"It is important that you live long enough to do whatever it is God has assigned to you"-Joyce Meyer
Chapter 7 of the book "Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits" is my favorite so far. Joyce Meyer discusses forming healthy habits. It is very important that we take good care of our bodies because it adds more years to your life and it will not affect your life in a negative way. Your body is Gods house as he lives inside of you so why would you put junk inside of it? 1 Corinthians 6:20 says, "You were bought with a price. So then, honor God and bring glory to him in your body."
Eating right, getting enough sleep and getting rid of stressful situations in your life are one of the most important habits to work on. Creating a healthy habit should be one of the first things (besides building a personal relationship with God) you should do. When it comes to eating right, we must learn how to read labels and understand what we put into our body. Joyce Meyer explains that even though you may start out not liking some of the things you will need to do, eventually, you will become accustomed to them and you will crave them as much as you now dislike them. For example, if you hate to exercise, do it often enough where your body can't go a day without working out.
"Our bodies are not really all that intelligent. They just crave what we repeatedly give them. If it's bad, they will want what is bad, and if it's good, they will want that."
Getting rid of stress is something really important. Worry, anxiety and fear are major stresses, and we can eliminate them by trusting God and casting our care on him. Joyce Meyer explains that too much stress produces too much cortisol in our bodies and it's dangerous. If you do not know what cortisol is, I highly suggest that you look it up! Think of a few things that cause stress in your life and make the decision to get rid of them TODAY!
Getting enough sleep is another healthy habit to form. We should be getting 8 hours of sleep a night. So many people use the term "I'll sleep when I'm dead" or "They sleep, we grind" a lot and we need to understand that not getting enough sleep can shorten our lives and our brains do not function properly with limited sleep. Also, our bodies become unable to fight diseases when we don't get a lot of sleep. It is commanded by the word of God that we get some rest. If it is your mission to honor God, GET YOUR REST ;-).
The book gives us 7 Pillars for good health so I recommend that you get this book and start reading TODAY. Also, I recommend that you get Joyce Meyers book "Look Great, Feel Great." I'm going to purchase that book myself and start posting health blogs about the book soon.
-Markesha xoxo
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