Joyful Living
Joyful Living
Joyful Living
By Susan Smith Jones, PhD
Excerpts from: Joyful Living: 8 Tips to Create More Joy and Less Stress
Tip #1: Nourish Your Body
Take time to nourish your body and soul with a balanced diet of wholesome natural foods. Choose from a broad range of colorful foods as near to the way nature made them as possible. Vary your diet daily, and try for at least 50 to 60 percent fresh, raw foods... Go organic, whenever you can...
Tip #2: Maintain Your Hydration
Take at least 8 glasses of drinking water daily. Absence of moisture in faces allows fine lines and wrinkles the way absence of moisture in plums produces prunes. Usually when you think that you are hungry, you are really only thirsty. Drinking a large glass of drinking water on an empty stomach 15 to 20 minutes before a meal is an inexpensive, effective appetite suppressant. Drinking ample drinking water is essential to lubricate your joints, feed your cells, and keep your pores and skinwhich constantly loses moisture to the environmentclear, soft, and youthful. It also increases energy, helps detoxify your body, promotes very deep sleep, and keeps your mind focused and performing optimumly. Put simply, pure drinking water fosters vitality.
Tip #3: Eat Consciously
Eat only as much as essential and not much after nightfallwithin 2 to 3 hours before sleep. If you eat too much prior to bedtime, it interferes with getting restful, very deep sleep. Eat a rainbow of colors of foods every day and always start off your meals with a few bites of a raw food because this practice enhances digestion. Eat slowly. Chew your foods thoroughly. Graze on smaller meals more often all through the day every 4 hours as this increases metabolism, stabilizes blood glucose, and assists decrease cholesterol and harmful patterns of overeating...
Tip #4: Exercise Routinely
Perform physical exercise routinely and work toward a balance of strengthening, stretching, and aerobic activities. Make your exerciseplan a top priority in your lifestyle, a non-negotiable activity, and remain dedicated to it! There is absolutely nothing which will profit you more in terms of becoming happy, disease-free, vibrantly youthful, and energetic than a regular fitness program. Whenever you can, exercise outdoors in a natural, attractive environment...
Tip #5: Sleep Well
Sleepwellat least 7-8 hours nightly. Almost nothing is more restorative for the body than ample sleepnight after night after night. Consistent absence of sleep leads to a lot of health complications, such as fine lines and wrinkles, melancholy, accelerated aging, low or no libido, toxic buildup, irritability and impatience, memory loss, lethargy, relationship problems, and accidents...Wear natural fiber PJ's and sleep in natural fiber bedding; raise the room's oxygen with a couple of live house plants; let some fresh air in; keep the bedroom cool, dark, and quiet; simplify your bedroom environment; pick out wall shades which are restful; avoid viewing bedtime TV news; and make your bedroom an exquisite, tranquil sanctuary for dreaming BIG...
Tip #6: Communicate
Communicate both your thoughts and your feelings clearly with your co-workers, close friends, and loved ones. Bear in mind that we all wish the same thing respect, kindness, appreciation, validation, and love. Hold the golden rule as your default place in life and treat other people the way you prefer to be treated. Every little thing which happens in your life brings value; it just depends on your attitude regarding everything. Not one drop of your self-worth depends on other people's approval of you...
Tip #7: Hold a Positive Attitude
Lift your attitude UP and see the very best in all people and everything. If you are facing a challenge, take care of it with vigor and poise and, at the same time, discover opportunities to laugh and smile often. Each of these healthful actions firm your facial muscle tissue and decrease stress. Laughter is life's elixir and our soul's smile. Cultivate a happy attitude of gratitude. As my grandmother, Fritzie, used to say to me, "Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color anything."... You are in control of your ideas moment-to-moment. Whatever you are encountering right nowno matter howhard your trek may bethe perfect solution is within you now. If you live with more trust, faith will find you and light your path.
Tip #8: Love Yourself
Love yourself and practice forgiveness as you try to manifest the life of your dreams... Once you become your own very best friend, you will sense a strong tranquility permeate your heart and life. To develop an empowered presence, invite joy, love, and tranquility into your life. What better proof of spiritual power could we possess than a tranquil mind and a happy, loving heart? Work for high self-esteem and healthy and balanced self-boundaries... Forgive yourself and others and glance beyond appearances to the beautiful spiritual essence lying beneath all existence. Say YES to living your highest vision. Understand that you deserve the very bestlife's richest blessings. Celebrate yourself and life!
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