3 Simple Healthy Habits to Keep you Illness-Free
Fall is here and you may have thought about the upcoming cold and flu season. You know you want to find ways to keep you and your family free from sickness this season, but you aren’t sure where start. You may know that changing your diet and exercise routine are part of that. After that, you may be drawing a blank. There are some daily healthy habits you can start doing to keep you and your family illness-free. Here are a few of the habits that you may not have already considered, may not even think about, or may not think you can apply to your life.
Prayer/Meditation
You may think that prayer or meditation sounds odd for a daily habit that reduces illness. The truth is, prayer/meditation can have a direct connection to your overall health. Meditation, which can be done in many forms, helps your body to slow down. It helps you to focus on root issues and find ways to handle those issues so they don't get out of hand. It allows you to calm down from daily issues such as problems with your children, work, or just things that are upsetting you. It is a time to reflect and to focus on your overall emotional health.
When you don't deal with these emotional and mental issues, it can cause your body to become tense and stressed. These tension and stress can increase your blood pressure, cause headaches, and lead to your immune system breaking down. Simple daily meditation habits can help reduce that and increase an illness-free lifestyle.
Journaling
You may hear the word journaling and immediately cringe. It does bring to mind to the idea of daily journal entries that are tedious. The truth is, you can journal in a number of ways, including video journaling. The reason journaling works is that it helps keep illness at bay is because of the elimination part of journaling. It allows you to eliminate or get out the things that are troubling you and by doing that it has a direct connection to stress levels and can reveal stress inducing instances and people to you that you may not think of as an issue.
For example, if you are feeling anxiety and you have worked through the normal checklist of suspects, journaling can help you narrow down the others. By working through a journaling process on a daily process, you will find yourself able to rant, able to release stress, and able to figure out what may be causing undue stress so you can remove it. The reduced stress means a calmer body and mind, which means your body works at a more efficient level and your immune system is healthy and able to fight off illness.
Hydration
You may have a great meditation, journaling, workout routine, and diet routine. You may think that you have it all figured out, but if you are still getting sick, you may be missing the biggest link to reducing that illness. If your hydration is off, you could be causing stress within your body and organ system. Your body needs water to work properly, and juicing does not cover it. If you have everything else covered and you are still getting ill, try to increase your water intake. You can do this with several methods, including gallon jug marking and apps that are designed to remind you to drink water.
By applying these habits to your daily routine, you will start to notice that your immune system seems to be stronger and you seem to get sick much less. Keep in mind that a lot of the healthy habits you take on have nothing to do with eating or supplements and more to do with keeping your mind and emotions as healthy as everything else.