The 5 Essentials Each of us is in a different place with our health, but the Essentials - Faith, Food, Fitness, Focus, and Friends - will hold up your life, enliven your body, enrich your mind, and fill your heart. Faith Heatlh comes from recognizing and using God's power in your life and treating your body and mind with the care he intended. When you learn to rely on God's power, you have the key to lasting change. Spiritual health gives you a foundation for building habits and perspective for health in any area. Food You can actually eat anything based on one rule: Eat real, whole food. Eat a colorful variety of real, whole foods from real ingredients that you can make yourself - or that are made by another human nearby. If it was grown on a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, leave it on the shelf. Simple, real, fresh, delicious, nutrient-packed foods that are easy to cook, foods that come from a farmer's field, not a factory, foods that traveled the shortest distance from the field to your fork - that is what we should eat. A chicken, a vegetable, a bean, a nut, a grain, a fruit, an egg.
Everything else is fake food that depletes energy and health. Real food heals and nourishes. So eat real, whole foods made by God. Fitness Your body is designed to move and become Daniel Strong. What images come to mind when you think of the word strong? Do you think of the prophet Daniel? Daniel possessed strength that went well beyond the size of his muscles. Daniel Strong = A pursuit of excellence in body, mind, and spirit fro God's glory. Before you even start a fitness plan, the key to success is to choose activities you enjoy doing. Take the Daniel Strong Challenge to improve your fitness, combining prayerful movements, loosening breaks, active games and aerobic activity, and youthful strength training into your life, and watch what happens!
We encourage you to do the fitness challenge for 40 days to change your fitness habits. To begin, start with the "Play of The Day". Focus You can have solid faith, healthy food choices, and plenty of exercises and still sabotage your health. The potential saboteur? Your brain. When your brain works right, you tend to be happier, physically healthier, more thoughtful, because you make better decisions. Two of the most important parts of the Focus Essential are to know your motivation and renew your mind. This requires disciplining your mind to have accurate, honest thoughts and bringing your attention each day to those things each day for which you are grateful. Friends When it comes to your health, every body needs a buddy. We need each other. In fact, the New Testament says over and over to love one another, encourage one another, serve one another, support one another. Research shows that people getting healthy together lose twice as much weight as those who do it alone. Friends are the secret sauce of the Daniel Plan.
TODAY'S STEPS
1. Assess your health in each of the 4 essentials at www.danielplan.com/start
2. Aerobic: Go for a 10-20 minute brisk walk. Or, go for 20-30 minute power walk, walk/jog, interval training or jog Stretch: Standing neck stretches - 10-15 seconds each throughout the day. Or, complete lunge/bends, walking high kicks or standing forward shoulder reach. Perform each stretch or movement for 10-15 seconds on each side.
Thank God for the blessing of a body that moves.
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