Nourish Your Body and Mind

Good nutrition is essential for the wellbeing. Whether you're looking to lose weight or simply feel better, make conscious attention to your nutrition needs. Take 10 minutes and think about you in your body. Think about your body as a machine which requires energy to work. And the process of eating as fueling of machine and providing required building parts. Whether what you eat is required for get optimum energy? Or will your organism need to work harder to extract energy and eliminate harmful ingredients from the consumed food? 

There is wealth of evidence of benefits for wellbeing by consuming a fiber-filled, nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich eating pattern based predominantly on a variety of minimally processed vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds.  Home - American College of Lifestyle Medicine 

Physical activity is one of the most important things you can do for your wellbeing.

The most important is to start. At any moment. It could be simple walk around a house or a block. It could be simple stretch. Start small and see if something sparked your joy. Running during hot humid weather could be source of happiness for ones and jog during cold winter breeze could be invigorating for others.

According to the current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, adults need 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week. This can also be 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity. In addition, adults need at least 2 days of muscle-strengthening activity each week.  Adult Activity: An Overview | Physical Activity Basics | CDC 

You could approximately estimate the level of intensity of your exercise as: 

• Moderate intensity - you could talk but cannot sing while you are exercising
• Vigorous intensity - you cannot sing or talk

In modern world it is difficult to imagine be stress free. Breathing, meditation, physical activity, spending time with loved ones, hobbies are well known mechanism for building of stress resilience. Stress resilience tips will be main focus of our newsletter as well as future evolvement of this website!

Strengthening and maintaining relationships and connections with others that bring meaning and purpose to life are known to be one of the main pillars of wellbeing. Home - American College of Lifestyle Medicine 

Positive connections could be cultivating through other wellbeing efforts: running together with friends, planning family dinner with children's and going to farmers market for the ingredients, volunteering in your community. At the end the evolution of human and modern progress happened after our ancestors to be able to work and live together!

Yoga is generally considered as physical activity. However, yoga is a unique activity which able to connect our mind and body in powerful ways. Majority of stress resilience techniques are routed in yoga practice like meditation, visualization, and mindfulness. In addition, yoga community is known to be the strongest positive social interaction. This website and newsletter will be evolved in providing more information on yoga as precious tool for your wellbeing.