15 Minutes Of Walking On A Daily Basis 

Can Change Your Body Drastically

Many people are well aware of the many advantages and incredible effects of regular exercise on our physical and mental wellbeing, but quite often they simply lack time to go to the local gym and practice.

Then you really no longer have excuses, however, as a recent study has shown that an everyday 15-minute walk can actually help you reap the beneficial effects! This habit, in general, can add seven years to your life and improve your health in numerous ways. 

Professor of inherited cardiac diseases in sport cardiology at St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, Sanjay Sharma suggests: 

“We might never avoid being totally old, but the time we become old may be delayed. When we’re 70, we might look younger and actually live in our nineties. Workout actually gives you an extra 3 to 7 years of life.”

These are some of the advantages of daily walking: 

1. Reduces the risk of diabetes

Harvard nurses have proven that a daily 30-minute walk can reduce the risk of diabetes. It can also reduce the risk of fat accumulation on the stomach.

2. It can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease

At the University of Virginia, researchers in the health care system found that men who go 1/4 kilometres a day had lower chances of Alzheimer’s disease than those who did not walk.

3. It can reduce the risk of high blood pressure

Researchers have proven that daily walking can reduce the risk of high blood pressure.

4. Helps with digestion

Famous physiotherapist Tara Aleichem in America has confirmed that walking can improve the work of the stomach

5.Increases mobility and reduces pain

Daily hiking can improve mobility in people with PAP. Recently, the American Heart Association has shown this with their published article.

6. By walking to healthy bones

Regular exercise strengthens the bones, increase their density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis.

7. It Can improve cognitive performance

Recent studies have shown that a regular walk increases cognitive performance in adults and children.

8. It leads to a long life

It also reduces the risk of mortality, we know that numerous studies have proven this.

9. It Can improve mood

That showed us the study from 2016, with at least 20 minutes of hiking can increase self-confidence. And it can also reduce the feelings of hostility and anger.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! 

Take a walk for 15 minutes and you're well on the way to becoming your best you!

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DAYDREAMING IS GOOD FOR YOU!

Here's one expert's view on it:

Many years ago, I read a book that talked about psychic ability being linked to imagination and daydreaming. When I came across those words I thought that this would probably eliminate me as a candidate because I have always been a very focused person.

Give me something that consumes my interest, and everything else is swept aside. I remember once sitting in my kitchen and doing a layout for a flyer that I was designing and I had a frozen pizza in the microwave. Instead of setting the timer at 3 minutes and 50 seconds, I had set it at 35 minutes.

I never saw the black smoke curling around the kitchen or enveloping me. All I saw was the layout of the flyer I was designing. That was focus. It left no room for daydreaming.

What I came to discover in later years, after my kitchen almost burned to the ground, was that in my own way, I was daydreaming and using my creativity on the flyer at the same time that I was so focused on the layout.

I had never thought of myself as being a daydreamer because so much of my life is reality-based, living in the real world, living in the moment.

It was only in later years that I realized that people can daydream when they are not concentrating hard on getting an answer, and in that daydream state, can come up with solutions to just about any problem. They can also come up with the kind of thinking that is described as thinking outside the box.

So what does this tell us about the way we educate our children? To my way of thinking, there should be certain times of the day that children are encouraged to think about how to solve problems, the daydreaming phase, and the rest of the time to try to solve the problems they were working on.

Some of our best ideas come to us in dreams or as we’re waking up from a nap or from a night’s sleep. Kubla Khan, a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is a perfect example of that. Upon waking up from an opium influenced dream, he set about writing the famous poem that came to him from his dream.

We might never be talented enough to write about Coleridge’s Xanadu, but we all have the ability to tap into the creativity of our daydreams.

- Author : Connie H. Deutsch   

Connie H. Deutsch is an internationally known business consultant and personal advisor who has a keen understanding of human nature and is a natural problem-solver. She has counseled people who have OCD for more than 40 years, Connie is the author of the books, “Round and Round Goes the Merry-Go-Round: Drugless Therapy for OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)” “Whispers of the Soul,” “A Slice of Life,” “Whispers of the Soul for the Rest of Your Life,” “From Where Im Sitting,” “Are You Listening?,” “View from the Sidelines,” “Reaching for the Brass Ring of Life,” “Purple Days and Starry Nights,” “Here and There,” “And Thats How it Goes,” and “The Counseling Effect.” Her website: http://www.conniehdeutsch.com/

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Do you ever day dream? 

Why not give yourself permission to stand and stare for a few moments today?

Leisure by William Henry Davies

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. I've been reading some books which are full of day dreaming:  They are about men in the Dark Ages dreaming of building vast cathedrals, and the women who love those men and dream of their loves together. Or others who plan on destroying those dreams. The books are a trilogy by Ken Follett, beginning in the early 12th Century in England, and going on to the 14th Century and concluding in the 16th Century. They are a huge saga of what life was like in England centuries ago. Written with passion and style, and a huge knowledge of what historical England was like, these books draw you in and I've found myself daydreaming about the stories! You can lose yourself in this fabulous saga. Click on the links to get the books.

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Becoming Your Best You

LOCK DOWN: limited exercise allowed! 

Yet even 15 minutes of walking a day can help in every area of SPICE. 

Where are YOU walking? 

Some of us have country roads and fields to roam; others are walking round and round their gardens (thank you, Captain Tom!) or just round and round their living room.

Wherever and whenever you can, just WALK.

Be like Captain Tom Moore! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/coronavirus-capt-tom-moore-raises-12m-nhs-completes-garden-walk

Walk more -  or moore!

LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE 

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of reading and watching a lot of videos on setting goals and forming good habits. It must be something to do with being in lockdown that makes me look backwards AND forwards with the dawning realisation that as we get older we don't want to waste time! There's a world of opportunities and although I can't do them all, I can have fun, achieve things, create, inspire, motivate - myself as well as others. 

There’s a lot of talk on these podcasts and in these books about ‘living your best life’. There are really helpful guidelines and quotes to help people live life to the full in whatever circumstances they find themselves. One speaker talks about her top tips for habits that build healthy minds: 

• Keep a journal of things you’re grateful for – a regular practice of 3- 5 things each day. Some are simple, some are special, some are routine. Each day I list different things, from the aroma of fresh coffee to a beautiful sunset to a long hug with a loved one. Or an email from a friend, the wisteria on a neighbour's house .....
• Sleep and the importance of rest. She recommended at least 7 hours a night; and in lockdown for those of us at home, that's easier than ever. I find I am going to bed early, reading and then sleeping long and hard. And gifting myself half an hour (or an hour) after lunch each day to sit and read. It feels very indulgent! Or a bath in the middle of the day. Rest is different things for different people. 
•  Having a day every week where you don’t do any work, where you rest and do things that will recharge   you. For me that's Sunday, a day to potter, avoid technology, eat at leisure ...
• Spend time each day, preferably in the morning, in meditation and prayer. Being mindful, using mindfulness.
• At the end of each day go over the events, conversations, and emotions of the day and leave them behind as you go to sleep. I visualise putting them into a balloon, blowing it up and letting drift away taking all the negative stuff with it. 
• Challenge thoughts as they come into your mind, and reject those that aren’t true. I'm having to work quite hard on this one!

What gives your life SPICE?

Spiritual

Physical

    Intellectual

Creative

   Emotional