Exercise

Healthful Exercise

Exercise is absolutely necessary for proper development, and strength.  Exercise promotes life, prevents disease, and aids in recovery from disease. 

Some benefits of regular exercise are: a stronger heart, improved immune system, and exercise increases the number, elasticity, and diameter of blood vessels, which helps to lower blood pressure and improves peripheral circulation. It also increases lung efficiency and functioning, increases oxygen to the brain and strengthens and firms muscles and tendons Increases agility, coordination and improves flexibility, aids in digestion, helps to relieve stress, depression and tension.

 Exercise relieves boredom and decreases fatigue. Exercise can decrease your appetite, and aid in your weight loss and weight management program. Overall, exercise will improve your vitality and self concept. Exercise is beneficial to the body whole body but one of the most important benefits is that it increases circulation.

There is no exercise that is more beneficial than walking, especially walking in the open air. Labor that affords physical exercise such as gardening will have a beneficial influence upon the mind, while strengthening the muscles, and improving the circulation. Exercise is an important tool for the recovery of health.

 Exercise should be regular and consistent. Always start slow and build up, know your limits. Danger signs can include chest pain or tightness, dizziness, difficulty breathing, loss of muscle control and continued muscle soreness. Set your goal for at least 20 minutes a day. Make your exercise program enjoyable. Avoid eating immediately after exercising, wait about two hours. This will give your body time to cool down.

Allow children to play outside in the sunshine whenever possible this will strengthen them and fortify their system against colds, flu and other respiratory infections. Start a regular fitness program so you can enjoy the benefits of better health. 

Spiritual Exercise

The mind controls the whole person.  All our actions, good or bad, have their source in the mind.  It is the mind that worships God, and aligns us with heavenly beings.  All the physical organs are the servants of the mind, and the nerves are the messengers that transmit its order to every part of the body, guiding the motions of the living machinery. 

This principle helps us realize not only how closely body, mind, and soul are related, but also how they act and interact upon one another.  The common phrase, “Use it, or lose it,” applies equally well to the development and maintenance of the spiritual life.  Religious exercise plays an important part in the development of spiritual well being and good health. Spirituality is not developed on a part-time basis.  Practice makes perfect in the religious dimension of life, as well as in the physical.  Unless we daily exercise out religion in practical ways, such as worship, prayer, Bible study, and in loving, kindness, unselfish service for others, we cannot expect that the Holy Spirit, even with all His omnipotent power, will be able to keep us on a high spiritual plane.