Emotional Sobriety (video)

Natural highs – healthy ways to feel good

Tian Dayton’s video briefly shows the importance of ‘turning on’ the body’s opiate system… endorphins, serotonin, oxytocin, prolactin, and other calming and euphoric mood stabilizers released through wholesome activities. Emotional sobriety is learning how to live in the mid-range, achieving a balanced state to release the medicine chest within us, rather than resort to drugs and addictive behaviors.

Tian Dayton’s article, Body Comes to Therapy, excerpted from her book, The Magic of Forgiveness provides a thorough understanding of how emotions affects the body, including “How Emotion Travels Though the Body… The Positive Function of Fear and Anxiety… The Power of Thought… The Role of the Limbic System… It’s Never Too Late to Limbically Revise… and Limbic Resonance, Regulation and Revision.” Many forms of physical and emotional distress may be caused by pain internalize as a child. We need to confront these deeper origins of pain. Visit TianDayton.com for more insightful articles – this is a terrific site!

Use It... Or Lose It!

Wellness Quest for Your Best! Walk, bike, skate, swim, dance, or move another zestful way for 30 minutes today staying well within your fitness comfort zone. If you haven’t been exercising for a while, choose a shorter time period and activity you enjoy doing.

Health Benefits: Aerobic exercise helps build heart strength and efficiency, increases endurance, improves sleep, raises good cholesterol, and lowers blood pressure. Over time, aerobic exercise helps burn excess body fat and reduces risks of diabetes and other diseases including heart disease and certain cancers.

Quote: He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Arabian Proverb

Humor: Just think, if you exercise for 1200 months you are guaranteed to live to a hundred! Author Unknown

Post Script: Be safe, check with your fitness specialist or health service before starting any new exercise program, especially if you are out of shape, over 40, or have a medical condition.

Quick Quest Link: The Benefits of Aerobic Exercise and many other excellent health related articles can be found on WeightLossforAll.com

Take Steps: How to Start an Aerobic Routine by eHow.com

Video: Walking -- Part 1: Start Quick and Easy

Note: The health cartoon is taken from the Health Care-toons Calendar by Jeff Haebig and cartoonist Ed Fischer.

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