Taking care of our health…

It is an important element of these days and everybody seems to be thinking about their health. But one day this shall pass and then we shall go back to our old ways… I hope not.

Health is wealth as it enables you to do as many things as possible and obtain resources. If you have health, but no wealth, you can at least generate the minimum resources for your life, but if you have wealth without health is like having feet but not shoes…

And health is a very complex topic as our bodies are complex. But we need to not only take care of it during the crisis, but learn to take care of it at all times.

Let’s not forget our mental health as we fight against being in enclosed spaces or living with other people in ways we were not ready for that.

I am not from healthcare, but I would like to suggest you to take care of your health in three different ways, based on my many experiences of dealing with my own body:

Let’s keep on checking with doctors. Although this present crisis has shown us that we must learn how to research on health topics and we shouldn’t be depending only on doctors, it is important to insert them to our life, and according to our lifestyle, since there are many avenues of medicine.

We take care of our lifestyle. A good diet, a powerful routine of exercises and many habits will help us to improve our capacity and immune system. It is time to invest time and energy developing all of those.

Spirituality also helps. It is a very wrongful myth that spiritual people don’t take care of their health, but even many spiritual people also believed it. In fact, by developing spirituality we will naturally take care of our body, as we will understand the importance of health in our lives. Practices as meditation or prayers have a wonderful effect in health too.

This is the first of a series of articles on self-care.

Taking care of your sleep

To sleep or not to sleep? That is the question!

For some time, to sleep looked like a waste of time, a careless act.

But this changed and for some time, to sleep has turned the new healing tool; I have a friend of mine who used to be an advocate of a good sleep, lasting a good number of hours and it could change life.

But what is the way to potentiate your sleep in such way that your life may change?

First of all you have to frame sleep within a self-care process, which means sleeping is not only a biological procedure the body uses to renovate its energy. OK, it is, but if you want to change your life, you may want to think of it as the powerful tool it really is.

Second thing, what does sleep do to the self that it really heals? That understanding will help you to give relevance to that part of your physical biology.

The third and last thing you need to do is to improve its quality. It can be done in many different ways, depending on your personality, lifestyle and time availability. Three recommendations:

• Try to eat before 2 hours you go to sleep. If you want to drink something, check it does not contain caffeine or anything that will prevent you to sleep.
• Meditate, pray, think positive or journal within the thirty minutes before going to sleep. That positive energy will help a lot.
• If you are not feeling easy and calm, try to solve some of those situations. Maybe not a full solution, but a soup for the soul, something comforting like talking with a good friend, watching a wonderful program or just reading that thing you would love.

Keeping healthy

No, I am trying to not talk about the… virus… After all, as a blog, it is possible someone uses it later and maybe – hopefully – nobody would remember what it is. What it was.

But it is always relevant to talk about keeping healthy and even though times change, that need won’t change.

In my experience, health starts in the awareness and attitude as that was my weak point. It took time for me to understand the importance of self-care.

So, the next posts will be on this deeply important theme: SELF-CARE.

For now, could you tell me: Do you want to know anything about it? Or do you want to comment on this and contribute with this topic?

A New Year, a new “me”

2020 will attract a lot of attention; just wait to see how many people will talk about the year of perfect vision!

I have already spent many and many years and I don't know how many new years seemed to be the definitive ones, when I would finally achieve that dream, that change or that transformation. So I should lose hope on 2020, right?

No, not really. I think that every year has brought me closer to my dream - and in some of these years, I saw a few dreams come true. I know that I changed a lot as a person and even, in some areas of my life I have transformed.

The magic of the New Year does exist. It renews not only vague hopes or elusive dreams, but it gives me the possibility to reset my life, even if it is partial. And in this 2020, I want to use this beautiful number of interesting, though simple, symmetry, to stimulate me to reflect.

For me, and I hope for you too, this year I will have a great opportunity to renew myself and really be different. I will have 20 opportunities to be a new me.

In the physical, it will be an opportunity to opt for a healthier diet and, when I do physical exercises, change the way I perceive myself. I can change the way I dress or look for a house somewhere else and go to live there. I will travel a lot: I will travel every weekend or I will intend to travel to places that I had never thought of going before. Perhaps, it is time to study and work in another career.

What opportunities await you in the physical plan in this New Year?

There is another level that opens up many probabilities, related to your mind and emotions. Because this year I have the enormous possibility of cultivating another way of thinking and sustaining a positive attitude, despite the situations. Instead of worrying, I will deal with creative thoughts and fill my being with constructive emotions. It is time to use the power of my mind to its fullest extent, so I can turn my ideas that are so valuable into something physical.

What is your window of improvement in your mental and emotional capacity in this New Year?

It is in the spiritual that I have more hope of success, because it will be a year to meditate more, much more. I will work in my inner world, making it more stable and I will establish myself as a leader of the self. It will be the year not to react to situations, but to reflect and then do something. Everything is summed up to BE before HAVING or DOING. Finally, seek to experience the natural goodness of others and empower myself, at every step.

How much will you dedicate this year to the development of your spirituality?

When being healthy is being a magician

For many years, one disease or another made me company. Being sick, especially as a child, meant that I was deprived of the joy and lightness typical of that time, of the many friends and too many games... It affected even my school performance - Physical Education is a subject - and it marked me a lot.

For several reasons, I decided to enter a military school, more specifically the Air Force. Although I had to study hard for the examination, in parallel to a normal school, I managed to pass with a good number. During the preparation time, the most important thing for me was the work on my physical body, since my fear was not passing the physical tests.

I’ve passed. Suddenly I was living with more than 200 boys in a huge dormitory. While in an environment like this my illness should grow, but it was quite the opposite. The contact with nature, exercises and marches did their job on me and I was only in the hospital once in three years of study.

This was the beginning of a fundamental change, because health is not only important; being healthy is MAGICAL.

The departure of the Air Force coincided with the beginning of the practice of meditation, which involved changing my diet and schedules. For decades, I have been able to observe how health was influenced by my mind and spiritual endeavor, a dimension different from that of the Air Force.

Today, despite continuing to have health problems, I experience magic in relation to being productive and maintaining normal relationships with other people. Even when the body's energy seems to be depleting, the soul gives it one last push...

This is a series of posts on MAGIC…

PS I suggest you go to my channel, I have a playlist dedicated to good health. #GoodHealth