Finding Natural Ways to Prevent Weight Gain and Stress

Life can be pretty crazy

The fast pace of life can really sneak up on you and before you know it you feel like you are on a roller coaster. 

How do we get back to doing what we want to do instead of what others need us to do?  One day we wake up and we aren’t living life, life is living us and it is spiraling out of control.  Fatigue, excess weight, and stress become a daily focus.   Even simple things we enjoyed before become a challenge.

Focusing on others instead of yourself, forgetting to drink that extra glass of water, skipping exercise and then avoiding a walk, over eating and indulging in the wrong sorts of foods, eating when there is no appetite just to fill the time, getting stressed out at work AND at home, not getting enough rest, high expectations and the list goes on and on.

Situations like these can put your life out of balance and open the door for diseases, with their roots in stress like Obesity and Diabetes.

How do we get to this spot?  It starts so gradual that you don’t notice it and then BOOM! One day it hits you like a brick on the noggin.  Where does it all start?

We start by reintegrating our priorities.

It seems like so much work to get things going back in the right direction, we wonder if the effort is worth the results.

To that I say yes and most certainly YES!

What are some natural ways to manage imbalances that could cause weight gain, increased stress and diabetes?

1.By putting one foot in front of the other and head out the door for a walk.  This is a simple solution; you are born with the equipment to do just that!

Your walk will increase your metabolism, allowing your body to burn off excess energy before it converts over to “reserves”, it will help you to digest your food and convert it into energy and tissue and it will make you feel light and energized for your next task. 

2. Your next improvement can be implemented at the same time.  Drinking more water will help to flush toxins out of your body, will help to maintain a healthy weight and because many of us are dehydrated, it will hydrate your body so it can operate at an optimum level.  Start by adding just one extra glass (8oz.) of water a day of pure, clear clean water; this is one more small improvement that is simple and natural.

3. Learn to breathe correctly.  We breathe all day every day and rarely think about it and yet it is the most important thing we do.  We can survive without food for some time and without water for a while but without oxygen you will die within 10 minutes (in most cases).

Many of us breathe into our chests and fail to use the entire organ, trapping stale air in the lower lobes of the lungs.  This affects our thought process, our ability to think correctly, our energy levels and our memory because it decreases oxygen levels. 

In the long run this will affect overall health and create imbalance in our bodies.  Sit up straight, and breath from the diaphragm, which is below your lungs, feel the air going in and out, be conscious of how wonderful it feels.

Who is more important to you than you?  Nobody will take better care of you than you so it’s up to you to do that.  On that note, nobody is more convincing to you than you.  You can talk yourself out of exercising and right into a trip to Starbucks and it doesn’t take too much effort.

You will learn more simple and natural ways to take care of your health and the health of your family at Kerala Ayurveda Academy where we teach you to take charge of your own health and wellness in a more natural way, helping you to become more aware of your balanced body and mind and how to manage imbalances that may lead to diseases.

Remember to take care of you first and that will give you the energy to take care of everything else.

Blog Post by Shelli Thompson

THE SOLUTION TO HEALTH CARE CRISIS. YES, IT IS THAT EASY :)

Today, we hear the problems surrounding health care in the United States almost on a daily basis. How can we resolve our Health Care Crisis? How can we afford to take care of all of the health problems facing our nation with dependable and adequate medical treatments? We will need to look at the principles of our present health care system and how it is supposed to work in theory first in order to arrive at a solution. In Theory, if we are to pay a premium for health care we should be able to afford to heal our citizens who are sick. However, modernity has pushed us to a state of unhealthy habits and a care-free sentiment about our health. We stopped taking responsibility for our own health when we began to pay Insurance Companies to take on our own responsibility so we would not have to worry about it. 

The truth is that we should always be responsible and conscious of our health. If we were to educate ourselves better about our health, the benefits would be instant and we would not have to pay so much for health care both personally and collectively. If we were to be more conscious about our health and what we eat we would see tremendous benefits in terms of our health and the amount of doctors and hospital visits we have in a lifetime. The simple principles of digestion, nutrition and diet would bring enormous benefits to the general health of our nation. If we are to truly solve the health care problem we need to look to the source of the problem: not taking responsibility and care of our own health. What we need to do is to engrain the principles of health eating, exercise, and consciousness into our every day lives. There are many diseases plaguing our country and a big part of them can be alleviated through healthy eating. We can also become a stronger nation by the implementation and practice of Yoga which brings many benefits physically, mentally, and spiritually. It is important to bear in mind that we should really try to learn from our history and the history of other civilizations. There are many cultural traditions which provide many methods of healing naturally. Ayurveda is one such tradition being the most ancient and also the most comprehensive medical science in the history of mankind. In Ayurveda, you are taught everything relating to health from your breathing, to your posture, your nutrition, digestion, meditation practices, natural herbal formulas, natural oils and so much more. You can choose to adopt the methods of your liking to try them first. What is clear in Ayurveda is that there are many ways to heal naturally and that we are a part of nature with which we can align ourselves. Ayurveda can provide a complete education on health and the principles are easily incorporated into your everyday life. The responsibility for our health never ceases to be our own. We need to nurture ourselves and value ourselves so that we can begin to take care of ourselves.

The other problem we face is that we constantly undervalue our own health. We ascribe value to so many other things but fail to remember that we cannot enjoy anything unless we have our health first. We only value health when we are sick and then when we feel better we forget why we got sick in the first place. Our health should be the top priority in our lives or we should at least provide for some health eating and exercise for the same. Eating organic foods and balanced meals, drinking at least 3 liters of water daily and taking some nutritional supplements can go a long way in improving your health. If we began at the fast food level and demanded not to have so many processed foods consumed in our nation I think we would find that our nation would begin this healing process. It is unbelievable that we are still feeding our citizenry processed foods that are very low in nutritional content and very high on fats which are very damaging to our health.

The problem with health care is a problem we created. We should look to the source of disease in our country if we are to solve this problem. The heart of the matter is related to our own perspective of health. We need to educate ourselves further and to simplify our health education so that many Americans can benefit from natural healing and other countries can follow suit in the same way.

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