Variety with workouts and exercise pulls your body out of the automatic response system and keeps you agile. Hypnosis interrupts the automatic response system (flight or fight) and takes your body out of reaction and into awareness and choice.
You lose balance and stability when you don’t keep moving. Similarly, without hypnosis, the nervous system remains reactive rather than regulated, which can lead to increased stress, reduced adaptability, and less emotional stability.
Here are some fun and healthy ways to create body flexibility that can be squeezed into your busy life:
Take the stairs every chance you get. Stairs work major muscle groups and are considered low impact.
Park in the back of the lot when you shop. Health benefits start with as few as 2,500–4,000 steps daily.
Spend time in your garden. Squats are a compound exercise that promotes full-body muscle development and increased metabolism.
Dance to music as you cook or when brushing your teeth. Dancing strengthens the heart and lungs while building muscle, improving flexibility, and increasing bone density.
Lift using canned food. I found this workout with canned beans just for you. Incorporate reps of five when you’re bored. Cans placed into a backpack while you walk strengthen core muscles. Squatting numerous times to pick cans up targets the glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings, and core.
Go play. Play benefits everyone by boosting creativity, problem-solving, and social skills. Playing also reduces stress and improves overall well-being. It can be as simple as bowling, tennis, basketball, or another sport. Anything that gets your blood pumping is generative to your health. You can also go to the park and swing, rid your bike, or jump off the diving board at the community pool.
Learn a new dance. The can-can, two-step, waltz, or tango. Dancing is considered a whole brain activity and creates feel-good endorphins while keeping you physically fit.
Stretch. Get up and stretch when your TV plays commercials. Stretch when you wake up. Stretch in your office. Stretch before you go to bed. Stretching keeps muscles flexible, improves joint range of motion, boosts blood flow, enhances physical performance, and reduces injury risk, while also offering mental benefits like stress relief, improved posture, and better sleep. Here is a stretch video to help with bedtime sleep. If that doesn’t work, schedule a hypnosis session. Even WebMD believes Sleep Hypnosis for Insomnia works.
Look into an exercise class you’ve been thinking about. For those of you who need to ease your way back into exercise, I found this 8-minute video when I looked up Qigong near me. I stopped writing this article and did the exercise right here in my office in front of the computer. I feel so much more energized. I’ll be adding this to my morning routine for the next few weeks and will seriously look at taking the 30 minute introductory class for fun.
How about chair exercises for seniors. There are many easy chair exercises on YouTube and a variety of shorts. You could do a different one each week so you don’t get bored.
Varied routines keep you engaged. Varied routines help your body thrive. Choose those things that lower the risk of disease while improving your flexibility and agility.
Fitness trackers can cause stress by turning health into a competitive obsession, leading to anxiety or burnout, guilt, and a loss of enjoyment. You also lose the ability to engage with your natural body signals. Take the watch off. Stop looking at the data. Let your body remember how to have fun with movement.
When your body says stop – LISTEN!
Days off are essential to allow the body to repair muscle tissue, replenish energy stores, and prevent burnout or injury. A day of rest doesn’t mean couch rot. It means you do what you love to do. Explore movement and touch by getting a massage, hot stone treatment, acupuncture, or an Access Bars Session. Our bodies require touch to thrive.
A workout buddy increases motivation, accountability, and provides companionship. A recent study said that people who have a friend to hang out with at work are happier. You might be happier if you found someone to exercise with. Others might choose the solo act. Do what works for you!
Personal trainers will hold you accountable. A good one will provide safe, customized, and efficient fitness guidance. They ensure proper form to reduce injury risks and tailor workouts to individual needs.
Exercise is like experimenting with food. Until you try, you aren’t going to buy. I thought I would never zip line because I couldn’t imagine stepping into nothingness. Once I did, I had an amazing experience. Our bodies were created to move and our balance and flexibility require movement.
Hypnosis can help when you lack motivation to exercise. Hypnosis accesses the subconscious mind to eliminate mental blocks, reduces anxiety about working out, and fosters a positive attitude toward physical activity. Hypnosis can have you let go of what doesn’t work and reframe exercise as rewarding rather than a chore.
I’m ready when you’re ready.
Donna Brown is a Certified Hypnotist serving Houston and Katy, Texas, with over a decade of experience helping clients create lasting change through the power of the subconscious mind. Donna specializes in relationship hypnosis, emotional release, trauma resolution, and subconscious reprogramming. She also offers comprehensive hypnosis services to support habit change, smoking cessation, weight loss, and other traditional goals. Her certifications include Hypnosis, Access Bars, Access Facelift, Access Certified Miracle Worker, Body Code, Emotion Code, Belief Code, Psych-K, and NLP.
