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Have you ever ever seen that many issues in life are available in cycles or patterns? Astronomical, agricultural, financial, local weather and climate, organic and extra. As dwelling creatures on this earth, we too undergo many micro and macro cycles all through our lifetime. Progress and growth, college, profession and household to call a couple of. Inside all of life’s cycles there may be an ebb and stream; a patterning and shifting as they circle round. No surprise our lives are by no means stagnant.
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The identical cycles that occur within the planetary and natural realms additionally occur inside our personal behaviors and habits as we navigate our journey to a wholesome way of life. If we study a yr of our lives, we now have intervals of maximum busyness and quiet occasions, holidays and deadlines, holidays and stress. We cycle although completely different months and seasonal occasions, sports activities and celebrations. We stability household, work and faculty.
If all these items are biking round us and part of us, how can we be anticipated to maintain our consuming and exercise habits the identical all yr? The reply is we will not, and we should not. Simply as we adapt to completely different routines all year long based mostly on our seasonal commitments, so can also our wants and strategies to eat nicely and be lively.
The wholesome consuming and exercise routines that we get into for the summer time won’t be those that we are able to preserve within the fall or winter. If we discover it difficult to eat wholesome and be lively the identical manner we had been a couple of months in the past it might be as a result of issues in our life have modified.
Maybe the seasonal meals we have been having fun with should not out there or inexpensive, or that the exercise we had been doing is not protected; and so, we should create our personal new cycle to eat nicely and be lively with a purpose to preserve our wholesome habits. What this cycle seems like is exclusive to us and our way of life and it is one which works with the opposite cycles we now have happening.
This could imply doing completely different actions in several seasons; maybe we run within the spring and summer time, observe yoga within the fall and cross-country snowboarding within the winter. It could possibly imply we eat extra of sure out there meals in the summertime and fall and fewer of them in winter. It could possibly imply we plan meals and eat our dinners early within the fall and winter however wing it and eat early within the spring and summer time.
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Our problem this week is to look at the cycles of our lives and see how we’re incorporating and balancing our consuming and exercise habits.
Are we struggling at sure occasions of yr to eat nicely or be lively? It might be that our habits should not aligned with the opposite cycles happening in our life at the moment. Consuming nicely and being lively is not a one dimension suits all, it is not a stagnant habits, and it is not one thing that should keep the identical.
To be able to eat nicely and be lively in a sustainable and constant manner we should always change the issues we eat and the best way we transfer. Not solely does this assist us to keep up these behaviors with every thing else happening in our lives, however it permits us to find new passions for various methods of consuming and being lively.
Life is stuffed with ardour, enjoyable and journey and our wholesome consuming and bodily exercise behaviors might be additionally! How will you retain your behaviors ‘biking’ all yr lengthy?
This column was written and supplied by Strathcona County Parks, Recreation and Tradition’s indoor companies consultant, Jennifer Wilson.
