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A lot of people get into running mostly for the reason of physical well-being and keep their bodies in good shape. However, some may find that running is also an excellent means to meditate and develop good spiritual routines.

It is also a great way to develop your confidence and as you become better at it that you might even think about running with others by being a part of certain groups or local running clubs. Many runners dismiss this thought at the start because they had no desires of taking their running to a competitive level but soon end up participating in various races across the country.

Running can do a lot more than offer you a sense of physical well-being. It is a source of psychological benefits as you truly appreciate of a whole running training system and take it further as a key to a good life style and fitness that will lasts a lifetime.

If you are getting into running for fitness reasons, it would be best to set certain goals by visualizing what it is exactly that you need to accomplish. Don’t aim low but rather set something high such as improving your lap time by a certain percentage, getting rid of a couple of weights and ultimately participating in competitive races.

Aside from the High goals that are likely to be long term, it is also just as important to set short term goals to look forward to so you can appreciate your progress in various steps. This will keep you motivated and can prove extremely useful in reaching the high goals you’ve set ahead.

After everything is set including your goals and the timeframe you can then initiate your program and start training. By thinking about all these things thoroughly, you can increase your chances of succeeding significantly.

Perhaps the hardest part is that you will be responsible for coming up with a system to motivate and keeping yourself in check as pursue your goals to a better well-being.

Keep all of these things in mind and they shall go a long way in enhancing your performance on your runs as well your overall health.

By: Alex Ryan

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About healthy living and exercise are just two benefits that will help you to lose weight. Diet and exercise are like ingredients to help make up a recipe, you need them both to help you lose weight. There are many types of diets and exercise programs to choose from that it is best to talk them over with your doctor first.

Exercise is a key factor is staying healthy. Regular healthy living can help prevent obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure. Regular exercise can help lose weight, or control it, help chronic arthritis suffers improve on their daily living activities such as driving, working, climbing stairs, and opening letters, jars, or folding laundry. About healthy living and exercise will in turn help increase self-esteem and self-confidence, decreases stress and anxious moments. Exercise will also improve on your general mental health and enhance your mood.

Another factor is to help you stay healthy is your diet, which will also help you to lose weight. Generally, drink lots of water at least 8 glasses a day, limit sugar, salt intake, alcohol and smoking cigarettes. Try to avoid soda, caffeine, fried foods, cakes, and cookies and snack foods, fattening foods that put on weight and eat nutritious foods that are good for you such as adding fiber, vegetables, beans, nuts and whole grain products to your diet. Eat small meals and often throughout the day, rather than three big meals. Eat slowly to enjoy your meal instead of rushing through it. These benefits about healthy living and exercise will help you lose weight naturally.

About diet and exercise together is the proper way to lose weight and stay healthy. Regular exercise will help you feel better and aid a lot of ailments such as stress and anxiety. Proper nutrition, cutting down on calories, eating small meals and exercise regularly will give you more energy and to help you lose the weight.

By: Beth Hoover

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An infant’s smile or a child’s laugh is magical. Receiving a smile from an infant or child elicits an automatic smile from any adult. Parents, grandparents and adults alike will perform varying degrees of happy face antics in the hope of getting a baby to smile. Medical studies have determined that laughing is both contagious and healthy.

I it’s most demure mode, laughing will manifest itself visually as a smile maybe coupled with some wide eye contact. At the other extreme end of the laughing scale, you will realize Visual, Kinesthetic, and Auditory displays – leg slapping, belly shaking, body contorting laughter! Just thinking about this ‘Laugh Attack’ brings a smile to your face. Remembering or thinking about laughter itself physically and mentally emotes all the positive effects of actually laughing.

The beautiful thing about laughter is that it is contagious. It matters not whether you initiate laughing or it comes from some other source, the health benefits of laughing have been studied and documented.

Laughter is the BEST MEDICINE!

Yet, laughter is still one of the least understood of human behaviors and one that is just now a serious study by scientists. Science has been able to determine three parts of the brain are activated during a good laugh:

1) a thinking or cognitive area for understanding the joke,

2) a movement or kinesthetic part for initiating muscle movement, and

3) an emotional region that derives the “giddy” feeling. Why do people laugh at jokes delivered while others laugh at incongruities like pain inflicted or a threatening situations? Is laughter a signal indicating a action is meant “in fun”? These things are still being studied.

Laughter makes us (and others) feel better.

Studies have identified a number of areas, where applying laughter, will be a positive and healthy experience. Feel better by laughing:

1) Health and laughing

A) lifts up your mood

B) is contagious and positive

C) is stress reducing

D) has proven long term connections to improved mental health

2) Learning and laughter has shown that

A) levity as a teaching style reduces fear and anxiety and opens students up to learning and absorbing

B) well-planned, appropriate, contextual humor can help students ingrain information

3) Relationships and laughing

A) help create a social lubricant that, in groups, encourages cooperation and altruistic behavior

B) is believed to be one of the earliest forms of communication; especially, emotional communication. Laughter could have preceded the spoken word and bonded groups in pre-historic society.

“By the time a child reaches nursery school, he or she will laugh about 300 times a day. Adults laugh an average of 17 times a day.” “Science of Laughter” Discovery Health

Clearly as adults we do not laugh enough. Here are ten ideas to improve and increase laughter [and fun] in your life:

1) Receive, Share and Tell Jokes – email is awesome for this and so are social gatherings. Telling jokes (and learning what jokes are appropriate) will prove to improve your social and public speaking skills.

2) Share humorous personal stories – stories about yourself will allow you to laugh at yourself. Laughing at yourself is a great way to express and learn from our mistakes and little foibles.

3) With your family and friends play group games that require group interaction (Parlour Games) – old standards and board games (like Charades, Pictionary, Balderdash, Cranium, Trivial Pursuit, Humzinger) or more organized themed events like a Murder Mystery Night. Excellent for a varied group of age and shyness. These are just FUN! Play like children!

4) Laugh out loud – not just a chuckle, a deep laugh that works the lungs and belly (maybe even brings tears to your eyes). Laughing equals Happy and Happy equals Healthy!

5) Karoke or new video games like Guitar Hero – whether at home or at a public event, singing and music are excellent and fun group situations that will help create fun and laughter!

6) Meet your group at a favorite pub or watering hole – conversation and stories will naturally make you laugh. Have fun!

7) Play Kids’ Games – nothing allow you to play like a child than playing with your children or grandchildren. And nothing is more liberating than laughing with children!

Learn with friends – experience learning a new language or go to dance class with other people or couples. Laughing will open you up to a better learning experience.

9) Host a Party (maybe with a Fun Theme (item 3) – a casual informal gathering (BYOB, BBQ, Campfire or Dinner Party) will always give people an opportunity to meet and share. Invite fun people and you will create a fun and memorable event.

10) Do something you have never done before – with other people or friends, step out and do something new (community fair, site seeing, small airplane ride, hot air balloon, casino, a day at the track, snowmobiling, skiing). With a group you have both the benefit of increased support and protection. Have fun!

Fun and Laughter is best in a social group setting. Do Not attempt Laughter alone. It is best served with friends. Get Crackin’ and Get Laughin’!

By: Carl Chesal

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