Tips to Energize Your Life!

You're Invited to a Presentation by Nancy Andres, Author of Colors of Joy: A Woman’s Guide for Self-Discovery, Balance, and Bliss. It's a fun way to “try out” Self Care Practices that increase joy in daily living.

Where: Natural Grocers, 7220 E. Broadway Blvd., corner of Broadway at Kolb, Tucson. 520-885-6000.

When: Monday, Dec. 7 between 12 noon- 1 PM

What: Interactive activities, self-development skills, and time after the workshop to see and purchase Colors of Joy, the woman’s self-care journal. Colors of Joy expands and enhances techniques you’ll learn during this workshop.

Details: The workshop is free, but seating is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Open to adults only.  www.nancyandreswriter.com.

Come on down and enjoy this fabulous self-care party. 

Arizona Daily Star Info About the Workshop

Wishing all my readers a Joyous Holiday Season and Many 

Blessings in the New Year.

Joy to the World from Nancy A @ obloggernewbie.blogspot.com

The quote for today follows: "Self-care is a 

privilege only you can grant 

yourself." Nancy Andres

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Aerobic Exercise and Optimum Health

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I came across a study that shows a direct correlation between aerobic exercise and brain cell health and even regeneration. You can find a link below to see the abstract.

Brain Cell Health and Aerobic Exercise

I'm grateful that this report gives me new impetus to amp up my exercise routine and get outdoors more often for aerobics. I love to work out in a natural setting. I'm able to connect more directly to a power greater than myself, when I'm in nature. I'm not a person who likes to go to a gym for treadmill walking. My preference is to commune with mountains, flora and fauna, streams, a river, or sea. I love to hike and walk. 

What's your take on the study and what motivational techniques work for you to keep you active and vitally alive? 

Which kind or kinds of aerobic exercise work for you? Swimming, biking, hiking, dancing, walking, running or something else? Remember... anything that makes you happy as well as revs up your engine, will improve blood flow to the brain and is good for your spirit. Let me know which aerobic exercise you like and why.

My quote for the day is:

"Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back. " Robert Quillen-American Journalist

I welcome feedback at: obloggernewbie@gmail.com. 

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While you're at it, follow this link to my website and find out how my woman's interactive journal, Colors of Joy: A Woman's Guide for Self Discovery, Balance, and Bliss can help you use color, journal writing, affirmations, and reflection to improve self-care and sense of well-being.

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Here's to Your Health in 2014

Please reflect on the points I cover in this blog and let me know which set of health guidelines works for you. Also, do you think you'll be able to follow one of the plans wholeheartedly?

Only 3 % of the 153,000 Americans who were subjects of a report that appeared in the April 25, 2005 issue of the Journal Archives of Internal Medicine were able to maintain a healthy lifestyle consistently. Michigan State University Associate Professor of Epidemiology Mathew Reeves and Ann Rafferty, an epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health reported that 97 % of those analyzed slipped up on at least one or more of the following:

    1.    Do not smoke

              2.    Hold Down Weight (Body Mass Index of 25% or less)

3.    Eat Right (5-7 servings of fruit and vegetables per day)

4.    Exercise (regular physical activity for 30 minutes at least 5 times per week)

Look at the full article @ 
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2005/study-finds-very-few-adults-leading-healthy-lifestyles/#sthash.ilYNmCUx.dpuf


Following is information provided by
Medline Plus and the National Institute for Health. They  advise:

"Many factors affect your health. Some you cannot control, such as your genetic makeup or your age. But you can make changes to your lifestyle. By taking steps toward healthy living, you can help reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and other serious diseases:

• Get the screening tests you need
• Maintain a healthy weight
• Eat a variety of healthy foods, and limit calories and saturated fat
• Be physically active
• Control your blood pressure and cholesterol
• Don't smoke
• Protect yourself from too much sun
• Drink alcohol in moderation, or don't drink at all "

Read the plan from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality @ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthyliving.html

A Third Guideline is featured on the Website of Dr. Dean Ornish and his Spectrum Program: 

35 years of research has scientifically proven that 4 elements are key in reversing heart disease and other chronic ailments. They are

1. Nutrition
2. Fitness
3. Love & Support
4. Stress Reduction

- See more at: http://www.ornishspectrum.com/

What lifestyle plan works well for you and for what reasons? I notice they all offer some options that ring true for me.

I know for sure that the responsibility for my food choices, exercise routine, and lifestyle patterns rests with me. I also know that my actions are influenced by my mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health. That's why I work to reduce stress and increase motivation to stay on a health-promoting track by meditating and doing yoga. I need and ask for love and support from a higher power and choose to be in relationships with people and groups that cherish me. I've learned to stay away from negativity. I'm grateful I've adopted self-care practices that work and are respectful of my mind, body, and spirit, yet am open to learning new things that may work better in the years to come. 

The quotation for today:

“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”

― Bernie S. Siegel

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