Ultimate Healthy Heart

Down to Earth Ultimate Healthy Heart

By Randy Cox

How to have the Ultimate Healthy “Hearty” Heart!

If you want your heart to be healthy, do these five things:

1.       Think upon and be grateful for all the blessings that you have.

2.       Smile!  This is the first and most natural yoga position..

3.       Walk the earth and get plenty of  (exercise)

4.       Eat a good earth (diet) < go to  www.mypyramid.gov.

5.       Keep your heart (clean)  <go to drug free page>

If you do these five simple things your heart will pump strong oxygen- rich blood to your new vibrant body and will never develop ( heart disease )  

If you haven’t done these things, then it is not too late.  You can whip yourself back into ultimate shape in no time.  http://www.UltimateHealthyHeart.com/randycox (compensated affiliate)

Super Magic Bonus!

Breathe Deeply!  Along with other harmful habits we pick up, people learn to breathe in a shallow manner which starves our lungs of oxygen and forces our heart to work extra hard to keep our blood filled with fresh supply.  With lungs full of fresh air and not mostly stale uncirculated air, the blood in the lungs absorbs the good stuff and gets rid of the bad stuff easily.  Breathe shallow and the blood has to search for the fresh stuff and the heart has to pump poorly oxygenated blood to your extremities over and over again with little benefit.    Breathe Deeply for the Ultimate Healthy Heart!

Heart Healthy Ultimate Physical Exercise

Heart- healthy exercise is a habit.   If you don’t exercise now, you need to interrupt your old habit (one that is slowly killing you) and replace it with a new heart- healthy habit that is fun and allows you to live a full 120 years.

Once you’ve established a regular pattern of heart- healthy exercise, it's easy to follow the new ultimate healthy  pattern out of habit.

But how do you get started?

Check in with a good earth-conscious doctor.  Give him a brief description of your plan and get his approval or adapt your ultimate plan to his recommendation.

If you are a people person, pick some sport that you enjoyed as a child.  Maybe you never actually played but secretly wanted to play.  Start slowly, but work yourself into the game.  Put your heart into the game.

Dancing is cool. (go to dancing page)

Tai Chi is smooth, slow,  and easy on the joints for young or old.  It helps teach balance,  gets the juices flowing in the body, and reduces stress.

If you are a robust person and want to give your healthy heart a real workout, consider basketball, soccer, or karate.

You don’t have to be a super athlete.  You will get better and all the while you’ll make others happy because you’ll make them look better.   Just have fun and know what your objective is.

Running or jogging is good but be careful with those joints.

Mall walking is good because you can do it by yourself or with friends. 

Swimming gives your heart a chance to beat in tune with the earth.  Develop a relationship with the water.  Be like water.   It is never hard but always soft and flowing.   It does not resist but adapts to everything around it.  Pay attention to water.  Bodies of water, even man-made pools have moods.  Sometimes the water is friendly, sometimes it is angry.  Listen to the earth through your contact with water.

Walking is great exercise and stress relief.  Normal walking   is actually a controlled fall.  You lift your foot, lean forward until your balance shifts and you fall forward. 

Tai Chi  teaches you to keep your weight on your back foot until the forward foot tests the ground beneath.  Once assured of a stable footing, then you shift your weight to the forward foot, then repeat the process.

For further information on Tai Chi, click here! (compensated affiliate)

Experience the earth with your toes!

My Cherokee ancestors loved to take off their shoes and let the sand and earth sift through their toes.  Our bodies come from the earth and will return to the earth.  We walk upon the bones of our grandfathers.  That is a good thing—not a bad thing.  It must please them and our hearts when we think on these things and appreciate those who brought us into the world.

You ran barefoot  naturally as a kid.  Why did you stop?  Your heart started to grow old and hard the moment your feet left the earth for the modern path of stress and competition.  Recapture the ways of your childhood and recapture your heart healthy youth.

Don’t move too fast.  Learn about aerobics and calculate the proper heart rate for your age.  Get a meter and get started.  Know what your heart rate is, but don’t be so concerned with it that you miss the joy and spontaneity which is as important to a healthy heart as the exercise itself.

Start with ten minutes a day, or whatever you have time for, and as the habit grows increase that until it is thirty minutes a day three or four times a week.

Get your aerobic habit developed into a heart healthy pattern.  Then move on to anaerobic exercise.  Weight lifting is beneficial to all ages…even people in their nineties.  In addition to a healthy heart, weight lifting has proven to reverse bone loss.  Join a local gym, get a personal trainer, or check out www.bodyforlife.com

If you are not yet ready for a truly heart healthy lifestyle with aerobic and anaerobic programs, then at least adopt some of these suggestions.  Maybe you can start with these and work your way into the more healthy robust programs.

At least do some of these things for the sake of a healthy Heart!

• Park your car at the edge of the parking lot and walk to your workplace or store.  When was the last time you skipped?  Can you image what a more wonderful world we would live in if skipping was common enough to seem normal?
• Pushing buttons doesn’t help your heart.  Skip the elevator button and take the stairs.  Do one flight for the first few days then advance to more flights.  Quicken your pace and enjoy the benefits.  Your heart will love you for it.
• If you ride a subway, or take a bus get off  a stop early and walk some of that way.  If  you carpool, get them to let you off a couple of blocks away from your house and walk your way home.  Get them to let you off at a different spot each day.  You can wind down from the long days work and stress that goes with it.  Each happy step makes your heart stronger and stronger.
• Reserve some of your lunch break time to explore the earth around your workplace.  Eat a little less and walk a little more.  Get your blood flowing for the second half of your day.
• Research has shown that pets increase lifespan of older folks.  A dog is good for the heart.  Take your dog for a walk.  It’s good for you, it’s good for your dog and it’s extremely healthy for your heart.

…Or do some of these things!

• Housework and chores can be aggravations of added stress or they can be exercises of joy and gratitude for all you have.  It’s your choice.  Harvard did a study involving hiring people for maid service.  Two groups were given the exact same housekeeping tasks.  One group was told their assignment was work, the other group was told their assignment was exercise.     They keep careful records of both groups.  The work group remained the same weight as when they started.  The exercise group  lost weight and gained conditioning.  Just being conscious of the exercise value is beneficial to a healthy heart and body.
• If you normally hire your lawn service out, consider doing it yourself.  You’ll save a few dollars, get stress free exercise, and re-establish contact with plant life around your house.  You live with these plants, but they may be complete strangers.  Get to know your plants and have a down to earth healthy heart.
• If you have family, friends or even neighbors talk them into a leisurely evening walk.  If you can capture a sunset or sunrise it would be even better.  You have one sunset and one sunrise every day, but how many have you actually taken time to enjoy in your adult life?  It probably was not nearly as many as it should be.  Don’t miss these opportunities.  Take a walk into the sun and take a friend with you.