Tag: 5 Keys

Fair Fighting

Our interpersonal relationships can be a major source of stress when they get out of balance. Knowing how to handle conflict with others is an important skill.

10 Tips for Exercise & Fitness

As the weather warms, we start thinking about changing our exercise routine to align with the new season. Here are my 10 Tips for Fitness along with my own weekly exercise schedule as an example of how you might make your own plan.

Healing Sleep Class and more

If you couldn't be part of my recent HEALING SLEEP Class online, I'm happy to report that the recording is now posted on Youtube. Check out this article to learn more about the class video and other resources for better sleep and improved health.

A First Step to Better Sleep

Sleep is one of my 5 Keys to Staying Healthy, but we often don’t appreciate how important it is to our wellbeing until we’re not sleeping well. Here are some initial steps for sleep improvement.

10 Tips for Healing Sleep

This is the latest addition to my popular 10 TIPS series.

What are the 5 Keys to Staying Healthy?

Each component of your lifestyle has a positive or negative impact on your health. Here we explore five interconnected keys to lifestyle enhancement that can greatly improve the quality of your overall wellbeing.

The 5 Keys – NUTRITION

Nutrition provides your body with fuel to promote growth, maintenance and all vital functions - it is a cornerstone of health. It is also an area of life where we can have significant control and therefore great positive effect on our wellbeing.

The 5 Keys – EXERCISE

A sedentary lifestyle is hazardous to your health. Your commitment to physical activity is one of the most important facilitators of healthy living

The 5 Keys – STRESS

Your stress-management techniques should always contribute to your greater emotional and physical health - change your circumstances or change your responses! Learn to not react, but to respond.

The 5 Keys – SLEEP

During sleep, the entire body restores itself. Your immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems all require good sleep. Everyone's individual sleep needs are different, but your mental, emotional and physical health benefit when you get plenty of rest!

The 5 Keys – ATTITUDE

Attitude is the 5th Key to staying healthy, but it could easily be the first! Our attitudes influence our lifestyle choices and they directly affect our health on many levels.

5 Keys and 5 Elements

My studies of the 5 Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine inspired me to create The 5 Keys to Staying Healthy - a simple, practical way for you to begin actually improving your health day by day rather than just waiting to get sick before you act.