🤸♂️🚴♀️🏊♀️🛋EXERCISE & RELAXATION💆♀️💇♀️🧖♀️🛀
Exercise gets your system going to help maintain metabolic rate. Some are better suited to detox than others.
WALKING - starting with 10-15 each day and working your way up to 35. Stimulates the heart, lungs, muscles and mind. You should be walking fast enough to work up a light sweat. 💦
SWIMMING - works all the major muscle groups and a great aerobic exercise. Goal is to get to 35 minutes at a time. Check your local centres for times.
CYCLING - builds muscle, endurance and tones up the leg muscles. If you don't own a bike, same benefits can be received from using an exercise bike.
BOUNCING - perfect for helping to drain the lymphatic system. Using a mini bouncer helps to open and close the one way valves of the lymph ducts to allow free flowing removal of waste.
HOUSEWORK - funnily enough 😂a vigorous burst of housework can be as good for as a trip to the gym. Scrubbing floors burns 400 calories an hour! The secret is to a job in half the time it would normally take, put in maximum effort!!
Breathing is also crucial to a detox program. Learning to breathe properly again. You should spend at least 5 MINUTES every day dedicated to quality breathing. Most of the time we take short shallow breathes, so lets correct that.
With your hands on your abdomen, breathe in slowly through your nose for a 4 count, hold for a count of 4 (notice how your stomach expands under your hands) then exhale for a count of 8.
It feels rather strange at first but the more you do this deliberate breathing, the easy it becomes.
⭐️It helps to cleanse the body
⭐️It teaches you how to relax
⭐️it energises your body.
RELAXATION is the other key to a detox program. You need time for your self. Breathing correctly is a natural tranquilliser for the nervous system.. the deeper you breathe the calmer your mind becomes.
VISUALIZATION - another great relaxation method. Take just 5 minutes and completely immerse yourself in a daydream. Imagine and really step into the moment/emotions of being in that relaxing space...
You can be lying in a warm bath, sun baking on a beach or outside on the grass, sitting in a field on a summer day and smelling the flowers.. or what ever mental image is a good, positive and uplifting one for you.
Sit and take in as many of the detials of this image as you can, smell taste touch sound sight feeling and sensation. These visualizations are ways of helping you see yourself attaining goals and success.
EXFOLIATE - Exfoliation every day is the best way to clear skin of dead cells. Unlike dry brushing, exfoliation needs to be done with water and an exfoliator. Perfect to integrate into your morning shower or pampering session. And it is for your WHOLE BODY not just your face ^_^
EPSOM SALT BATHS - speeds up the elimination of toxins from your skin and improves your circulation. Run a hot bath with 1/2 lb of epsom salts, you can get them pretty much anywhere and you want to soak for a good 20 mins. If you want, add a few drops your favorite essential oil to the bath. Lavender, chamomile and tea tree are great additions.