Are you a master of your body? Here's 5 Tips for 5 days

Hands up if you want your body to look better, feel better and perform better but cant be bothered, cant find the time, and frankly its all too hard?

Me too ......

Well ..... we have all heard it before ..... “we are what we eat” but what if there is more to physical health than just food. What if our thoughts affected our weight? What if our projection of always thinking we are fat, actually contribute to our reality that we could be?.... ok, not fat just CHUNKY. Stop kidding yourself and wake up!

Imagine you were to create a mini-you that was small enough to take a journey through your own body - what would it look like? what scars would you find? where is it clogged? and what help does it need to feel fresher, lighter and stronger?

These are the questions that circulate in my mind, so let's take this 5 day challenge together ( what better day to start than today, right now) 

     1. Eat green

Here lies the nutrients and vitamins we need to repair our cells.  Within every green food lies the life force and energy of the earth. Every time you consume green, you are actually taking in all the nutrients provided by mother earth (actually, perhaps a few pesticides have been added, unless organic, but we will talk about this later.)

Self Mastery Tool for Physical Health - eat something green 3 times a day    

2. Have protein snacks throughout the day

This doesn’t mean protein bars as they can have more preservatives than fast food. What I mean is snack on chicken, fish, ham, beef and almonds.  Protein is needed by your muscles for cell regeneration and unlike carbohydrates, these snacks don’t leave you hungry 3min  after you consume them. Protein takes longer to break down in the body and therefore keeps you full longer. This doesn’t mean you don’t eat carbs, it means snack on protein not chips and biscuits.

Self Mastery Tool for Physical Health - have protein 3 times a day

3. Drink plenty of water

Our body is actually 70% water, mostly in the blood. Our veins and arteries are like the train tacks of our body and the blood is the train. Carried inside the blood or train are all the nutrients we need including oxygen. As they blood moves around the body, these nutrients are dropped off like being dropped off at different train stations according to where they are needed. Therefore the more we drink water, the more we support our transport system and the more nutrients can pass around the body and be deposited where needed.

Self Mastery Tool for Physical Health - Drink 2 liters of water a day (over the day, not at once)

4. Breathe deeply

I don’t mean normal breathing, I mean deep breathing. This is where you put your hand on your belly, breathe in and watch your belly push out, you then breathe out and watch your belly pull in (not the other way around). As you breathe in count to 4, then as you breathe out count to four - this elongates your breathe and allows for deeper breathing. Try it now to see what I mean. Often when we are stressed, we contract all our muscles which effects our breathing. This is often referred to as shallow breathing. By shallow breathing we are not allowing enough oxygen to enter the brain and muscles, and then we wonder why in times of stress we feel so tired. You see, oxygen when combined with glucose produces energy known at ATP. Now I’m not going to get all technical on you, the point being oxygen is needed for energy – if you are feeling tired, take the time to have 3 DEEP Breathes and notice how much lighter you feel.

Self Mastery Tool for Physical Health - On the hour every hour take 3 deep breathes

5. Stretch every day

Notice I didn’t say exercise, I said stretch. You can call this yoga, Pilates or any other form of stretching. The reason stretching is so important is because each day we are accumulating toxins in our body, either from the pesticides in food or the radiation of our electrical and technical age. Either way, we need to get rid of these toxins by stretching and moving. This combined with lots of what actually helps to eliminate these toxins. With specific stretches we lengthen, strengthen and support our body by taking pressure off our joint and better aligning our energy centres. I highly recommend attending a yoga class twice a week as a minimum. Did you now YOGA actually means YOKE , like the yoke of an egg. The point being that yoke binds things together as does yoga – it is the joining of spirit and matter through breath.

Self Mastery Tool for Physical Health - Take a yoga or pilates class twice this week

Of course there are many other things you can do to create a healthier you, however I hope these tips help by prioritising how to be a master of your own physical health. If you have any questions or would like to add to this, please let me know.

With love and light

Daniela