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Are you looking for ways to improve your health and incorporate more healthy “to do’s” into your lifestyle that are enjoyable? How about sauna’s and steam baths? Can’t get any more relaxing and enjoyable that that! Saunas and steams also provide you with one of the best ways to detoxify your body and provide many benefits for better health.

Skin is exposed to hundreds of chemicals during the course of a lifetime. Shampoos, shower gels, lotions, soaps and deodorants, household cleaning solvents, detergents and chemicals from the bath or shower water affect the skin. The winter months, clothes that are confining, sun exposure and lack of activity and not working out adversely affect the skin. A sedentary lifestyle leads to holding toxins in the body longer and is not healthy for the skin and overall health. Studies have shown that environmental chemicals, poor diet and stress cause 95% of cancers.

Steam rooms and saunas can be more than just a luxury. They can be a very healthy addition to your home and weekly routine at the gym. A typical steam room session can sweat out up to 30% of its toxins that have built up.

Steams and saunas works by providing the right amount of heat to the body to improve the rate of blood circulation and produces sweat eliminating toxins out body through the pores. Another benefit for skin care is increased blood flow to the tiny capillaries (just under the skins surface) causing the skin to glow and look healthy because the blood cells carry minerals, vitamins and oxygen: vital for a healthy body.

I have always been an advocate of goal setting by writing down what I want in my life and mapping out how I will get there. Presently I am redefining my life goals. Last night I met with Deb Clifford. She has a company called Inspired People. I am working with Deb to help me clearly define my goals and find a way to make my dreams comes true. Deb asked me to make a vision board. Vision boards can express goals with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, and what you want out of life. The idea behind a vision board is that the pictures express your life desires and help clarify or communicate your goals.
For instance, my goal is to become a talk show host for health, fitness and wellness concepts. My message and mission is to get people to stop dieting forever, loose weight, and get fit. I am starting mine today- join me in starting one. I would love to see any vision board that will make your dreams come true.
10 steps on how to make a vision board
1. First- it’s simple and fun.
2. Get some type of poster board.
3. Get a big stack of different magazines- make sure you get a wide variety.
4. Before you begin your vision board: Ask yourself, what is it you want?
5. Go through your magazines and tear the images from them. No gluing yet. Just find pictures or words or headlines that you connect with and represent what you want. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words.
6. You may find you have little epiphanies about more of what as you go through the process – go with it and stay open.
7. Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board.
8. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right to you. As you lay the pictures on the board, you’ll get ideas on how you want the board to look. Let your intuition play a strong role in this part of the process. Your images might go all over the place or you might like to tell a sequential story. You might assign a theme to each part of the board like fitness, spirituality, career, or relationships.
9. Glue-paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines onto vision board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers.
10. Put your vision board in a place where you will see it often.