Oct 11, 2013
Benefits of being ACTIVE
You've probably heard countless times how exercise is "good for you." But did you know that it can actually help you feel good, too? Getting the right amount of exercise can rev up your energy levels and even help improve your mood.
Sport is a great way to keep active. Give your heart a workout and burn off some energy by trying some of these sports. Being active should be an important part of your every day routine. It helps you burn up excess energy (calories) and helps prevent you putting on too much weight. Not only that, it helps strengthen your bones and muscles, keeps your body healthy and makes you feel good. You’ll see some are more energetic than others.
Being active doesn’t always mean having to do exercise like going to the gym or getting out on a football pitch, its much more than that.
Everyday activity such as walking, dancing, doing a paper round, cycling to college or helping around the house all count. As with all good things, it's possible to overdo exercise.
Although exercising is a great way to maintain a healthy weight, exercising too much to lose weight isn't healthy. The body needs enough calories to function properly.
Don’t forget being active can help you to:
##Feel fitter
Being active more often will help you feel much fitter and healthier.
##Maintain a healthy weight
People who are “always on the go” burn more energy and are less likely to become overweight.
##Help lose excess weight
Increasing activity can help people who are overweight to start to lose some of this weight.
##Can help you feel less stressed
Being active causes your brain to release endorphins and other feel-good hormones. These chemicals give you a natural buzz and feeling of well being. This can help you cope with stressful times (like exams) and stop you from becoming depressed.
##Be healthier
By being active you’ll help to keep yourself healthy by strengthening your bones and muscles and keeping your heart and lungs healthy.
##Confidence
Being active can help improve your confidence and helps you feel good about yourself.
##Help make new friends
Being out and about and trying new activities means there will be lots of opportunities for you to meet new people and find new friends.
Experts recommend that get 45 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day. Here are some of the reasons:
- Exercise benefits every part of the body, including the mind. Exercising causes the body to produce endorphins, chemicals that can help a person to feel more peaceful and happy. Exercise can help some people sleep better. It can also help some people who have mild depression and low self-esteem. Plus, exercise can give people a real sense of accomplishment and pride at having achieved a certain goal — like beating an old time in the 100-meter dash.
- Exercising can help you look better. People who exercise burn more calories and look more toned than those who don't. In fact, exercise is one of the most important parts of keeping your body at a healthy weight.
- Exercise helps people lose weight and lower the risk of some diseases. Exercising to maintain a healthy weight decreases a person's risk of developing certain diseases, including type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. These diseases, which used to be found mostly in adults, are becoming more common in teens.
- Exercise can help a person age well. This may not seem important now, but your body will thank you later. Women are especially prone to a condition called osteoporosis (a weakening of the bones) as they get older. Studies have found that weight-bearing exercise — like jumping, running, or brisk walking — can help girls (and guys!) keep their bones strong.
The three components to a well-balanced exercise routine are: aerobic exercise, strength training, and flexibility training.
Spend more time for yourself!
In today's constantly connected world, finding solitude has become a lost art. In fact, Western culture tends to equate a desire for solitude with people who are lonely, sad, or have antisocial tendencies. But seeking solitude can actually be quite healthy. In fact, there are many physical and psychological benefits to spending time alone.
You may need to plan your own leisure time, away from the family. Whether it is an evening out weekly, or a fishing trip a couple of times a year, you need to plan to do things that you can anticipate. You need to be able to look forward to things that will take the pressure off.
Develop a long-range plan to do the things you want to do. Plan trips and vacations for enough ahead of time that you can accumulate the money in advance. Pay all cash and see how much more fun it is to spend what you have saved than to worry about how you will pay for your fun after the fact.
Benefits of Seeking Solitude
1. Solitude allows you to reboot your brain and unwind. Constantly being "on" doesn't give your brain a chance to rest and replenish itself. Being by yourself with no distractions gives you the chance to clear your mind, focus, and think more clearly. It's an opportunity to revitalize your mind and body at the same time.
Its helps to improve concentration and increase productivity. When you remove as many distractions and interruptions as you can from your day, you are better able to concentrate, which will help you get more work done in a shorter amount of time.
3. Solitude gives you an opportunity to discover yourself and find your own voice. When you're a part of a group, you're more likely to go along with what the group is doing or thinking, which isn't always the actions you would take or the decisions you would make if you were on your own.
4. Solitude provides time for you to think deeply. Day to day responsibilities and commitments can make your to-do list seem as if it has no end. This constant motion prevents you from engaging in deep thought, which inhibits creativity and lessens productivity.
5. Solitude helps you work through problems more effectively. It's hard to think of effective solutions to problems when you're distracted by incoming information, regardless of whether that information is electronic or human.
6. Solitude can enhance the quality of your relationships with others. By spending time with yourself and gaining a better understanding of who you are and what you desire in life, you're more likely to make better choices about who you want to be around. You also may come to appreciate your relationships more after you've spent some time alone.
Despite knowing these benefits, it can be a challenge to find time alone in a world that seems to never sleep.
Here are a few ideas to help you find more time to spend with yourself.
♦ Disconnect. Set aside some time each day to unplug from all the ways you connect with others. Turn off your cell phone, Turn off your Internet. Turn off your TV. If you use your computer to create, such as writing, then write without all the bells, dings, and beeps that come along with being connected to the Internet. You'll be amazed at how much more you can get done when you're not distracted.
♦ Get Up or Get In Early. Wake up a half hour or an hour earlier than everyone else in your house and use that time to create, produce, problem solve, meditate, or whatever makes you happy. This strategy also works if you can get to work before everyone else arrives and the phones begin to ring.
♦ Close Your Door. It's simple, but can be very effective. Solitude also suffers when subjected to interruptions. Yet, we’ve built a world based on open door policies and technological servitude. Neither allow for privacy or full essence of being. Our lives our defined by schedules, work and relationships. All of which are prone to intermittent and unplanned interruptions, putting us at their mercy. No one likes feeling as if their life is not their own. This makes us edgy, irritable and resentful.
We all suffer when subjected to constant interruptions. Extroverts burnout from the lack of progress made. Electronic leashes (phones) and tight schedules keep them from leisurely socializing. Introverts pay an energy price because we are deep concentrators. We dive deep into our work, dreams, daydreaming, relationships and thoughts. Our focus heightens, our breathing slows, we immerse in the flow of freedom. Pulling us out of these depths is no easy feat. Returning to the sweet sacredness we were immersed in before the interruption is like a pebble thrown into a calm pond. It takes a while for the ripples to subside and smoothness to return. Put up the "sign" and it works like a charm.
♦ Use Your Lunch Time. Don't spend your lunch time working at your desk. Don't spend it running errands. And if you regularly go out to lunch, don't think that it always has to be with others. Once a week or even just a couple of times a month, commit to spending lunch with yourself. Walk. Sit in the sun outside. Go to a park and eat. Enjoy the time you have alone.
♦ Schedule solitude. Literally. Mark off time in your day planner or calendar for spending time with yourself. If you can make time for all the little extras you fit into your day, like stopping at Starbucks or picking up something at the mall, you can schedule time in your calendar for solitude. It doesn't have to be long. Any time that you can spend alone with yourself to reboot, meditate, focus, relax, create, produce, and/or think deeply is better than no time.
Privacy is not selfish even if it is within your own home.
We need space.
We need recovery time.
Close the door.
Turn off the phone.
Go for a walk by yourself.
Warmly tell your partners, family and friends that you will be available in two hours and then teach them how to honor that. Admittedly, this will not be easy.
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Oct 10, 2013
Improving our Leisure time
Is leisure time important? Definitely. Brain, the most important organ of the human body, needs some rest in order to function properly. This helps one to get rid of stress and strain. Hard work is a virtue, but only when it is balanced by leisure.
Without sufficient leisure time, we will miss many things given to us. Are you missing out on "smelling the flowers"? Are your children growing up without you? Have you and your spouse grown apart without even realizing it? Do you have time for enjoying your relationship with your aging parents? Do you have the freedom to take time off periodically to just waste time at home or in the yard? Have you taken the opportunity to get to know yourself lately?
It is important to use the free time sensibly in today’s busy and stressful life. So some people believe that to improve the mind all the humans should have to engage in certain activities, like , solving riddle or reading books or newspaper. This will help them to increase their memory power. Whereas, few people have different opinion on the issue, they said people should take a rest in leisure period.
Firstly, it is necessary that people keep in touch with the activities as it enhance the brain credibility towards the surroundings. For example reading different sorts of books and go through newspapers expose them to a new world and provide new ideas to overgrowing problems. Another suitable example is certain activities entertain the people to enjoy life, like , watching movies and listening music.
All persons should have to use their free time according to their age, so they can be active in the environment. As the young boys and girls must have kept busy with activities to learn more and more to maintain their position in the world. This is the new era where success is really hard to get. In contrast the old age group should also have to beware of modern invention of society along with the proper rest time.
So the important part is, we need to know what leisure is, and then we can learn how to plan for it. Put simply, leisure is fun. To develop your plan for leisure, consider activities that add variety to your life and to your relationships. You need to know what represents a balance between your work life, your family life, and your devotional life. You need time to relax and recharge your batteries—so that you can be most productive in accomplishing the main mission.
Achieving Balance
How do you contend with all the pressures of life that tend to distract or prevent you from having sufficient time to relax? The key is a balanced devotional life. How you do this will vary greatly depending on your marital status, your age, whether you have children and what their ages are, your social status and your interests. You will probably need to consider the recreational needs of those around you. Chances are that at least some of your leisure activities will involve other people.
You may not be a workaholic, but the demands of your job may seem to leave no room for leisure time. You want to relax and spend time away from your job, but you do not know how to get away from it. If that is the case, you also need to change your attitude. You need to be motivated to build leisure time into your life.
Just being willing to make leisure time a priority is more than half the battle. The rest is just a matter of planning and discipline. Make a list of all the things you would like to do, or think you might like to do in your leisure time. Assume you have as much free time as you could possibly fill. Then fantasize.
In conclusion, it is best to spend your leisure time doing activities that can improve your mind and adding new information and experiences. Although what you do in your spare time is up to you and no one can force you to do anything, you should spend it all on beneficial activities that can improve your mind. Take your free time seriously. If you don’t use it for something, it just becomes wasted. The key is finding the right something that keeps you happy, interesting, and impressive.
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