Sprituality and Health Promotion Behaviors #17: Quick and Easy Way to Clear Your Bowels Everyday

The only thing you need to remove waste from our body is water. Here is a quick and easy way to clear your bowels every morning.

When you wake up, stay silent for 20 minutes. First, take a 750-ml or 25-ounces bottle of water and drink it while standing feet apart in your bedroom. Drink one mouthful at a time. Feel the water as it enters your throat and guts.

Second, remain standing and message your limbs in long circular strokes from your heart out to your torso. Stretch your arms, waist and limbs. Swing your arms and rotate your knees and ankle.

Finally, stretch your face (to keep it wrinkle-free) by opening your mouth as wide as you can while standing on the ball (front) of your feet (a detox position). Spell p-e-a-c-e slowly 10 times. Imagine the letters flowing down your arm to your finger, one finger at a time.

Your body will now naturally signal you to the washroom. Then, you're ready to start your day!

Spirituality and Health Promotion Behavior #16: List Your Goals

We need to have a direction in life. If we can maintain our focus in life, we will do things with zest and look forward to each day. Write down your goals. Repeat each of them 10 times first thing in the morning. You can do it (as I do), seated on my bed and looking out of the window. Look at the sky and articulate clearly your goals aloud. Your positive posture will automatically make you optimistic. This five-minute exercise re-sets the rhythmn for the day and helps you to persevere, persevere, persevere.

Spirituality and Health Promotion Behavior #15: Meditate-Exercise

I swim every morning. The truth is, as I swim, I silently repeat 2 verses in my mind: "Freedom celebrates the beauty of my soul. I am sacred, I am purity, I am all possibility." It is a Tibetan meditation that I learnt some time ago in in the book, The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking (2003) by Christopher Hansard, pg 240. Positive words uttered silently in the head give us strength to overcome challenges. To achieve spirituality and good health, you too can start meditating while you exercise.