The 6 Pillars of Super Health
Putting together your own health enhancement program can be confusing. There's a mass of information out there but a lack of an overall structure to organise the details.
How do you know which health things are important and which things are trivial details? What are the real master keys of fantastic health?
Here's a quick rundown of the major building blocks of your health enhancement system. You goal is to make sure you're doing something in each of these areas, then all you have to do is keep adding things in to strengthen these elements over time.
This way you keep making little upgrades but evenly balanced across all the important areas and when you find some new health idea you know where it goes.
Pillar One: Hydration
Quality hydration is critical to flushing cellular waste out and nutrients in. Without adequate hydration your whole system gets sluggish and fat loss, health and comfort all suffer.
Shoot for a couple of litres of the best quality water daily, adjusting up if you're very active and it's hot. Green or herb tea, smoothies, and juices all count here so the more hydrating things you ingest, the less water you'll generally need. If in doubt, drink more and calibrate from there.
Pillar Two: Nutrition
Anything you can eat sits somewhere on a line with toxins at one end and medicinal foods at the other. As long as you keep gradually moving up this line of increasing nutrient density good things happen. When you drift downscale you run into problems.
Whichever eating style you prefer, a focus on actual food rather than food products, minimal if any processing and as fresh as you can get will stand you in good stead.
Pillar Three: Recuperation
Quality sleep does more good things for you than you can imagine. From rapid cellular repair to stress dissolving and memory filing, quality sleep is way more important than most people realise.
Experiment with the right amount for you - I feel fine on 7 hours, but best on 8-9. Any less and energy, mood and thinking clarity drop.
Blackout curtains, tapering fluid and food intake later in the day, getting fresh cool air and keeping your feet warmer than your head all optimises your sleeping environment. A high quality mattress might be one of the best investments you make.
Pillar Four: Training
Your body is designed to move and not only feels and looks better but last longer the fitter you are. The biggest return on your time is to focus first on strength training - an effective program can be done in about one hour per week.
There's a lot more centenarian strongmen than marathon runners for solid physical reasons. If you want to spend a little more time, some flavour of high intensity interval training will crank your metabolism up even more, blowtorch fat from your body and dramatically up your endurance without taking up too much time.
One of the best? Hill sprints! Warm up, sprint up the hill, cruise back down, repeat 5-10 times.
Pillar Five: Mindset
Your subconscious mind has a phenomenal influence over the bodies regenerative capacity. There are thousands of studies done on both placebo and nocebo effects that clearly show how your mindset affects your health.
Mindset is not the cure all some people think, but will amplify everything else you do. A good place to start is with basic daily meditation, basic self-hypnosis and by tracking what you say to yourself and others about how you feel.
Meditation makes your mind run more smoothly and self hypnosis allows you to program your mind so healthy habits run automatically.
Pillar Six: Energy
5000 years of research in the far east into the bioenergy flows of the body has produced a myriad of disciplines for honing and refining the pulsing lifeforce of your body.
Whether you like yoga, chi kung, reiki or energy medicine is up to you but once you've experienced what it feels like running a high voltage system you'll want some kind of energy discipline in your daily schedule!
Thanks Michael John Campbell for sharing post. For more, visit at http://www.superhumansecrets.com
How do you know which health things are important and which things are trivial details? What are the real master keys of fantastic health?
Here's a quick rundown of the major building blocks of your health enhancement system. You goal is to make sure you're doing something in each of these areas, then all you have to do is keep adding things in to strengthen these elements over time.
Pillar One: Hydration
Quality hydration is critical to flushing cellular waste out and nutrients in. Without adequate hydration your whole system gets sluggish and fat loss, health and comfort all suffer.
Shoot for a couple of litres of the best quality water daily, adjusting up if you're very active and it's hot. Green or herb tea, smoothies, and juices all count here so the more hydrating things you ingest, the less water you'll generally need. If in doubt, drink more and calibrate from there.
Pillar Two: Nutrition
Anything you can eat sits somewhere on a line with toxins at one end and medicinal foods at the other. As long as you keep gradually moving up this line of increasing nutrient density good things happen. When you drift downscale you run into problems.
Whichever eating style you prefer, a focus on actual food rather than food products, minimal if any processing and as fresh as you can get will stand you in good stead.
Pillar Three: Recuperation
Quality sleep does more good things for you than you can imagine. From rapid cellular repair to stress dissolving and memory filing, quality sleep is way more important than most people realise.
Experiment with the right amount for you - I feel fine on 7 hours, but best on 8-9. Any less and energy, mood and thinking clarity drop.
Blackout curtains, tapering fluid and food intake later in the day, getting fresh cool air and keeping your feet warmer than your head all optimises your sleeping environment. A high quality mattress might be one of the best investments you make.
Pillar Four: Training
Your body is designed to move and not only feels and looks better but last longer the fitter you are. The biggest return on your time is to focus first on strength training - an effective program can be done in about one hour per week.
There's a lot more centenarian strongmen than marathon runners for solid physical reasons. If you want to spend a little more time, some flavour of high intensity interval training will crank your metabolism up even more, blowtorch fat from your body and dramatically up your endurance without taking up too much time.
One of the best? Hill sprints! Warm up, sprint up the hill, cruise back down, repeat 5-10 times.
Pillar Five: Mindset
Your subconscious mind has a phenomenal influence over the bodies regenerative capacity. There are thousands of studies done on both placebo and nocebo effects that clearly show how your mindset affects your health.
Mindset is not the cure all some people think, but will amplify everything else you do. A good place to start is with basic daily meditation, basic self-hypnosis and by tracking what you say to yourself and others about how you feel.
Meditation makes your mind run more smoothly and self hypnosis allows you to program your mind so healthy habits run automatically.
Pillar Six: Energy
5000 years of research in the far east into the bioenergy flows of the body has produced a myriad of disciplines for honing and refining the pulsing lifeforce of your body.
Whether you like yoga, chi kung, reiki or energy medicine is up to you but once you've experienced what it feels like running a high voltage system you'll want some kind of energy discipline in your daily schedule!
Thanks Michael John Campbell for sharing post. For more, visit at http://www.superhumansecrets.com
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