychologists and authors love pointing to the lottery winners who get free money and soon destroy their lives.
I now feel I have created a state of sustained happiness that I deserve because I have built it from the ground up. It is one thing to live our lives and through our efforts reach a plateau and the think we don’t deserve it. It is another to design your life on some principals that are based on your connection to Mother Nature, the Universe, God or what ever you would like to call it.
Coming from the region of I didn’t deserve happiness, I started a program of healthy eating and exercise. My purpose was to lose weight. I don’t think lean was even in my forecast. As my program slowly developed results, I saw the potential. As healthy eating created so many fantastic benefits I wanted to add more exercise to build on the results.
The discipline and mind control I enjoyed in the process showed me the potential of creating any reality or goal with daily engagement. I learned what a fantastic and well oiled body nature gave us if we treated it right and how well our mind functions as a result of food, exercise, and appreciation or gratitude.
Once you have gratitude, you want to contribute and see others find the same results. Unlike losing money, its harder to lose gratitude. Its the gift that keeps giving. Once you start giving, there is daily reward that incites you to keep up the behavior. The attitude starts creating the feed back that is nourishing. You can’t get enough. Its hard to sabotage this type of experience.
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The Goal of Exercise is Misconstrued
Posted by: | CommentsBeing fit is really important and gratifying. It gives you a life style that includes looking and feeling great, having more energy, and increasing the effectiveness of your brain.
A lot of people think they can live fine without these advantages. Too many people feel that if they can satisfy the requirements of their work, take care of their family, and cover the rest of their responsibilities, that should be enough.
What they forget is that their body was evolved millions of years ago. The purpose of exercise is to burn muscle and begin the inflammation cleaning process that rebuilds cells with healthy new ones. Other than your house pets, can you think of an animal or sea creature that does not exercise? Man may be the only one.
Do you know of any animals or sea creatures getting heart attacks, colds, flus, or cancers? The question is not whether we can take care of our duties and responsibilities, it is how long can we do it and still have our health? Most of us think long term and say the purpose of our toil is to someday have money to spend on leisure and travel.
My good friend and I were fortunate to travel to many countries after college. We saw all the retirees visitng the tourists spots. They didn’t look too good. We were in our 20′s and feeling the exhaustion of touring all day and wondering how much these people could really get accomplished.
The future gets here before you know it. The high cost of medical care and the number of people dependent upon insurance is a red flag that we are not really clear on how to thrive in our bodies. You can turn in your car at the end of the lease and get a spanking new one, but your body needs high maintenance to last a life time.
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Do You Understand Your Diet?
Posted by: | CommentsOur first thought about food is “I’m hungry”. Then depending on where you are, you look for the best appetite appeaser. If you are at home you try to think of what you have in the refrigerator and what sounds good. If you are at work or on the road you wonder what is the most convenient and maybe least expensive option.
The third thought that gets you in trouble is what would make me really happy since everything else today is causing me so much stress. This is where we go for the happy foods. The happy foods is why medicare is too big a part of our budget and why people really are not healthy when they hit the golden years at 60.
The person who understands how to stay healthy plans in advance. What do I need to put in my body each day and how will I get it? It’s a much different perspective and planning process. I know I will need breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow. Where will I be at each of those times? What foods will be available?
I know that tomorrow I need grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and protein. I want to avoid sugars, flour, bad fats, and maybe dairy. I have to plan ahead. I will go to the market and buy all the foods I should have this week. I will either plan to make them at home, carry some with me, or eat the same foods when I am out and about.
I must plan to avoid the bad foods with the same vigor I need to guarantee I have the good foods. Tonight should I watch TV after a rough day or go shopping for the good food I need over the next couple of days?
It’s really that simple.
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Can We Start the Young on a Happiness Path?
Posted by: | CommentsI was a very happy child. I had all sorts of interests and I loved to play outdoors. As I grew, my greatest pleasures were being in the mountains and hiking streams to fish. I loved skiing. I loved almost any kind of sport with a ball. I didn’t love studying so much.
As I progressed through college and tried my hand at accounting and after college, at law, I found I didn’t love detail too much. I wanted to be involved in bigger ideas with more creativity. Sales management proved to be my forte. But the other thing I discovered much later was that achievement, acquisition, and money didn’t really bring happiness. They brought me great buzzes and started me on my next quest for more.
What I eventually learned was that I had a real desire to be connected with the outdoors. I had a real need to express myself and contribute what I had learned for the improvement of the lives of others. These types of activities give me sustained happiness that have very little to do with material acquisitions.
I have found that engaging in my passions is what makes my life feel purposeful. Daniel Goleman in Emotional Intelligence says that flow is the highest form of emotional intelligence. Neurologists will tell you that engaging in activities that you love and find a challenge create our happiness brain chemical, dopamine.
My 25 year old daughter was developed with the principals on which I developed. She is very accomplished but realizes early that achievement has little to do with happiness. We agree that it would be great to give children an idea early on that happiness and the path to achievement might be different. However, they would be the same if your life became about pursuing your passions without primary concern for fame and fortune.
We have to be practical and earn a living, but a lot of people earn a living pursuing their passions. Children need to learn and advance through the educational system, but we need to pay real attention to their true aptitudes and what really excites them. Finding things that excite them and not just demanding they follow the grades, college, job routine to find happiness might create very inspired young adults.
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Happiness is in Front of Our Face
Posted by: | CommentsIt is right there and hopefully we can put it on our face. Happiness shows. You can’t fake or finesse happiness as easily as you can affluence. If you drive a great car it looks like you have made it but who knows the kind of financial struggle you have to pretend.
Happiness can be free. Two great avenues I have found are surrender and gratitude. I learned the true meaning of surrender in surfing. When a powerful wave has you and you are doing under water backward somersaults, money won’t help you. You have to give in to Mother Nature and hope she releases you. It translates that we can’t do much about more powerful forces out of the water either. I can’t affect the weather, China, politics, economics or random events as a result of Chaos Theory.
Gratitude keeps us humble and appreciative. Gratitude makes it easy to smile and laugh. It makes it easy to laugh at misadventures. It makes it easy to see bitter people and know we want no part of them. It makes us desire activities that stoke our passions. It makes us appreciative of the fact we have choice.
Surrender and gratitude would be the opposite of control and arrogance. There is no point in trying to control our situation, others, or the future. We have to adopt the right behaviors and attitude and everything around us seems to fall into place. We attract what we give out. Daily gratitude brings daily reward.
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Fitness New Year’s Resolutions
Posted by: | CommentsWhat a great time to start a new commitment. One of the great gurus in the real estate industry used to say that you knew if you were committed by the results. If you reached your goal, you were committed.
So many resolutions die on the vine; maybe they are too ambitious. Fitness is a life style more than a goal. It includes eating what your body needs, getting enough rest, burning muscle so that in affect you live longer without debilitating sickness or disease. Does this sound attractive to you?
What good is it to make and save money, raise children to the point they are going to give you grandchildren and then die? What good is it to reach the golden years but not have the faculties or health to enjoy them? What about just creating your maximum potential to enjoy and live your life now?
Fitness is the result of reaching value judgments. You decide what your priorities are. You create strategies based on your priorities. You decide what your daily activities will be for the tactics in these strategies. For example, if you decide that you want to be President of your company. You will have to learn skills, develop relationships, show leadership, and have lots of good energy.
People often judge your values by how you look. Do you look healthy and like you treasure life or do you look like you are living on Twinkies and soda? Do you have energy to achieve and pursue your passions or are you always too tired?
You can decide if fitness, fits into your life.
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