We live in our body,its what we use to get around so it stands to reason that physical wellness is an important part of overall well being.Physical wellness promotes care of body for optimal health and functioning. That does not mean to be an Olympic athlete for physical wellness.It does not demand super human feats of strengthen or endurance.Physical wellness just means taking care of body so that one can feel good, be healthy and get things done.It encourages a balance of physical activity, nutrition and mental well being.It nurtures personal responsibility for one’s health,healing and energy.
Check in with physical wellness
People have different abilities and needs so physical wellness varies for particular person and circumstances.How can build physical wellness? There are many things we can do, here are some suggestions:
- Practicing intuitive eating and enjoying listen to body what feels right for the body
- staying hydrated properly and avoiding sugary drinks
- proper sleep cycle and consistent schedule
- physical joyful movement on daily bases(walk,exercise)
- Taking care of hygiene to cope with seasonal outbreaks
- mindfulness and giving align to values by minimizing or cut off choices of nicotine, alcohol and drugs
- getting sex intimacy and guidelines around safer level to avoid sexually transmitted infections.
Explore Physical Wellness making good choices
Physical wellness involves being intentional, aware and constantly monitoring our body to take much more steps making good choices when it comes to:
- healthy habits
- healthy diet
- getting active
- healthy weight
- maintaining body organs function(metabolism) & sleep
- managing stress
Healthy Habits
In order to prevent illness conditions mostly diseases can be prevented by understanding our body.The best way to do this is focusing on breathing pattern and focusing on body patterns that what are the triggers in our life that leads to illness in our life, after which we develop some sort of pain or restlessness in our body.What pattern exit that can aggregate symptoms of long term disease?
- maintaining social distance,avoiding unnecessary touches and washing hands and body daily bases prevent germs interact with body.
- while sick,try not to go for outdoor activities and stick to home for better recovery.
- take care of yourself and avoiding contaminated touches or avoiding share utensils of contagious person.
- Being updated about health issues and breakout, how to take preventive measures to overcome.
- Listen to your body and respond appropriately and learn to recognize early signs of illness.
- physical check up on regular bases, share information on symptoms and health, ask for necessary recommendations for care.
- direct interaction of skin to sun, make sure proper protection and skin care has taken.
- to avoid physical injury better steps has taken to protect body for serious injury of bone and muscles.
- Avoid alcohol and reduced caffeine intake.know your limits and stick to them
Healthy diet
A balanced diet is being intentional towards what we eat, going local going fresh are some of the points that we should keep in mind when we eat food,there should also a room for cheat meal that we love and enjoy eating.As life needs to interesting,going on salads and soup whole year will end up as quitting healthy routine being boring.In order to give a balance amount of importance towards healthy diet and sometimes give space to cheat meals, make ensure to send positive energy towards food we eat.
- Eat balance diet having enough proportion of carbohydrates, protein, fat and fiber .
- Give yourself proper time to eat and enjoy the meal, its essence taste and texture.
- To maintain energy level feed the body accordingly three meals a day/two meals with snack in between meals.
- Pay attention to fullness and hunger satisfaction.
- Make sure every organ gets its proper nutrient for the day to function at its best level .
- Muscles and bones get their nutrients i.e vitamin D,calcium and vitamin C for calcium absorption and healthy bone.
- Stay hydrated with water and avoid soda.
Getting active
Movement in body has lots of health benefits,every human body has different level of physical activity requirement.Being self aware we should aware to understand our capacities and reason behind doing physical activities,for some people physical activity is performed to loss weight, for some people to stay healthy and fit and for some to get highest performance.
- First we need to understand what is our why and what are our goals for doing physical activity.
- Movement helps the body muscles and joints to stay active and healthy.
- Physical activities are associated with our internal health, it improves stress and anxiety.
- Getting active not only involves exercising but also dancing, walking, biking, swimming and other activities like playing outdoor activities.
- For muscles health yoga and stretching is best to stop injury in muscles.
Healthy weight
A good way to tell that we are overweight or not is BMI (Body Mass Index) its a measurement of weight and height ,BMI is considered as a stander to calculate healthy weight, which varies for both gender.Level of fitness is very important than weight i.e one who is able to walk without getting shortness of breath, enough energy for the whole day to do routine things is considered healthy person.some key factors about healthy weight are:
- A person who is skinny has healthy weight considered by some people, as it might lower their energy level in daily routine so it is not reliable stander marker.
- Human body shape type and size are determined by their genes,so everyone has different body type, having different energy level to stay active, healthy and comfortable.
- Healthy weight is what keep our body energy level consistent and sustainable on daily bases.
Managing body organs and sleep
- Organs perform its function properly and efficiently when a balanced diet is included in our diet,physical health is associated with healthy organs and their proper working.
- Metabolism is related to physical health as primary source to breakdown and extract energy, gut health is crucial for physical health.
- Sleep cycle and deep sleep maintain body energy level.
- Healthy sleep at different age group is different hours for relief and healing internally.
Managing stress
- At high level of stress our physical, emotional and mental health affect and it give rise to stress level high, negative stress leads to half of all illness, stress affects immune, nervous system, heart health, metabolism and hormones at large scale.Physical activity cope in such a way:
- To reduce stress level as dopamine release when something get done feeling of something achieve,
- Physical activity improve internal health and resolve issue regarding stress.
- Stress affects in different aspects of life like academic, social, personal and intimate relationships, physical health helps to manage energy level and give it a right direction for healthy life.
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