The difficulty with “modern” living is that it is assumed you are always going to be healthy, young, full of life, totally buzzing with purpose and vitality.
And for a small few of you that may be true. But for the majority of us, our daily working life and even our free time can be consumed with odd pains and aches and spasms in muscles and joint discomforts, and we can’t sit or stand for too long.
In short there is a constant internal struggle going on. We measure our health with reduced levels of discomfort or pain. And for those of us who are young and fit we are trying to get the balance right.
So let’s take a look at one stable datum. Generally speaking, if we are somewhat pain /discomfort free and somewhat stress free we feel somewhat extroverted and it is easier to have and hold onto our purpose in life and livingness.
The amount of minus production that occurs because of body exhaustion is staggering. And big corporations have a way around this called the quarter system.
You have to meet your quarter quota etc. Now there is nothing wrong with playing the game of work in this way except the management of your body is never taken into account.
So the solution is to get your body moving regularly throughout the day. I would suggest a research project for you and this applies even if you are a housewife or retired or in college. Here’s the deal, you can’t fool your body’s systems/your brave internal organs who do all the work including your brain for very little return.
I want you to do 5 minutes of exercise each 2 hours of your working day.
Then at the end of 2 weeks measure your production and present your findings to your boss and if you’re the boss tell yourself. What management wants is production, not hours in the chair. When your body is tired, your production suffers. That bright idea occurs Sunday morning when you’re in bed, too late for work, the moment has passed. So it doesn’t matter what exercise you do, take a 5 minute walk round the office or block, do some shoulder stretches but keep it light, this is just to get your body back in shape and invigorated.
This is the first step towards extroversion. Focus on what is occurring around you so that your enjoyment of work comes up and production comes up.
1) take 5 mins. Each working day do some light exercise and wake up the body. This is not an excuse to go to the canteen to talk with a colleague or take a smoking break (bad habit). Measure your production over a 2 week scale and see the difference and let your boss know.
2) When you eat lunch don’t mix proteins and starchy foods such as bread , potatoes, pasta or rice . You can eat either with salad but not together. Our bodies were not designed to efficiently digest more than one concentrated food at a time. Concentrated foods are those that contain either protein or starch. Your forebears would not have understood the concept of mixed meals where lots of different food groups are collected together and eaten at the same time. When we evolved from early times foods such as wild boar would have been eaten alone not squashed together with a sesame seed bun and served with French fries.
3) Don’t eat fruits with starches and proteins. Usually it takes 20 mins for fruit to go through the system.
Sounds like a lot of work, well taking 14 different tablets for heart and lung and kidney condition is a lifetime sentence so making a few simple changes to your food intake and doing a bit of exercise that wouldn’t kill a fly seems to me that better way to the balance we all crave, and yes along with this without doing another thing your stress levels should start to come down, and don’t be surprised if you get the odd compliment.
4) Come to Get Back Health this week , alignment of your spine will help with all of the above.
Yours in health John Keane Spinologist.
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