How to Cultivate Minimalist Health
Our mind, body, and spirit are intimately connected.
If you neglect one part, many times another will start to fail.
If you start to consume junk, your thoughts will be junk. If your thoughts become junk, you might start creating it too.
Here’s what I like to do, when one part of the triad fails. In the long run it’s always better to slow down and regain health, rather than to ignore the problem until later.
How to focus on minimalist health:
1. Slow down. Usually health starts failing because you’re going too fast. We tend to think that we’ll get healthier by going faster, but I’ve found the opposite is true. We run all day, and this makes us tired. When we’re tired we tend to eat worse, and we want to drink, this is a vicious cycle. Health and rest are intertwined. Stop moving so fast before everything else can begin.
2. Disconnect. It’s incredibly hard to stretch for an hour if you’re checking Twitter every five minutes. Turn off the computer, turn off the smart phone, before you move to the other steps. Communication cracks out your mind when you’re constantly plugged in and makes it difficult to concentrate developing good health.
3. Take the time to begin eating right again. Good food is a commitment, one it takes time to fulfill. The worst food is also the easiest to consume quickly. Dedicate an hour for each meal, start to finish. Create each meal with fresh and raw ingredients that we’re just purchased from the market.
4. Walk to and from the market before meals. I know this isn’t possible everywhere, but I find that it helps me focus on what my body needs and gets my body active. You can’t always plan ahead for what your body will need for dinner. Be conscious of what your body is telling you to eat, sometimes it might want something you don’t have in the fridge.
5. Take the time to stretch. Not everyone is like this, some people are gumby. But I’ve found that stretching is one of the most effective ways to improve my health. Set aside one-two hours a day for calm relaxed stretching positions. Start slow with forward bends and calf stretches, move on to pigeon pose and plow at the end.
6. Only then move to intense exercise. I often fail if I try to exercise without first doing the above. Slowness, food, and stretching are the basis for everything that comes after. If food is hard, only focus on that. If stretching is hard, only focus on that. Everyone has their favorite method of strengthening their bodies and burning calories. I stick with Yoga and biking, you may like running and acrobatics.
It’s easier to injure or burn yourself out without first slowing down, eating right, and stretching. Start with foundation for good health before hitting the hard stuff.
I dedicate today to minimalist health. I will slow down, disconnect, eat right, stretch, and then move for health.
I hope you will dedicate this day too.







怎样培养极简健康
我们的心灵，身体，和思想都密切联系着。
如果你经常忽视其中的一部分，其他部分也将会垮掉。
如果你开始食用垃圾食品，你的思想也会变得垃圾。如果你思想变垃圾了，那么你所创造的可能也会是垃圾。
当三者之一要垮时，以下是我想做的。从长远来看，放慢速度重获健康永远比现在忽视问题，到以后后悔莫及好得多。
怎样注意极简的健康：
1. 放慢速度。通常健康之所垮掉是因为你的节奏太快。我们通常认为节奏越快，我们会变得更健康，但是我发现慢节奏才是。我们每天都会跑步，这使得我们很很累。当我们很累时，我们会暴饮暴食，这就形成了一个恶性循环。健康和休息是错综复杂的。在我们行动之前放慢脚步吧。
2。与外部断开联系 如果你每五分钟查一次微博，要抽出一小时来运动就会变得极为艰难。在下一步行动之前，关掉电脑，关掉手机。当你经常开机时，沟通会影响你的心智，使得你很难集中精力去保持健康。
3. 花时间来正确饮食  好食物是一个保证，你必须花时间去实现。最糟糕的食物也就是能迅速吃到的食物。从开始到结束，每餐都花上一小时。用我们刚从市场买来的食材来精心准备每一餐。
4. 在每餐前步行去买菜。我知道这并不适用于每一个地方，但是我发现它能帮助我意识到我身体所需什么且使我身体充满活力。你不能每次都提前计划好晚餐时你的身体所需什么。意识到你身体告诉给你他需要什么这些信息，有时候你身体可能会想要一些你冰箱里没有的食物。
5花时间去运动。并不是每一个人都喜欢这样，有些人会。。。。但是我发现运动是增强体质的最有效地方法。每天花一两小时来运动。开始时缓慢的前倾伸展和小腿伸展，然后摆出鸽子的姿势再是犁头的姿势。
6 这样之后再做剧烈运动。如果我首先没有做上面那些准备活动的话，我经常都会失败告终。缓慢速度，饮食和都是运动是后面一切的基础。如果很难控制饮食的话，那就好好注意那一部分。如果很难坚持运动的话，就只注意那一部分。每一个人都有其喜欢的方法来伸展身体和燃烧卡路里。我喜欢伽和骑自行车，而你可能喜欢跑步和杂技。
如果开始时不放慢速度，正确饮食和伸展身体的话，很容易会伤害或是灼伤你自己。在命中那之前好好打好健康的根基。
我献出今天来达到简易健康。我将会放慢速度，正确饮食，拉经，然后再追求健康。
我希望你也会献出这一天。