Pursuing Sustainable Heart Healthy Activities

Post contributed by Harriet Dunes.

The practical realities of becoming healthier are hard to describe. However, it’s very important that we do so. There are many guides that emphasize simple methods to help you improve your heart health, but not all layout a simple plan for you. We hope to change that with these simple steps to give you an idea of the importance of sustainable heart healthy activities.

We’d recommend the following:

Start Your Day With Exercise

Upon waking, it’s important to start your day with a form of exercise. This allows you to fully wake up and elevates your heart rate. A morning workout can help offset a day sitting in the office.

Being active in the morning gifts you the ability to reduce lethargy throughout the day. This means ensuring you walk after lunch, commit various stretches during the day and also refrain from negative foods to help you become much more healthy in the long run.

Permeate Your Days With Discipline

Discipline is important when scheduling our practical daily realities. Sober living can often work to our advantage here and give us the headspace necessary to commit to our diet. Think of how alcohol and other indulgences often lead to other vices as if via a snowballing effect. Putting this extra tax on your system could be considered the opposite of ideal in all scenarios. You need to understand the consequences of everything you eat and consider how certain choices impedes heart health. A poor choice in the short term can mean negative long-term consequences, so be sure to consider every vice with due care and caution.

A Matter Of Daily Priorities

How you fill your days is often dictated by the fundamental choices of life. We are only afforded one body, and in lieu of any organ transplants, it is up to us to take care of it. This means understanding our priorities can help us shift our overall habits. For example, consider a chef working fourteen hours a day in a high stress, intense environment. Is it enough for them to simply cope with the stress and bottle it all up, or does an internal sense of self-worth allow them to seek out healthier habits?

This might mean when aging, this chef decides to hire additional help and delegate more tasks to lower workload and stress levels. You must find a way to balance income with the need for better health. It could also involve moving to another climate or even understanding the emotional turbulence of toxic people and removing them from your life.

End Your Day With Meditation

Meditation is one of the most important things you can do for heart health. Meditation, a time to relax, helps you lower your resting heart rate and unwind from a stressful day in a healthy wayr. This lessens your cortisol levels long term and also helps regulate your stress response. End each day with thirty minutes of meditation and you’re sure to see the benefits quickly.

With all this in mind, sustainable daily heart health could be yours for the taking.