October Health Class

Hey everyone,

The next check-in is tomorrow.  Have you been keeping up with the positivity in your lives?

HOPE SO! 

October Health Class

Personal Health Class
October 2012 Assignment

Positivity Partners (spiritual health)

Our first assignment to earn your best HEALTH GRADE is to find a Positivity Partner. You will have to be accountable to this person and the same for them. This person will help motivate you, give you that quick kick in the butt, and be there with kind and encouraging words.

Prep

Step 1:

Find someone who is ready and willing to improve and earn a great HEALTH GRADE.
--This person can be a parent, a sibling, a best friend, a co-worker, etc.

Step 2:

Set up a schedule to chat (verbally) with this person daily for 5-10 minutes, preferably in the morning. For this assignment it’s best to talk to the person in the morning. For future assignments, the optimum time of the day may vary.

Step 3:

Get a small journal, something small enough to carry on you throughout the day. It’s just for jotting down quick notes. If you want to write an essay that’s up to you, but you may want to keep a separate journal for that.

--The first entry in the Positivity Journal should have:

~Your name, the start date of the assignment (Oct 1, 2012), list your personal spiritual goal(s):

~These goals can be: happiness, success, inner peace, better relationships, more energy, etc.

Get going on this assignment
1) Every MORNING journal 5 positive things. They can be anything you want, things that happened already or things that you wish to happen.

2) Call your Positivity Partner and tell him/her those 5 positive things. He/she should do the same with you.

3) Say how great your day is going to be and wish the same for your Positivity Partner.

4) After your chat, journal how you feel in that moment. Keep the Positivity Journal with you all day. You can glance at it if you are feeling down or write more positive things that happened to you that day. *Note* after a while you may have a noticeably greater number of positive things going on in your life than before. It may be more than the 5 things you share with your Positivity Partner, so it may not be easy to pick the top 5.

5) At the end of October, you should have 155 positive things to share in your Positivity Journal and pages full of positive feelings, changes, and experiences.

6) On the following check-in dates, write in your journal the changes you have noticed in yourself and your Positivity Partner. Each date send a brief email with the changes to me at chicagoherbshop@gmail.com to be counted for your grade.

a. Oct 5

b. Oct 15

c. Oct 20

d. Oct 25

e. Oct 31

Stay Fit at Work

Hey there Fitness Fam,

I know many of you are in the Chicagoland area and it has been HOT as all get up this week with temperatures breaking 100 degrees. This extreme weather can make you sleepy or irritable or make you lose your appetite.  Some even slack on their daily exercise routines because of the heat.  I don't blame you.  I love to exercise outside and in this weather it's dangerous to work out in this heat.  I admit I've even slacked on my  routine.  But here are some suggestions you can do to stay fit and cool during this heat wave.



Some of us work in air-conditioned offices and sit at a desk typing away.  Take a break on the even-numbered hours to do some office exercises at your desk. 

Grab some healthy snacks like fresh fruits and vegetables from a nearby grocery store or farmers' market to munch on  during the odd-numbered hours. 

Drink plenty of water.  You might feel really cool in that air conditioned office but you may get dried out from all that cold air and be dehydrated and not even know it.  And make sure you keep a bottle of water on you for when you do go outside.  Trust me you will have to go outside at some point.  You can't live in your office all week. 

Find 5-10 minutes in the morning and afternoon of your work shift (for your 9-5ers) to ZONE OUT!  Seriously!  Close your eyes, lay your head on your desk, listen to some soothing sounds/instrumentals/nature music (Pandora is free and easy for that) and just zone out.  This heat makes a lot of us stress out and we just need to relax before we all explode.

Write positive sayings on your sticky notes and put them around your desk.  A happy positive body is a healthy body.

Hope you have a safe and healthy Friday!

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

"Today I will judge nothing that occurs" ~Deepak Chopra

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

DO GOOD DEEDS AND GOOD THINGS WILL COME TO YOU

do this everyday

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

LEAVE A LEGACY OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP, IT LASTS LONGER THAN FAME
remember this everyday

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

BE EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU WANT TO BE
do this all the time

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE ELSE...WITHOUT EXPECTING ANYTHING IN RETURN
do at least 3 times this week

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

GENUINELY COMPLIMENT SOMEONE
do this 3 times today

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

MY SMILE BRIGHTENS UP ANY ROOM
smile at least 3 times today

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I AM AN AMAZING PERSON
repeat 3 times

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I AM THE BEST ME I CAN BE
repeat 3 times

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I AM AT A HEALTHY WEIGHT AND I LOVE MY BODY
repeat 3 times

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I LOVE MYSELF
repeat 3 times

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I AM STRONG
repeat 3 times

It Starts With a Healthy Spirit

I AM BEAUTIFUL
repeat 3 times