Muscular Strength? Not just for bodybuilders.
Increasing muscular strength is not just for bodybuilders and weightlifters. It helps you build stronger, healthier muscles AND bones, helps with your balance and stability, helps you maintain a health body composition (the ratio between fat and muscle) and may help to boost energy levels, mood and good sleep patterns.
The Happiness Advantage - Principle #2 - The Fulcrum and the Lever
Our mindset makes a huge difference. Studies have found those given fake hair regrowth grew hair product and those who pretended to be younger had improved eyesight, memory and even looked younger! This isn't about thinking positive thoughts all the time. It is about realising that reality is not fixed but is actually relative.
The Happiness Advantage - Principle #3 - The Tetris Effect
This week we look at Principle #3 of the Happiness Advantage: The Tetris Effect. Researchers found that participants who played tetris for hours a day found that they couldn’t stop seeing tetris shapes everywhere they went. The same thing happens in our daily lives. We can train your mind to look for the positive things and create a positive tetris effect resulting in happiness and gratitude.
Chair Exercises to Help that Sore 'Work from Home' Neck and Shoulders
Many of us are having to make do with makeshift home office set ups such as laptops on kitchen tables or worse, working from the couch. The average head weighs about 5 and half kilos (as much as bowling ball) and when we tilt our neck at 45 degrees, it puts about 23 kilos of force on our necks! (that’s as much as a small Labrador!). This tends to cause stiffness in our neck and shoulders. Here are some exercises to help relieve that tension.
Stress - Part 6 – What to do about it - Visualisation, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Massage, Biofeedback and Hypnosis
This week, we'll look into ways to manage stress. These are drawn from Donatelle’s book, “Health: The Basics” and is not an exhaustive list but we hope this way you can look into them further. We look into how Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Deep Breathing and Meditation can help you reduce your stress.