50 Ways To Improve Your Health

By: Lori Thayer

Choose one of these 50 ways to improve your health today. Practice the method regularly to maximize the benefit to your wellness. When it has become a regular part of your routing, add another item. Keep adding items and you will begin to see your stress level decrease and your health improve.

Improve Your Health By De-stressing and Relaxing

• Take a relaxing Bath
• Meditate
• Take 5 deep breaths for an immediate calming effect
  
• Take a walk
• Laugh (have more fun)
• Get a massage
• Get acupuncture
• Tap away your stress
• Listen to your body
• Enrich your mind (brain health)
• Practice the 5 minute daily energy routine
• Ground yourself – connect with nature more to improve your grounding or use a grounding mat such as the Earth Divine Mat (I sit on one while I work on the computer)
  
• Make peace
• Practice gratitude – count your blessings
• Improve your mood

Improve Your Health With a Healthy Environment

• Clean the air in your home
• Protect yourself from EMFs
• Make the air in your home healing (by diffusing essential oils)
• Disconnect for a weekend, turn off your phone and your laptop (make it easier on yourself by going camping or changing your routine)
  

Improve your Health By What You Consume

• Drink more water
• Boost your water with healing essential oils
• Start you morning with a smoothie
• Try a Paleo Diet
• Prepare your meals ahead of time
• Drink your greens
• Join a CSA
• Consume your vitamins through diet, not supplements
• Limit your coffee intake
• Get rid of your microwave
• Drink hot water with lemon to start and end your day

Improve Your Health At The Physical Level

• Wear a pedometer and go for more steps
• Try burst training
• Take a sauna
• Jump on a rebounder
• Spend time in the yard (and soak up some sun)
• Balance books on your head (improve your posture)
• Stretch
• Play active video games with your family (kinect)
• Sneak in exercise
• Practice Yoga
• Dry brush your skin
• Floss your teeth

Improve your Health By Improving Your Sleep

• Get blackout curtains
• Put electrical tape over all the lights in your bedroom
• Sleep better

Improve Your Health When You Improve Your Connection With Others

• Connect with your spouse
• Call a friend
• Plan an active date with your spouse or friends
• Get a pet – pets bring a lot of happiness to your life and improve your overall wellness
  

Share which method you will begin using today in the comments below.

Sometimes we get stuck in a bad mood and can't seem to find the way out. At these times the best option might just be to trick yourself info a better mood. Yes, it really is possible, I'll highlight several methods in this article.

Fake It Til You Make It

Faking a better mood can actually bring on the genuine thing. A few ways to do this are:

• Fake laughter – It really is as simple as just starting to laugh. Sure it sounds forced and fake but keep on laughing. Soon it will become genuine. Keep on laughing til you feel your mood truly shift.
  
• Force a smile - The faking that works with laughter can work with a smile as well. Force a smile to your face. The expression will trick yourself into better mood.
  

Force A Better Mood With Aromatherapy

Use aromatherapy to trick yourself into a more positive frame of reference. An easy way to do this is with a necklace diffuser or even simply wearing pure essential oils as a perfume.

Oils to use to trick your mood:

• Peace & Calming – When you need to soothe your emotions or going into a charged situation it's great to bring with you.
• Joy – This is a great essential oil to wear over your hear (in a place the light won't hit). This oil can help change depression into a positive state.
• Valor – Enhances physical strength.

Find these essential oil blends here.

What are your favorite tricks to a better mood? Share them with us in the comments below.

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How To Get Great Skin

& Love Going Makeup Free

By: Lori Thayer

I've never liked being a slave to makeup. As many of you no doubt desire, I want to have great skin and be happy with my makeup free look. After I entered my mid-30s I found this was more difficult to do. I was having to use more concealer and really didn't want step outside with my makeup free look.

As you can see in the picture above I've made improvements in my skin and wrinkles in 2012. I am so happy with my makeup free look that I find myself wearing less or no makeup more and more often. 

If I choose to not wear makeup for the day I am still happy with my look every time I check a mirror. I can't recall the last time that happened. My skin care routine has also gotten more simple, just 3 steps at night and one in the morning, but more on that in the next article. 

How To Get Great Skin:

You must take good care of your skin by following some simple rules:

• Clean your skin daily
  
• Never go to bed with your makeup on (or the dirt and grime from the day)
  
• Drink lots of water. Our bodies are mostly made up of water and your skin needs that water to be soft, supple and look it's best. Many wrinkles will lessen as you hydrate your body.
• Nourish your body. Our bodies need real, whole food to get the nutrients and mineral to work properly. The better your diet the better your body will look. 
• Use products that help your skin. The major change I made in the timeframe for the above pictures was adding a product called NeriumAD to my skin care routine.
• Generally I would also recommend moisturizing but if you start to use NeriumAD you may find your skin no longer needs a moisturizer. (Mine doesn't)
  

What changes will you be making to get great skin and love your makeup free look? Share your plans in the comments below.

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