Daily Loaf

Since 1996 my company, It’s Our Nature has had a vision of connecting our wellness to the health of the earth. Recently, Prevention Magazine provided a list of Surprising Signs That You’ll Probably Live Longer that correlate to a green lifestyle.

Here are some of the connections from Planet Green:

You walk to stay fit. Fit people–defined as those who walk for about 30 minutes a day–are more likely to live longer than those who walk less, regardless of how much body fat they have, according to a recent study of 2,603 men and women.

Green It: Walking for a purpose- The best way to stay fit is to include walking in your everyday life as a way to get from A to B. Park the car and instead choose to walk to the store or if you use public transportation, walk to the bus or train station. That’s why Europeans are so enviously thin; they walk to get somewhere not just to stay fit. Save fossil fuels and win the battle of the bulge by hitting the pavement.
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The study of yoga was first brought to the Western world by Paramahansa Yogananda as a way of spreading enlightenment.  He popularized yoga and meditation through his autobiography, Autobiography of a Yogi which was first published in 1946.  This ancient tradition offers many esoteric and physical benefits with regular practice. 

Some of the physical benefits include increased toning, flexibility, improved posture, improved lung capacity, as well as lowered blood pressure.  Yoga can also assist with many chronic conditions such as back pain, arthritis, asthma and insomnia.  Yoga also brings in a state of calm which reflects stress build up in one’s life.  We all know that stress effects your entire being, especially your physical health, as the emotional and mental create the physical health.
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What’s the buzz on the latest issues in the Green Community? Check out what you may have missed this past week:

Stretching your diet and exercise comfort zone: moving through a plateau: contributor Kelly Rothwell lists a few ways to work through your diet and exercise plateaus.

Greenpeace comes to Tampa with bad news about Florida’s emissions: Joshua Michael Poll takes a look Greenpeace’s report that Florida is one of the biggest emissions producers in the world.
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A different view of stress….

“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”.

“It is only in passing through the furnace, that iron becomes steel.”

The New Way of Thinking that will get us to the New World requires that we revisit and reframe our understanding of everything that touches our lives. In my last post I gave the old/new way of looking at stress, as a biochemical event that is modifiable by one’s own actions. Now I’d like to propose the radical idea that stress might actually be good for us in an epigenetic sort of way. Read the rest of this entry »

Spring is a time to clean house, the garage, the kitchen junk drawer, that closet of unknown items that has not been touched since last spring. Along with my many trips to Good Will in my effort to reduce my unneeded goods, I have decided to clean my physical and mental self. Just as we clear the energy in our temples for the new, we too must clean out our physical temples in preparation for the new. I have set out on an adventure called the Master Cleanse along with many personalized remedies to coincide with this eight day journey through the old in order to reemerge new, refreshed and ready for what is coming my way. Read the rest of this entry »

The big news today is about the threat of the “new” swine flu. The outbreak started in Mexico with a cluster of twenty deaths from severe viral pneumonia. Since then multiple milder cases have been reported in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Two interesting facts need to be investigated. Read on to find out how to protect yourself and your family.  Read the rest of this entry »