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12 Week Fitlife Journey8 Steps to Great Health!

Week TWO

+What are the ‘8 Steps’ to Great

Health?

+Food Food Glorious Food

Real (Alive)

Fresh (Ripe)

Pesticide/artificial/preservative FREE (Clean)

Hydrating (Good water content)

Fibrous (Naturally)

In Season (Where possible)

Colourful (Colour when Ripe)

What man has touched man has….. really stuffed up!

+Food Food Glorious Food

and the River of Life/Death Are you aware that what you swallow contributes to every part of your

body and how it functions in the future?

Nutrient rich Real foods are giving vitality and LIFE to our body while nutrient deficient foods lead you to your own poisonous slow death

We don’t get sick after eating one dirty triple cheese burger. We get sick by eating MANY dirty triple cheese burgers among other dirty foods over time (moderation)

Got worms? Parasites that live in plant foods can’t live in flesh. In the same respect, the parasites and worms that live in flesh cannot live in plants

Seeing food for what it truly is. Not all sugar/fat/calorie/carbohydrate is equal and neither do they ALL contribute to the River of LIFE. Though unfortunately for us we are led to believe they do… It is up to us to look at food using our innate intelligence to filter out the CRAP

“Something dead cannot give you life, it is dead, it has no life to give” – Jesus to the Essene’s

+Food Food Glorious Foodand Supplements/Drugs

Supplements are incomplete and for the most part void of anything the body will recognise and be able to utilise.

Compounds found in whole foods that help heal the body are best kept in it’s WHOLE state with all the other nutrients found in that whole food. Eating whole foods is far more enjoyable than a handful of pills!

Example: Beta-carotene is one of natures ‘Wonder Drugs’ but is not at all effective on it’s own (Pill form) It has at least 500 sibling collectively known as carotenoids. Supplements have no way of supplying you with EVERY nutrient needed for it’s main ingredient to be effective. Nor could they be more nutrient packed than any one whole food.

Taking supplements and pills and complaining that you are still unhealthy and sick is like giving someone the keys to your car and blaming them for running it dry of petrol and oil and then eventually crashing it.

Whole foods heal and cleanse your house (Body) If you have a lot of rubbish in your house you take the rubbish out. Whole foods do the same thing.

Cleaning you house and taking out the trash is not always a fun job. Ask anyone! But when the job is done the house is in a better state.

“Feeding your body whole food goodness is like cleaning your house. No body likes to live in a dirty house”

+Exercise helps you look good,

feel good and play good! Of all the lacks and poverty in this world today the

poverty of physical health has to rate the worst of them.

Throughout our quest to riches or spiritual fulfillment (or both) we often forget how our physical health determines the state in which we can handle and accept abundance.

Movement is medicine. … Want to change how you feel Mentally, Emotionally, and even Physically? Do something physical –Walking, Dancing, Running, Yoga, Weights, Stretching, Boxing, Mobility, Play!

Physical wellbeing is something to be built, like a fortress.

“There are no riches greater than a sound body”

+Exercise and YOU!

Walking is great for the soul! It is also good for the body as it helps flush out the toxins. You can talk while walking, often solving the worlds problems (Ok YOUR worlds problems)

You have to ENJOY the activity for it to be beneficial to you.

Understand what your body is capable of doing to get the best starting point.

Cardio = Lung and heart health

Weights = Muscle and bone health

Yoga/Body Balance/Stretching = Mind body and Soul health

Play/Skill = Proprioception and agility

“Mens sana in corpore sano – Heathy Mind Healthy Body”

+Breath in... Breath out… Feel’s good doesn’t it? The breath of life is the power of animation.

Without it we have no life.

The lungs help filter our blood so the cleaner the air the cleaner the blood becomes.

Where we live has bearing on how much polluted air we will take in but HOW we chose to live determines whether we let it affect us even more than those out in the fresh country air.

Steps to making the most of the air you breath: 1. Have real green plants in your house. 2. Open you windows and doors often. 3. Don’t use artificial heating or cooling systems. 4. Get rid of all toxins like cigarettes, hair sprays, deodorants, bleach, bug sprays, spray cleaners, perfumes. 5. Air out new furniture where possible.

“What one has to do usually can be done”

+1 sheep, 2 sheep, 3 sheep 4…

Zzzz. Sleep (not sheep hehe) is one of the most underrated powers of the universe

Sleep is a heightened anabolic state, accentuating the growth and the rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal and muscular system.

Approximation of required sleep for humans:

Age and condition Sleep Needs

Newborns (0-2 months) 12 to 18 hours

Infants (3-11 months) 14 to 15 hours

Toddlers (1-3 years) 12 to 14 hours

Preschoolers (3-5 years) 11 to 13 hours

School-age children (5-10 years)

10 to 11 hours

Adolescent (10-17 years)

8.5 to 9.25 hours

+You are getting sleeepyyy….

Sleep = rejuvenation NOT lazy! Unless off course you have not been productive at all and don’t have any desire to be so..

Sleep has a way of making everything ok.

Not everyone gets to enjoy sleep and there are a few reasons for this: Anxiety, inapproprite use of medications, physical conditions such as sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome, poor diet and lack of exercise to just name a few.

There are 3 areas of sleep that we can have trouble in: Trouble falling asleep, Failure to sleep right through the night and waking up earlier than usual.

Prevention: Avoid drinking caffeinated drinks or eating heavy foods before bed, (even as early as 5 hours prior to your sleep time) Stay hydrated! Go to sleep without technology or without reading a book. Do calming exercises every day ie Yoga/Body Balance/Tai Chi/Sex promotes sleep.

Lettuce and celery Juice helps Insomnia, sleeplessness. This is interesting as it is a great combination of water and sodium. Thus showing that lack of sleep could be caused by dehydration.

+Respect, support, and love all

make the world go round

How you experience your world is determined by 3 factors. 1. Respect 2. Support 3. Love. They are what YOU need to have for yourself and what you need to have for and from those around you.

A Healthy relationship with yourself is first and foremost the most important. Second is the relationship you have to your loved ones. Everything else comes after that! (For some GOD is above ALL)

Put YOUR mask on first and you are then capable of helping others…

+Shine bright IN the sun

The sun is another vital substance for human life. Without it we are susceptible to many different dis-eases.

Contrary to popular belief, the suns rays hitting our skin is actually saving us from all the dis-eases they say it causes.

The sun is not the issue, the stuff that blocks the sun from kissing our skin is!

The sun helps us to create Vitamin D which in turn helps us have less risk of Breast or Prostate cancers and Osteoporosis.

Eat raw foods and benefit from the bodies ability to work with the sun and create Vitamin D, protect you from cancer causing properties and protect you from causing sun burnt skin.

“Dark skin was an adaptation for those who lived closer to the equator” - FDR

+Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink!

+Everything you do today you do for…..?

Our PURPOSE helps drive us through life.

Our PURPOSE gives us meaning to our lives.

“Men die for it, kids cry for it……..??”

+WEEK TWO: 8th Sept – 14th Sept

2013

Have Day 8 to Day 14 completed of the 30 Day Health and Body Blitz

Post on your OWN Thread what you have been adopting with regards to these ‘8 Steps to Great Health’

Ie. Share daily: Total hours of sleep. Type of exercise/movement. Daily food intake and attitude adopted. Total hours in the sun. Total hours outside breathing fresh air. Experiences with other people and with self. Total amount of fresh water. Time spent on ‘purpose’

Continue to share pic’s on Instagram with the tags #liveafitlife and #12weekfitlifejourney