Anima Sana In Corpore Sano

- Healthy Soul in a Healthy Body. A blog for all of those who need motivation to change. I post mostly positive, inspirational and motivative pictures that are health/fitness and dermatillomania related. PS! I tend to write about my personal matters as...

[animasana]

Okay, I’m leaving Tumblr

I’m not going to delete my blog, but I won’t be posting anything new, because I haven’t been here for a long time now and I simply don’t find Tumblr interesting enough anymore. I’ll maybe check out some of you from time to time, because most of the people I follow (under a hundred) are wonderful. Take care, you guys!

[localrehabs]

Just good advice. Self-care and self-love are so important!

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.

Yehuda Berg (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[arthlete]

There really is no better motivation to get healthy than your health. Not vanity, not a long-kept desire to prove your naysayers wrong. Self-control and discipline come easy when you realize that some of the foods you eat really can do you harm. It’s easier when it finally sinks in that you’re in charge of your health. Because it’s true, what they say: You’re only as happy as you are healthy.

[animasana]

Full article.

[animasana]

Everyone who has ever experienced some kind of pain and especially those who have chronic pain, stop scrolling and take a look at www.retrainpain.org !

This is useful for absolutely everyone. The more you know about pain, the better!

[inspiration-daily]

[gryffindoreo-deactivated2026030]

People with asthma do not need allergists and emergency inhalers, they need bicycle helmets and fish bowls.

People with Ulcerative Colitis do not need a physician and anti-inflammatory medication, they need books and a light bulb.

People with diabetes do not need an endocrinologist and insulin, they need a fishing rod and a bottle of nail polish. People with illnesses that they have NO CONTROL OVER do not need properly educated health professionals and treatment options, they need completely arbitrary items that do not connect directly to their illness.

People who are this ignorant about mental health need to be educated. This attitude towards receiving treatment and gaining proper diagnosis cannot be tolerated.

[2ft1st-deactivated20150426]

“Advice” like that kills people.

[morganjoycexo-deactivated-deact]

Omgggg wtf

[animasana]

Nothing smart has ever come out of her mouth.

[grumpylittles]

[dryyoureyes-startbelieving]

Accept the fact that you are not perfect and see how much easier it is to breathe.

we live in a world where perfection is continuously sought. what we fail to realize is that perfection does not exist. (via dryyoureyes-startbelieving)

[skinnythickchic]

4 Underrated Fitness Concepts

Everyone has a general idea of what their individual fitness goals are and how they plan on getting there. I’ve composed a list of things that people overlook, but that are beneficial for their overall health and their body goals.

1. Rest

Rest is important for 2 reasons: we need to give our body the time to recover and to prevent injuries. Whatever workout you participate in, you have strained muscles, bones and joints. The body needs at least one day to recover from the impact your muscles have taken. The muscles fibers tear, and during the resting phase they recover and are now able to handle more stimulus or bear more endurance. Rest is important for strength and endurance gains.

Without rest your body is more prone to injury because your muscles and tendons are tight and exhausted and this can cause careless and easily preventable injuries.

2. Consistency

The culprit for people who are unable to reach their fitness goals is consistency. Diet inconsistency and inconsistency with meeting workouts is an obstacle for people who get impatient with their progress. Some people will miss a work out or make unhealthy food choices one day and completely drop their program! Everyone makes mistakes during their fitness journey, but it is important to break down your big goal of losing weight/gaining muscle/getting stronger into smaller, easier, and manageable goals.

Make weekly goals, for example: hit the gym AT LEAST 3 times a week, eat less than 4 unhealthy meals/treats per week, etc.

3. Mental Health

It is really important to take care of your mental health. This journey is about creating the best version of yourself. Catch yourself obsessing over your food, having body dysmorphia, or not loving your body at every stage? Talk to yourself. Remind yourself of what your REAL goal is.. not to lose weight, or become skinny or muscular, getting a bigger chest/legs/arms but instead to be a healthy happy version of yourself.

4. Flexibility

It makes me cringe when people don’t stretch before or after a work out. Flexibility is important to get more out of your workout and prevent injury. Stretching allows for a wider range of motion during your workout, such as getting deeper in your squat or extend your stride during a run. Muscles that are stretched and massaged after a workout will prevent lower back pain and other injuries due to tight muscles.

Paying attention to these concepts will help you effectively reach your overall fitness goals. Take care and happy lifting!

[animasana]

The first three points are very important, but I have to disagree with the last one, because recent studies have shown that stretching is pretty much pointless. I do support doing dynamic stretches before a workout (if you don’t know what they are, use Google), but after a workout it’s better to use a foam roller. If you like stretching (I myself for example do) then no one can say that you can’t do it, but it’s just not as effective as you might think.

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The thing with Anxiety and Depression

You can feel really confident in yourself but when someone comments badly on you, you begin to crumble.

You doubt yourself a lot.

Your head begins to hurt when you over think.

You forget to eat sometimes.

You get quiet around friends.

You break down more often

isolation.

You’re confused 

You don’t know why your confused because you’re over thinking all the bad decisions you’ve made in your in your life.

You forget your value, You forget your worth.

[micdotcom]

Thomas Neil Rodriguez may be the best dog owner ever. When vets told him his elderly dog Poh, a pitbull-lab mix he adopted in 1999, had just days to live, the New York-born Rodriguez and his fiancée decided to take the mutt on an epic cross-country tour. It ended up being wonderful medicine.

[wordsnquotes]

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Pablo Neruda (via wordsnquotes)

[foodffs]

SMOKED SALMON AND AVOCADO PIZZA

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[sassygaynicoo-blog]

Super nice things to do for someone who has depression.

- Chances are their room is a disaster and they have -846 motivation to do anything about it. Helping them tidy up will make them feel a little less overwhelmed. 

- Do their laundry. Even small chores seem to pile up when a person is depressed and not having clean clothes won’t make them feel any better. Washing their bedding is also great.

- Try to convince them to go for a short walk with you. There is a good chance they will feel a lot better after.

- If you can’t get them outside, at least open a window for fresh air and let some sunshine in.

- Prepare them a healthy meal with some fresh fruit. Many depressed people fall into bad eating patterns. 

- If they aren’t eating enough, make sure they are taking a multi vitamin since not getting enough of a vitamin causes depression

- Make them a warm, nice smelling bath. Aromatherapy is a great way to treat depression and anxiety. 

- Write them a letter or card to read for when they’re feeling really bad.

- Make them a recovery playlist with some of their favourite songs and anything up lifting.

- Make them laugh.

- Make them a cup of tea and sit with them.

- Listen to them and try to understand what they’re feeling.

[mirajanestrauss]

DO NOT USE .CO .VU

Please for the love of all that is holy DO NOT USE THIS TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TUMBLR. It’s covered in adware and every single time I click onto someone’s tumblr who has it I have to run my spybot and then it catches a bunch of stuff and in one case one of these addresses downloaded an adware program onto my computer that prevented me from hitting back on my browser and had loud popup ads now and then and annoying blue hyperlinks everywhere. It took several hours of my time to remove the darn thing from my computer completely.

“But I can have a cool personalized name with .co .vu!” Yeah, you know why? Because most people don’t use it so names aren’t taken. Why?

Because it’s covered in adware and spyware.

If you respect your followers AT ALL do not use this. Please.

[amielleon]

This is actually a really fascinating scam.

So, you know how how “co.[country abbreviation]” is commonly used to signify that a site is from some country? For example, “amazon.co.jp” is the Japanese version of Amazon dot com.

The people selling “co.vu” sites want you to think that that’s what’s going on–that you’re getting nice good web addresses from Vanuatu.

But what’s actually happening is that they publish your sites as a subdomain of a site called “co” that is in Vanuatu.

In other words:

In the url “http://amielleon.tumblr.com”, “amielleon” is the subdomain, “tumblr” is the actual site, and “com” tells me that it’s a commercial site and probably from America.

In the url “http://mytrashyotp.co.vu”, “mytrashyotp” is the subdomain, “co” is the actual site, and “vu” indicates it’s from Vanuatu. But they WANT you to think that “mytrashyotp” is the site, and “co.vu” indicates that it’s a commercial site from Vanuatu.

What are they getting out of this? The ability to throw shit on top of your blog (like adware) and also leech off your content for search engine rankings.

(Source: I based this post off of this blog post which is somewhat more technical in nature.)