14 Tips for Great Physical Health -

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Let’s get started! If you are reading this, you are already one step closer than yesterday to finding resources to help you create a new and healthy lifestyle regarding physical health. Congratulations on this awakening journey that will flow throughout your life as you take the course daily! I have a list below of creating and maintaining excellent physical health, and I hope this will bring you more knowledge and peace to go forward with in your journey.

14 Physical Health Tips

1. Build Healthy Habits

Building healthy habits can be the most challenging yet exciting process in creating a new lifestyle focused on physical health. When you allow yourself to build healthy habits, you embrace more than just physical appearance; you build character in maintaining such habits that create self-discipline, consistency, and gratification through the experience of overcoming obstacles that you saw coming. Below are habits you can include in your new lifestyle change to excellent physical health.

2. Relaxation

Maintaining good physical health through 15-30 minutes of exercise can release endorphins, which can also relieve pain and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, allowing any tension in the body to relax.

Physical health is not about just losing weight for people who desire to do so; it includes dropping the weight of unnecessary worries and moods that lead to mental and physical illness that steals your peace and rest. Don’t allow that to happen to such a beautiful temple. RELAX!

3. Sleep

“Sleep is essential for maintaining a healthy mental state. Studies show that a regular eight-hour sleep schedule every night can improve mood, accompanied by exercise and a healthy diet.

Interestingly, people who sleep more than 12-14 hours a night can be labeled and diagnosed as individuals who suffer from atypical depression. If you have been diagnosed with such depression, again, I suggest you become more mindful in regulating an eight-hour sleep schedule so that you can be your best during waking hours.

Sleep Hygienic Tips:

Make sure you sleep in a clean bed, free of anything that might make you uncomfortable at night. (This includes a pile of laundry or an excessive number of décor pillows.)
Adjust your thermostat to 67-70 degrees F. It would help if you had it slightly cooler.
Have the room completely dark. If you need to buy blackout curtains, then do it!
Prepare your room where you cannot be overstimulated. This means NO TV, phones (can be silenced or placed on do not disturb), or other LED electronic devices that can disrupt sleep.

{Studies show that LED light from devices interferes with people’s sleep-wake cycle.}”

Keeping Life Sharp: Mental health article by Hannah Sharp. (14 Tips for Great Mental Health – Keeping Life Sharp)

4. Diet

You would be surprised at how much food plays a role in your everyday life. Have you ever noticed that when you eat junk food, your body feels tired and weak? Or maybe in the late evening, you scarfed down a heavy meal and then tried to lay in bed an hour later, all to wake up feeling gross and still full. Regulating a healthy diet that is ingested at appropriate times of the day will make a difference in how your body feels. Certain fruits can help you hydrate when you are feeling parched, and certain beans and meats can help supply protein and maintain a good level of iron that allows you to feel energized rather than fatigued. Fiber and probiotics in dairy and healthy grains can help your digestive system.

So be mindful of what you put in your body! Does it bring energy and allow you to feel light and suitable, or does it make you feel fatigued, full, and gross? When you become knowledgeable about the ingredients in the foods you eat, you will want to turn away from the horrible choices you made with your old food favorites and want to be better and eat cleaner!

If you want more information about changing bad habits, such as poor food choices, to clean eating, talk to a healthcare provider or research a dietician who can guide you in the right direction. If you do not have the resources to make an appointment physically, feel free to use your smart device to research more information about healthy lifestyle choices regarding diet and get on your journey!

5. Exercise

The Oxford Language definition for exercise is “activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness.” The part that stood out to me was “physical effort,” which made me think about how much effort we put into maintaining physical health, let alone exercising. Managing activities that do not benefit the mind and body is natural. However, working out what is valuable for sustaining life is complicated and an afterthought for many people. This week, try to implement a workout schedule into your routine. Start with just three days of 15-30-minute workouts. You can choose your workouts and time, but push yourself to create this new, healthy, improved lifestyle.

If you do not know how to work out, use the resources in your hands. The Internet has numerous workout videos, blogs, and other resources that can inform you on the route that is comfortable with you. But remember to listen to your body, stay hydrated, and stretch.

Remember the benefits if you need more encouragement to get you up on your feet. Exercising can physically help you lose weight, strengthen your bones and muscles, and lower your chances of having a heart attack. It can also improve blood sugar levels, reduce inflammation, maintain blood pressure levels, allow a healthy amount of blood flow to your brain to enable you to learn as you age, and positively help your sex life! And if that is not enough, let’s finish with how exercising can improve your mental health, especially when overcoming challenges you never thought you would face and gaining confidence. It will reduce stress and allow you to rest more peacefully in your deep sleep. Okay! I hope this was enough encouragement to get you up and exercise!

6. Posture

Did you know that posture plays a significant role in your body? The benefits of maintaining good posture include:

Preventing and decreasing neck and back pain, which can lead to tension that leads to headaches.
Preventing your spine from becoming fragile.
Helping prevent injuries.

Good posture can also allow your body to become flexible and relieve pressure on your abdomen, preventing constipation, acid reflux, and bloating. Most importantly, good posture will allow you to breathe normally with healthy lungs!

Good posture will also allow you to gain confidence that you may have never had before. When you walk in front of a mirror with excellent posture, you will notice how your body presents in different views, allowing you to look smaller and taller. Such a stance will boost your confidence, affect your energy, and motivate you to be mindful of your body. Exercising, building your core, and strengthening your back muscles are steps toward creating good posture.

7. Outdoor Time (Vitamins)

“Daily sunlight can benefit your body and is useful when sustaining a healthy physical state. For starters, sunlight not only regulates normal melatonin state levels (which can help you sleep), but the natural vitamin D exposed through UVB rays can help regulate natural nutrients called calcium and phosphate, essential to sustain healthy bones and muscles. You can aim thrice a week for 15-20 minutes to produce enough vitamin D nutrients. Another benefit of the sun is that it is a natural mood stabilizer that increases serotonin levels in your brain. Serotonin levels can help you feel calm and relaxed, more energetic, and improve your immune system. “

Keeping Life Sharp: Mental health article by Hannah Sharp.( 14 Tips for Great Mental Health – Keeping Life Sharp)

As previously mentioned, being outside has many benefits, primarily when your body is used to being included in nature and exercising your body. Just be sure that when you exercise outside, you remember your limits by listening to your body on taking your break and staying hydrated, especially in the summer heat. Protect your skin from sun exposure by minimizing your time in direct sunlight and applying sunscreen to your body.

8. Choose Good People & Surroundings

Surrounding yourself with good people in appropriate places will help you stay on course to maintain good physical health. Whether you are in the process of overcoming substance abuse or just recovering from toxic people, remember that your journey is ultimately based on your decisions. If you choose to hang out in a place surrounded by temptation, then you are only making your journey to goodness a battle with where you are, significantly when influenced by people who have not joined the path of choosing good like you. Be aware of your circle, which includes family and friends. Be mindful of your surroundings that can cause harm and tempt you to fall. Have you ever heard the saying, “Birds of a feather flock together?”

Write down your wants, who you envision yourself to be, and who God says you are. Now, examine your life and see what needs to be removed and added to get you where you desire to be. Not everyone will be carried to the next season of your life, and not everyone is meant to stay in your life forever. God may have you pick up your life from a toxic location and relocate you somewhere fresh and clean to help you on your new journey. Either way, hear God and re-evaluate your life. Choose good people and surroundings that will influence you to improve and cheer you on in your physical health journey.

9. Stimulate Your Brain

Stimulating your brain through daily exercises can prevent you from getting dementia later in your golden years, lower blood pressure and depression levels, and bring joy in other areas of your life, such as giving yourself the courage to learn something new, like a hobby, and feeling an achievement from your consistency to grow and learn, and gaining a social life with people who can instead come and go in your life with a good memory or stay in your life forever with a good friendship. Either way, when you take care of your mental health by allowing it to also exercise in such ways, then you are taking care of your body in a lot more ways than you can Imagine. If you need help figuring out where to start, try to learn a new hobby, or if you have a hobby, you have started but have yet to have time to do, then manage that time in your schedule to create free time to enjoy that particular hobby.

10. Choose Healthy Hobbies & Activities

We all love our downtime to relax and catch up on the latest episodes of our favorite TV show. We may even be carried away by binge-watching a series, not realizing that time is passing. Then suddenly, you know you did not manage to do anything productive in your day. This is where you have to create self-discipline to limit your free access to TV and any distracting device and get up to do something that serves you and your body and benefits your health, such as creating new hobbies and activities of your liking and choosing.

Hobbies & Activities

Zumba classes
Workout classes
Marathon
5k run
Hiking
Camping
Swimming classes/swimming laps
Cooking classes
Yoga (be mindful of people who use meditations because a lot of meditations used today are not from God and have demonic attachments when you are entertaining it)
Gardening
Fishing
Dancing
Biking
Painting
Martial Arts
Sports (Intramural sports are at local parks or can be found in some communities depending on where you live. If there are not, then this is your chance to make it happen!)
Volunteering for camps or specific community task
Learning to play an instrument
Church work
Bible study
Writing letters to people
Worship
Prayer closet time
Deep cleaning

11. Schedule

Finding time to schedule anything extra for self-care can be challenging for anyone already busy. Still, some things in your schedule can be moved around or subtracted if you prioritize your time correctly. For stay-at-home mothers and teachers, there are so many simple stretches or exercises that you can do throughout your day with your kids and students. Include your kids in a small 15–30-minute workout with simple exercises. Teachers, use your off period (not lunch period) but that block class to do squats on a yoga ball or simple stretching exercises that you feel are making a difference. If you work a job where you are on your feet all day, that counts! But add in some arm rotations or stretches to keep you going. A schedule always conflicts when prioritizing workouts or maintaining physical health. Still, it is manageable through inclusion, including your family with fun challenges or meaningful long evening walks, to including small, easy workouts during your breaks at work; it can all be manageable if you prioritize your time in the day. Even if you start with managing three days out of the week to do something, it still makes a difference to your health.

12. Motivate

In any way, shape, or form that is healthy, motivate yourself. I was told by a friend (who I depended on to be my workout partner and accountability partner), “You cannot rely on me to get you going and consistently work out because I am not always going to be there for you. You need to learn how to want it so bad for yourself that you are co-dependent and manage to get yourself going!” Honestly, that was one of the realest advice I hold on to today because it can be applied in many areas and choices in life.

Find a way to motivate yourself so only you can make yourself go! If you are not ready for that yet, then, of course, make it fun by including friends or family, joining a membership gym or class that you pay monthly (if I knew my money was going towards it, then I would indeed be attending EVERY other day that I can!), or just joining a community with an accountability buddy to help you stay in good health.

13. Think About Your Future

It has been said, “If you cannot do it for yourself, do it for your loved ones. Do it for your kids.” I want to challenge that for a second with you. Try and live a healthy life for yourself. Ultimately, you must be true to yourself and love yourself enough to make a positive change. One that can benefit others is your dedication and Honor to God for what He has given you. After all, if you are granted such a long life here on earth, would you want a healthy body in your golden years or a body that slowly is giving up due to lack of care from your efforts taking care of it today? You can make that choice now!

14. Doctor Check-Up

I cannot ignore this suggestion on the list. Although many people do not believe in going to the doctor, please note that God can also use doctors to help you. When you are proactive in maintaining good health and follow up with yearly check-ups, you can limit the chances of having a late scare of an ongoing disease that has been prolonged, destroying healthy parts of your body without knowledge. If you regularly do your check-ups, you can catch things early and treat them according to your preference rather than through the doctor’s care or God’s help, but you will still have more time compared to out of the blue being rushed to the hospital with a late diagnosis issue. It does not hurt to ensure you are healthy and be proactive in maintaining good health.

In the end, I know it can be challenging to take care of yourself physically when life happens, but please remind yourself that you are still human. While you are keeping everyone else afloat, you need to remember to help yourself as well. Being physical keeps you healthy mentally, and it is your time to take care of yourself so that you can continue to be healthy and alive with your loved ones as long as God has you here.

Remember, your body is a temple that Jesus resides in. Take care of what He has blessed you with so that you can continue to be used to what He has in store for you.

Prayer for you

Father God, I ask, Lord, that you bring wisdom, desires, and peace in this physical health journey over this beautiful child from you. I pray that you will bring encouragement and be the strength and confidence that she needs on the days that seem overwhelming or challenging to continue. Let her know that this journey is not something she is facing alone, but as you reside in her, allow your child to believe that this change that you sparked in her will bring blessings to her as she becomes a good steward over the body that you have blessed her with. Give her excellent health, and when she is taking her journey daily, bring her a heart of gratitude to praise you for every moment and obstacle you allowed her to overcome. Let her praise you when she may not be where she wants to be ultimately, but she is far from where she was when she started. I pray that strongholds are released in your Mighty Name, Jesus and that she will be delivered from any mental or physical health that tries to consume her and bring her down. No weapon formed against her will prosper because you said, God, that nothing can be against her if you are for her. Let her remind herself that not even her thoughts and past can consume her because she is yours and a force to be reckoned with. Your power, glory, and reign are all over her because of your place in the body that you blessed her with. I pray that she remains faithful and committed to the final version of herself that you showed her and how you see her. I pray that she will rejoice and say in heaven that she stayed the course and persevered to maintain good physical health with you. Please, Father, watch over her and her surroundings. Be the light that she runs after, and let her testimony be a testimony that allows her to help your Kingdom children.

May peace and good health be with you and your family. In Jesus name,

Amen.

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

3 John 1:2

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