Health isn’t just about your diet, it isn’t even just about diet and exercise, it’s about anything and everything you do in your day to day life, it’s about how you interact with people, how you deal with problems, how you handle stress, etc. All of these things impact your health.

The medical community has come up with all sorts of drugs to help with all sorts of day to day issues. There are drugs for depression, drugs for sleepiness, drugs for lack of sleepiness, drugs for the overly stressed, etc. In other words, in the estimation of the medical community, there is a chemical based drug for every possible scenario a person could face. But is this the healthy solution?

When your scared, your body defense system fills you with adrenaline making you more quickly able to respond with the flight or fight instinct you are born with. So when your alarm goes off in the morning, startling you awake, the first thing that happens is your body is filled with adrenaline and you begin your day with an already stressed biological system. Try setting your alarm earlier and have it go on with music. There are alarms that get progressively louder as they play, this would be infinitely more desirable, as they wake you slowly and without stress. When you get up, open your window or at least your curtains or shades. Sunlight is good for the body and soul when you first wake up, it pushes you even more towards a fully awake state.

Once you’re awake, try taking a walk, maybe around your back yard, or if you are dressed take a walk around the block, get your blood moving and warm your body up before you start your day. This also reduces the shock your body suffers when going from the sleep state to fully awake and out the door.

Once you’re up and moving and your blood is flowing, have a good sensible breakfast, try to get some of your fruit requirements in on your morning meal, have some eggs, etc. Don’t overstuff yourself, eat slow so your body knows how full it is. Stop eating when you’re not hungry, don’t eat until your stomach is totally full. This will make you lethargic and ready to go back to bed.

Once your at work, you can relieve the stress on both your body and your mind by getting up and moving around a bit, look out a window, go outside for a break, at least change positions in your chair. Your body isn’t meant to stay in the same position for hours on end. To do so stresses it and to do it daily will eventually cause health problems. Going outside is great for releasing stress. Being in the sun and the fresh air, taking deep breaths and walking a bit will reset your body, make you feel refreshed and better able to deal with the stresses of the rest of the day.

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