Why It Is Important to Keep Low Amounts of Stress (Health)

Did you know that having high amounts of stress leads to overdosing of eating unhealthily, making bad decisions, increase of laziness, decrease and sleep and much more pitiful, and alarming harms towards your human health?

Well, in return there are factors to play around that type of stress life. throughout this blog post I will be covering the three ways of thinking terms that I used to develop a stress free life. The three terms are simply think positive of yourself, gain self-confidence and keep yourself around people that make you happy. 

In addition, if you think positive of yourself, you are on step one of the road to a stress free life. From the book Change Your Brain Change Your Body by Daniel Amen, he states, “How Stress plays tricks with your mental health is by draining your emotional well-being and associating anxiety and depression. Stress activates the limbic system of the brain, which is your emotional center.” (Amen 221). Here Amen is reconsidering that stress also builds up depression of mental health. This can come into play in relationships, with friends and family, etc. One of the biggest ways that I built up mental stress was when my mom died of breast cancer 4 years ago. With my mom being dead and not being here for me I had to build up a mindset of thinking positive and being able to do things for myself from now on. I’ve noticed that most teenagers my age have a mom to do most things for them and they’re spoiled. But I have to overcome these issues myself. For example, cooking dinner at night for myself. If you think positive of yourself and set yourself up for success you will feel a decrease of stress throughout your life.

Furthermore, if you gain self-confidence, you will eventually think positive of yourself and not develop any internal stress. Amen brings up the topic of “how chronic stress harms the brain.” He states, “Stress is a normal part of every day life. Don’t give me wrong I little stress can be a good thing. But, there is more negatives than positives between stress. The stress hormones are the primary chemicals of the fight or flight response in there especially useful when you face on immediate threat. The stress hormones majorly come into play around mental states like death of a loved one” (Amen 215). Amen Is corresponding the differences between positive stress and negative stress. I too agree that there is more negative stress than positive stress. An example way that I developed positive stress was when I lost a soccer game against a rival team that we usually beat every year. Though losing in competitive sports games leads to stress, me losing to that rival team motivated me for next time to work harder. That’s developed me to gain self-confidence prepare myself for my next journey without stress. So yes stress can be good to motivate yourself but on the Flip side majority of stress falls under the negative categories.

 

Lastly, if you surround yourself around people that make you happy and are good influences you will positively generate yourself closer towards a physical stress free life. Amen brings up the topic of stress by stating, “You can literally scare your body into a stress response the brain is a very powerful organ. Brief surges of stress hormones are normally beneficial. The motivate you to do a good job that work, Study before a test, how Your mood is with your friends or paying your bills on time. The problem with stress in our modern world is not these short bursts of aline and cortisol. Chronic stress constricts blood flow to the brain, which lowers overall brain function and prematurely age is your brain. Researchers found that stress flip-flops your mood swings when you are with friends or family and create temporary effects on young adults thinking and memory skills” (Amen 211). Overall, having stress in your life develops your body to response in positive ways by motivating yourself. But, also, in negative ways by mentally and physically constricting your body. I have surrounded myself with positive friends and family members that make me happy. I also surround myself with people that think positive of me and support me through my times, and I do the same back to them.

Though stress is a normal part of every day life, You can indeed decrease the amount of stress by the three topics of thinking positive of yourself, gaining self-confidence and keeping yourself around people that make you happy and a positive influences. If you succeed in doing that, I will promise that you will see a decrease in stress, because it worked for me in multiple ways, for example, mental stress and physical stress.

One statement that I could leave you off with is why set yourself up for failure by gaining stress on your shoulders, if you could set yourself up for success by living in a positive happy life around people you like?

If you had the chance to get one thing back in your life that you regret doing, wanting or having what would that be?

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.

How To Stay Healthy By Exercising

Do you physically exercise on a regular basis? Maybe once a month? Or maybe once a week? Or maybe even more than once a week? Or maybe even not at all?

Well, it’s a fact that if you do not produce physical activity daily you will become unhealthy physically, internally, and in many more ways.

What I do to develop myself to produce physical activity is motivate myself by strengthening my brain to develop health strength. For example, I create procedures for my daily routines. Or I produce brain power by learning New ways to work out and exercise.

From the book “Change Your Brain Change Your Body” Daniel Amen states, “ physical activity is A natural part of daily life. Physical activity is the single most important thing you can do to enhance brain function and keep your body looking young. Physical exercise acts like a natural wonder drug for the brain. It improves the hearts ability to pump blood through the body, which increases blood flow to the brain. That supplies more oxygen, Glucose and nutrients to the brain, which enhances overall brain function.” (Amen 109).

I believe that I can relate six main exercises for your body and brain. The six exercises would be, exercise encourages the growth of new brain cells, physical activity enhances cognitive abilities at all ages, exercise enhances your mood, exercise calms worries and anxiety, exercise helps alleviate depression, and people who exercise regularly sleep perpetually better. The six brain exercises are truly facts due to my experience of exercising. I’ve noticed that all these six exercises can relate to making you intelligently smarter, gain higher abilities in strength, calms your mood, makes you happier about yourself and relax happier.

Exercising can be as easy as going to the mountains and snowboarding, playing sports, stretching/acrobatic apprentices, going to the gym, walking your dog, jumping jacks, and even sleeping. If you take the time to add exercise into your busy schedule it will definitely be a success and act leading to happiness for your life. 

One major concept that I’ve noticed you my experience of working out and exercising is The fact that it plays a major role on your health benefits. When I work out what I’m trying to do is gain strength and make myself stronger physically. I do this not only because it makes me feel better about myself but also physically is healthy for me.

If you develop the correct mindset to stay healthy it will indeed be progressed by your brain/minds motivation and dedication towards keeping yourself healthy. To do this I have realized that you have to have a lot of dedication. Dedication in a way of strength in your brain. It can be driven by motivation and just straight up thinking.

I will leave you with a comment/motivational question, it is, if you desire to stay healthy you will join me and develop a correct mindset to stay healthy by asking yourself, who do you really want to be strength wise, what will you do to make it there, when will it happen, where will happen, and why will you do it?

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.

How Getting the Right Amount of Sleep Keeps You Healthy

Do you have trouble falling asleep? Do you go to sleep easily but wake up repeatedly throughout the night? Do you find it hard to drag yourself out of bed in the morning? Does your mom or dad tell you stories about how you sleepwalked or snored loudly throughout the night?

If so, all of these problems can lead to decreased brain function and a second rate body. A second rate body is when your brain develops a lesser quantity and quality of the action. For example, if your brain desires five hours of sleep a night you are incorrect because the requirements for each age group of humans lifetime are different. On average each human being needs around 7 to 14 hours of sleep a night. If your body does not correctly adjust to these amounts of sleep, you are in debt of developing a loss of sleep creating an unhealthy environment for your body.

From the text Change Your Brain Change Your Body by Daniel Amen, in chapter 10 under the sleep solution, Amen states, “ having a static function of sleep hours throughout your life can discreetly sprain function and lower positive health. Getting less than six hours of sleep a night has been associated with lower overall brain activity, which can affect your weight, your skin, your mood, your Health and your athletic performance” (Amen 196). He stated a direct response from the four questions I directed at the start of the post. Amen is implying that getting less sleep develops your body to change physically and actively in decreasing your success in staying healthy in all standards. Sleeping the correct amount of hours for your age Is essential for positive health.

I’ve noticed throughout the 15 years of my life that developing a procedure for yourself at the start of the day when you wake up can change how you act throughout the day. It will also change your mindset to arrange a fulfilling success to your health standards. An example of this would be right when you wake up in the morning on a Sunday before you have a full week of work/education, plan out what you will be doing throughout the week each day and the order of that. Then scale out the amount of workload that is needed for each day. If you believe that you need extra energy for certain days go to bed an extra hour or 30 minutes early that night before. If you are a teenager like me I have also noticed that going to bed early helps you be fully energized, educated,Happy and non-deteriorated. If you successfully get the correct amount of hours of sleep for your age, there is no doubt that you will feel energized and have enough energy for the workload you are doing that day.

Amen starts another chapter by stating, “Rest your brain for a slimmer shape and smoother skin” (Amen 195).

This sentence starter develop me to think of the time when I needed to study for finals Freshman year. Two weeks ahead from the date I was going to take finals I created a procedure of what I was going to do to be successful for finals. Are used my mindset skills to create a list of every day study tools to use and how to use them. I first created the tools then I used them the second week. To fully be successful one of the major components was studying and eating healthy but another one was rather getting enough sleep. Every night for two weeks before the final date for finals I forced myself to be in bed every day at 9:00 PM. So obviously I had to study before that so usually I would do at 8:00 PM. I did that for the two weeks and I became very successful my freshman year. And I do advise myself to do that for my sophomore year this year too.

In addition Amen then informs, “ good sleep is essential for optimal brain and body health. Is involved in rejuvenating all the cells in your body, gives brain cells a chance to repair themselves and activates neuronal connections that might otherwise deteriorate due to inactivity. Temporary sleep issues are even more common and will affect almost everyone of us at some point in our lifetime” (Amen 195).

This reflects the procedure that I used for finals completely. Basically if you and your body can cooperate and desire yourself to get the right amount of sleep by using your Brain to think. You will have the dedication of the ideas to keep a healthy body by getting the correct amount of sleep. Getting the correct amount of sleep is a very essential rock in the ocean.

If you don’t get the right amount of sleep you can develop the illness of sleep deprivation, which is the situation or condition of suffering lack of sleep. This is caused by laziness. And if you use laziness to not get the right amount of sleep you can develop sleepiness throughout your day, less energy to do stuff, no changes, difficulty concentrating, poor performance, memory and thinking problems, disorientation and disruption of sleep cycle.

Do you want to have this disruption in your lifetime?

If you would not like this large cycle of disoriented problems, I would advise getting the right amount of sleep as an essential key component of your daily procedures.

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.

Developing a Mindset For Healthy Eating Habits

Have you ever thought about your diet? Maybe what you eat or drink? Or maybe even the amount that you eat or drink? Maybe even the affects to what you eat and drink does to your body. One of the major key components to staying healthy and keeping or getting the body you want is eating healthy.

If you simply change or keep the correct diet that your body desires for , you will definitely be on the right path to staying healthy and suddenly see changes in shape, size, or maybe looks. 

From the book Change Your Brain Change Your Body by Daniel Amen, in chapter 4 called The Nutrition Solution he states, “Three truths about food to eat. The first one is you are what you eat. Throughout your lifetime your body is making and renewing it cells. Your skin cells make themselves new every 30 days. See you at fuels cell growth and regeneration. What you consume on a daily basis directly affect the health of your brain and body." (Amen 83).

This first "Truth About Food" developed me to understand that if you eat fast food you will become like the fast food. for example, becoming unreliable and last thought worthy. If you use fast food as a direct source for food weekly it will affect how you and your body health wise will look and change. I've noticed that I eat fast food once every week. Eating this trashy, greasy, unwanted fast food developed me to want to change my exercising limits. So now knowing and researching about unhealthy foods like fast food, I generated a mindset to exercise everyday to stay healthy. 

"The second one is food is a drug. Food affects your mood and energy level. You have probably noticed that as a child snacks and cookies affects you to bounce off the walls. Or when your boss guzzles coffee she gets impatient or demanding. That’s because food is affected as a drug manner" (Amen 83).

The second "Truth About Food" developed an understanding that eating a food over and over again creates you to become okay with eating the food many times. If you ate a lot of cabs like Oreo's it will develop your mind to say I want more of this and will force you to eat more. But what I do is think of it this way. If you want to turn out to be lazy and ugly, eat foods that will change you. But if you want to stay healthy and look beautiful everyday, you will have to eat healthy. Another example to relate to is smoking. Its addicting and supposedly "good and cool." But it really not and what else is not good and cool is eating unhealthy. That is how i am motivated to think and translate to stay healthy. 

"The third one is diet influences everything in your life. Everything you consume affects your physical health and well-being. Food affects your; overall health, ability to think quickly and clearly, energy level, physical and athletic performance, weight and appearance.” (Amen 83).

This third "Truth About Food" developed me to understand that if you consume unhealthy food or an overdosing amount that your stomach can't hold, and you do it many times, you will become unhealthy and lazy. How I changed my standards of eating is using common sense. If you eat healthy meals and maybe have one cheat day a week, you will stay healthy. 

Common sense and the 3 "Truths About Food" made me noticed in my body mostly that food you eat can develop muscle growth or decrease in muscle growth. Throughout the retaliation of my motivation to eat healthier, has developed me to work out and exercise. This changed my standards by getting me off my but and develop a better mindset on Health. Eating healthy has also motivated/developed me to notice a change in facial recognition. Throughout my teenager life I noticed I have monthly breakouts with acne. I have tried many different face washes, many different toners and moisturizers, and hey couple different pills. The one that most successfully stopped my acne breakouts was the pills.

In the end the main truth about foods people and myself eat is that if you want to stay healthy do what is right and don't be lazy about putting extra time into creating a meal in the long run that will change your life successfully. That is truly a fact. The quote I chose from page 83 improves my performance in staying healthy by changing eating mindsets and habits.
Do you have the correct mindset inside of your brain to eat/diet correctly and stay healthy?

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.

Having the Right Mindset For a Healthy Body

Are you thinking what i'm thinking? Well if so I advise you to read this whole post due to tips and engagement that will rise you to a happier lifestyle. 

The non-fiction text "Change Your Brain Change Your Body" states, "It is your brain that decides to get you out of bed in the morning to exercise, to give you a stronger wiener body, or to cause you to hit the snooze button and procrastinate your work out. It is your brain that pushes you away from telling the table that you have had enough, or give you permission to have a second bowl of rocky road ice cream, making you look and feel like a blob. Is your brain the manages the stress in your life and relax with you so that you look vibrant, or when you left unchecked, send stress signals to the rest of your body and wrinkles to your skin. And it is your brain that turns away cigarettes, too much caffeine and alcohol, helping you look and feel healthy or give you the permission to not. Yes all create a system of health" (Daniel Amen 3). 
The text is applying the figures that if you use your brain the correct way and develop your brain to have strong, successful and healthy habits, it will develop you to overcome a procedure in life. That procedure will make you get and keep the body and habits that you will have always wanted. If you succeed to have strong, successful and healthy habits you will indeed  see changes quickly if prohibited. 
I have been through the challenges of being stuck with fast food for almost every meal of the day, lack of sleep on school nights and having a weak mindset of wanting to workout but then not being able to due to laziness. This all can affect your mindset of staying healthy but can be revoked by saying "No i am doing this today." Or "I'm making the promise of staying healthy for a year or my whole life."

Here I am reading the book "Change Your Brain Change Your Body." This book is very inspiring and gives great tips and lots of mindset tips on changing you brain to be successfully healthy.

The text again states, "Your brain is the command and control center of your body if you want to have a better body the first thing is to always start having a better growth mindset"  (Amen 4). 
This is left me with a message that when you do something your brain has muscle memory to want to make that a habit and do it over and over again. If you do that habit over and over again it will affect you in the long run badly. But if the habits that are strong, successful and healthy they will make you proficient and headed towards a successful mindset. 

Even i have tried and tried to keep a confident workout mindset throughout every summer and School year but sometimes you just need to take a break. Breaks are good but never procrastinate and let them get off the hook. Always have a backup plan and ease off the workout. don't just say "Okay well i'm done with this" and stop. Force yourself to start up again in another week. It is worth it trust me.

Do you want to improve your looks, style, eating habits, strength and health in general? Well, if you can develop a growth mindset to keeping a long term healthier lifestyle you are indeed ready to start a fresh "I will stay healthy" rather than a "I can't stay healthy".
Is your mindset healthy enough to keep your body sturdy? If you have any concerns follow my steps above and you will see changes in your health standards. 

Amen, Daniel G. The Brain-Body Solution. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get the Body You Have Always Wanted, Piatkus, 2012.