The first step to fitness should be wellness

Having gone through my fair share of health conditions over the last few years, I was drawn to this course. I’ve been looking for ways to get more fit even though I may be limited in what I can do. I was learning new skills for overcoming these little obstacles from the start of this course. Mainly, I deal with a severe allergy to dust. This leaves me suffering from asthma and skin rashes that come and go, but mostly they just stick around.

I have learned that certain foods exacerbate the problem, and this audio course was hitting upon my issues straight away. I’ve eliminated those foods, and the situation improved noticeably. Still, I can’t but help feeling sorry for myself because the allergy never goes away. The speaker in the course points out that my allergy is an opportunity to learn about food and how it does what it does. Now, I’m learning all about nutrition, and my fitness is coming around in kind.

This audio course is filled with those kinds of health tips. The section on lifting your mood describes how it’s okay to be moody. Changing it, the speaker says, is about giving yourself the time to allow your mood to change on its own. Now, if you wonder what mood has to do with health, look up the effects of cortisol. That stress hormone wrecks the positive results that we get from healthy eating and exercise. Being in a good mood accentuates the results.

This isn’t a fitness course that shows you exercises for revealing that six pack or delineates which exercises to do at the gym. It’s more about getting over the obstacles that keep us from being fit and well. Overworking ourselves, binging on alcohol or food, dealing with illness or injury; these are the things that hold a lot of us back from being our best. I really appreciate that this course gave me a better appreciation for what I do have, rather than just coping with my problems. Every illness or injury is an opportunity.

Basically, if you spend just 10 to 15 minutes a day listening to one of the sections of this course, by the end, you’ll have a new way of viewing your health. The course is really better-used that way than just binging on it in one sitting. Concepts that are this layered have the best results when we allow ourselves the time to absorb them fully.

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Content Review by Marguerite Weir