It’s winter and many of us are tempted to slink off to bed for a bit to do work, study or homework…
But it is a good idea for our health and productivity?
In this video I walk you through some of the reasons why we want to do it 🙂
Plus some ‘healthier’ options for our posture, our muscles and our brainpower if we do want to indulge in some time spent doing work or study in bed!
Work or study in bed- good or bad?
With the outbreak of the corona virus, many more of us are suddenly working from home.
Perhaps your workstation setup is less ergonomically friendly than in your office and you’re wondering how best to set yourself up successfully?
There are some quick and easy principles you can follow to keep strain and pain off your body, so I filmed this video for you to watch.
Ergonomic and posture tips working from home
So take a look at these quick and easy, also inexpensive tips that will help you feel fabulous and stay productive working from home.
If you’d like to get your hands on my favourite stretches and exercises to do at your desk to take strain off your body and improve your flexibility you can grab them here.
I often prescribe my clients the ‘Smiling Collar-bones’ exercise that gives them a quick and easy way to improve their posture and take tension off their neck, shoulders and upper back.
It’s also one of my favourite ways of explaining healthy posture habits for your head, neck and shoulders and clients can’t believe how easy it is to remember… so they do it more often!
The other thing is, your don’t have to even leave your chair to do it! Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, you can ‘Smile’ your collarbones and feel the difference in your body!
That’s a win-win all round!
This week saw us celebrating April Fool’s Day… and National ‘Smile Day’ in Australia. So I thought I’d bring a smile to your dial and share this awesome exercise with you…
New research has unlocked another piece in the puzzle of how exercise improves our brain function.
A discovery has identified what triggers the brain to boost brain function through exercise.
Many of us will be familiar with the ‘post-exercise high’ that is often what motivates us to get our joggers on in the first place. We can always look forward to feeling more awake and ‘alive’ post-workout, even if we are physically exhausted!
The Hippocampus is an important area of our brain for memory and learning. When we exercise, stem cells in this region multiply to form new nerve cells (neurons) which leads to improvements in learning and memory.
And now we know more about how…
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and on this day we celebrate everything awesome and unique about women!
One of the most special things about women is that they tend to be ‘nurturers’ of those around them. They’re often carers in the form of mothers, grandmothers, sisters or daughters and supportive friends or colleagues of the many people in their community.
And women often feel their greatest sense of satisfaction and worth in giving of themselves to others- they’re time, their listening ear, their advice, their hospitality and their heart.
In our increasingly busy world, however, this selfless commitment to giving and putting other’s needs before their own can take its toll.
Yes, as women we tend to wear many hats and, sadly, the ‘hat of self-care’ is usually donned the least.
The sad reality is that I speak to many women daily who aren’t feeling great about themselves. They find it hard to see, let alone celebrate their amazing qualities amidst their struggle.
They’re often worried about their weight, worried about how stiff and sore they feel, how exhausted and sluggish they feel, worried about the increasing hunch of their shoulders, worried about their health and the little time they have to devote to taking care of themselves.
Does that resonate with you?
Well, I want to encourage you today!
Firstly, I assure you that you are doing a great job.
And secondly, I want to remind you that you can’t help others unless you fit your own oxygen mask first…
While it certainly is tough to prioritise your own physical and mental health when you’ve got deadlines at work, family and social commitments, household chores to get done and hungry kids or pets hounding you…
I’d like you to stop for a second and take a deep breath, then exhale, and read on.
If I told you that you could skyrocket your physical and mental health in just 2 minutes, would you want to know how?
This week we had some fun on social media…
It was ‘Clean Up Australia Day’ for Businesses on Monday, so I set us all a little challenge!
We went through the simple things we can all do every day to help keep our nation and our office safe (and beautiful) by picking up rubbish and things lying around.
AND I showed you how to give your own workspace an ‘Ergonomically Friendly Clean-up’ to inspire you to get you in the tidying mood!
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Do you ever feel a little sluggish, even stiff or sore sitting at your desk?
Or maybe you get frustrated there’s not enough time in the day to exercise as much as you’d like…
I want to inspire you, your workmates and even your family with this quick exercise tip!
You see, 30mins of daily exercise is awesome (and typically recomended), but it’s difficult for so many people that they end up doing nothing at all! 😳
I see so many poor souls struggling with wearing so many hats- they might be team leader or business owner, an employee, a parent, a student, then pile on top heaps of other committments- that they wrestle with finding time to prioritise the self-care things they should.
Does that ring true for you?
Do you ever feel…?
Knots, Niggles, Tension
Tight muscles, aches or even pains
Brain fog, Nodding off, productivity waning
Sluggish from hours at a screen, slouching
Eyes glazing over, grab another coffee
Frustrated by no time to exercise, Too much on your plate
Your weight creeping up, metabolism slowing down
Do any of those phrases resonate?
Or can you see yourself heading there if things don’t change?
There’s nothing more upsetting to me, as a health professional, than seeing people in a state of distress, suffering from combinations of the above symptoms.
Especially because most of those issues can be pretty easily avoided… if you know how.
Most people have no idea that this shouldn’t be ‘your normal’ and that a few simple strategies can empower you to take control and get your health back on track.
That’s good news, right?
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