Daily Routine For Healthy Body and Mind

What is the best daily routine for a healthy body and mind?

What should be your daily routine?

Of course, you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle and enjoy boosted energy levels and a calm peaceful mind. Maybe you are doing a complete reset of your life and changing your daily routine is definitely the top of your priorities.

But how should you do it?

What are the best daily habits and daily routines to be your best self?

In this post, I’ve prepared 17 tips for you to help you build your own daily routine for a healthy body and mind.

Let’s get into it!

Daily routine for a healthy body

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Exercise

I’m not going to shock you with this one. Doing some sort of exercise a few times a week will drastically improve your health. The World Health Organisation recommends 150 minutes of moderate exercises weekly or 75 minutes if it’s a more intense workout.

How many minutes do you exercise weekly?

Here are some excellent ideas to get you started:

yoga
stretch
dancing
Zumba
weight-lifting
aerobic
cardio workouts
jogging
any other type of sport you enjoy.

2. Food

Every single bite you have throughout the day becomes you; it becomes your body.

Whatever food you eat, that’s how you will look and feel.

If you indulge yourself in junk food, highly processed snacks, fizzy drinks that bloat you and so on… you’re far away from having a healthy lifestyle, even if you jog 5 miles daily.

However, if you make the change and focus on healthy foods, instead, you will soon feel lighter and healthier than ever before.

Eat the rainbow as they say.

3. Water

I’m guilty about this one. I don’t hate water, but it isn’t a drink I reach to as often as I’d like. In fact, I often skip drinking water throughout the day, and when I realize it in the evening, I try to catch up. The result is waking up every hour to use the bathroom.

Don’t be me!

Water is life, and that life needs to enter your body.

Let it in.

4. Vitamins and supplements

Even if you eat that rainbow from above, chances are, your body still needs some extra supplements.

Talk to your doctor or a nutritionist on what are the best vitamins and supplements for you.

5. Dry brush your skin

This might sound like a beauty tip, but dry-brushing your skin has great benefits on your health.

Dry-brushing clears the dead skin, energies it and improves the blood flow. The later helps you look healthier and brighter, and it actually helps you feel good.

If you decide to try dry-brushing, remember always to do it towards your heart. That means you start from the bottom of your leg and brush up and never down. Don’t overdo it if you have dry skin, and always apply moisturiser afterwards.

6. Sunlight

Yes, the sun we’re all hiding from all day every day, is actually beneficial for your overall health.

Did you know that the lack of Vitamin D could cause anxiety, depression, fatigue, bone problems and even infertility?

To get your daily dose of this precious vitamin (which is actually a hormone your body produces thanks to the sunlight) is to pose 40% of your skin to the sun for two hours daily. If you aren’t lucky enough to do so, you could take it as part of your daily supplements.

7. Walk more

This is one of the easiest ways to get your 150 minutes of weekly exercise – by walking.

Walk to your work if possible. Walk after work. Get a pet and walk with it every day.

Just enjoy a good walk out as often as possible.

8. Take breaks every hour or so

Another tip for your daily routine for a healthy body and mind.

I am guilty on that one too. I often sit on the desk and work for hours before I realize my body’s stiff, and I barely move my legs.

Don’t be me.

Get up and walk around for a minute or so. Take a few deep breaths. Move your legs, your hands and stretch your body as much as possible. This will help you get back to work energised and positive.

9. Less sugar

The World Health Organisation recommends the intake of 25gr. of white sugar daily or less.

That’s like 4-5 teaspoons daily and nothing more.

Now, count the fact that even the ketchup has added sugar as well as the yoghurt, any type of drink you have (except water), any snack, no matter if its salty or sweet… The world around is full of white sugar.

Let’s be honest. Neither you nor I will give up on sugar completely. But reducing it will have a significant impact on your life. When I met my fiance, he was having his coffee with two full teaspoons of sugar. Two years later, we both gave up on sugar in our tea or coffee. We aim for more fruits and stick to dark chocolate if possible.

Small improvements overtime feel less painful and have a positive impact on your life. Don’t skip the opportunity to cut down a spoon or two from different areas of your diet.

10. Give up the bad habits

Yes, you know what I’m talking about.

It’s the smoking, the alcohol, the daily junk food, the fizzy drinks, the lack of sleep, the lack of exercise and the lack of self-care.

Give up on bad habits. All.

Daily Routine for a Healthy Mind

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11. Meditation

This is one of my favorite ways to keep my mind calm and peaceful. I have a very anxious mind, and I get frustrated by way too many things around me. Meditation is the thing that keeps me calm when I need to be calm, and it helps me think before I say something that might hurt the people around me. If you’re with a fire-personality – meditation is your water for that fire.

12. Relaxing music

I often listen to stress-relieving and relaxing music. Sometimes a rainy-day ambience is all I need to melt on the sofa with a book. Youtube offers millions of options to choose from. You could listen to it while cooking, working, meditation or even sleeping.

13. Read

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Books are gates to other worlds. If you want to live thousands of times and thousands of lives – read books. If you’re too busy to actually sit down and read (if you’re a mom or have a busy schedule) I recommend trying Audible. You could set up timers and listen to a book for as few as eight minutes at once. Don’t tell me you can’t find eight free minutes in the day to dive into another world.

Yes, it’s great for your mind!

14. Journal

This is a popular way of keeping your mind active. There are so many ways you could journal – gratitude journaling every morning or evening; brain-dump; diary-style journaling; letters to yourself and so on. Get that pen and paper and do it the old-fashioned way. Journaling is the simplest way to put a chaotic mind in order. And it’s the cheapest one too.

15. Play games that challenge your mind

I recommend Sudoku. That simple game could do wonders to your brain. I play a few games of Sudoku every single morning for the last three years. It’s the simplest way to wake up my brain so early in the day. It stimulates the problem-solving way of thinking, and it improves your ability to focus on one thing.

16. Learn a new language

I know there’s a language you’ve always wanted to be able to speak. Is it Spanish? Italian? French? Chinese? Learning a new language isn’t just going to keep your mind active. It’s one of the most useful things you could do for yourself. Every new language you know is a powerful way to communicate with a large part of people around the world. How wonderful is that?!

17. Laugh more

Nothing too fancy here.

Just laugh more. For good mental and physical health -laugh more.

For a better mood, for brighter skin, for glowing eyes, for a healthy digestive system, for staying motivated and positive towards others and the world around you – smile. Laugh. More.