Camercise for better posture and healthier spine

Cam Cameron helped me - and can help you - have a healthier spine which means less pain.  I call his unique exercises 'Camercises'.  In one class at Bellingham Fitness Center he said:

“Put your body into a good posture position:  Shoulders back, rib cage up, tummy tucked in, jaws unclenched.”  (What is your posture right now?)

He continued.  “Our habits keep our hands in front of us—on the computer, cell phone, fork or steering wheel.  From this habit, our shoulders start to hunch forward as does our neck and head.  The result is a skeleton out of alignment.  This misalignment can cause a myriad of physical problems from plantar fasciitis to fatigue to incontinence to dowager's hunch, to frozen shoulder and much more.”

I saw a perfect example of this as I drove home from that class.  A group of teenagers walked together on the sidewalk, probably on a field trip.  Almost all of them were walking with shoulders hunched forward and head down.  Are we headed toward a world with everyone over 30 years old, hunch backed and walking painfully with a cane?

Be one person who fights this trend.  Put your shoulders back, rib cage up, tuck in your tummy and unclench your jaws.  And check out Cam's website Revive-a-Back by going to www.Revive-a-Back.com or emailing Cam at reviveaback@comcast.net.

Depression Dissolver: Thank Your Body

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Thank your body for having served you all these years.  Your body listens and responds to all your self-talk.  So thank it for serving you.  Speak to your body or the cells of your body silently or aloud.  Say something like this:  “Cells, I love you.  Thank you for having served me so well all these years.  You are healthy.”  Stroking your body while speaking to it is helpful, too.  I often stroke the back of my hand while I’m talking to my cells.

Are You Depressed, Moody or Anxious?

 From my eBook 'Depression Dissolvers' that will be published toward end of 2018:

 Depression Quiz

Do you have depression?  Here is a quiz.  Answer Yes, No or Sometimes to each question below.

________   Feeling down, depressed or hopeless?

________   Feeling bad about yourself, or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down?

________   Thoughts that you would be better off dead, or of hurting yourself in some way?

________   Little interest or pleasure from doing things?

________   Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed?  Or the opposite—being so fidgety or restless that you are moving around more than usual?

________   Trouble concentrating on things, such as watching TV or reading the newspaper?

________   Trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, or sleeping too much?

________   Feeling tired or having little energy?

________   Poor appetite or over-eating?

If you have answered Yes or Sometimes to any of the first 4 questions (the ones in bold-face), consider going to your health practitioner for help.

If you have answered Yes or Sometimes to any of the questions, here are some phone numbers and websites to use.  The Depression Quiz is paraphrased from the Mayo Clinic quiz of a few years ago.

Emergency Help for Despondent Mood

In the U.S. call 1.800.273.8255 to chat for free with a skilled, trained crisis worker.  Or go to this website for more information on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:  https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now

In the U.K. call 08457 90 90 90, the Samaritan’s Hotline.  These numbers are manned 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Other resources if you think you might harm yourself now, or if you believe someone else is about to harm themselves:

Call your country’s emergency phone number.  In the U.S. that is 911.  In the U.K., it is 999 or 112.

Get help now!  Don’t wait.

Here’s another phone # to call

“If you have suicidal thoughts, you may need help immediately and should pick up the phone and call 1-800-784-2433 from anywhere in the U.S.  This came from http://www.liveperson.com/lp/onlinecounseling/online-counselors/?sale=10doff35&BanID=109279&gclid=CIX978m8-64CFcIFRQodel_Tzw.

Or go to http://www.befrienders.org to find crisis lines in the U.S., in the U.K. as well as in many other countries.

 

Do You Eat Canned Food?

Choose cans that are BPA-free, if you eat canned food.  I like canned S&W Organic Black Beans.  Written on each can:  'Non-BPA can lining.'  Other BPA-free brands are Eden, Muir Glen, Native Forest, Natural Value and almost all cans at Trader Joe's.  

Or buy food in glass containers.

Interesting article by Dr. Mercola on BPA is at https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/03/25/health-risks-bpa.aspx.

'Rejuvenate Naturally' is complete and on amazon.com

Filled with tips and insights on staying young at an advanced (chronological) age.  Get inspired to have your own long, strong and healthy life.

Here's one insight:

• Why don't humans live to be 150 years old?  Your cells keep making new cells.  Every cell in your body has been there less than seven years - even if you are 100 years old.   So why do our bodies deteriorate?

There are two main reasons that I know of.

• As you continue to eat processed foods, breathe in air pollution, have stressful emotions, etc., your telemeres - the caps on each DNA strand - shorten.  When enough of them get short enough, death happens. 
• We currently have a (human) race consciousness belief that if someone is 100 years old, s/he is really really old and feeble and certainly will die soon.  When we have billions of people who believe that, it’s pretty difficult to actually live a healthy productive life past the age of about 105.  As more of us realize the possibilities and start believing in them, more and more of us will live longer—and very healthy—lives.  And then we cut a pathway for others to follow and soon we will see many healthy productive people living to age 120, then 130 and then even longer.

So, change your habits - following tips and insights in 'Rejuvenate Naturally' - and change your beliefs.  'Rejuvenate Naturally' shows you how to change detrimental beliefs that are holding you back from your long, strong and healthy life through a process I call 'Brain Sync with Affirmation'.

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