Wellness Program Ideas

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We ALL need some R&R:

Rescue and Relief ®

Health-Preservers

Self-care a go-go!

aka, Zingers to live by!

*Eat what makes you feel good about your

self.  Best weight management advice, you'll ever get!  How many weight loss programs have you tried?  Me too!  Finally, I figured it out.  When your self-concept improves, life flows more fully and Joyfully! (I promise)  Check out my "'Been Fat, Done with That" workshop.

*Keep your muscles longer than your bones.

Muscles have tapered endings called tendons crossing joints to attach bones. Keeping them pliable enough to easily lengthen can be accomplished by stretching often, as-we-go, keeping our joints healthier and free from arthritis, tendonitis, bursitis and muscle wear and tear.

*Generate more energy than you need.

The quickest way to do this is through proper breathing techniques or exercises that teach your body to make a habit out of exhaling tension and inhaling energy. You can use your senses to impact the nervous system and endocrine system in a way that "gives" you energy rather than depleting it!

*Your body will treat you the way that you

   treat it.  This is the basis of "self-help theory".  Using Self-hypnosis or affirmative thinking, you can learn to love what's good for you.  Living up to your ideals is empowering.  Start with baby-steps and build on them.

*Move to improve--even at your desk! Research shows that we need to move every 12-15 minutes to avoid Repetitive Motion Injury (RMI) or Repetitive Motion Strain (RMS) such as Carpal Tunnel, Bursitis, Arm and Wrist pain and numbness, Headaches, Eyestrain and more...

Check out my "'R&R: Rescue and Relief for Computer Users " Book

*Rub your sore spots. #1 Alternative Medicine tip!  Pain is a language that your body uses to alert you.  Heed its message by giving it attention in the form of touch.  Massage is directly healing to each body system.

*Rub what hurts, when it hurts--and its  opposite

  ie When your lower back hurts, stretch the front of your body. Most of us have posture that rotates forward, straining the back, neck, elbows and wrists.  If we would pay more attention to muscles that have tightened and pull those places, we could improve dramatically.

*Sigh out stress:  (ah... ow.... oh!.. yes...   ouch!... whew... ha, ha, ha) Exhalation is the quickest way to release tension.  Avoid holding your breath in times of stress.  Exhale and make room for a deep breath instead.

 *Inhale energy (if you exhale completely, your body will inhale deeply) When you exhale, emptying your lungs by squeezing the diaphragm at the end of your breath, your body will fill you up from the bottom, up!

*Replace tension with good intention : help someone and see how it works!.

*Deal don't dwell.  20 minute rule:  if you cannot reach a viable solution, change your focus for awhile and come back to it later. Hypnosis helps with this one when it's about changing "thinking patterns".

*Dress the way you want to feel. Another good

example of self hypnosis.  Design your attitude by

choosing the right props!  Feeling low energy?

Put on something bright red or hot pink.

*Imagine a magnet on the top of your head,

  pulling you upward.  This self hypnosis technique really works!  I've had polio and this helps me feel stronger as I climb stairs or get up out of a chair!

*Ice injury w/in first 24 hours. Preventing over-inflammation this way is amazing.  Slap it on ASAP.

*Warm up tight tissue before exercising or stretching. Connective tissue between your muscles (and everything else) becomes semi-solid as it becomes cold from inactivity, such as during our sleep; driving in a car; sitting at a computer; being a couch potato.  It takes heat and/or friction to make it softer and easier to move. No wonder you get stiff, eh?

Stretch your tight spots after you warm up--A 2 second stretch may be enough.  Your reflexes contract to keep you from over-stretching on the 3rd. second.

*Your body is a metaphor for your mental state. Got stress?  It shows.  Research shows that you can change your posture in order to change how you are feeling!  So, pull back your shoulders, exhale and smile--and in a little while, you'll feel better.

*Never leave home without your rose colored glasses. Use them deliberately, finding the silver lining in every situation--it's a great defense mechanism.

*Humor your self. If not you, who?

*Choose your hormones; it's a matter of attitude.  Hypnosis helps.  Whatever it takes to allow your stress hormones to subside.

*Assume a healing attitude. This is a form of Self Hypnosis that works.  It's like "fake it til you make it" or living up to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

*Nothing heals like JOY.  Try it; you'll like it!

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