Seven Tips to Live a Long and Healthy Life
To live a long and healthy life here are seven tips. In
addition, the same life style that helps you to avoid illness also helps you to
lose weight.
1. Get Enough Exercise
In the past people had to use their physical bodies in the
course of their normal work. But today someone may get up, go to work in a car,
then sit down, get up to go home in the car and when arriving at home, sit down
again for the rest of the day. In such a life there is no physical labor. This
physical inactivity is one of the main reasons for a host of diseases. Sport,
running. walking and other things must be added to our life if our normal work
does not require us to exert ourselves physically. I
2. Go to sleep when you feel sleepy
This may sound simple, but many people stay up late even
when their body is telling them that it is time to sleep. Yoga and Ayurvedic
doctors also say that it is better to sleep in the night and be active during
the day. However, people such as students will take coffee and stimulants to
study late into the night. Others develop the habit of remaining active at
night and sleeping during the day. While we can do this, it eventually takes a
toll on health. Alternative health doctors say that this kind of unnatural
living is one of the contributing factors in the causation of cancer and other
diseases
3. Eat when you feel hungry
This is also a simple idea, but once again we often go
against the messages of the body. If you eat out of habit or due to social
pressure at certain time of the day, even when you have no real appetite, then
you will not digest your food properly. Acidity and indigestion begin, and this
contributes to the likelihood of other more complex diseases taking root.
Having an appetite is actually a sign of good health, but if you have no
appetite you should wait a bit and then eat. (If you have no appetite even
after awaiting a reasonable amount of time, then you should consult a doctor
because something is wrong.)
4.Fast on a Regular, Systematic Basis
If you would ask any person to work 365 days per year
without any rest, they would complain and say that they must have some rest or
else they will break down. But we have never bothered to ask or to think about
our digestive organs which we compel to work day after day without a rest. They
cannot protest the way a person would to his boss, but they do give us signals
that they cannot work non-stop. When we ignore those signals and still compel
them to work, those organs break down. That is why periodic fasting is
necessary. Refrain from eating for one complete day. This gives a rest to your
digestive organs and also helps in the elimination of wastes from your body.
Regular fasting allows a person to gain extra time for intellectual or
spiritual pursuits. Fasting is not for hermits in a cave, but is a sensible
practice that anyone can practice.
5. Wash with cool water before going to bed
As mentioned above, proper sleep is essential for the
maintenance of health. If you wash your important motor and sensory organs
(hands, arms, eyes, legs, mouth, genitals) before sleep using cool water, this
will relax you and prepare you for deep sleep.
6. Perform meditation on a regular basis
Your body is linked to your mind. Many of the diseases of
this era are psychosomatic. Stress and anxiety take their toll on our physical
health. Meditation is a mental exercise which, among other things, allows you
to detach yourself from the worries of life. Learn a simple technique and do it
regularly.
7. Get up early every day
Once again the old proverb, “Early to bed, early to rise
makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.” I don’t know if it will make you
wealthy, but it will certainly make you healthy. Your body needs just enough
sleep, not too much and not too little.
