New Invention Makes You Younger and Healthier
What if you found out about a gadget that prevents heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, gives you more energy, makes you stronger, and makes you look younger and better? All the gizmo requires is for you to stare into a light for 30 minutes to an hour per day.
How much would you be willing to pay for this gizmo? How quickly would you act and try to get one? Well, this gizmo doesn't really exist.
The only way to get all of those benefits is to cultivate a healthy lifestyle.
Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
We've all started diets or workout regimes that we gave up on before achieving our goals.
Many times we find that we don't have the time to work out, eat right or do any of the things we need to do improve our well being.
Although, if you had one of those gizmos, you would probably find the time to use it, wouldn't you? So the fact is, you really do have time to devote to being healthier.
You just choose not to.
I'm going to tell you about a way to simply and easily make small shifts in that direction that will result in getting younger and feeling better.
The problem with diets and workout programs is that they treat an unhealthy lifestyle as if it is one bad habit, when the truth (as we all know) is that it is actually a combination of a bunch of bad habits.
So, even if we are successful at changing one bad habit, such as eating too much, we often revert to our old ways pretty quickly because we still carry most of our unhealthy habits.
If we try to break several of these habits at once, we tend to get overwhelmed, slip up, and then get discouraged and abandon the whole effort.
When you focus on changing one bad habit, it doesn't stick.
When you try to fix all of your bad habits at once, you end up fixing none of them.
Once I realized this, the path to creating a healthy lifestyle became very clear: Start by focusing on changing just one bad habit, but don't stop there.
Make one change, then another, and another.
Over time, you layer one good habit over another, constantly becoming healthier and healthier, thereby constructing your healthy lifestyle.
You probably have heard it said that it takes 21 days to create a new habit.
This is based on research done by Dr.
Maxwell Maltz, who wrote the bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics.
Dr.
Maltz, who was a plastic surgeon noticed that it took 21 days for amputees to cease feeling the phantom sensations in their amputated limb.
In addition, he found that he could apply this 21 day paradigm to shift a patient's self image and thereby convince them that they did not need plastic surgery in the first place.
The basic idea behind this theory is that our brains create strong neuroconnections and neuropathways through repetition.
By doing something for 21 days in a row, strong pathways are forged such that it is harder to NOT DO the desired behavior than it is TO DO the desired behavior.
Rather than start a crash diet or begin a demanding workout program, you should consider creating new healthy habits one at a time.
Start small, and over time design the healthy lifestyle that you want.
Here are 5 tips and suggestions to get you started.
- Include exercise - Studies show that exercising 6 days a week for an hour each day has incredible health benefits.
You can make an exercise program for 21 days and help forge a habit to exercise regularly.
Choose an activity that you enjoy, such as walking, and make it a priority to integrate it into a regular exercise program.
If you can't do an hour a day, then do what you can.
The important thing is to make a 21 day plan and stick to it.
- Tackle nutrition - What you eat and how much you eat has a big influence on your health and how you feel.
Maybe you have the habit of snacking on unhealthy quick food when you get home from work.
If so, then for 21 days grab fresh vegetables to snack on instead.
Identify an eating habit that you would like to change or create and practice the new habit for 21 days.
- Improve sleep - We all love to sleep.
Recent research has begun to uncover more and more reasons for us to regularly get the proper amount of sleep.
In general, it is recommended that we get seven to nine hours of restful sleep per day.
Sleep has been linked to: • Keeping your heart healthy • Preventing cancer • Reducing stress • Promoting weight loss • Faster recovery from injury • Improved memory function • Higher level of alertness and cognitive function For 21 days go to bed, without the TV on, at a consistent time, plus or minus 30 minutes maximum.
Our bodies get more rest out of sleep if it is regular, deep, and uninterrupted.
- Start small - The changes you make can start out being small.
Take the long view that if you make one small habit change every 21 days for the rest of your life, you will create a new and better you.
- Get the flywheel going - Start now.
Our brains are incredible organs.
They can have us accomplish amazing things, but they also keep us from doing things.
We can conjure up all sorts of great reasons for not doing the things we know we should do.
The trick is to DO and not THINK.
Also, once you start this process of habit creation, don't stop.
Get in the habit of creating habits.
Some quick math will tell you that if you are 50 now and you create a new habit every 21 days, when you are 80 you will have 521 new healthy habits.
That's a lot of healthy habits! Read more about simply and easily building healthy habits at www.
21days7habits.
com.
How much would you be willing to pay for this gizmo? How quickly would you act and try to get one? Well, this gizmo doesn't really exist.
The only way to get all of those benefits is to cultivate a healthy lifestyle.
Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
We've all started diets or workout regimes that we gave up on before achieving our goals.
Many times we find that we don't have the time to work out, eat right or do any of the things we need to do improve our well being.
Although, if you had one of those gizmos, you would probably find the time to use it, wouldn't you? So the fact is, you really do have time to devote to being healthier.
You just choose not to.
I'm going to tell you about a way to simply and easily make small shifts in that direction that will result in getting younger and feeling better.
The problem with diets and workout programs is that they treat an unhealthy lifestyle as if it is one bad habit, when the truth (as we all know) is that it is actually a combination of a bunch of bad habits.
So, even if we are successful at changing one bad habit, such as eating too much, we often revert to our old ways pretty quickly because we still carry most of our unhealthy habits.
If we try to break several of these habits at once, we tend to get overwhelmed, slip up, and then get discouraged and abandon the whole effort.
When you focus on changing one bad habit, it doesn't stick.
When you try to fix all of your bad habits at once, you end up fixing none of them.
Once I realized this, the path to creating a healthy lifestyle became very clear: Start by focusing on changing just one bad habit, but don't stop there.
Make one change, then another, and another.
Over time, you layer one good habit over another, constantly becoming healthier and healthier, thereby constructing your healthy lifestyle.
You probably have heard it said that it takes 21 days to create a new habit.
This is based on research done by Dr.
Maxwell Maltz, who wrote the bestseller Psycho-Cybernetics.
Dr.
Maltz, who was a plastic surgeon noticed that it took 21 days for amputees to cease feeling the phantom sensations in their amputated limb.
In addition, he found that he could apply this 21 day paradigm to shift a patient's self image and thereby convince them that they did not need plastic surgery in the first place.
The basic idea behind this theory is that our brains create strong neuroconnections and neuropathways through repetition.
By doing something for 21 days in a row, strong pathways are forged such that it is harder to NOT DO the desired behavior than it is TO DO the desired behavior.
Rather than start a crash diet or begin a demanding workout program, you should consider creating new healthy habits one at a time.
Start small, and over time design the healthy lifestyle that you want.
Here are 5 tips and suggestions to get you started.
- Include exercise - Studies show that exercising 6 days a week for an hour each day has incredible health benefits.
You can make an exercise program for 21 days and help forge a habit to exercise regularly.
Choose an activity that you enjoy, such as walking, and make it a priority to integrate it into a regular exercise program.
If you can't do an hour a day, then do what you can.
The important thing is to make a 21 day plan and stick to it.
- Tackle nutrition - What you eat and how much you eat has a big influence on your health and how you feel.
Maybe you have the habit of snacking on unhealthy quick food when you get home from work.
If so, then for 21 days grab fresh vegetables to snack on instead.
Identify an eating habit that you would like to change or create and practice the new habit for 21 days.
- Improve sleep - We all love to sleep.
Recent research has begun to uncover more and more reasons for us to regularly get the proper amount of sleep.
In general, it is recommended that we get seven to nine hours of restful sleep per day.
Sleep has been linked to: • Keeping your heart healthy • Preventing cancer • Reducing stress • Promoting weight loss • Faster recovery from injury • Improved memory function • Higher level of alertness and cognitive function For 21 days go to bed, without the TV on, at a consistent time, plus or minus 30 minutes maximum.
Our bodies get more rest out of sleep if it is regular, deep, and uninterrupted.
- Start small - The changes you make can start out being small.
Take the long view that if you make one small habit change every 21 days for the rest of your life, you will create a new and better you.
- Get the flywheel going - Start now.
Our brains are incredible organs.
They can have us accomplish amazing things, but they also keep us from doing things.
We can conjure up all sorts of great reasons for not doing the things we know we should do.
The trick is to DO and not THINK.
Also, once you start this process of habit creation, don't stop.
Get in the habit of creating habits.
Some quick math will tell you that if you are 50 now and you create a new habit every 21 days, when you are 80 you will have 521 new healthy habits.
That's a lot of healthy habits! Read more about simply and easily building healthy habits at www.
21days7habits.
com.