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8 practical ways to ensure a stress-free life: BREATHE

 Stress is damaging to the body. It causes us to retain fat and makes us sick, and if not dealt with properly... disease. :(

1. Improve your cardiovascular. Its endurance, capacity and strength are incredibly important to multiple different facets of our life. Recreating is the best way to keep your cardio in check! This will keep the nervous system conditioned, makes you more agile, provides you better balance and allows you to have some fun! This also helps with the uptake of oxygen & nutrients and aids in the removal of waste.

2. Getting plenty of cardiovascular exercise helps maintain elasticity in the lungs and helps to reduce conditions like asthma.

3. Taking the time to get fresh air helps us relieve stress. It is also interesting to note that the air in our homes is anywhere between 5 and 100 times more polluted than the air outside. So, GET OUTSIDE!

4. Breathing deeply helps to relieve muscular tension by relaxing the nervous system, this, helps you to concentrate and slows your mind before sleep.

5. Breathing is an important part of flexibility as well. Inhaling and exhaling deeply helps promote the release of tension-held reflexes and stubborn knotted muscles.

6. Believe it or not, we also store stress and tension in our internal organs, breathing helps to relax and take a load off our organs.

7. A large part of meditation is based on breath. Being able to focus and to quiet the mind in a chaotic world is VERY IMPORTANT.

8. Taking a breathing ‘non-smoke-break’ during the day can help to get the blood-flow back to the limbs, stimulate the mind and break up the day. It’s also a good way to get in a much needed afternoon snack! De-Stressing helps the body to let go of fat that is being held onto 'just in case' it is needed!

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