| Health and Healing EXERCISE, REST and SLEEP (The following is just guidelines and suggestions not rules and laws) Exercise is one of the prime requirements for good health. Regularly get at least an hour of good physical exercise outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine if possible. Vigorous exercise in the long run creates energy rather than using it up. During exercise, the circulatory and respiratory systems are stimulated and the blood begins to surge through your body, oxygen and nutrients are fed to the cells of tissues and the accumulated waste products are removed. Often exercise is a good substitute for a good nap when feeling drowsy, if you’re not tired because of illness or a lack of sleep the night before. A pleasant side effect from exercise is that it acts almost as a tranquilizer – it seems to literally drain away your tensions as you go. The mental and emotional fatigue that comes at the end of a trying but sedentary day can be almost miraculously dispelled with a little physical exercise. Exercise is known to reduce high blood pressure – often a forerunner of heart disease—and results in a bigger, stronger heart. The more the heart or any muscle is exercised, the bigger and stronger it becomes. But don’t exercise beyond your capacity, and never indulge in strenuous exercise too soon after eating. Nearly all types of pulmonary diseases, lung trouble, asthma, tuberculosis and others are aggravated—if not caused—by inactivity, lack of exercise, lack of fresh air and a lack of sunshine. Your body was built for activity, it wasn’t built just to sit or lie around all day. It was built for vigorous motion, work and exercise! A walk is one of the best kinds of exercise in the world for you because you get out in the fresh air and sunshine. It’s inspiring, invigorating and you get fresh air to flush out your lungs and your blood stream.—So don’t’ fail to get out every day! Jogging has come under increasing criticism from the medical profession as potentially dangerous to good health because it causes undue stress and fatigue, but walking, swimming, gardening and sports such as badminton etc. are all safe and healthy ways to exercise. The sign on the wall told the simple story: “Directions for Body Use: If let sitting too long, will tend to sag and settle on its bottom. Shake well daily in fresh air and sunshine. REST and SLEEP Another “must” for good health is to sleep right. Try to get on a regular schedule of seven to nine hours of unbroken sleep a night, or whatever you need. One of the worst things you can do when you first go to bed is to talk or start thinking about your problems or your worries or your work, as it will just keep you awake. Talk about pleasant things or enjoy loving sex. There is hardly anything more conducive to sleep than that blissful relaxed feeling you have after making love. written by David Berg Onward to Accidents and Hospitals and Doctors and then to the Conclusion and Prayer |