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Introspective Musings helps confused young adults craft a well-rounded lifestyle for a memorable life by delving into three core pillars of health, human psychology, and sense of self.
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The Link Between Mental and Physical Health
For quite some time, we've thought that mental and physical health live in their own two separate worlds. Recently, we've come to realize that there's a link between mental and physical health, so what exactly explains this link and how can we take advantage of it? By looking into research studies and common practices, we can develop positive relationships with our mental and physical health!
Small Steps to a Healthier You
Are you struggling to stick to a new, healthier lifestyle? After a couple of days, do you find yourself back at square one after trying a brand new diet and workout plan? Let's change things up and start with small steps first. By implementing small, effortless swaps into your existing daily lifestyle, you can better incorporate and sustainably maintain healthier habits - let's find out how today!
F.I.T.T Principle for Exercise
Are you struggling to start an exercise program or hitting a plateau with your current workout routine? How can we most effectively plan for and reach our fitness goals? Look no further than the F.I.T.T principle. This four part principle looks to tweak the frequency, intensity, time, and type of exercise components to your exercise routine to best tailor it to your fitness level and goals!
Healthy Eating for Healthy Aging
How can we eat healthy to age more healthily? Looking at the benefits of healthy, nutritional food choices on our heart health, blood cholesterol levels, and predisposition to other chronic diseases, we can see how instrumental a healthy eating lifestyle plays in our aging experience. Let's learn some nutritional tips and strategies to help you continue to live a healthy life as we all get older!
The Science Behind Addiction
In a society that loves living life on the edges of wonder and the extremes, we live amongst many that fall prone to addictions. Not all addictions are inherently bad, as commonly thought of, but addiction is often hard to break free from. Why is that the case? Let's take a deeper look into the science behind addiction to gain clarity on how addiction is created and functions to help us avoid it!
Maintaining a Healthy Back
Our back health often is overlooked as the years go by, leading to the development of chronic back pain. What if you could maintain a healthy back throughout your lifetime through just a few, quick and easy adjustments to your lifestyle? By learning about stress, ergonomics, posture, and more, we can help you finally feel great in your back. Learn these tips and strategies to have your own back!
Tips for Your Self Care
How does one self care exactly? The internet and world at large have shared a multitude of self care activities to bring balance and wellness into your life, but do those activities always work for you? Is there such thing a perfect self care routine? No, self care should be a personalized, self discovery journey that is tailored to your life. Learn some tips for your self care discovery process.
Hydrotherapy for Physical Longevity
Have you tried icing, stretching, massaging, etc. to recover from physical pain but still felt like your body isn't right? Water is here to rescue you in hydrotherapy! Hydrotherapy is a water-based therapeutic technique that can help you relieve physical ailments from physical exercise or any other natural chronic pain. Learn more about how hydrotherapy may have been the missing link for you now!
Setting SMART Health Goals
We all love setting health goals at the turn of the year, but have you set yourself up for success? Many of us define vague health goals, only to be left disappointed as the year progresses. Not this year though! This year, let's aim to be more precise and focused with your health goals by adopting the SMART goals methodology. It's time to finally get SMART with your health and nutrition goals!
Reflecting on the Year 2020
Wow.. what a year 2020 has turned out to be. It has definitely been a year unlike any other in the last couple of decades. From the pandemic to social unrest, 2020 proved to be one of the most unpredictable and eye-opening years of our livelihoods. We've all had so much time to reflect inwardly and externally with the large amount of time sheltered in place. Let's reflect back on the year of 2020.
Journaling for Health and Wellness
Journaling is a practice that has been transformative in people's lives in order to manage their emotional, physical, and psychological health and general well-being. In the midst of life, we often find meaning from moment to moment but cannot link them together to see the patterns in life. Learn how journaling can finally help you identify those patterns to for a life of health and wellness now!
Creating a Healthier Home for You
Have you ever wondered why you feel sluggish and uninspired at home? Our homes are meant to be comfortable, beautiful, and healthy spaces we inhabit that breathes energy in life. The way you design your home, from your bedroom to the kitchen, should functionally serve your health and wellbeing on a daily basis. How can you do that? Well, come learn some tips to create a healthier home for you now!
Are Short Workouts Better?
Have you lost motivation to get in an hour workout? The fitness industry has raved about HIIT and circuit training that only takes about half the time of your normal workout. Are shorter workouts effective and even better than longer workouts? Come learn about the differences between short and long workouts and how your mental psyche and personal motivation affect which duration is best for you!
Developing a Flexible Body
Being flexible yields numerous benefits when it comes to performing physical exercise and preventing injuries. However, not everyone is naturally flexible. Learning to develop a flexible body is something that can pay huge dividends to your physical health and well being for the long run. Come learn from my own personal experience with flexibility and a couple of stretches that can help you out!
My Muse Mondays
Muse Mondays is a practice I follow every Monday night and have been doing for the past couple of years. What's Muse Mondays you ask? I delve into the background of Muse Mondays, the origin, and the practice in of itself that has helped me grow and learn more about myself and humanity as a whole. At its core, Muse Mondays is all about being inspired from others and providing inspiration as well.
Listen to Your Body
How often is it that we push through the heartache and physical pain in life? Our bodies constantly send us messages that we need to take a break or look after ourselves better, but we tend to always ignore them. Why is that? By listening to our bodies, we'll be able to establish a more well-rounded, healthier lifestyle and achieve the longevity that all of us desire. Let's listen to our bodies!
Meditate the Day Away
Meditation has tremendous benefits to drastically improve your life. Have your relationships to self, health, friends and family, and professional colleagues been deteriorating lately? In a life running at 100 mph given the times, meditation can be that anchor point that your life desperately needs. Learn about the numerous benefits that meditation can provide to reinvigorate and enrich your life.
Motivation to Live Healthy
Constantly living a healthy lifestyle can be taxing and lead us to periods of laziness and lack of motivation. How do people stick with a healthy mindset and routines all the time? Motivating yourself to be healthy and live a long, healthy life is difficult indeed, but it is doable. Come learn some tips to help motivate yourself to start living a healthy life today and for the rest of your life!
Finally No Pressure
Logic's retirement album, No Pressure, leaves an indelible mark on its listeners with its messages. No longer under pressure from the industry life of a hip hop rapper, Logic opens up our minds yet again to what truly matters in life and how to set your own priorities. Come learn how to Logically grasp onto your own sense of self and priorities in order to gain a No Pressure sense of clarity!
Functional Fitness
The fitness industry prides itself on getting a lean, chiseled look, but does that truly benefit the most basic aspects of your life? Functional fitness is a type of training focused on working on multiple joints and muscles to mimic your everyday activities, such as sitting down. Come learn how to train to enhance a better quality of life for your common daily tasks with functional training!
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