Exercising Mind and Body for Happiness

Everyone knows exercising is good for the body! But did you know exercising and making healthy food choices actually boosts your mind and spirit too? As a personal healer, I fully understand the connection between staying active physically, making healthy food choices, and personal well-being.  I also counsel others in the importance of maintaining an active workout program to support mind-body awareness and personal growth.

It’s a proven scientific fact endorphins are released during exercise which generate strong feelings of happiness. In my workshops, I take this fact further into offering simple affirmations and mental exercises people can do to augment their physical exercise and feel even more joyful.  

Make the time

Okay, you say, (deep sigh here), “I don’t have time to exercise! I’m a busy mom with kids in school and a business to run! There’s just no more time left in the day to exercise!” As a wife and mom of three who is self-employed and very busy, I hear you! However, taking the time to exercise will actually give you MORE energy to manage everything you have to do in your life. Trust me, it has in my life!

Prevent illness

Exercise is also wonderful for preventative health. It releases toxins which build up in our bodies from chemicals in the food we eat and pollutants in the air we breathe. Plus making healthy food choices lessens the amount of toxins which enter our bodies in the first place.

In my book, Inner Critic Got your Tongue? Proven & Sustainable Tools for Get’n Back to THANKFUL, I show how making healthy food choices, being aware of your body, and exercising can assist in preventing headaches, backaches, stomach ailments, and a host of other physical problems. When you make the right food choices and regularly exercise, you’re more energetic, less stressed, and more able to face life’s challenges.  

Choose to stay healthy

Being active in the out-of-doors is a spectacular way to get exercise in the Pacific Northwest. We live in a wonderland of opportunities to get out in nature. Unfortunately, as many of us know, the weather doesn’t always cooperate with our best laid plans to exercise outside! Since it rains nearly half the year, finding a way to exercise indoors is a necessity.

For those of us with busy lives who don’t have set schedules when we can go to a gym, owning home exercise equipment is an excellent, easily accessible way to maintain an exercise program during those rainy months - and the best part?  We can do it in the comfort of our own homes.

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Sue Lundquist, President and Founder of I’m Thankful, LLC, Healing Practitioner, and Founder of the award-winning radio network I’m Thankful has spent over 20 years focusing on the benefits of Exercise, Nutrition, and Health.

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