We expect certain changes to occur in our appearance and bodies as we grow older—graying hair, wrinkling of the skin, less energy, memory loss, decreased libido, etc. Not everyone welcomes these changes, at least without a fight. Wouldn’t it be great if we could actually look more youthful and feel more energetic as we move into our golden years? Well, it is entirely possible! Aging can’t be stopped, but by taking our health seriously and pursuing our health through positive lifestyle changes, we can discourage the aging process and add many quality years to our lives.
By incorporating the winning combination of these life changing and life enhancing tips and secrets, you’ll find you have more energy, your skin will look fabulous, and you’ll feel refreshed, energized, and rejuvenated!
Experience These Powerful Age-Defying Tips For Optimum Health and Boundless Energy:
Diaphragmatic: The Correct Way to Breathe
Breathing is the easiest exercise of all, yet a large majority of people do not know how to do it correctly. Instead, they are shallow “chest” breathers, using only a small portion of their lung capacity, when they should be breathing fully and deeply into their lower lungs. Shallow breathing robs the body of sufficient oxygen and is usually associated with stress, anxiety, panic disorders, high blood pressure, memory problems, sexual dysfunction, and depression.
Sit Up Straight – People with bad posture and who tend to slouch, generally are shallow breathers. Slouching compresses the diaphragm and organs which limits the oxygen intake causing stress to the body. Deep diaphragmatic breathing has a powerful impact on our health. By breathing deeply and fully, it revs up the heart rate, oxygenating every cell in the body, from the brain to all our vital organs.
Reap the Rewards of Deep Breathing – Whether you want to call it diaphragmatic breathing, abdominal breathing, deep breathing, stomach breathing, or belly breathing—learning to breathe correctly is the single most valuable daily practice you can do to enhance your health and well-being and prolong your life. Diaphragmatic breathing can be taught with simple breathing exercises. If you make a conscious effort to deepen
your breathing, you’ll reap the rewards of better sleep, you’ll experience less fatigue, your mood will improve, and you’ll have higher energy levels. Spend a few minutes twice a day on practicing breath-work.
Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique – Start by getting in a relaxed position, lying down with your knees bent. You may use a pillow or bolster roll underneath your knees. Focus on your breath for a few minutes as you breathe normally. Now place one hand on your upperchest, and the other hand just below your rib cage on your abdomen. Take a deep breath, inhaling slowly and deeply through your nose, expanding your belly for seven seconds, then pause. The hand on your stomach should rise—the hand on your chest should move very little. Then exhale slowly through your mouth with pursed lips to a count of seven, contracting your abdomen squeezing all the air out of your lungs.
Repeat this technique twice a day for 5-10 minutes or whenever you’re feeling fatigued or stressed-out. Over time, and with a little practice, your breath will naturally become deeper, and your energy levels will soar.
Dry Skin Brushing: Health & Beauty Treatment
The skin is our largest organ of elimination. Our skin is responsible for 1/4 of our body’s detoxification each and every day. Healthy skin should be eliminating approximately 2 lbs. of waste products per day. But, if the pores are clogged with millions of dead skin cells, then the toxins and impurities remain within the body.
Dry Brush for Gorgeous Skin & Glowing Health – The simple practice of dry skin brushing is one of the easiest and most powerful ways to help aid and enhance detoxification through the skin. Dry skin brushing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures, and is one of the simplest, yet most effective healing practices you can perform to keep your skin radiant, and your entire body healthy.
The Many Health Benefits of Dry Skin Brushing – It strengthens both the immune and nervous system, cleanses the lymphatic system, stimulates blood circulation, aids in digestion, tightens the skin, tones the muscles, breaks down and reduces cellulite, and gives you velvety soft, radiant skin.
How Do You Dry Brush? Dry skin brushing should be performed daily before your shower or bath. Using a long handled natural bristle brush— start by brushing upwards from the soles of your feet up to your neck, in either long sweeping strokes or circular motions, always brushing towards your heart. Gently brushing the skin for just 5 minutes daily with a natural bristle brush not only enhances the appearance of the skin by sloughing off old, dead skin cells and helping new, healthy skin cells to regenerate, but this incredible anti-aging exfoliation treatment heals the whole entire body.
NOTE: DO NOT dry brush the face and be gentle while brushing over the breasts, making sure to avoid the nipple area.
Detoxify Your Body Naturally
If you suffer from low energy, chronic fatigue, frequent colds, allergies, headaches, indigestion, constipation, mood swings, anxiety, depression, and/or experiencing problems with your skin, it may be due to a build-up of toxins in your body.
Detox (short for detoxification) or otherwise known as an internal cleanse, is a very effective way to eliminate toxins from the blood, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymphatic system and the skin, while helping you achieve overall health. It’s generally recommended to do a whole body cleanse at least once a year—not only to expel toxins, but to promote elimination, give the internal organs a rest, and refuel the body with healthy nutrients.
Tips to Boost Your Health, Cleanse Your Body of Toxins, and Restore Internal Balance:
Upon awakening, takes a few minutes to stretch and take several slow, deep breaths. By bringing more oxygen into the body, it promotes blood flow and lymphatic drainage—vital for removing toxins from the body.
Eliminate alcohol, caffeine, dairy products, salt, and refined sugar and flour during your detox. If you’re a coffee drinker, opt for green tea instead. Green tea (which contains potent antioxidants) does contain some caffeine, but substantially less than coffee, and unlike coffee, the caffeine is released slowly into the system. Green tea boasts many anti-aging, health, and longevity benefits and has a positive impact on every system in the body including the cardiovascular, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, lymphatic, and immune.
Start out each day with a cup of warm lemon water. Just squeeze half a lemon into an 8 oz. glass of warm water. DO NOT use sugar! Warm lemon water stimulates the liver and aids in the digestion process while eliminating constipation.
Drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water daily to hydrate the body, flush out
toxins, and restore health.
Eat 5-6 Small Healthy Meals Throughout the Day that Consists of:
*Fresh Organic Fruits and Vegetables
*Fresh Fish such as Salmon and Tuna
*Legumes and Beans
*Whole Grains
*Unsalted Nuts and Seeds
*Fresh Herbs and Spices
*Herbal Teas
NOTE: Eat NO processed foods! The more natural the diet, the better!
Take Your Supplements – Take nutrition and herbal supplements such as a full-spectrum, high potency multivitamin with minerals, omega-3 fatty acids, and milk thistle to enhance liver function.
Take a 30 Minute Walk Daily – Preferably outdoors to get some fresh air and a daily dose of vitamin-D from the sun. Exercise is an excellent way to rid your body of toxins through the skin, by sweating. Also, sitting in a sauna has the same effect.
Meditate – For 5-15 minutes daily to lower your stress levels. Meditation when practiced daily releases negative energy within your body and mind, which results in healing your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. NOTE: For more information on the many health benefits of meditation—please refer to tip # 2.
Start Juicing – If you don’t own a juicer, it’s not required to go out and purchase one during a detox—but you may want to, as the health, healing, and anti-aging benefits of fresh juices are many. Besides providing more nutrition than sugar-laden store bought varieties, fresh homemade juices help to cleanse the body of toxins, boosts the immune system, and helps maintain the pH balance (making your body less acidic), while promoting health, healing, and energy.
How Often Should You Detox? The length of time a cleansing diet (or) detox is maintained, is based on your own individual needs. A cleanse can last from 1-10 days or more. Typically 3-5 days is sufficient time to reap the numerous rewards and benefits of detoxing. Many people opt to do a detox seasonally, others just once or twice a year. If you’re not processing foods and eliminating waste properly, an internal cleanse may be just what your body craves.
NOTE: While detoxing, the first couple of days you may experience some mild side effects. Headaches are one of the most common, often due to caffeine withdrawal. Diarrhea, fatigue, or irritability may also be experienced while ridding the body of toxins. These side effects, while annoying, are actually a good thing and usually pass quickly. Within a few days of detoxing, people often notice they have more energy, improved digestion, increased mental awareness, regular bowel movements, clearer skin, as well as an overall feeling of good health. Not to mention one of the best side effects of all… weight loss!
Sweat Your Way to Radiant Health
Most people know that sweating is our body’s way of regulating our temperature. But did you know that sweating is an excellent way to expel toxins from the body? Sweating also improves circulation, improves skin health, relieves stress and fatigue, eases join pain and stiffness, provides pain relief, strengthens the cardiovascular system, lowers blood pressure, promotes a healthy immune system, burns calories for weight control, reduces cellulite, and induces better sleep.
Infrared Sauna Benefits – Infrared saunas, which are slightly different, and a lot more healing than normal saunas, have become increasingly popular. Infrared saunas make the same rays that come from the sun, but filters out the harmful UV rays. The health benefits of an Infrared sauna are numerous. They are an effective tool for detoxification, cardiovascular health, skin rejuvenation, pain relief, stress relief, as well as weight loss. You can actually burn up to 700 calories per session.
Bottom Line: Whether you sweat through exercise or through the use of a sauna, sweating has a huge impact on your overall health and quality of life. Learn to embrace sweating as a therapeutic method for promoting health, anti-aging, and well-being.
Chew More, Eat Less, Live Longer
When most people think of digestion, they often think of their stomach or intestines. The truth is, digestion starts in the mouth. The process of chewing is a vital component of the digestive process. If you’re one of the many people who gulps down their food in a hurry, you may be setting yourself up for digestive problems such as heartburn, constipation, flatulence, stomach gas, bloating, and acid indigestion.
Chew Your Way to Better Health – When you chew your food slowly and thoroughly, your body releases powerful digestive enzymes in your saliva that help break down the food in your stomach. Chewing food properly and fully aids in the transport of nutrients to the body. This simple act helps convert the food into energy. When your food isn’t digested properly, you can suffer from nutritional deficiencies and food sensitivities, as well as lethargy and low energy. Simply put, this means the vital nutrients in the food you’re eating are being wasted, and your body isn’t getting the nourishment it needs. Furthermore, undigested food particles can provoke bacterial growth in the intestines that can lead to health problems and possibly disease.
Added Bonus: Taking the time to chew your food properly (from 25-60 times, depending on the food you’re eating), will help cut back on unwanted calories, and has the extra added benefit of weight loss.
Practice Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping)
Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as EFT tapping is a powerful and life changing mind/body healing technique for relieving physical and emotional pain and discomfort. When our bodies are out of sync physically, mentally, or emotionally, this can trigger many health conditions, as well as illness. EFT can help restore the body’s energy balance, so you can regain your sense of well-being.
EFT is sometimes called emotional acupressure, as it’s similar to traditional acupuncture, but without the use of needles. By simply tapping on specific acupressure points with your fingertips, this powerful healing technique stimulates energy meridians in the body, that help shift and release negative thought patterns or stressful emotions that hold us back in our personal lives, career, and relationships.
The List of Physical, Psychological, and Emotional Conditions for Which EFT is Used Are:
*Addictions
*Anger Issues
*Allergy Relief
*Abuse
*Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD – ADHD)
*Claustrophobia
*Depression
*Fears and Phobias
*Food Cravings
*Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
*Pain Relief
*Stress
*Trauma
*Self-Esteem Issues
*Weight Loss
Key Point: Through the use of Emotional Freedom Technique, you can free yourself from negative feelings and beliefs, while dramatically transforming your life for the better, and adding quality years to your life.
Oxygenate With a Chi Machine
There are 3 things we cannot live without—food, water, and oxygen. We can live without food for weeks, (even months), without water for days, but only minutes without oxygen. Many of us suffer from lack of oxygen due to shallow breathing, a poor inadequate diet, lack of exercise, and/or air pollution. Oxygen starved cells in the body can result in low energy levels, shortness of breath, headaches, impaired mental clarity, chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, depression, intestinal problems, suppressed immune function, as well as many chronic diseases.
What is a Chi Machine? A Chi Machine is a passive exercise device that enables the body to gently rock from side to side (the same way a goldfish swims), maximizing the body’s natural absorption of oxygen. The Chi (meaning “life energy”) creates a low-impact workout that requires no active movement while getting the aerobic benefit equivalent of a 90 minute brisk walk (in terms of body oxygenation) in only 15 minutes.
The Primary Chi Machine Benefits Critical for Daily Cell Detox:
*Anti-Aging Health
*Oxygenates Every Cell in the Body
*Detoxifies – Ridding the Body of Toxins
*Weight Loss – Raises Metabolism Rate
*Aids in Maintaining Physical Wellness
*Aids in the Prevention of Illness
*Heals the Nervous System
*Increases Natural Energy – Greater Stamina
*Firms/Tones Hips, Thighs, Buttocks, and Abs
*Creates a Stronger Immune System
*Massages Internal Organs for Improved Function
*Aligns the Spine & Corrects Poor Posture
*Reduces Back Pain & Improves Spinal Health
*Reduces Muscle Soreness, Tension, & Stiffness
*Creates Strong More Limber Joints
*Alleviates Many Stress Related Conditions
*Improves Blood Circulation
*Improves Digestive Health
*Stimulates Lymphatic Drainage
*Creates a Wonderful Sense of Well-Being
*Promotes Deeper More Restful Sleep
*Stimulates Alpha Brain – Wave Activity
*Enhances Mind/Body Healing
*Increases Libido
*Enhances Health and Longevity
*Maximizes the Body’s Absorption of Oxygen
NOTE: The Chi Machine can be used by virtually everyone, even children, and is excellent for senior citizens, the physically impaired, bedridden, or frail.
Rebound – A mini trampoline, also known as a “rebounder” is also an
excellent tool for oxygenating the cells and stimulating lymphatic
drainage. NOTE: For more information on the many health benefits of
rebounding—please refer to tip # 57.
Color Therapy: Healing With Color
Color therapy has been around since the time of the Ancient Egyptians when they discovered certain colors have a profound effect on the mind and body. Beautiful colors like red, blue, green, yellow, and orange can be used to enhance moods and emotions and reduce negative thought patterns by encouraging positive thought patterns to dominate.
There are 7 main energy centers in the body, which are referred to as chakras (sha kra). Color therapy is an alternative healing treatment that can be used to channel energy in positive directions through our chakras to improve our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and anti-aging health.
The Many Healing Properties of Color:
Red – The color red is associated with the base chakra. It promotes love, passion, and sexuality, as well as energy, stimulation, assertiveness, and aggression. Red energizes the heart and the organs; therefore it is beneficial for people who suffer from fatigue and lethargy, and for those who could use a boost of self-confidence.
Orange – The color orange is associated with the spleen chakra. It promotes success, happiness, and sociability. Orange is extremely energizing. It stimulates creative thinking, enthusiasm, optimism, and is a natural antidepressant. Orange can assist in healing conditions of the stomach and intestines, and is known to stimulate the lungs and thyroid gland to increase oxygen to the body.
Yellow – The color yellow is associated with the solar plexus chakra. It promotes cheerfulness, optimism, and wisdom. Yellow helps awaken inspiration and is uplifting for those who suffer from depression. Yellow is also an excellent color for nerve related conditions, as well as liver, stomach, and intestinal conditions.
Green – The color green is associated with the heart chakra. It promotes peace, balance, and harmony. Green induces a state of calmness and relaxation, stimulates growth hormone, and cures hormonal imbalances, and has also been found to be beneficial for those who have high blood pressure and cardiac conditions.
Blue – The color blue is associated with the throat chakra. It promotes communication, creativity, and personal expression. Blue cools and calms down inflammation, high blood pressure, and strong emotions, while strengthening and balancing the respiratory system.
Purple – The color purple is associated with the crown chakra located at the top of the head. Purple promotes creativity, spiritually, and intuition. Purple embodies both red (stimulating) and blue (calm). Purple has been found to be beneficial in the treatment of mental and nervous disorders.
NOTE: It’s been shown that wearing bright, happy colors, as well as the colors in our home can be very therapeutic and can significantly impact our moods. Wearing vibrant colored clothing can help lift our spirits and counteract feelings of depression, low self-esteem, and lack of confidence.
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