Spiritual Exercises to Expand Healthy Living

UV 4148/10000 Spiritual Exercises to Expand Healthy Living And which of you by worrying can add one hour to his life’s span? Luke 12 v 25 Jesus asks us the rhetorical question to make us realize that by not worrying we can add hours to our life span. By prayer, God added fifteen years to the life of king Hezekiah. By prayer and meditation on the word of God, we can add to our lives both quantitatively in terms of the number of days and qualitatively in terms of the richness of life, thoughts, emotions, relationships, achievements, service, contributions, legacy. There are 31112 verses in the Bible. Hence, if a man meditates on even one verse per day, he would have meditated on the entire word of God in the course of 85 years of a lifetime. By the same measure, I would have meditated on a third of the Bible when I complete my target of meditating on 10000 promises. Fear and anxiety detracts from the quality of life. Even our hormones are organized on a dual basis of positive and negative. How we think affects which hormone is secreted by the relevant endocrine organs or cells. If we think positively, the happy hormones or endorphins are secreted and add to the quality of our feelings. If we are angry, upset, frustrated, our stress hormones are detonated and it causes uncontrollable explosions in our relationships and reactions. It is in our hands to maintain and even enhance our mental and emotional equilibrium. Apart from prayer and meditation, there are other spiritual exercises that are valuable. Spiritual factors and exercises contribute seventy five percent or a major portion of our health while diet and physical exercises contribute the balance of twenty five percent. Praise and worship is an example of spiritual exercise that can relieve us of stress as we focus on the Lord and the beauty of His countenance. Spending time listening and understanding the problems others are facing will give us a perspective that our own challenges are much smaller in comparison. Being grateful for the blessings received, the countless things we take for granted, is another great antidote to worry. Serving others takes our minds off our own issues.