Week Eleven Stress-Less Holiday Plan: Move to Energize!

• Zone Exercises aid in calming the Sympathetic Nervous System

• Order your Thanksgiving meal

• Aid your energy, clarity, mood, and focus

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We’ve all heard of working OUT, but have you ever heard of working IN? Work IN exercises cultivate energy in the body. Performing these exercises provides the body with more vitality. Work IN exercises are much like meditation. The exercises work with the breath to create movement. In fact, the breath is what moves the body. So, focusing on breathing while performing the exercises is important during a work IN session.

Work IN exercises turn off the stress response in the body also known as the Fight or Flight Response or Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS). The SNS moves blood to the muscles and the brain, causing tightness in our body and creating an active mind. If you experience a lot of tight muscles, feel very stressed, find your self thinking a lot, or having a lot on your mind, then working IN is the right type of activity for you!

When the SNS gets turned off, the Digest, Rest and Relax or Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) turns on. The PNS runs our digestive system, helps us rest and recover, and allows for creativity! In this state of mind we can come up with solutions to solve problems that may be occurring in our life. It also allows us to make better decisions. Better decisions around food, hydration, sleep, and movement. When the PNS turns on, our body has the chance to recover and repair tissues. This helps to reduce inflammation in the body! Which then equals less pain!

Below are the guidelines for Work In Exercises:

• Keep your heart rate LOW

• Keep your breathe rate LOW

• Tongue stays moist

• Exercise can be performed on a full stomach after a meal (these exercises can help improve digestion)

• Best to learn to do these exercises on a full stomach

• Keep a relaxed movement form, following breathing

• Place the tongue behind the front teeth on the roof of the mouth

Simple Facts:

• The body is a Co-dependent, linked system of systems, It takes energy to make energy

• All body systems use and make energy such as: circulatory, digestive, hormonal and musculoskeletal systems.

• Breathing

  • You expend energy to inhale air into your body

  • Oxygen is attached to iron particles in your red blood cells then is delivered to all parts of the body through arteries

  • Oxygen from the air you breathe is positively charged and the water in our tissue is negatively charged.

  • When positive and negative charges are brought together it creates energy or work potential.

  • The heart produces an electromagnetic field

• You spend energy chewing your food and digesting it

• The broken down particles from food provide the building blocks for the body to build hormones

• Hormone glands use energy from breathing and the building blocks from food digested to produce specific hormones, such as thyroid hormones, adrenaline and cortisol.

• Energy used from breathing and eating is used to run your muscles.

• Muscles produce Electromagnetic energy

• Muscles act as a pumps to assist the action of the heart

Try this Zone exercise daily for 5-20 minutes.

Breathing Squats is an exercise for Zone 1, a group of exercises created to balance the energy of your root chakra. Take a deep breath in and on the exhale lower your hips as comfortably as you can go. Breath in and stand up straight again. Repeat for five minutes focusing on a slow and controlled breath. The depth does not matter go as shallow or as deep as is comfortable for you.

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Week Eleven Action Items: Order Food for Thanksgiving

It is now time to get that shopping list you created for Thanksgiving added to the cart and check out. Be sure you have all of your favorite spices and herbs. Don't forget sauces, oils, and condiments. Double check your list make sure you still need all of those items and be sure to stay in budget. be sure to pick it up a few days before the Holiday to make sure the shelves aren't bare by the time your personal shopper hits those shelves. You can schedule it a week before you pick-up on most apps.

Have you nailed down any new present ideas? Remember to go ahead and purchase it, wrap it, and label all the presents as you go.

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