I have a small heart defect caused by repressing too much stress over a long period of time. I found out on Wednesday. While this is treatable I still have to be very careful. I have to find an outlet so I don't cause any more problems to my heart and I may have to have surgery on it within a couple of years if it doesn't improve.
While this may be dangerous I'm still going to try and get a positive out of this. I have to change some of my work, social, and personal habits. The doctor told me that since I have been excersizing for an hour five times a week this time it wasn't really bad but it could have been worse. So I'm going to keep up my excersize routine but adde other things too it rather. Before I was doing 30 minutes of cardio and then I would do some abdominal excersizes and weight training for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of more cardio. Now I'm going to keep the abdominal and weight training and 30 minutes of cardio but I'm adding another 30 minutes of yoga. This will help me to clear my mind and relax and get ready for the day (this is all done at 4 am monday through friday). On Saturdays and Sundays I will be doing 30 minutes to an hour of yoga. I am also going to be walking more; but at a desirable pace to stop and enjoy nature. I'm going to get out my bike and since the new bike path is ready I have a nice visit with nature while going on it.
Its not just my excersize routine thats changing its my eating habits too. My doctor said that I needed to hold a little bit of the proccessed sugar and so I decided to quit all proccessed sugars. Its hard but I want to be able to fulfill my dreams and plans you know. Since I'm a vegetarian I have to make sure that I'm getting all the protein and other nutrients that I need on a daily basis. My work habits are going to be hardest to change because I need to keep up my hours so that I can pay all my bills but I have to either switch jobs or switch departments where I work because the Chinese Kitchen is just wrecking havic on me more than anything else. I still baby sit all my nieces and nephews because that isn't stressfull to me; quite the opposite really. I feel more relalxed whenever I babysit actually.
I have to change the way I think of thigs too. I like to do and then think but now I need to think before I do somethings, like if I want to go sky diving. I can do it but I have to make sure it won't be at a stressfull time like there's a major family thing happening (yes I love sky diving, I have gone several times).
While I'm making these changes I know I'll have trouble but I know that I will have Heavenly Father there to help me and I know I have the support of my family and my friends.
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I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm glad it's something that's treatable. Your ideas for improving your stress level sound great!
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ReplyDeleteI am so relieved! Something that can be taken care of! Stress, it's a terrible thing. You can always email me when you are stressed too! Blogging is a good outlet to. I hope you can keep up the exercise, it is a wonderful thing. Cures all that ails you. I love you!!! We are going to try yoga too. What are you using for it?
ReplyDeleteSince there's a waiting list at the rec center and my gym for yoga classes I bought a DVD. It's called "Rodney Yee's Yoga for beginners" Its a Gaiam product. I bought it at K Mart for $10. I use it in the mornings after I get back from the gym in the mornings and I will either do a session or work on my pose training. I just set up in my living room or the basement if there are people staying here.I have a couple of other DVD's that I use too but this one is my favorite. The others are more for experienced yogis and I know that I'm not an experienced yogi.
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