Rest is one of those topics that we frequently forget to consider, and yet it is possibly the most important thing we can do for our souls and our bodies alike.

If you’re anything like me, you have often waited until your body crashed and your mind blew several fuses before you actually curled up to give yourself some serious rest. I used to think I needed to earn my rest, so I’d work until I was beyond exhaustion. Then, feeling quite deserving, I would collapse. Unfortunately, this collapse often involved being sick. It took a lifetime of this pattern and much protesting from my body for me to figure it out. (And I still repeat it on occasion, despite being onto myself.) Light-bulb moment! Maybe my body would like to rest more often! Maybe I could rest without needing a total collapse!

My husband has often teased me for being “extreme.” I admit, it’s quite true. I go full force, then full stop. I turn the burner on high, notice the food is burning, then turn it too low. I have embraced this about myself, and I have also practiced that odd thing people call moderation, in hopes of learning how to do it. Sometimes, it still eludes me. However, with resting, I am starting to successfully employ moderation techniques.

I used to think of resting as either sleeping or spending an entire day in a movie coma. Now, however, I have an entirely new definition of rest. Rest is actually anything you do/don’t do that allows your body to drop out of the fight or flight response or maintain an already present non-fight or flight status. This is my own definition, designed to help me rest each and every day.

With this definition, I remind myself of the importance of allowing my body to spend daily time using the parasympathetic part of my nervous system – the part that allows healing, rebuilding, and growth to take place. Like in all things, we need balance; a balance of the sympathetic and parasympathetic elements of our nervous systems. If you were driving your car in heavy traffic and didn’t have the sympathetic nervous system available to you, your life would be in extreme danger. The flip of that is also true. Too much high-alert, sympathetic nervous system living makes it impossible to heal and to feel contentment.
» Read more: Resting Equals Healing – Mind, Body and Spirit

Your body and mind, as with any high tech equipment, needs to be regularly refreshed, calibrated and fine-tuned. Without this calibration, it is like driving your car for decades and not getting a tune-up.

With the following unique procedure, you can learn to determine and correct your own imbalances, or in other words, reverse any disease process and obtain your optimal fitness, regardless of the severity of your fitness challenges. You can improve all of your performances instantly. You can eliminate pain on the spot.

Accessing Information

Information about the strength of your body and/or mind can be obtained with an energetic test for a response to an issue that is either strong or weak. Remember, there are only two possible choices to any life situation.

To perform your own energetic corrections on your Personal BioComputer, or the BioComputer of another, you don’t have to know where the energy is coming from or how it corrects.

You don’t have to know what change is occurring when a correction is made. It is like putting a plug into an electrical outlet-you don’t need to know what or where the energy comes from or how it works for it to work.
» Read more: Calibrating the Mind-Body-Spirit

Homeopathic Zincum metallicum, or Zinc, is a remedy commonly indicated for treating people with nervous strain and exhaustion. Zinc is a trace element mineral that is found naturally in sulphur compounds. As a remedy it plays a significant role in boosting metabolism and is considered a power source for the nervous system. Zincum metallicum has been used to successfully treat anxiety and the headaches that accompany it, as well as mental and physical weakness along with exhaustion. Since physical and mental strain impact how the brain functions, Zincum metallicum has also been shown to help improve the ability to focus. In addition it is believed renew vitality and stamina.

Other conditions that can be treated with this remedy include the spasmodic coughing that accompanies whooping cough and fever attacks with severe facial blushing in hyperactive, oversensitive people. Zincum metallicum is a proven homeopathic remedy for neuralgia, back pain, headaches, muscle twitches, nervous weakness, exhaustion, constipation, and coughing.

Zinc is an important remedy in maintaining proper levels of vitamin E in the blood and also aids in the absorption of vitamin A.
» Read more: Are You a Zinc Type Person?

When dealing with a health crisis, negative thinking is seen as a serious problem, but the demand to heal forces you to change. There are many healthy people who struggle with negative thinking, but the demand to change isn’t that strong. What if you had a step-by-step process that walked you through the steps required to change and simply by your desire you were able to change and control negative thinking?

What if you learned how not to trust yourself and you had a challenge before you? A person in a health challenge needs to trust their deepest inner wisdom, simply so they can heal. If you were led through the same technique that taught them self-trust, with a strong desire you would be able to learn to accept powerful inner resources and be empowered to face your challenges. Trusting your deepest wisdom definitely helps you heal, but you don’t have to be sick to learn real trust.

These are but two examples requiring people to re-condition their mind so new healthy life skills are learned. For those in a health challenge, the result will be better healing, but what about a healthy person needing to simply approach a challenge…can those life skills make it easier to become an active participant in creating their life?
» Read more: What a Healthy Person Can Learn From Someone in a Health Crisis

Are you thriving or surviving? Are you living a life you love or do you feel exhausted most of the time, accompanied with an overwhelming sense that there’s just not enough time in the day?

Financial gurus tell us to, “pay yourself first” and to immediately place 10% of our income into an account for our future. They say when we invest money into a long-term plan and consistently add to it, the future dividends grow at an exponential rate.

This same premise holds true with regards to our health and well-being. When we invest small increments of time and energy over a long period of time into self-care, the returns are also exponential for health and vitality.

When investing in your health, it helps to know exactly what you need to do. The following is a list of healthy living practices that will help you increase your energy, health and happiness:

1. Nutrition. Food affects us on so many levels: body composition, mood, energy and immune response. On the cellular level, it’s true “you are what you eat”. The foods and their nutrients are the raw materials to repair and rebuild our cells. The human body reproduces over 300 billion new cells on a daily basis. That’s a lot of opportunity to replace old weak cells with stronger, more resilient ones! With the correct type and quality of nutrients, you can build a stronger and healthier body in no time.
» Read more: Invest in Yourself With These Healthy Living Practices