Live Right!

Listen to your body that's what health gurus always say. But to those who are always on the go, listening to what the body needs is simply to fill the stomach with food and sleep before the clock strikes midnight.

It all starts with the body because when one learns how to maintain a healthy body, one's mind will be free from the perception of stress and will easily respond faster and function longer. This will give a person more time to do what his heart desires.

Heaving the air in and out with matching heaving in and out of the shoulders is not the proper way to do it. But since most people are taught this way, it consequently became a habit. It is important to learn how to breathe properly since 70 percent of the toxins go out through exhalation. When a person wakes up feeling tired, full, and heavy because of the previous nights' sortie of unmindful eating and an unhealthy lifestyle, he will carry the same bad feeling towards the rest of the day. Thus, eating is not just gorging on whatever food to satisfy hunger. Rather it should be seen as a way to nourish the body. Laughter is another factor that could lead to holistic health. Laughter is a way to condition the mind and body. Proper diet is a choice. However, given too many food choices, keeping a healthy body seems like an uphill climb. One may be determined one moment, then give up the next. Only when consequences like hypertension, diabetes, or digestive track related diseases start to manifest will one begin to really think. One of the causes of hypertension, diabetes, and colon diseases is the lack of proper diet including lack of fiber. Constipation, weight gain, feeling tired and nauseous, most of the time, are diet related. But proper diet is a choice. Free the body from unwanted waste and waist.

Being healthy is not that difficult after all. The trick to living right is taking those baby steps to live healthy, exercising more regularly, getting enough sleep, adding fruit to meals, and incorporating fiber in my daily regimen. And don't forget to laugh heartily.