How You Feel About Your Body Is Important

Fitness includes so much more than weight loss or workouts. Being a healthy person involves discipline for each day, creates awareness, and instills conscious living. It means being mindful of how you feel about your body and how you treat your body. 

Health Starts in Your Mind

Fitness is a lifestyle that goes way beyond the physical. Living this way starts in your mind and motivates you to live a quality life.

It involves daily choices for becoming a healthy person. When health remains the focus, you are being mindful of treating your body with the utmost care.    

The Problem

What often happens is feeling overwhelmed with trying to be perfect. And this morphs into frustration, insecurities, and not treating our body with the love it deserves.

We can put so much pressure on ourselves to reach a certain weight or squeeze into skinny jeans that we lose sight of how being fit is supposed to feel. A healthy body should feel good but instead many of us accept that fitness is an uncomfortable burden.

And we often accommodate pain from unnecessary extreme workouts on a daily basis. Instead of listening to what is best for our body, we accept exercise methods not appropriate for our fitness levels, medical issues, or not enjoyable mentally.

The pressure to reach unrealistic body goals too quickly has derailed what health should really include for each person. The focus isn't on health but on a temporary goal based on outward appearance.

Healthy lifestyles are meant to be enjoyed for a lifetime, not just for a few months.

Mindful Fitness

A fit lifestyle includes regular exercise that is effective and enjoyable. It doesn't have to be extreme but challenging enough to maintain a healthy body. It also means being mindful of nutrition and eating foods containing a high nutrient value. Consuming nutritious foods will help you feel energized and their antioxidants provide numerous health benefits including protection from illness and disease.

Rest is also important to maintain a healthy body. Without adequate sleep, your body will not be able to recover from the demands placed on it through workouts, stress, and the overall daily grind. Being mindful of your sleep habits will help improve your health and fitness.

A healthy life also requires a balance of work and play. We often lose sight of our inner child replacing it with the busy demands of adulthood. Staying young at heart helps reduce your stress and enables you to enjoy life more. Having a mindful balance of work and play creates a positive, happy mindset that looks forward to shutting down to recharge the mental batteries.

Health and Happiness

The reality is you can enjoy life and live a healthy lifestyle at the same time. This is accomplished by making health a priority and being consistent with your choices. Being fit doesn't mean slaving for hours in the gym and eating boiled fish and broccoli at every meal. This is far from what living a healthy lifestyle looks like.

When the focus is on health and improving the quality of your life, becoming fit happens naturally along the way. This also allows you to let go of the stress of unrealistic fitness goals and quick fixes. The pressure to look a certain way loses its importance as you concentrate more on how good being healthy feels.

Your awareness of the importance of being a healthy person becomes primary in more ways than physical. You are mindful of eating right, exercising your body, and think positive about yourself. Applying this healthy attitude and lifestyle creates the body you want in the way it should happen.

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