Boost Your Health Today In Five Easy Steps

We all have a responsibility to look after our own health. Leading a healthy lifestyle is all about making the right choices, and sometimes, a little bit of determination. To make progress today, here are five easy steps to boost your health.

Improve your fitness regime.
Fitness is the key to a healthy body and mind. If you don’t have much of a fitness regime, it’s not too late to change that. Creating the right fitness regime is about figuring out what you enjoy. If you don’t tend to enjoy the gym, it’s probably hard to motivate yourself to go! 

Luckily there are plenty of different fitness activities that you can try. Perhaps you’d like to join a tennis club, try a ballet barre class, or start going for bike rides? Maybe you’ve always wanted to try a dance class or kayaking? There are plenty of ways to keep fit, and it can be fun to get out of your comfort zone.

Think about self-care.
If you’re keen to boost your health you’ll need to build a self-care regime. Looking after yourself is about acknowledging what your body and mind needs the most, and putting the right practices in place. To improve your mental health try activities such as journalling or meditation. To boost your physical health, both yoga and Pilates can nourish your body. If you need a few more ideas check out self-care apps like Shine or Sanvello.

Foods for heart health.
To improve your health make sure that you eat lots of foods which are good for the heart. Try eating fatty fish, berries, green vegetables, avocado and whole grains. According to research from PubMed, ‘whole grain intake consistently has been associated with improved cardiovascular disease outcomes.’

Certain foods work as natural blood thinners, and these are also beneficial for heart health. A few of these foods include ginger, turmeric and cayenne peppers. Eating a nutritious balanced diet is the best way to boost your health.

Ease the stress.
Stress has a disastrous effect on both the mind and body, when left unchecked stress can lead to headaches, heart disease, gastrointestinal problems and anxiety and depression. To become a healthier version of yourself it’s worth having stress coping tactics. Activities that can ease stress include acupuncture, aromatherapy and massages.

Learn something new.
Studies show that lifelong learning is a great way to improve mental health. Learning new things helps us to raise our endorphin levels, find new opportunities, and meet new people. There are plenty of ways to learn new things whether you take a short-course, use a learning app. Learning can help us to advance in both our personal lives and our professional lives.

As you can see, there are lots of simple ways that you can boost your health and feel better. Improving your health is about making the right decisions for your body and mind. When you set key health goals it can be easier to track your improvement.

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Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Editor-in-Chief at Chispa Magazine
Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.
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Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.