Our Journal for Your Journey
The Power of Mindful Eating
Mindfulness is a form of meditation that is focused on the present moment. When you focus on the present, you acknowledge your feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. By paying attention to what you eat and how it makes you feel, you can curb your cravings for unhealthy foods and unhealthy eating habits.
Quarantine: A Time to Reset
Today I was going to continue talking about our physical bodies in regards to inner and outer beauty. Instead, I am going to get real with you.
Water: An Essential Building Block of Life
Did you know that up to 60% of the human body is water? It is an essential building block of our body, and a vital nutrient to our cells. Water is the main ingredient of…
Sleep as a Tool for Skincare and Maintaining a Healthy Body
Sleep is also much more important than just your outward appearance, but instrumental to keeping our mental health and body in balance. By getting the recommended hours of sleep, we can prevent major health issues and also keep our minds positive, clear, and active…
Day 7 - Exercise as a way to relieve stress and anxiety
Today I challenge you to choose an autoregulation exercise such as yoga or progressive muscular relaxation to practice while in quarantine. If you perfect your technique now, it will be a tool in your arsenal when you need it in times of anxiety or stress you will know what to do and how to find peace through exercise.
Day 6: Taking Care of Your Body
Resistance training has been shown to reduce systemic inflammation, yoga is excellent at reducing stress and anxiety and may reduce inflammation, and moderate cardio workouts such as walking, jogging, hiking and swimming as we all know are great ways to fight inflammation. You can’t see inflammation, but it may slowly damaging your body over the long-term and it is definitely not making you more beautiful inside and out!