What is well-being?

Feel good in your body, feel in harmony with your desires.

 

Some people tell you, “I’m in great shape, that’s happiness! “And there you understand that there are 2 variables in the notion of well-being. If we look up the notion of “well-being” in a dictionary, we can read in Larousse: “pleasant state resulting from the satisfaction of the needs of the body and the calm of the mind”.

This means that to work for your well-being, that of your family, you must not dissociate the 2 concepts: body and mind. Indeed, it is possible to be happy with a sick body, or one can be in good physical health while being in a state of anxiety or even depression. In these two cases we will not speak of well-being. The conclusion is that in order to fully experience the state of well-being, both conditions depend on peace in body and mind.

Athma brings you, with spirulina, the possibility of working the good nutritional balance which helps you to make peace with your body, without masking the weaknesses it has. Spirulina only helps you to nourish your body with the essential elements for the regulation of the balance. This allows you to be in sufficient physical shape to work serenely on the flexibility of your body, with the practice of yoga for example. The time that you will devote to the maintenance of your body by awakening and muscle maintenance activities contributes to the spirulina consumption cure that you are following. The sedentary lifestyle of today’s lives is not ideal for keeping your body in its best shape. By regaining the dynamism necessary for the practice of gentle and regular physical activity, you will make peace with your body.

Calmness of the mind is to be found through other approaches than just nutritional. Among the first avenues that we can suggest to you is already knowing how to appreciate what you are going through and what you have. This is not blocking in a life course and devoid of ambition. It is knowing how to take stock of small daily satisfactions to focus on improvements. Forget annoyances, grudges, revenge, use it to harness your beautiful energy and build goals in perfect balance with your ambitions and your resources.

Physical activities at home

We talk about a sedentary life, a period of confinement, and the needs of the human body to maintain physical activity.

When one cannot access sports equipment, or move over great distances, one of the beneficial activities for the balance of the body, the practice of yoga is a preferred solution.
There are many sources online explaining or helping to practice yoga. So how do you organize a schedule of activities combining rhythmic walking, with flexibility exercises that you can do in your living room and daily yoga sessions? We can already start, for an adult, with a rhythm of 30 minutes of yoga every day. Then it is desirable to respect the minimum weekly time recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization).

Here is what the WHO recommends in terms of the recommended volume of physical activity according to age, so that it has a beneficial effect on health and well-being.

Infants under one year of age
• For those who are not yet mobile, this assumes at least 30 minutes in the prone position, in the form of ground play, spread over the day when the child is awake. All infants should be helped to be physically active several times a day.

Children under five
• Children aged 3 and 4 should have moderate to intense modulated activity for one hour per day.
• It is recommended that all young children should have physical activity for at least 180 minutes per day, regardless of type and intensity.

Children and adolescents aged 5 to 17
• Children and adolescents should have moderate to vigorous activity for one hour a day. This can include muscle and bone building activities at least three days a week. Having daily physical activity for more than 60 minutes brings health benefits to everyone.

Adults over 18
• In order to improve and maintain musculoskeletal health, activities to strengthen major muscle groups should be performed at least twice a week. All adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of strenuous activity during the week.
• For greater health benefits, adults should get up to 300 minutes of moderate physical activity, or 5 hours per week.
• In addition, seniors with mobility problems should be physically active at least three days a week to improve their balance and prevent falls.