Healthy mind leads to a healthy body

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Some say a healthy body leads to a healthy mind but I firmly believe that a healthy mind leads to a healthy body.  When you are in the right mindset you are naturally inclined to want to feel healthy. You could be physically very healthy but have an unhealthy mindset or suffer from mental stress. Either way a healthy mind and a healthy body compliment each other.Healthy-mind-Healthy-body.

Develop your Intellectual Curiosity

I think as humans we all have intellectual curiosity. Whether we decide to ignite or develop it or not depends greatly on the individual’s thought process. A lot of us go through our early life learning specifically about our chosen career, albeit before it becomes a career, but for a good few of us everything holds great curiosity, and learning and discovering what fascinates us becomes a lifelong lesson.

It is important to have intellectual curiosity as it allows your mind to be active and not passive and as Intellectual-curiositycurious types of people are constantly asking questions and searching for the answers their minds are always active. As we know the mind is like a muscle and so the mental exercise caused by being curious ultimately makes the mind stronger.

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them―a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Mental Energy Balance

It’s a well known fact that you can increase and maintain high energy levels by being physically active, getting a good night’s sleep and having a balanced diet.

We lose mental energy every day through our emotions. The more positive the emotion that has been released increases the energy for both the giver and the receiver. The more negative the emotion being released, increases the energy of the recipient and takes it from the donor. Our emotions transfer mental energy from one person to another.

In order to ensure you have enough mental energy you have to actively seek to replenish the bases from which you receive mental energy from. The main sources to increase your mental energy stem from being surrounded by those who love, support and understand you, those who offer praise and encouragement.

Also, doing activities that bring you joy and contentment. If, you are out of your comfort zone and are experiencing difficulty with a task, you will lose energy. Similarly, if you are enjoying the task and like what you are doing, then you re-gain energy or as some say “recharge your batteries”. This way you will maintain a good balance.

Below are a few simple suggestions to obtain mental energy

  • Be Kind to People – especially yourself.
  • Let go of the little things – don’t sweat the small stuff, if something won’t matter by tomorrow then don’t let it ruin today.
  • Forgive yourself – Your past mistakes are there to guide you, not define you. Learn from your past, but don’t let it destroy you.
  • Listen to music – as often as you can during the day, sing out loud and dance when you can!
  • Slow down. Use your time away from the stresses of the working week to have a rest and relax doing something that you enjoy. R&R is a great way to replenish the mind and body.
  • Remove the major sources of stress and negativity from your life – unhealthy relationships with friends or family, de-clutter your living environment and reduce unnecessary splurging.
  • Avoid gossiping and drama – both are exhausting and draining your energy levels. If, you have nothing good to say, say nothing.
  • Laugh out loud and often don’t take yourself or life too seriously, you will miss out on so much fun!
  • Read & learn – Every day is a school-day! Broaden your interests and open your mind to new possibilities and beliefs by reading, watching documentaries or webinars, taking courses/classes etc.
  • Get enough sleep each night. We all know how much sleep we can “function on”, try increasing that by 1 hour and you will see the difference. No matter what your age, you’re never too old for a catnap.
  • Meditate regularly. Meditation improves so much in our lives, our memory, our mood, our immune system, and our creative ability. It need only take a few minutes a day for you to start seeing the benefits.
  • Get at least 15 minutes exercise each day. If, you happen to live close to where you work try taking 1 day a week to walk to work, cycling or going for walks, and at a pace that increases your heart rate is all that is needed for a good exercise regime. Exercise is so important for our health and puts us in a great mood.

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Cultivate Your Creativity

Most of us are not naturally creative, we have to work at it, but it’s true to say that everyone has the capacity to be creative, with a little work.

You may be lucky enough to be naturally creative and if so embrace this skill which is becoming increasing essential in life today.

Below are a few ideas that may help you to cultivate and nurture your creative abilities.

Be Impulsive – creativity often comes easier to the young and to those who have not yet learnt adult responsibilities, it is not about being thoughtless rather to be impulsive, as if there are no rules.

Writing – Why not try your hand at writing a type of poetry, Free Verse with no rules, Sonnets a short rhyming poem with 14 lines, a Limerick which is a five-line witty poem with a distinctive rhythm, or an Acrostic poem where the one letter in each line spells out a word or phrase vertically that acts as the theme of the poem.

Because there are all sorts of rules involved it forces you to be creative in your expression. If, you want to go a step further, create a blog or write a story.

Free play – a relatively unknown term in the adult world but this fun and unstructured form of play is particularly favoured by preschool children who embark on it with vigour and imagination. Making time to play something that involves no rules, no end game and involves a lot of imagination can be highly conducive to increasing your creativity.

It could be making a den from blankets to getting creative with colourful chalk on a public footpath, whatever you decide it doesn’t really matter… what does matter is how you feel when you are playing and what you notice around you. The end result is to play without a care in the world!Tap-into-your-creative-side

If none of these ideas ignite you then perhaps you can cultivate your creativity in another way. If, you simply don’t feel creative, or if your environment does not allow creativity then remove yourself from that space and take back control of your actions.

Embrace and celebrate creativity in your life and in the lives of your loved ones.

Tap into your Spiritual side

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You may be a person of faith or you may not. But one sure way to effectively control stress in your life is to build a connection with something.  For some it’s to practice their religion within their communities for others it’s embracing the higher energy from within themselves and connecting with the universe and all its natural wonders.

When you build up your spiritual awareness you begin to realise that we are all connected and are all part of this vast cosmos and all important in the same way. The mind, body, and spirit are all connected. There is emotional freedom and physical health to be gained from this realisation.

Healthy Mind = Healthy Body

So, if you turn your world into a place that allows you to reduce stress, eat well, be positive, and embrace your spirituality, you will have a healthy mind and body, and they will work together to give you a satisfying life.

So a healthy mind keeps you lively and active, a healthy body keeps you free and alive and both together makes for a very fulfilling life.

Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

~ Naval Ravikant


Julie Anne Byrne

Hello, I am Julie Anne Byrne, and this is my blog website.  You can read more on my story in the About Me section above. I hope you enjoy your time visiting my site and reading my blogs and that you find them interesting. Please feel free to leave a comment on any post and I will respond. While I like to think the main purpose of this website is to share information, ideas and tips on living a positive and happy life it will also feature a section on My Recommendations and things I have come across or books of interest that I have read. I hope that communicating together we can combine our thoughts on how the journey through this wonderful experience called life can best be achieved.

12 Comments

Edward · August 29, 2019 at 10:30 pm

Thanks for this article. I agree that a healthy mind and being healthy on the inside leads to a healthy body. I also think that healthy emotions leads to a healthy body and that can also come from a healthy mind in some ways.

I didn’t used to be as healthy as I am now on the inside and my physical body was not as healthy either. But then I went through some different sort of healing journeys and I became healthier on the inside. Now I’m noticing that my body is naturally much healthier too without really having to try that hard.

I hope that people who have not heard of this concept yet will find your article because I think it will help them a lot too. There are so many people suffering from medical conditions these days but they might not realize some of the causes might have to do with what’s going on on the inside.

Also sometimes when stressful things are happening around us it can affect us on the inside and physically. So hopefully less stressful things will happen around us too.

    Julie Anne Byrne · August 30, 2019 at 4:18 pm

    Glad you enjoyed the article and yes you are so right healthy emotions and how we react to situations we find ourselves in is equally as important to having healthy and positive thoughts.   

    I believe if more people realised the link between having a healthy mind and a healthy body there would be less sickness in the world.  The good news is that you can adopt these changes and implement them into your life at anytime (as you have seen) and notice real change. 

    What you feed your mind is equally as important as what you feed your body. 

chrisJ · August 29, 2019 at 10:35 pm

I love this post so much.  I literally try to live and teach this all the time.  We have to show love as a human race.  We will never grow as a species or as an individual if we can not trigger into showing love.  Even if that mean to our enemies.  If you are bibilical or spiritual it does not matter.  One can not ignore the power of positivity and love. 

    Julie Anne Byrne · August 30, 2019 at 4:26 pm

    I totally agree with your sentiments. 

    Positivity is so under utilised, we can all tap into it, it’s completely free and it propels us forward like no other.  

    If you surround yourself with positive like minded individuals it becomes infectious, and I for one would love to see this epidemic spread in our world today.  

Dane · August 29, 2019 at 10:37 pm

One very important thing in the lives of everyone is a healthy mind. Most people do not develop their mind and pay more attention to the body in form of exercise. 

We all must have read about exercising as an important part of our lives but still people fail to develop their mind and it goes deep into affecting our everyday life. I am a first  hand victim of that. 

Thanks for this really educational post. I’ve learned a lot reading through.

    Julie Anne Byrne · August 30, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    Very welcome, glad you found my post helpful.  

    I’d like to think that a healthy body naturally allows for a healthy mind but that is not always the case as society shows us with some of our most esteemed athletes suffering from mental ill-health.  

    A simple act of indulging in preserving some mental energy or feeding your inner child by exploring your creative side could go a long way for a lot of us. 

Henderson · August 29, 2019 at 10:44 pm

I agree, doing things that brings one joy can result in good mindset which in turn becomes good health. I like when you say a person might have a healthy body but still not have a healthy mind. 

The tips you have given are very helpful and I think I should put them in my routine too. I need to give more and listen to good music too. 

Thanks for this and I wish us all a healthy life but in mind and in body.

    Julie Anne Byrne · August 31, 2019 at 10:38 am

    I’m happy you found the tips helpful and easy to follow, it’s not that difficult to implement into your life, slow and steady and before very long you will begin to see visible results in your mind and body. 

    Wishing you and yours a healthy life. 

Kimberly Armendariz · September 9, 2019 at 6:59 pm

Very well put together website. It has a very nice flow to it , love the colors and content. If I could add anything it would be more visuals, you are definitely onto something that we don’t practice enough in this society.

    Julie Anne Byrne · September 9, 2019 at 9:53 pm

    Thanks for the comments Kimberly, glad you enjoyed your visit. Thanks for the tip re visuals! Wishing you the very best of luck. Julie Anne

Hilde Regine Rayani · February 24, 2020 at 7:32 pm

Hi!

Just popping in to your blog because I was curious 🙂 I am very into intellectual curiosity and free play.

That is how I remember my childhood. I am still curious!

    Julie Anne Byrne · February 24, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    Hi Hilde

    Thanks for popping by, I hope your curiosity has led you to seek out some of my other posts too 😉

    Curious and impulsive are excellent traits!!

    Thanks for sharing your thoughts and wishing you all the very best, Julie Anne

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