Fitness for Valentine Day

While our Western culture finds a way to all holidays on the market, we have a choice to create a more enlightened experience. I invite you to consider Valentine’s Day as a “Holi” day, one that is on relationships and the heart.

We were told that a healthy heart, we have to do cardiovascular exercise at least three times per week for at least twenty minutes, and this should be done within our target of training 65% to 85% of our maximum heart rate. Walking, jogging, cycling, dancing, skating, skiing, swimming, walking and climbing stairs all do the trick. We have learned that eating a low fat, low cholesterol eating our chances of developing cardiovascular disease decreases. While this information is important and useful, we must broaden our understanding of what keeps our heart healthy. So far we have only investigated the physiological aspects of heart health, which led to people who do what they can get through an aerobic workout. We jogging with headphones, read magazines, while TV-bike, and watch our treadmills, while the time quickly. We do what we should do, but minimal to reap the benefits of exercise that is more inward. This type of exercise experience is that from time to time. Sometimes we just need to breathe music and forget our stress.

In a holistic approach to fitness, we recognize that this is not enough to just go through the motions. We need to go through the emotions! This means get in touch with our feelings and we are better able to articulate them. The heart is the center of spiritual energy that has to do with love and relationships. In our relationships, to the emotional needs of others to meet while enjoying our emotional needs met ensures a healthy heart. Forgiveness, compassion, gratitude and loving kindness all help us ensure a merry heart, like laughter, love and lightness. We can go jogging every day, but as the heart keeps negative emotions like anger, resentment, or guilt, it will never be in a healthy state. These negative emotions to rob us of our energy. And often they occur somewhere in the body, negative impact on our health.

Mindfulness invites us to attend to some feelings arise, as they bring pleasure or pain. Mindfulness requires us simply to create a space with these feelings without judgment. As we become more aware of our feelings, we can consciously choose how to manage them. When we begin to identify, label and pass through the negative emotions, we free ourselves. As a result, we attract more love, joy, peace and happiness in our lives. This greatly contributes to a healthy heart and our overall wellbeing.