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Maintain a healthy body and mind – Sharpen Your Mind By Exercising It

Exercising body is very necessary to keep it fit and healthy… But in order to have a healthy body, a healthy mind is also necessary. Doing unique, random, different, and ridiculous things is a good way to exercise the mind and promote new ways of thinking about the world around us.

- Stimulate your ears differently.
- Stimulate your eyes in new ways.
- Learn about different people and lifestyles.
- Join clubs based on things you have no knowledge.
- Watch movies that you normally don’t partake in.
- Learn how to write backwards.
- Read backwards or upside down.
- Build ridiculous things like radios, legos, robots etc.
- Walk backwards.
- Learn to juggle.
- Attend churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, trade union meetings, places of worship and meditation.
- Play strategy games like Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Sudoko etc.
- Travel.
- Learn to read and write new language.
- Learn to play some musical instrument.
- Talk to someone you wouldn’t normally talk to.

Engage in stimulating mental activity to strengthen brain cells and nerve connections. Vigorously exercising your mind, regardless of age, is necessary for long-term mental health. Do not allow long periods to elapse without stretching, extending, and forcing your mind into new areas of stimulation and challenge.

Exercise improves blood flow, metabolism, energy, mental focus, people who have had long-term stress. It helps the brain start to re-grow new cells and helps them extend and connect better with other cells.

Always engaging yourself in some sort of new learning is very important. Challenge yourself to learn a hobby, computers, a new skill, or build a website. It is “the challenges” that will force your mind into a higher level of activity.

Mind-Body exercises promotes body awareness through the performance of precise physical movements that controls and balances your own body-weight. A mind-body exerciser never needs to be entertained while exercising. They never workout totally oblivious to the exercises that they are performing.

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How to keep fit and healthy during pregnancy ?

Whether you started your pregnancy as a jock or a couch potato, there are reasons (and ways) to work a workout into your daily schedule — and there are big payoffs if you do. Exercise can help fight fatigue and slow down those roller coaster emotions by releasing endorphins.

Best Exercises for Pregnant Women :
- Aerobic Exercise : The most comfortable exercises are those that don’t require your body to bear extra weight. Aerobic exercise involves rhythmic, repetitive activities that demand increased oxygen to the muscles. Aerobics include walking, jogging, bicycling, and swimming. This type of exercise stimulates the heart, lungs and muscles causing overall body changes. It allows your body to process and utilize oxygen and improves circulation.
- Flexibility exercises during pregnancy: Stretching (simple stretches, yoga, Pilates) is a pregnant woman’s best friend, easing leg cramps, back strain, and sore shoulders. But stretch with caution — because of the increased relaxation of ligaments during pregnancy, you will need to be careful — those relaxed joints can trick you into straining a muscle.
- Strength training during pregnancy : Lifting weights strengthens muscles and bones. While weight training is fine for pregnant women, you may need to scale back the amount of weight you’ve been lifting, and increase the number of repetitions.
- Yoga : The benefit of yoga is that it emphasizes breathing, relaxation, posture and body awareness, all of which make you better prepared to deal with the challenges of pregnancy and birth.

Stop the activity and seek medical attention if any of the following symptoms occur during exercise:
# blood or fluid coming from your vagina
# sudden or severe abdominal or vaginal pain
# contractions that go on for 30 minutes after you stop exercising
# chest pain
# shortness of breath
# headache that is severe or won’t go away
# dizziness
# dim or blurry vision