By receiving a massage, it says “goodbye” to the old you, and delivers a replenishment, both mentally and physically. This duality creates a harmonization which allows you a “peace” and “calm” that serves your mental wellbeing, and will deliver a deeper sleep, during which healing takes place.
The physicality is enhanced via a surge in circulation across your entire being that forges a blood flow, enabling you to commence your chosen activity with invigoration, or a peace that delivers deep uninterrupted sleep. Your mental preparedness is in a state of calmed readiness for what may ensue. Moving forward, your imagination can deliver on the promises that you made to yourself.
Regular massage enables the body to transport nutrients throughout the body via a greater supply of blood flow. It helps the body to become more efficient at excreting toxins, giving you more functionality, a greater range of body motion thus increasing the benefits gained when training. A greater functioning of cognitive skills may also be experienced.
The other beneficial gain of regular massage is in the creation of more “me’ time. Focusing on oneself for a set amount of time each week, allows the feeling of mental wellbeing. The benefits of enjoying the feeling of relaxing and pampering increases the positive feeling of mental happiness and physical healthiness. These positive emotions make you feel on top of the world, and most importantly, “love yourself”. "Indulge today".
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“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard this many times before, but how true is it? We at wendyandlouis believe this to be absolutely the case. Your being is a reflection of your ingested foods. You feed your physical future on a daily basis. The food you choose will equip you for the challenges ahead.
Life is a balance of palatable tastes versus expected outcomes. When you feed your body you nourish the mind, which nourishes your entire self. You can adapt taste to feed your goals and ambitions, this is reflected in the practice of athletes preparing for different sporting outcomes. Always take time and thought to deliver taste. Negate corner cutting calories that produce no long term effects. Remember, your desires can be greater than your vices, depending on how serious you are about your outcome.
Eat with your heart not your eyes. Vacate the temporary highs and replace them with a beneficial plan that feeds you infinite potential. An easy way to remember how to make food more interesting and appealing, as well as nutritious , is to make your plate look appealing, having as many different colours in each meal as possible. Colours reflect different nutrients. The more varied, the healthier the meal.
Look forward to cooking and eating in order to enjoy your food more. Well balanced meals need not take hours to prepare and cook. Try to eat as many vegetables in their raw state as you can. This ensures that the nutritional value is not lost via the cooking process.
Preparation is key. Pre-plan your weeks’ meals in advance. Find quick and easy recipes online and food shop accordingly. Other options that are now becoming popular are recipe boxes, and plant based meals. There are an ever growing number of companies that home deliver healthy and varied pre-planned, pre-measured, calorie balanced meals which can be meat based, plant based and vegan, providing easy to follow cooking instructions.
"Eat, feel, funtion well".
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Whatever you choose to pursue, enjoy it, and stay present in the moment. Repetition of a chosen skill breeds its own master. Warm up, execute, warm down. We are sure you all have heard these words a million times before, but what do they mean?
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Whatever you choose to pursue, enjoy it, and stay present in the moment. Repetition of a chosen skill breeds its own master. Warm up, execute, warm down. We are sure you've heard these words a million times before, but what do they mean?
To us, at wendyandlouis, they represent the crux of exercising. Whatever movement you choose to indulge yourself in, in order for you to try your best to get the maximum gain out of it, you must above anything else simply enjoy it. There is no purpose in pushing yourself to do something you have no interest in, as this will only lead to you never participating in exercise again.
There are many options available, and they need not cost you anything. Thanks to the internet, you are able to search the web to find what grabs your attention. Nor is there any need to become “loyal” to any one form of movement. Flit between as many variants as you please, as long as it keeps your focus and enthusiasm going.
In order to get the most out of something, it is vital that you develop the skill of “staying present”. Think about the exercise you carrying out, how it is making you move and feel. Submerge yourself mentally as well as physically and you will reap even better rewards. Not only will you feel invigorated throughout your body, but also relaxed and alert in your mind. Exercise releases endorphins. Endorphins makes you feel good. The more you engage, the better you will find your mental well being, once finished.
When you start something new you can often feel overwhelmed, and may even think it is something unachievable, but over time as you continue to practice the same thing, your skills develop and the task becomes achievable and more enjoyable. Exercise is exactly the same. It will take time to build up the skills, the suppleness, the natural feeling of moving your body in the certain way, but progress will be achieved only be repeating each exercise. The longer you stick at it, the further you will progress.
Warming up is vital in order to prepare your entire body, including your mind, for the exercise ahead and to prevent injury. The last thing you want is to be prevented from participating in an interest because your body was not ready. Warming down is just as important in order to relax your muscles by stretching, thus increasing your flexibility, returning them to normal paced working mode.
You are the CEO of your own story. Your daily physical pursuits appeases negativity and feeds your future successes. By conquering yourself, everything else will find you. Go on, give it a try!
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