Thando Nhlapo Ntamane

Unleash your life's true potential. live your best life and unleash your true potential. THANDO NHLAPO NTAMANE Table of Contents About the Author 2 How to Live a Longer and Happier Life 3 The Six Areas of Your Life That You Can Improve 5 The Power of Positive Thinking: What Can It Do For You? 7 How Meditation Can Make You a Happier Person 10 About About the Author the Author Thando Nhlapo Ntamane is a inspiring enlightenment seeker. Looking for inspirational ways to live out a purposeful life, incorporating the body, the mind and spirit. Thando gives helpful ways to live out a fulfilled life everyday. These are the best ways to find and maintain balance of the purposeful life in your everyday life. Mental health Physical health Spiritual health Unleash your life's true potential. Page 2 of 11 How to Live a Longer and Happier Life Life longevity has become a bigger and bigger focus as health science and medicine has grown over the years. Where before people would be lucky to see their forties, now people can live to be seventy, eighty and even ninety! Still, due to an increase in sedentary lifestyles, we've seen an increase of different illnesses. Mixed with the modern, fast-food diet, weâve seen a rise is heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and more. Where we should be living longer, we've recently seen overall longevity diminish. In order to stay in shape and to make sure you are living a happier, longer life youâll want to make sure that you are staying active. Here's how: 1. Join a Sports League Adult sports leagues are becoming increasingly more popular, with every sport you can think of. From softball to dodgeball, you can find a sport that's perfect for you! Find a local sports league that you can commit to, and start showing up to games. Itâs okay if you arenât great at the sportâmost people on your team wonât be. Many people will be there looking to get more exercise, just like you! 2. Take Classes If sports aren't your thing, you may want to consider taking exercise classes instead. You can take a dance class, yoga, martial arts or cycling as an alternative to a traditional gym workout. These classes are fun, and get you the workout that you need to get in shape. 3. Join a Gym While for some people the gym isnât their thing, others find that they absolutely love it! Whether you used to hit the gym regularly, or you are new to the gym, you can get an amazing workout with the results youâve been dreaming of by regularly lifting weights and doing cardio at the gym. No matter what type of exercise you choose, make sure that you are getting up and Unleash your life's true potential. Page 3 of 11 moving. It's time to start turning the tides, and living the long life that our ancestors would be jealous of. Get out there, get some exercise and live longer! Unleash for life full potential, one day at a time. Unleash your life's true potential. Page 4 of 11 The Six Areas of Your Life That You Can Improve When you step back and look at yourself, are there things in your life that can be changed? Are you motivated and driven to move forward with your life and actually make the necessary changes that are needed to make yourself happy with your life. Here are the six areas that almost everyone can improve in their life, and make the most of the change. Fitness and Overall Health and Wellness Losing weight, or just getting healthier in general can be done with some lifestyle changes. These changes can be made through healthier eating choices with fruits and vegetables, as well as regular exercise. All of these together can provide a healthier outlook on life, while also making sure to slim your figure. Finances and Your Career Boosting your career is a good thing, but when it comes to going further, you have to work harder. Perhaps taking classes can help, or working harder at doing better at work. There are many ways that you can boost your finances, and your career. Try something new that you’ve always wanted to do. When you love your job, you can love yourself. Your Social Life If you want to have a social life, then all you need to do is get out there and get it. Just make sure to speak to those around you, go out and speak to more people and let yourself out. When you stay inside all the time, you’re not going to be able to meet anyone this way. Your Character and Ethics Knowing who you are, and what you want out of life is a big thing. You want to change who you are, then start thinking differently and look outside of the box when the time comes. You want to be more open minded, give back to the community and donate more of your time, money or items then do it. Make a difference, even if it is a small one but it makes you feel better. Time Management Managing your time is essential for everyone. When you can put your time in a schedule, and put everything you need to done within that time frame, while leaving time for yourself; then you can feel much more put together. Making the right schedule and time Unleash your life's true potential. Page 5 of 11 plan is essential for a less stressful life. Emotional Areas Emotional areas of your life should be considered when you want to grab control of who you are, and what upsets you. When it comes to putting your emotions in check, you can then take advantage of everything around you without having to worry about certain feelings while doing so. When it comes to making these changes, you have to be the one to stay motivated to keep them going. Working out, eating healthier, making the right changes for you can all be difficult to do but they can be done. When you choose the right things in your life to change, you can then feel better about the choice that you made when the time comes. Be yourself, make changes and feel good about the choice that you made. Unleash for life full potential, one day at a time. Unleash your life's true potential. Page 6 of 11 The Power of Positive Thinking: What Can It Do For You? Did you know that positive thinking is contagious and powerful? Your thoughts can change your mood, help improve health, and even affect your relationships at home and work. If you’d like to understand positive thinking and what it can do for you, keep reading. Positive Thinking: What Is It? First, you must understand that positive thinking is not seeing everything as good. There are always challenges and negative aspects of life. Positive thinking helps you deal with them. You cannot ignore or even avoid potentially bad situations, but you can make the most of them. Here are some examples: Seeing the positive in your strengths and weaknesses Seeing your abilities in a positive light Trying to see the best in all people Being more optimistic Positive thinkers take on challenges without allowing them to negatively affect your lives. The Benefits of Positive Thinking Your ability to see good things and find the silver lining in most situations can greatly improve every aspect of your life. Health Studies have shown that positive thinking does affect a person’s health and well being. Positive thoughts can lead to a lot of potential health benefits: Reduces stress Helps you live longer Increases your immunity to common colds and flu Improves your emotional health Decrease your risk of depression Unleash your life's true potential. Page 7 of 11 Lowers your risk of heart disease Improves your physical well being It is thought that people who think positively have less stress and are more likely to maintain good health habits than negative thinkers. Life in General Positive thinkers have a positive attitude that helps them with relationships both personal and professional. They strengthen relations and go farther in life by doing certain things: Being grateful for what they have Surrounding themselves with positive people Being positive and persistent in all situations Being able to find the humor in life Always helping other unselfishly Not judging and criticizing others Setting goals to give them drive and motivation These things help you relate better with others and get along well in almost any situation. Positive thinkers continue to strive for happiness. Becoming a Positive Thinker Some people are born with a positive attitude, but everyone can benefit from sharpening the skill of positive thinking. Start by watching what you say. Try your best to avoid complaining and negative comments. Compliment people and have nice things to say. Transforming into a positive thinker does not happen overnight. Since it is a skill, inner work is needed to turn on your positive thought process.You have to commit yourself to work on it every day. Here are few tips to get you started: Read a page from an inspiring book every day Watch movies that make you happy Surround yourself with positive people. Use only positive works while thinking and talking. You can create an entire happy, peaceful world just by the way you think.It’s worth the effort! Unleash your life's true potential. Page 8 of 11 Unleash for life full potential, one day at a time. Unleash your life's true potential. Page 9 of 11 How Meditation Can Make You a Happier Person Meditation has been proven to help people in many ways. It can help treat certain health conditions and even help you manage stress. But did you know that meditation can make you a happier, more positive person? If you’re someone who is rarely in a good mood or has trouble finding the good in any situation, then mediation may help you. When you are happier and more positive, it can turn your whole life around. You may become more successful in your career or find that you develop better relationships. Here are some ways that meditation help make you happier. Meditation and the Brain Studies show that meditation does affect your brain structure. How? Meditation can help you think more positively, and once you start thinking positive thoughts instead of negative, your brain structure also starts to change. Meditation is a type of mental exercise that strengthens the part of the brain responsible for happiness and positivity. This mental exercise can change your brain structure for the better and do so permanently. Research has shown the mindfulness mediations can improve brain structure and create a happier you in as little as 8 weeks. Meditation Can Stimulate Your Limbic System Your brain’s limbic system is the acts as its emotional network, and when you meditate regularly, you not only strengthen this system of the brain, but you the mediation also has long-term effects that permanently change the way your brain operates. This gives you a more positive outlook on life that not only helps your mood, but also makes you less likely to develop certain medical conditions: - Diabetes - High blood pressure - Respiratory infections - Colds - Flu - Stroke Unleash your life's true potential. Page 10 of 11 - Inflammation It’s though that nerve cells in the brain feeling areas also connect to other cells in the body, and this can affect many other things in the body, including the risk of certain diseases. This is why positive thinking can help you when you are sick. Having positive thoughts can and do have a positive effect on your entire body. This means being happy and upbeat can help you recover from illness quicker or even prevent you from becoming sick in the first place. Happiness is a state of mind, but it also affects you as a whole. A positive attitude also affects your entire body. So, this means practicing mindful meditation for 20 minutes can make you both happier and healthier. And when you stress-free and healthy, how can you be anything but happy and positive? Unleash for life full potential, one day at a time. Unleash your life's true potential. Page 11 of 11