Dr. Dawson Church with Four Tips for Better Health
*NOTE: Anyone who comments on any of Dawson’s posts (spotlight today, guest post tomorrow, interview on Friday) is automatically entered to win a copy of Dawson’s book - The Genie in Your Genes!
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JM: Hello Mr. Church. Can you please provide a list of tips of things people can do on a daily basis to start achieving better health?
DC: Hello, JM. Thank you for inviting me to your website. Here is a list of things people should start doing to boost their health:
1. Kill Cortisol and Boost DHEA. Cortisol is your main stress hormone, while DHEA is your main cell repair hormone. When you generate stress in your life through your beliefs or attitudes, you send an epigenetic stress signal to your adrenal glands that says “make cortisol!” But when you shift your attitude and reduce stress, you signal your body to make DHEA. In my book The Genie in Your Genes (www.GenieBestSeller.com), I provide fast and simple techniques that you can use to produce this effect.
2. Lose Weight Effortlessly by Moving. Research shows that biggest contributor to excess weight isn’t overeating or a gym deficit; it’s a sedentary lifestyle. It’s not the three hours in the gym that makes the biggest contribution to weight loss, it’s more movement every day. I have a 77 year old friend who works with his computer on a tall stand, while he balances on a rebounder! Whether it’s getting up from your desk and performing 20 jumping jacks every 2 hours, or going outdoors for a brisk 10 minute walk, interrupting your sedentary patterns is the most effective way to lose weight.
3. Breathe. Amazingly simple, yet amazingly effective. Here’s a way to calm yourself and reduce stress by breathing. Exhale completely. Now breathe in through your nose, with a count of four. Hold your breath for a count of seven. Now breathe slowly out through your mouth with a count of eight. Hold for a count of seven, then begin again. Five minutes of this practice is virtually guaranteed to send your stress level plummeting.
4. Sternum Tapping. When you’re feeling an emotional charge, an upset, or physical pain, try tapping on your chest. Cross your arms over the center of your chest, take a breath, and then gently tap on your skin with the fingertips of one hand ten to fifteen times. Breathe again. Reverse your hands and tap again. Repeat this a few times. This is a technique drawn from the field of energy psychology, and in The Genie in Your Genes I list several other energy psychology techniques that work well at calming both physical and emotional trauma.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:14 am
This looks like such an interesting book… Cortisol is really a problem in our lives - a big factor in infertility too!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:16 am
No need to enter me; just posted this on Win A BOok.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:47 am
This sounds so useful - I know how coritsol works and how to raise my levels but haven’t a clue how to get it to go down.
gaby317nyc AT gmail DOT com
May 28th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Interesting! I’ve never heard the thing about tapping your sternum. That’s a new one! Thanks!
nfmgirl AT gmail DOT com
May 28th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
This sounds like a very interesting book. I’ve been going to a chiropractor lately who is really focused on total health and wellness and I think this would fit in well with his philosophy.
angela.donner (at) gmail.com
May 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Thank you all for stopping by. I haven’t had the chance to read the book yet, but my husband is finding it fascinating.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:33 am
This sounds like a good book for me!
teddyr66@yahoo.com
May 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Please enter me to win - I think this book would help me better understand my genes and motivate me to make some lifestyle changes to improve my health.
May 30th, 2009 at 7:33 am
I think this book sound fascinating. Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Carlene
March 10th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
I have a clip from the Paris Hilton video on my site. To bad it got leeched onto the net for everyone to watch. She did not want it to be public as it was her ex boyfriend Rick Salomon that created it.
March 12th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Another good post. I posted a plug for your website at mine. So, I am sure many people forget the points you are discussing.
March 15th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I’m concerned that the Pit bull requirements a exclusive kind of owner…these dogs, no matter how ’supportive’ still have teeth, are nevertheless creatures not having moral ideas and if they DO bite, won’t let go. As in all creatures…some have a tendency to be more suseptable to instinctual behavior and time and time again, this breed tends to try and do just that.
May 17th, 2010 at 10:31 am
This is a good step to save paper. And will save the rain forests in Indonesia. Moreover, this will reduce the burden on the back of elementary school students. Of course this will make the traditional printing companies and governments in the third world into a panic because of their unpreparedness of information technology. . .