If you eat when you are not hungry you risk getting constipation and indigestion. Fermented and undigested food poisons the blood, weakening the organs and makes you susceptible to any of thousands of various acute and chronic diseases. To properly eliminate wastes, your digestive system should be rested by sufficient gaps between meals.
Try to find your natural rhythm and listen to what your body tells you. Overeating is also the cause of many illnesses. The yogis advise you to think of your stomach as having four parts, of which one part is still empty when you finish eating.
2. Sleep when you are tired
This means that you should go to bed when your body tells you, and not continue to lie around after you've woken up. As far as possible, conform to your natural rhythms. Sleeping during the day and staying awake at night when you are tired is said to be one of the causes of cancer.
3. Get out of bed before sunrise
Each day has a rhythm - like a wave. If you get up too late, you miss the wave and spend the rest of the day struggling to keep up. If you get up early, the wave is behind you, and carries you through the day. Some hours of sleep before midnight are said to be twice as valuable as sleep after midnight. Once you are habituated, the dawn hours are the best for meditation and personal development.
4. Take a half-bath or shower before meditation, food and sleep
Water has tremendous therapeutic value. By doing a half-bath (splashing cool water on all the limbs plus the face and neck) before meditation, eating and sleeping your body and mind become refreshed and relaxed. Yours activities will be performed at their optimum level, deriving maximum benefit. As far as possible, take a refreshing complete bath at least twice a day, certainly at least once a day. Water temperature should not exceed body temperature.
5. Practice meditation and yoga regularly
Regular meditation and yoga tune the body and mind so that they waste much less energy. This means your body and mind will last longer because the allotted amount of energy will carry you further. It is said by some that each person has a fixed number of breaths to their life. When you slow down the breathing during yogic practices, you extends the duration your life.
6. Eat raw food and yoghurt
Life depends upon on "Prana" or "Vital Energy". Raw fresh food is full of life-giving, vital energy (zing!!) and this is more important than the nutrients in food. Enzymes enabling perfect digestion are present in raw fruits and veggies, but are lost during cooking. And raw food contains all of its fiber undiminished by cooking , which is so important for maintaining regularity in bowel movements, which should be as many as the number of meals you eat. Yoghurt is an easily digestible complete protein which contains bacteria that aids digestion. Milk products are also good for mental development.
7. Fast at regular intervals
During fasting, the body is not burdened with absorbing and metabolizing nutrition. As your digestive system rests, it shifts into healing and cleansing mode. Thus, during fasting, toxic dead and diseased cells are swept out - a sort of house-cleaning process, which is fundamental for achieving and maintaining good health. Fasting is the best and quickest means to cure most diseases.
Fasting also purifies the mind. When you are not distracted by food, your mind naturally turns inward, creating a good environment for contemplation and spiritual thoughts. At the same time, it overcomes guilty thinking, clearing your conscience and giving you a fresh start.
If you fast once a week or at least once every two weeks you will be able to get many benefits without weakening your body or disrupting your daily life. Care should be paid to eating, light, easily digestible and juicy food before and after fasting.
8. Engage yourself in physical labor or exercise
Regular exercise strengthens bones, muscles, organs and joints. Your lymphatic system is operated by motion. Inter-cellular fluid also depends on motion to enable it to channel nutrition and waste materials to-and-from cells. Without adequate exercise the body degenerates. As long as we have a body, it needs to be regularly worked and exercised, even bodies of the elderly. A certain amount of physical work is good for the mind also, releasing built up tensions, maintaining a harmonious link with body and environment, and giving a break to the overworked mind.
9. Drink enough water
Natural-therapy does not speak of needing merely eight glasses daily. Rather it specifies that everyone needs at least three to four liters (12 to 16 glasses) daily. Sick people need four to five liters. Those with skin trouble need even more. But you should not drink too much at a time, except in the very early morning on an empty stomach. And you should drink water between meals, not while you eat.
There you have it, nine steps that will help you to live a long, healthy and happy life.
Working in the healthcare industry is different than working in any other industry. In healthcare, you will usually work with people who are experiencing a pain - whether physical or mental. In addition to stopping that pain you know there are a lot of other ways you can help people.
You know that you can help people live a healthier and happier life. There's so much more to life and living pain free. That is a minimum achievement. You can teach them not only how to live pain free, but how to have more energy. You can teach them how to live a life filled with health and wellness.
In your healthcare business you see the same things over and over again. If you stop, or even just lessen your client's pain a little bit, they stop coming to see you. Frustrating as it is, you don't know how to stop this cycle.
There is something that you CAN do to help these people.
Teach them.
What's that? You already know this? You've been teaching them everything you know since day one!
Well...
That may be part of your problem.
Let me show you a scenario I see all the time.
Sally, a patient at your chiropractic practice, started coming to see you about three months ago. She was having unbearable migraines and had been experiencing neck pain since her car accident earlier in the year. Right away you saw what the problem was and began treating her. Right away you lessened her pain.
She loves you!
The first few weeks she came to her appointments you had handouts and packets with all sorts of information about subluxations and Cervicogenic Headaches. You explained to her how the convergence of afferents from the trigeminal nucleus, pons and the upper three or four cervical spinal nerves provides for various patterns of referred pain. You explained to her that this implies an anatomical and physiological connection between the nerves of the cervical spine and the mechanisms of headache.
Sally is such a polite and friendly client (one of your favorites) that she doesn't really have any questions for you, but she is really glad you are stopping the pain. It may seem obvious in my exaggerated example here, but the truth is that Sally doesn't understand a thing you're saying. She's too polite to say anything to you. She didn't want to look stupid and admit she couldn't understand the handouts you gave her.
Obviously you've been giving them to your other patients and they understood them.
Sally's been coming for a while and you've become friendly. You've covered all the basics of her health and how chiropractic care benefits people. And you don't want to bore Sally by being repetitive. Now when Sally visits you are comfortable around each other and share stories about your kids and upcoming holiday plans.
But there are several problems here. Sally didn't understand what you said the first time and was too shy to ask questions. She's much more comfortable now talking about her family and other small talk. However, what is also clear is that for you to keep Sally as a client, you need to educate her about what's wrong and how to fix it. To keep her as a client once you've stopped "her pain" you need to teach her how ongoing chiropractic care can help her in a million ways. YOUR job is to do this in a way SHE understands.
The key to doing this successfully is to teach Sally in small amounts. Small chunks at a time. While you've spent many, many years learning all this technical stuff, she has not.
Teach your clients one concept at a time, teach them every time they come in, and teach them using as many of their senses as you can.
For example, you can tell Sally things about her headaches and how your spinal adjustments are helping her, but you also want her to have something written down that she can read and learn from later.
You also want to make sure you are talking to and writing to Sally in layman's terms. The daily newspaper writes to a fourth grade reading level. And so should you. Don't make copies of articles from your industry journals and leave them out for your patients to read. They can't and don't want to understand them. Your role, as their healthcare educator, is to translate.
Look at some of the ways you educate your clients. Are there any you can improve upon?
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Dada Dharmavedananda has sinced written about articles on various topics from Family, Stress Management. Dada Dharmavedananda has been teaching yoga and for 35 years. He is a senior teacher with the Ananda Marga. Dada Dharmavedananda's top article generates over 1300 views. to your Favourites.
Kelly Robbins has sinced written about articles on various topics from Sales and Negotiation, Marketing Tool and Web Development. Author of Healthcare Copywriting Secrets Revealed and The Healthcare Copywriters Toolkit, Kelly Robbins is a healthcare copywriter and marketing coach/consultant. She also publishes The Healthcare Marketing Connection (. Kelly Robbins's top article generates over 9900 views. to your Favourites.