“Healthy Lifestyle “- A term that is easier said than done. Nowadays everyone wants to follow a healthy lifestyle but due to one or the other reasons, this kind of lifestyle remains a dream reality. Let’s understand this聽 compound word “Lifestyle”. This word is made up of two very unique and unrelated words but when they are compounded into a single word, it brings a lot of contemplation.聽
Significance of Styling your life
We can “style” our life in the way we want to style it. Here style means “conscious” effort to make our life a meaningful and healthy one.聽 So a healthy lifestyle can be termed a MAP “Mindful Action profile”.
It is the most visible manifestation of how you want to spend your entire life. It entails –
- What patterns of behavior do you exhibit?
- Which level of activity do you perform?
- What kind of interests do you pursue?
- How does your will help you to lead your life?
- Who is mentoring you in life?
- When do you try to make modifications in your life?
- Where do you want to take up your life?
If we get answers of these questions, there is a聽development of a “sense of self” which resonate with your own personal identity. You become more mindful of your actions . Mindful actions are the key to managing a meaningful life.
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How Healthy lifestyle is health Empowering
Healthy lifestyle is truly health Empowering. The mere thought of having a calm mindset, conscious effort in choosing healthy food, and allotting time to put the body in action leads to a significant change in your mindset. A changed mindset can only make you inclined towards spending healthy lifestyle.You acquire the power to do the following-
- To manage the stress.
- To prevent many debilitating diseases in your body.
- Keeping yourself calm and controlling your vitals.
- Less chances of mental depression.
- Easy to manage work -life balance.
1-A trained mind transcends lively lifestyle
Mindful action is the key to successful Lifestyle management
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way on purpose, in the present moment, and non judgementally – Jon Kabat Zinn
Research has shown that our body and mind need to be in complete synchronization for efficient working. Here our mindfulness brings cognizance of our feelings, emotions, thoughts, and our experiences. It influences our food choices, our habits , our preferences.
1-Mindfulness ignites your passion.
2- It improves your focus.
3-It brings self- awareness, self -love and self care.
4-More calmness, improves perspectives, viewpoints and generates empathy
2-Choosing healthy food equals choosing healthy lifestyle
The second way that keeps your lifestyle in check is the selection of the right kind of foods
Research has shown that the selection of the right foods would increase your chances of leading a disease-free life.
But as the saying goes “A right result is only possible when the other factors contributing to it are also right.聽 Some factors should be kept in mind for selecting the foods-
1-Incorporating those foods which provide you with macro and micronutrients. That’s the reason foods should be selected from all the food groups.
2- Avoid unhealthy foods which directly release toxins or they are the sources of releasing toxins in the body.
3- Incorporating a variety of fluids to maintain the electrolyte balance, levels of enzymes, and maintaining other vital levels of sodium and potassium in the body.
4- Cooking methods also help in increasing the vitamin and mineral content of foods. So different cooking methods would help to increase the bioavailability of nutrients. Lack of awareness of appropriate cooking methods will deprive you of your essential fatty acids, and amino acids.
3- Exercise is a brain booster
Warren Buffet in an interview emphasized having three things for a person to be successful- intelligence, integrity, and energy. He also added that energy is the most vital one of all three, without which a person has no value.
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No matter how intellectually credible you are, as long as you do not clock in the required move minutes for the day, there is no real use of your IQ.
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Simply put, when you are unhealthy, you are not making a smart choice. If you stay busy all the time and don’t move much, you are doing a bad job.
Exercise has the power to transform our lifestyle into a healthy lifestyle.
Exercise denotes not only the moving of body parts but the significance of exercise lies in improving brain health, cognition, and metacognition. There is enough research evidence that states that an increase in activities leads to free an individual from shackles of anxiety and聽 depression.
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4- Consistency with incremental action each day
A healthy lifestyle can’t be sustained just for a day, a week, or a month. A way of life can only be sustained if there is consistency in timings, efforts, choice of food, eating habits, and cooking methods.聽
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In true sense of the word, Consistency makes your life easy to live , stress -free, more productive, free from diseases, more calm and quite organised.
It seems very easy to achieve but when we actually start bringing the element of consistency, it is little challenging. However this element of consistency has many advantages-
1-Majorly boosts heart health
2- upgrade bone health
3-Enhances productivity
4-Increase vitality
5-Enhance the ability to beat stress
6-boosts mental health
7-Makes your immune system strong
8-Improves brain function
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Healthy habits form a road to healthy lifestyle
Cultivation of healthy habits during the day enhances your productivity to a large extent.聽
- Don’t overthink
- Limit distractions
- Make Time for self- care
- Focus on your own progress
- Emphasise on action and not procrastination
- Have a sound sleep and mental peace.
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