5 Outdoor Tips on Walking to Fitness

     With the holidays upon us and the new year approaching many of us are thinking about losing weight and keeping it off. Walking is one of the top recommended methods of getting fit and walking outdoors has even more added benefits.

     Are you feeling that you need to loose a few pounds, and you never want to find them again? But you don’t like an exercise regime of push ups and abdominal crunches. Well take into consideration a fitness exercise routine of walking. In the past it was man kinds only form of transportation. So take a peek at 5 tips on how to walk, and what physical benefits you’ll get with an exercise fitness plan.

     You’ll need to prepare to train your mind to stick with a new fitness and exercise program. If you’re looking to loose weight then you’ll need a good surface to travel on. You’ll also need to have some reliable shoes, and a reasonable distance of walking area. By taking on an exercise program for fitness, the pounds will melt away. Remember though people loose weight in different amounts, and at different places on their body. Check out these tips on how to walk for your exercise fitness routine.

1.    Burn calories by slow walking. Walking slow for an exercise fitness plan causes your body to drag because of gravity. The dragging affect helps you loose weight.

2.    After you lose, the desired weight that you want you can maintain it, or graduate to a fast high intensity walk. Muscle mass will take the place of the saggy skin through toning. You’ll begin to see the affects of what fitness through exercise can do.

3.    By making yourself participate in an exercise fitness course daily, and drinking lots of water your kidneys will flush out any bacteria. Also the heart will pump at a more efficient rate.

4.    Circulation to the lower leg extremities and feet with an exercise plan for fitness will improve. Whether you do a slow calorie burn walk, or one that has a quick upbeat walk. This benefit is really crucial especially for those with any disease that affects the feet.

5.    Skin tone will benefit with weight loss through your fitness exercise course of attack for a healthy lifestyle.

Learning to stick with a routine is probably the hardest part. It takes a lot of commitment to learn a new lifestyle of fitness. Exercise has a lot of benefits and with patience and a go get them attitude – you’ll lose those pounds and never find them again. And won't that be nice.

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting flunked grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us of our inability to look for a source of income. Being humiliated gives us the ‘push’ to speak up and fight for ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may be a bitter experience, a friend’s tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves.

With the countless negativities the world brings about, how do we keep motivated? Try on the tips I prepared from A to Z…

A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.

C – Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D – Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.

E – Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F – Family and Friends – are life’s greatest ‘F’ treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.

G – Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.

H – Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I – Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don’t let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people – the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.

J – Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

K – keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.
L – Learn to love your self. Now isn’t that easy?

M – Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N – Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O – Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways – how they want things to be, and how they should be.

P – Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.

Q – Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate – are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?

R – Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.

S – Stop procrastinating.

T – Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U – Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.

V – Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W – Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

X – X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on “extras” on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.

Y – You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.

Z – Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!

Dr. Kevin Ross Emery is a spiritual counselor and teacher with offices in Portland, Maine and Haverhill, Massachusetts. His advice is available in workshops, podcasts, books, CDs and DVDs. Find out more at Dr. Kevin's website http://www.weboflight.com

In this time when economic heardship has touched us all in some way, some minor and others tragically positive affirmation is one strategy you can use for survival. Let me clarify that I am not claiming to have a solution to cure all of your financial worries immediately. The strategies of affirmation are not new or a breakthrough discovery, this is ancient and newly revived knowledge.

Consider the following:

• All things are energy
• Money is energy
• Our thoughts and words are energy
• The reality which we create for ourselves is born of our thoughts, words and actions.

I can already hear it, "how did I create the reality that my company was downsized and I was laid off?"
The answer is "I don't know how you did it."
The key concept is to accept that you were in some way involved in or contributed to the events that ocurr in your life, how is not important. How you will improve it, protect it and maintain what you have is the focus.

Our thoughts will eventually be expressed in some way, this is the beginning of manifestation. Thoughts about who we are, what we are capable of, what we deserve, how we are treated by others are the the seeds that will eventually design our perception of the world, relationships, prosperity and abundance.

Manifestation of thoughts begins with perception and attitude, thoughts manifest through spoken word, choices we make, actions we take based on our perception and attitude of the way life appears to be or the way you think it should be.

Also consider that effort and work are required, you cannot simply think your way out of problems, however, this is the beginning. "If you are drowning you can pray for help, but you must also start swimming toward the shore".

If you are enemployed and cannot find work, it is quite natural and expected that you will feel many emotions and negative, self defeating thoughts may race through your mind;

" I am a victim"
" My financial situation is hopeless"
" I am poor and have no money"

...and on and on, these thoughts are only serving to manifest these constructs further, a construct is a combination of factors which create a reality, simply because you perceive  constructs as your reality does not make them so.

This concept applies to any situation or aspect of life, finanial, relationships, career and your health. The key is to replace negative, self limiting thought patterns with positive, empowering and life giving thought.

Let's use the example; "I have no money" this thought will continue to confirm this construct. You ask, "well this is reality, I have no cash in my pocket, my bank statement says "0" and I have no income!"

STOP... consider that this current scenario is a construct, a reality created in part by you as well as other unidentified factors and influences. Since you have contributed a part to this construct, YOU HAVE CONTROL.

The approach to reality selection begins with designing new constructs using your thoughts and words as your power which will eventually manifest as your perception and become your construct and reality. The selection and design process has guidelines to follow and universal laws which apply.

1. The law of thought manifestation - all that exists was once a thought.
2. The law of correspondence - that which is given is what is received.
3. The law of polarity - all things have an opposite or contrast.
4. The laws of vibration - all things are perpetually in motion and have a vibration.
5. The law of rhythmicity and momentum - repetition and consistency cause increase.
6. The law of cause and effect - for every action there is an equal and opposing action.
7. The law of gestation - all things begin as a seed.

Guidelines of manifestation

1. Affirmations must be postive - for example the thought form for manifesting financial security can be, "I am infinately wealthy." as opposed to "I am not poor"

2. Affirmations must be ritualized - ritual simply means a repeated intentional action or activity.

3. The power of affirmation is increased by kinetic energy - this simply means that an affirmation (thought form) linked to a physical action reinforces the affirmation. This is best explained through the "chop wood, carry water" parable, in which any physical action such as sweeping the floor with intentional thought can reinforce the affirmation. such as; "each time I sweep, I am removing my debt and money flows freely to me." 

4. It does not matter if you believe your affirmation - you may begin with your affirmation and say "right, this isn't the way things are." however, as you continue to manifest your manifestation you will beleive it as it will become reality.

Techniques:

1. Begin with a list of how you want your finances to be, write down the affirmative.
for example; "I want to find a job" the affirmative is "I have a job" you may go further by writing down what your job is, how much your salary is, etc.

2. Couple your affirmations with an action; for example "while I am driving my care I will repeat out loud, "I have a job, I have a job, I have a job."

3. Finalize it; when you have designed your construct (affirmation combined with action) decide on your command statement, a command statement says, "this is the way it is" such as "so be it" or "it is so" By finalizing your thought there is no opportunity for self sabotage.
You can sabotage your positive affirmations by inadvertantly linking them to a negative or neutralizing thought. For example; "I have a job... it will be difficult to find" the reversal thought may be a fleeting thought which creeps in to negate your affirmation. By commanding the energy of your affirmation you are putting period on the sentence.

Also remember, while you are practicing your affirmations you must also be doing the footwork, such as looking for a job, writing your resume, going to interviews. As in the law of gestation, your affirmations are the seeds that must be planted, nurtured and gestate to grow.

CCHIT Certified OmniMD, a developer of HIPAA compliant Internet-based enterprise healthcare , Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management solutions, is pleased to announce its certification by SureScripts, operator of the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange™. SureScripts's certification allows for interoperability with the nation's community pharmacies , which improves the safety and efficiency of the prescribing process and the quality of patient care. Physicians using Omni MD 's EMR application can now connect directly with local pharmacies connected to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, operated by SureScripts.

Starting 2009, providers will be able to earn additional money from Medicare if they use electronic prescribing systems, U.S. health officials said Monday.

The bonus program, which will continue for four years, is designed to streamline the prescription process and cut down on errors. In 2009 and 2010, Medicare will give doctors an additional 2 percent bonus on top of their fee for "e-prescribing." In 2011 and 2012, the bonus will drop to 1 percent, and in 2013, the bonus will drop again to 0.5 percent, officials said.

"There are terrific human and financial costs to illegible prescriptions," Mike Leavitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said during a Monday afternoon teleconference.

According to the Institute of Medicine , 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors, Leavitt said. Another study found that each year pharmacists make more than 150 million phone calls to doctors to clarify what was written on the prescription, he added.

"We are dedicated to providing solutions that improve the efficiency of medical practices and the quality of patient care. Omni MD 's Prescription Writer already has a functionality to check for drug interactions, print patient medication sheets, create favorite prescriptions and check prescription coverage at the point of care. Surescripts electronic prescribing will certainly improve the efficiency, safety and overall quality of the prescribing process for our customers. “ said Divan Dave, CEO , Omni MD.

This certification will allow providers to establish a two-way computer-to-computer connection with the majority of pharmacies in their area. Using this connection, providers can send prescriptions electronically to the patient's pharmacy of choice before the patient leaves the provider's office. Patients will no longer need to worry about losing paper prescriptions or pharmacies having to call offices to verify illegible prescriptions. When a patient needs a prescription refilled, a pharmacy will be able to send the request to the provider's office electronically, eliminating the need for time consuming phone calls and faxes. This will also reduce potential errors with prescriptions due to misread handwriting.

About SureScripts

Founded by the pharmacy industry in 2001, SureScripts operates the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, which facilitates the secure electronic transmission of prescription information between physicians and pharmacists . This also provides access to lifesaving information about patients during emergencies or routine care. Working collaboratively with health plans, health systems, technology vendors and health policy leaders, SureScripts is committed to improving the safety, efficiency, and quality of the prescribing process.

More information about SureScripts ® is available at www.surescripts.com .

About Omni MD

CCHIT Certified Omni MD is a developer of HIPAA compliant Internet-based enterprise healthcare practice solutions, designed to fully automate the work-flow of contemporary healthcare organizations. The company is a division of Integrated Systems Management, Inc. – ISM- ( www.ismnet.com ) a leader in Internet consulting and e-business development since 1989 .

Omni MD's suite of products and services empowers hundreds of clinics with the ability to efficiently automate and manage clinical processes and patient information electronically. With its comprehensive and flexible product modules, the suite allows you to choose a customized solution that grows with your practice needs and electronic readiness over a period of time. For additional information, please visit www.omnimd.com

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