How to Create Health and Vitality, Part I
Emotional/Mental Fitness:
A Daily Routine
If you want health and vitality in your life, besides working out in order to stay physically fit, I would suggest that you also practice an emotional/mental fitness regimen.
A vigorous, vital body is attained not just by focusing on physical fitness. It is just as much a result of emotional and mental fitness. What most people do not realize is that every thought and emotion you have causes your body to create and secrete a series of hormones into your blood stream that are either anabolic in nature (that is they build up and repair your cells) or catabolic in nature (that is, they tear down and destroy your cells.)
On the one hand, negative thoughts such as anger, fear, worry, etc secrete catabolic hormones and as a result every cell in your body is bathed in them and is worn out and broken down by them. On the other hand, positive, happy, life-affirming thoughts and feelings secrete anabolic hormones which repair and heal all the cells of your body.
So, your daily “diet” of thoughts and feelings are no different than your daily diet of food. Just as “junk food” creates a junkie body, so, too, do “junk” thoughts create a junkie body and life. Your really can’t afford the luxury of a negative thought.
Being conscious and intentional about the predominant thoughts and feelings you have during the day is such a key to health and vitality. Negativity literally drains the life out of you. While positivity not only maintains your current level of health and vitality, but actually increases it.
We have a built in mechanism that can help us to remain healthy well into our later years, all we have to do is use it.
In my next blog post I will offer you an emotional/mental workout that I suggest that you do daily to feel your best on all levels.
This Part I of a two part blog.