How to Keep Your Body in Balance

Because very few people understand how and why the body works, let’s look at it a minute. The human body is the highest form of life on this planet. It is a self-healing, self-regulating and self-maintaining system. The body does everything for perfect reasons of which most we don’t understand yet. The body gives us pain, symptoms and diseases because the balance of the systems is lost. These are not necessarily bad when you realize they are effects that need to be corrected. When you begin to see yourself from this angle, you have a much better chance of returning to a normal balance.

If you don’t reach balance, your body will surely give you symptoms like the ones associated with weight problems, fatigue, pain, emotional imbalances. These symptoms are because most people have terrific metabolism problems. Most commonly these people are physically, mentally and emotionally depleted because they don’t produce energy from food very efficiently.

Without enough energy to push the thousands of metabolic pathways, nothing works properly. It’s like a car engine not firing on all cylinders, blowing black smoke and making loud chugging noises as it continues down the highway. What’s worse is its getting cheap fuel to run on and never gets a tune up. Poor car. Do you feel like this sometimes? 

Then there is the physical stress; the long list of falls, spills, hits, accidents, poor posture, constant repetitive activities that tear down the body over time. The body cannot cope with this constant stress and abuse.

One terrific way to combat the effects of stressis by getting strong yourself. You know, exercise—have you heard about it? But let’s be specific here. Aerobic exercise should be low intensity, long duration type of activity. Here’s what I mean. If you exercise like riding a bicycle for 30 minutes like a madman or woman, you do no more than stress yourself out. Why would you want to do that? You’ll be exhausted and sweaty.

Instead cut down the intensity and get your heart rate around 140 but do the biking for about an hour. It won’t produce the stress on yourself plus its only after 30 minutes that you burn the fat stores. That’s what you want.

But there’s more. Add anaerobic exercise. This is different than aerobics. Think of weightlifting. Take 30 minutes a week and become intimate with some dumbbells and barbells or a weight machine. Take a muscle and burn it slowly with the weight. Do 5-6 repetitions over about 90 seconds. Really burn the muscle by exercising it slowly under the stress of the weight.

These two forms of exercise will add spectacular results to your health.

Finally there’s stress and anxiety. Oh boy, where do we begin? Emotions literally run our lives. And of course we don’t pay too much attention to them. But if we felt really good emotionally, we would eat better and exercise, wouldn’t we? We would be different people, wouldn’t we?

Emotional imbalances take specific intention and direction in our lives. We have to recognize the subconscious emotion that is the root cause of our ilk. There are many ways to do this without talking to somebody for years or taking a serotonin-uptake drug to keep things at bay.

Emotional stress is the next frontier in health care. Many illnesses and diseases are due to emotional stress. By releasing the emotional strongholds in our life our health will improve significantly. Begin by looking for your feelings you’ve buried alive. This is one of the first things to find stress relief.