Service to Others (video)

Reaching Out!  

Helping People!

Wellness is moving beyond one’s needs helping others in the community.  What a pleasure speaking to Rotary 100 in Phoenix Arizona about ways to optimize the body-brain through movement and exercise.  Around 150 members and guests actively participated in a lively series of activities showing how to enhance body-brain function.  A group of volunteers led the moving Body-Brain Boogie overview (above) and the spirited Rotary Cheer.  Without any rehearsal, they did a rousing job.  Rotary 100 is an exemplary organization generously reaching out to help others locally and around the world.

Breathing Exercises (follow along)

Perform at Your Best!

Do As One website offers five conscious breathing exercises to follow.  Direct your breathing to the sounds and timing shown.   Choose whether to calm, balance, activate, release stress, and move stagnate energy from the body.  LiveStrong.com offers a 5 step technique for deep breathing.  WomentoWomen.com explains the medical benefits of effective breathing; it helps pump the lymphatic system flushing away toxins and other debris from the body.   Many other interesting facts and breathing techniques are given.  OnePowerfulWord is an excellence resource as well

TODAY’S Wellness QUEST (1)

Whip Couch Potato Laze

Wellness QUEST:  Go ahead -- lounge around, relaxing in your love seat; then take time to lunge around, plunging yourself into robust activity. Move eagerly to whip your couch potato tiredness. Go from vegetating, passively going to seed, to generating higher energy with exercise. Shift from watching great ‘action movies’ to actively making great moves of your own!  Exercise today staying well within your fitness and comfort zone… then post your results and celebrate! 

Health Joke:  His best activity was compressing springs, chair and bed springs.  Unknown

Inspirational Quote: Live for today. Yesterday’s history and tomorrow’s a mystery. Unknown

Special Note:  Be safe.  Stay well within your level of fitness and comfort zone.  If you haven’t been exercising, consult with a fitness specialist or health care provider before getting started, especially if you are out of shape, over 40, or have a medical condition.  Slow down or stop if you feel any discomfort. 

Links:  : How To Be a Couch Potato and How to Exercise While Watching TV

Share and Care:  Share what you did completing your Wellness QUEST activity on our Facebook Page.  Care for other people’s well-being by sharing your post with them, or better yet, getting them involved.

Wellness Winners:  Qualify for a special prize drawn during the next week by posting your completed Wellness QUEST activity on our Facebook Page.  If the time you submit your “Like’ is closest to the predetermined times we choose for the week – you will become our weekly Wellness Winner receiving the perpetual, desk-top Health Care-toons Calendar by cartoonist Ed Fischer and Jeff Haebig, Ph.D. 

Thanks for springing to action, when you are feeling sluggish.