1. Open up to the harvest of your year and be willing to work hard and discipline yourself as you head into a new season. If you are a student (we are all students of life), get back to your studies. Yes, it is time to shift from the frivolity and laziness of summer. Nature is so giving, and it helps to be receptive to her and what the Earth has to offer. What do we have to give to life for all the energy, love, and beauty I hope we all receive?
FINDING TIME To EXERCISE
Written by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS
How many people like to exercise?
How many people are not so crazy about it?
How many people don’t have any time…
If you were Christopher Reeve…
No one can find more time
Core Conditioning with Pilates
Written by Julie TomlinsonWith dedicated practice one can expect a longer, leaner looking physique, increased energy and stamina and fewer aches and pains from the stresses of everyday life.
Pilates has become a household word, often with creative spellings and pronunciations. No longer an exercise program reserved for the physically elite or financially flush, the Pilates Method is finding its way into people's homes, becoming a regular practice with lasting results. In the 1990s and into 2000 we have seen an incredible trend towards mind/body-based exercise. In the '80s we found our energy and power. In the '90s we learned how to harness it.
While virtually everyone is
aware of the benefits of
aerobic exercise, there still
seems to be a lot of confusion about
the subject of weight training and its
place in an overall wellness program.
Maybe it’s some residual confusion
left over from the “Pumping Iron”
days when weight training was something
done only by bodybuilders and
the Muscle Beach crowd. Who knows.
Whatever the reason, it’s time to put
some of the myths about weight training
to rest.
The No Sweat Exercise Plan
Written by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNSLose Weight, Get Healthy, And Live Longer
For the past two decades, fitness experts have been telling
us that to get the benefits of exercise you had to do
aerobics. And you had to work out hard. There was even a
way to calculate whether your exercise was hard enough to do
any good: You were supposed to subtract your age from 220,
exercise intensely enough to get your heart rate up to 70–85
percent of that number and keep it there for twenty minutes.
Obesity has gone prime time. We Find evidence of
its presence where ever we look: in every neighborhood, every
mall, every school and every workplace. Hardly a day goes by
without the news reporting on some aspect of the looming obesity crisis. However, the epidemic is not confined to just the wealthy developed world. Even desperately poor countries
such as Nigeria and Uganda are wrestling with the dilemma of
obesity. China, which was once one of the world’s leanest countries,
is not immune. In fact, it has one of the fastest-growing
obesity rates in the world and one quarter of its urban youth is
presently overweight. It is projected that by 2015, 200 million
Chinese will be not just obese, but morbidly obese.
The looming obesity epidemic is sending chills through the
global community. Worldwide, more than 1.3 billion people are
overweight, whereas only 800 million are underweight—and
these statistics are diverging rapidly.
Less than 25 percent of adults exercise on a regular basis, thus, children - and adults - are spending more time performing sedentary tasks, such as surfing the Internet, playing video games, and watching television. This lack of exercise increases insulin resistance, hormone dysfunction, and inevitable weight gain. So, what can we do to keep fit and how do we fit exercise into our busy schedules?
Assess your health, your strengths, as well as your problems and bad habits, and look for (ask yourself
and take time to listen) the causes or basis of each
concern. What are your issues? It’s best to ask for this
deeper information and healing in your quiet, meditative
place or before sleep to ask your dream imagery to come
forth. (Review my Staying Healthy Tips on The Nature of
Healing.) This is a time to work on solutions.
Make a list of your goals. What are you willing to work on, work out, and achieve? Do you need to lose weight; have more energy; or find a new doctor/practitioner to help you resolve a problem or illness? Or would a therapist or intuitive be more helpful? For example, you could assess your teeth in January, schedule a Thai massage and an acupuncture or chiropractic session in February, and a five-day health retreat in March. First assess your health budget and see what is covered by insurance if you have it, but also look at what you are willing or able to invest into the health of you and your loved ones.
Optimizing Energy Production with Ribose—Feel better with a heart and muscle energy tune up!
Written by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
Feel Like You Could Use More Energy?
One of the consequences of our stressful modern life is an
increased need for energy. With less sleep and the depletion of
nutrients in our food supply, however, it is getting harder and
harder for our bodies to keep up.
There is a lot out there about how competitive athletes can up their energy. Although the approach we’ll discuss below is also excellent for athletes, it was developed, and is outstanding, for the rest of us. Whether you are a mom trying to juggle a fast paced hectic life, a student on a fast food diet, or just trying to optimize your day to day energy, here’s how to get from being fatigued to feeling fantastic!
Finding TIME for Exercise
Written by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS
If I had to make my list of the top 10 problems people have with starting a program, finding time for exercise would definitely be at the top of it. But here's the thing: if you're looking to find some spare time when you can fit exercise in, forget about it. We're living in the early part of the 21st century. No one has spare time. It's like "spare money." You can choose to budget money and time any way you want, but none of it is extra, none of it is spare.
Time is the great equalizer. The poorest person on the planet and the richest have exactly the same amount of it, 24 hours per day. No more, no less. So let's forget about finding extra time. (Where are you going to find it, under a rock?) Instead, let's talk about developing a budget. Let's talk about creating our life the way we want it to be.
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