Posts Tagged ‘attitude’

How to Achieve ‘Anytime Fitness’

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Modern life demands that all individuals should stay fit in order to keep up with our wild pace. Fitness refers to a person’s capacity to adapt favorably and take stress brought about by changing conditions. In this kind of situation, if you’re physically fit, then your mind and body will not be disturbed in any way. As you can see, fitness is not only about physical strength but of mental stability as well.

In many ways, fitness is synonymous to health. Modern living requires good health and to achieve such a state, a person must stay fit. Good health and fitness are interrelated. When a person is fit, then that person is considered healthy; and if a person is healthy, his or her fitness level naturally goes up.

But if fitness only pertains to physical health it’s inadequate. Have you heard about the Evolution Theory? It states that only the fit of all species can survive and pass their genes. So fitness is not entirely about health; you should also suit the environment that you live in, anytime and anywhere. Therefore, a person should be able to adapt to any environment in order to survive, together with proper fitness exercises.

Oftentimes, people disregard the importance of fitness. They overlook their responsibility to stay fit at all times. Perhaps they don’t know the benefits of ‘anytime fitness’. Life holds a lot of pleasure for individuals; but if you’re always ill you can’t enjoy such pleasures of life.

Is fitness anytime possible? Well, of course it is; just look on the positive and bright things in life. You will surely improve your life, look fresher, don’t fear any form of infection, and no worries if your car broke down; at least you get to walk an extra few blocks before reaching your home.

Think of every situation as an opportunity to stay fit and this is the key to fitness anytime. You can make the most out of your independence, have peace of mind, and you’re quite confident that you can handle everything.

Training for fitness focuses primarily on the different groups of muscles of every human being; this results to muscular fitness, aerobic fitness, and increases stability and flexibility. There are other factors to consider before deciding to do a physical activity, like your physical capability. Do check with your doctor before performing any activity that requires physical strength.

Aerobic exercises are of different kinds. You can do running, dancing, swimming, or even cycling. Make sure that you limit your exercise to about 30-40 minutes every day. Note that even the simple task of  walking up a hill or stairs can provide you the results you are looking for at times. Park farther away from the front door and save your car and improve your health. Walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator will also help you to maintain your health. You can take that time to focus on your mental attitude as well will provide you another benefit.

In order for your muscles to exude endurance and strength, focus more on muscular fitness. You can better enhance your muscular fitness if you do some strength training; this will result to an increase in mass of your lean muscles. A simple set of dumbbells work just as good as expensive equipment. If you are traveling a thera-band or another resistance band can also be a fantastic tool to help maintain muscle strength.

Related to your muscle strength’s core are balance and stability. Do exercises that can help in making your muscles tough, especially for your trunk area. A stability ball or yoga ball is a cheap fantastic tool to assist you in developing your core muscles. Use it to sit on instead of a chair.

With fitness training, you can also achieve flexibility. By doing exercise like pulling and stretching, your muscles can function in its widest possible range. You can try tai chi or yoga, they are great stretching exercises.

Another important factor is eating a well-balanced diet. Pay more attention to your eating habits. This will allow you to identify habits like emotional eating instead of eating because you are hungry. Use a journal to track your food so you are more conscious of your eating habits.

Take time each day to balance your mind by using our meditation timer as well. Start with just 5 minutes a day in the morning and 5 minutes a day in the evening. Work yourself up to 10, 15 and 30 minutes of focused meditation. Focus on what you are going to attract into your life and practice success each time you do this. Remember this is your time so use it wisely.

With all these factors present, you can totally experience fitness anytime and anywhere.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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Concentration Finds the Way

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Everyone has two natures. One wants us to advance and the other wants to pull us back. The one that we cultivate and concentrate on decides what we are at the end. Both natures are trying to gain control.

The will alone decides the issue. A man/woman by one supreme effort of the will may change his/her whole career and almost accomplish miracles. You may be that man/woman. You can be if you Will it to be, for Will can find a way or make one.

I could easily fill a book, of cases where men/women plodding along in a matter-of-fact way, were all at once aroused and as if awakening from a slumber they developed the possibilities within them and from that time on were different people.

You alone can decide when the turning point will come.

It is a matter of choice whether we allow our diviner self to control us or whether we will be controlled by the brute within us. No man/woman has to do anything he/she does not want to do. We are therefore the director of our life if we will it to be. What we are to do, is the result of our training and natural super powers. We are like putty, and can be completely controlled by our will power.

Habit is a matter of acquirement. You hear people say: “He/she is a natural, a chip off the old block,” meaning that he/she is only doing what his/her parents did. This is quite often the case, but there is no reason for it, for a person can break a habit just the moment he/she masters the “I will.”

A man/woman may have been a “good-for-nothing” all their life up to this very minute, but from this time on they begin to amount to something. Even seniors have suddenly changed and accomplished wonders. “I lost my opportunity,” says one. That may be true, but by sheer force of will, we can find a way to bring us another opportunity. For life itself presents us with opportunities each day.

There is no truth in the saying that opportunity knocks at our door but once in a lifetime. The fact is, opportunity never seeks us; we must seek it by opening ourselves up to what is around us. What usually turns out to be one person’s opportunity, was another person’s loss.

It is often the quickness of brain action that determines the result. One man/woman thinks “I will do it,” but while he/she procrastinates the other goes ahead and does the work. They both have the same opportunity. The one will complain of his/her lost chance. But it should teach them a lesson, and it will, if they are seeking the path that leads to success.

Many persons read good books, but say they do not get much good out of them. They do not realize that all any book or any lesson course can do is to awaken them to their possibilities; to stimulate them to use their will power. You may teach a person from now until doom’s day, but that person will only know what he/she learns himself. “You can lead him to the fountain, but you can’t make him drink.”

One of the most beneficial practices I know of is that of looking for the good in everyone and everything, for there is good in all things. We encourage a person by seeing their good qualities and we also help ourselves by looking for them. We gain their good wishes, a most valuable asset sometimes.

We get back what we give out.

The time comes when most all of us need encouragement; need buoying up. So form the habit of encouraging others, and you will find it a wonderful tonic for both those encouraged and yourself, for you will get back encouraging and uplifting thoughts. In order to express something to someone else you must create it in yourself first. This is another reason why it is important to focus on the positive around you.

Life furnishes us the opportunity to improve. But whether we do it or not depends upon how near we live up to what is expected of us by ourselves at times. The first of each month, a person should sit down and examine the progress they have made. If they are not come up to “expectations” they should discover the reason, and by extra exertion measure up to what is demanded next time.

Every time that we fall behind what we planned to do, we lose just so much for that time is gone forever. We may find a reason for not doing it, but most excuses are poor substitutes for action. Most things are possible.

Ours may be a hard task, but the harder the task, the greater the reward. It is the difficult things that really develop us, anything that requires only a small effort, utilizes very few of our faculties, and yields a scanty harvest of achievement.

So do not shy away from a hard task, for to accomplish one of these will often bring you more good than a dozen lesser triumphs in the end.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Institute of Natural Medicine

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You Can concentrate, But Will You?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

You have the ability to concentrate, but will you? You can,but whether you will or not depends on you. It is one thing to be able to do something, and another thing to do it.

There is far more ability not used than is used. Why do not more people of ability make something of themselves? There are comparatively few successful people but many ambitious ones. Why do not more get along?

Cases may differ, but the fault is usually their own. They have had chances, perhaps better ones than some others that have made good.

What would you like to do, that you are not doing? If you think you should be “getting on” better, why don’t you? Study yourself carefully. Learn your shortcomings. Sometimes only a mere trifle keeps one from branching out and becoming a success.

Discover why you have not been making good – the cause of your failure. Have you been expecting someone to lead you, or to make a way for you? If you have, concentrate on a new line of thought.

There are two things absolutely necessary for success – energy and the will to succeed. Nothing can take the place of either of these. Most of us will not have an easy path to follow so don’t expect to find one.

The hard knocks develop our courage and moral stamina. The persons that live in an indolent and slipshod way never have any. They have never faced conditions and therefore don’t know how. The world is no better for their living.

We must make favorable conditions and not expect them to shape themselves. It is not the man that says, “It can’t be done,” but the man that goes ahead in spite of adverse advice, and shows that “it can be done” that “gets there” today. “The Lord helps those that help themselves,” is a true saying.

We climb the road to success by overcoming obstacles.Stumbling blocks are but stepping stones for the man that says, “I can and I Will.” When we see cripples, the deaf and dumb, the blind and those with other handicaps amounting to something in the world, the able-bodied man should feel ashamed of himself if he does not make good.

There is nothing that can resist the force of perseverance. The way ahead of all of us is not clear sailing, but all hard passages can be bridged, if you just think they can and concentrate on how to do it. But if you think the obstacles are unsurmountable, you will not of course try, and even if you do, it will be in only a half-hearted way–a way that accomplishes nothing.

Many people will not begin an undertaking unless they feel sure they will succeed in it. What a mistake! This would be right, if we were sure of what we could and could not do. But who knows? There may be an obstruction there now that might not be there next week. There may not be an obstruction there now that will be there next week.

The trouble with most persons is that just as soon as they see their way blocked they lose courage. They forget that usually there is a way around the difficulty. It’s up to you to find it. If you tackle something with little effort, when the conditions call for a big effort, you will of course not win.

Tackle everything with a feeling that you will utilize all the power within you to make it a success. This is the kind of concentrated effort that succeeds.

Most people are beaten before they start. They think they are going to encounter obstacles, and they look for them instead of for means to overcome them. The result is that they increase their obstacles instead of diminishing them. Have you ever undertaken something that you thought would be hard, but afterwards found it to be easy? That is the way a great many times. The things that look difficult in advance turn out to be easy of conquest when once encountered.

So start out on your journey with the idea that the road is going to be clear for you, and that if it is not you will clear the way. Everyone that have amounted to anything have cleared their way and they did not have the assistance that you will have today.

The one great keynote of success is to do whatever you have decided on. Don’t be turned from your path, but resolve that you are going to accomplish what you set out to do. Don’t be frightened at a few rebuffs, for they cannot stop the person that is determined – the person that knows in their heart that success is only bought by tremendous resolution, by concentrated and whole-hearted effort.

“He who has a firm will,” says Goethe, “molds the world to himself.”

“People do not lack strength,” says Victor Hugo; “they lack Will.”

It is not so much skill that wins victories as it is activity and great determination There is no such thing as failure for the person that does their best.

Mystically yours,

Michael Holt, Ph.D.
Magi Insitute of Natural Medicine

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