Your future will be defined by your habits.
Here are 10 Habits To A Healthy Body:
1. Move!
Each morning, do simple stretching and breathing movements—take time to pray also can help—for 30 minutes. Do a few push ups, sit-ups, and chin-ups. Just a lil’ movement will help you because when we hit 50, we start losing 1.5% of our muscle strength every year. This is the reason why you see a lot of 60-year-old people who are very weak today—because they didn’t move their body. So walk. Swim. Play badminton. Move!
2. Eat The Best Kinds Of Food
Eat a lot of vegetables and fruit and less of meats. Eat fish! If you used to eat rice, take organic brown rice and wheat bread. Fry with soya oil, corn oil, or olive oil.
The Old Testament called certain foods unclean—like pork, crustaceans, shells, fish without scales—and modern science has found out that many of these foods have higher toxicity. Pork has more toxins than other meats. Crustaceans and shells are the scavengers of the sea. And because fish release their toxins through their scales, fish without scales have slightly more toxins. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat these delicious food, but perhaps minimize them in your diet.
3. Juice Your Vegetables
Every morning, drink fresh vegetable juice. I throw into my Juicer four large carrots, one long celery stick, and one apple. The advantage of juicing? By juicing, I’m able to consume 4 large carrots in two minutes flat—something that would take me one hour if I munched them. Give lemon if you can’t stand with the taste or smell! It will help so much.
4. Supplement
Take supplements and vitamins that your body needed.
5. Sleep Like A Baby
Sleep for 6-8 hours a day. No more or less! Don’t think to much before you go sleep. Pray before you sleep so you can have a sleep like a baby!
6. Drink Enough
The first thing I do when I wake up is drink a glass of room temperature water. For many of us, what we think are hunger pangs may just be our thirst. So when you feel hungry, drink water first. And eat water-rich foods like fruits and vegetables.
7. Work With Passion
Get into something your love to do. When you enjoy your work, it isn’t work. It’s play. And that keeps your body humming. Your body gets the message: “I need you to be healthy, because I’m here to bless the world.
8. Feel Your Feelings
Our bodies are simply the blueprints of our emotions. When we get sick in our bodies, many times, it’s simply manifesting our stress, our fears, our anxiety, and our unresolved angers. I strongly urge you to become aware of your emotions and bring them constantly to the Lord. Before Him, work through them. Feel them, yes. Respect your emotions, yes. But lay them at His feet and follow God only.
9. Be Happy
Be a positive person. Happy people are generally healthier than unhappy people.
10. Love Well
Love your wife/husband, children, and friends! Go, have some dates with them at least once a week…
(Adapted from Bo Sanchez’s article, www.kerygmafamily.com)
