Revitalize Your YEAR OF YOU

Every day is a chance to get up and do it again: to be your best self. It’s hard work sometimes—and it’s important to rest hard and play hard, for the best results. If rest and play are not part of your day, we’ll help you find ways to make time—and make those moments count.

We’ve covered tips for mindset, nourishment and movement that contribute to the you who can achieve everything you want to do. This time, we focus on regeneration.

Tip 1: Break up with Stress

Adding stress to a stressed out body makes it weaker, not stronger. How we deal with stress is often a learned choice, but new findings in the field of neuroscience prove that it can and will shape our biology, if we don’t pay attention to treating it right.

Tip 2: Disconnect to Reconnect

We live in a time when technology rules our lives, keeping us connected all day and all night and ultimately interfering with our productivity and happiness. This is the year we must build in our down-time and set aside moments to reconnect, really.

Tip 3: Snooze More

Research has proven that sleep is key for improved performance in every area of our lives. In contrast, chronic sleep deprivation impacts every health and fitness biomarker and has destructive results on our ability to live our best life. This is your year to sleep to your heart’s content. (Your body and mind will thank you.)

Tip 4: Breathe in

Shallow or hurried respiration is a learned habit, like posture—it is often abused and neglected for years without consequence. Taking time to retrain your breathing is a simple habit with a profound effect, on your mood, energy, health and performance.

Tip 5: Play it Forward

Just like a healthy diet, we need variety in our day. Taking time for life’s simple pleasures, whether that’s music or a walk or coffee with a friend who leaves us in hysterics, adds vital energy to our day, refreshes our nervous system and truly brings life to life.

Tip 6: Light the Way

Spending time in nature is one of the most effective ways to increase our dosage of Vitamin D and improve our outlook on the world. By increasing our time spent breathing fresh air and soaking up sunlight, we enhance our mental, physical and emotional wellbeing. Starlight counts, too.

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