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    Taking advantage of the day: The art of creating harmony in everyday life
    Taking advantage of the day: The art of creating harmony in everyday life
    Taking advantage of the day: The art of creating harmony in everyday life
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    Taking advantage of the day: The art of creating harmony in everyday life

    By Anders Åkerstedt

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    With this book the reader will learn how to maintain inner harmony during the day but also how to taking care of the body in the best way.
    After many years of self study in both Western and Eastern medicine, the author here wants to share his knowledge to the reader.
    How to breathe more effectively, daily routines for maintaining a good health and how to create a pleasant environment both at home and at work, are some examples you will find in this book.
    You will also get advices in which food and lifestyle routines that suits you according to your own body type.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateFeb 5, 2020
    ISBN9789177855088
    Taking advantage of the day: The art of creating harmony in everyday life
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    Anders Åkerstedt

    Anders Åkerstedt is from Sweden and has worked many years as a Cardiac Technician. He has always had a great interest in sports - everything from athletics and self-defense to rock climbing and sky diving. That has in turn helped him to develop a better connection to both body and mind and also made him interested in how to taking care of the body in a more healthier way.

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      Book preview

      Taking advantage of the day - Anders Åkerstedt

      Taking advantage of the day

      Proper breathing and Body posture

      Exercises at Home and at Work

      Taking advantage of the calm moments

      Indoor and Workplace environment

      Clothes

      Foods and Sweets

      Vitamins and Minerals

      Meals

      Skin Care

      Morning Routines

      Evening Routines

      The Three Different Body Types

      Diet and Living Advice - Type A

      Diet and Living Advice - Type B

      Diet and Living Advice - Type C

      Healthy spices

      About the Author

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      Proper breathing and Body posture

      If you don't get oxygen, you lose consciousness after only a few minutes and if it goes longer than that, you will die. But breathing not only has a vital role in our survival but also has a great impact on our well-being both physically and mentally.

      Why I start the book with the focus on the breathing is because it is the very foundation of a healthier life and has helped me to remain calm during stressful situations.

      Breathing properly has been shown to have a stress-reducing effect and decreases, among other things, the amount of stress-related hormones cortisol, adrenaline and norepinephrine.

      The right type of breathing contributes (among other things) to:

      Increased blood circulation and oxygen supply to both cells and musculature.

      An improved immune system.

      The internal organs in our bodies are massaged.

      Body cleared of slag products and toxins.

      Better energy combustion.

      Kidneys and liver are better offloaded.

      Better energy in general which in turn helps us to have more power for our everyday tasks.

      Emotional imbalances are discouraged more effectively.

      Increased viability and a better self-esteem.

      How to breath more effective

      During my time in high school, I found a book at my city library that was about Zen.

      Within Zen, meditation is a large part of the practitioners' daily routine and the breathing technique practised was a type of breathing technique that they in the book called abdominal breathing.

      Most of us use shallow breathing or chest breathing, i.e. we use the chest when we inhale and exhale, thus filling only a small part of the lungs which means that the air is not distributed effectively throughout the lungs. This type of breathing also makes it harder for us to deal with stressed situations (we automatically use chest breathing when we are under stress).

      Exercising abdominal breathing has therefore been shown to have a calming effect and our stress resilience increases significantly when we use this type of technique.

      Abdominal breathing is also more optimal than chest breathing as the diaphragm is a more effective breathing muscle than the small muscles found between the ribs (which are the muscles used in chest breathing).

      This type of breathing technique itself is not so difficult to learn, however

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