Exercise and reduce your stress
Current research is documenting that as little as thirty minutes of exercise three times a week can reduce your stress levels as effectively or more effectively than taking medication. Walking, stretching, yoga, light calisthenics – you don’t have to become a gym rat to get the benefit of exercise. Pick something you like to do […]
Adapting to Stress: Body and Mind
Health is a state of well being in three distinct areas: 1. Physical, 2. Mental and 3. Social. A negatively stressful life will rarely lead to a healthy body. A struggling, desperate individual will likely experience illness despite following most of the other important rules of wellness. Even if you could be healthy while experiencing […]
Summer Vacation Benefits
Summertime in the south is undoubtedly one of God’s greatest gifts. I can remember how I looked forward to summer when I was a child. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house, and the way their back yard’s St. Augustine grass felt under my bare feet is a feeling I am trying […]
Stress Management
In my last column I dealt with nutrition and its role in the total health picture. Once it is handled and the body is fuelled properly, other things need to be dealt with in order for your optimum health to be expressed. The next facet of health that must be balanced in order to be […]
Benefits of Massage
Do you ever have trouble finding just the right gift for the person who has everything? One suggestion is something that will not only be unique for the person who has everything but will benefit him or her as well. That gift is the gift of therapeutic massage. I have written in the past about […]