5 Tips for Inner Beauty
Want to feel beautiful from the inside out? Here are five tips to get you started.1. Get to bed.
Remember when your mother would be strict about you getting a full night's sleep when you were growing up...she was on to something. Most of us don't get enough rest. When we sleep our body goes into repair mode, its best to sleep before 11pm to allow the body time to do it's work. Don't underestimate the power of beauty rest.
2. Drink more water.
Sounds simple enough, yet its so difficult for many of us. We learned back in grammar school that our bodies are composed of 55-60% water. We may carry our water bottles around town, but are we actually drinking any water? Dehydration is so common and yet most of us have no idea we are dehydrated. If you don’t stay hydrated, your body won’t perform at peak levels and your skin will start aging. Since we are mostly composed of water, we need to replace water that is depleted from the body as well as give our body the water it needs to perform metabolic processes. Boosting your water intake is going to help increase your metabolism! Drinking 3 liters of water per day will boost your metabolism by 33%! Get yourself a cute little water bottle and keep drinking. For a little flavor add some lemon or lime wedges.
3. Don't worry, be happy.
Stress attacks the immune system, it weakens your nails and causes blemishes on the skin and a host of internal problems including digestive issues. Find ways you can beat your stress and see the brighter side of things. Practice changing your outlook so that it's always positive. Find something good in everything so that rather than internalizing judgement or disappointment, you are gleaning the good from every situation. There are all kinds of books out there on affirmations, quite simply take a deep breath, smile and say "This challenge is a gift, I have everything I need to get through this." This will not only make you feel good on the inside, it will show in how great you look on the outside too.
4. Eat your GREENS!
Our ancient ancestors would eat up to 6 pounds of leaves per day! Can you imagine eating a grocery bag full of greens daily? Few of us even eat the minimum USDA requirement of 3 cups of leafy greens per week. Dark green leafy vegetables are, calorie for calorie, perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. They are a rich source of minerals (including iron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium) and vitamins, including vitamins K, C, E, and many of the B vitamins. They also provide a variety of phytonutrients including beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which protect our cells from damage and our eyes from age-related problems, and our skin from free-radical damage among many other effects. Dark green leaves even contain small amounts of Omega-3 fats. They help to regulate blood sugar and break down fats, and cleanse the blood. Eat them at least twice daily.
5. Give back.
So we've talked about a lot of ways we can give back to ourselves to achieve these benefits of inner and outer beauty, but giving to others is one of the best ways to feel good inside and out. Find a charity or good cause that resonates with you. Help a neighbor, or child, someone who needs you and give of yourself, expand your heart. Love is a flowing stream that will find its own course and when you act from a place of love all of your beauty shines through.
About the Author
Latham Thomas is a maternity lifestyle maven, wellness & birth coach, and yoga teacher on the vanguard of transforming the maternal wellness movement. A graduate of Columbia University & The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Latham is the founder of Mama Glow- a holistic lifestyle hub for women to explore their creative edge through wellbeing. Her practice provides support to pre/postnatal women along their journey to motherhood offering culinary and nutritional services, yoga, and birth coaching services. She is co-founder of the Mama Glow Film Festival- a platform for maternal advocacy through film and philanthropy. She recently launched the Mama Glow Salon Series - a platform for birthing conversations around cocktails, panels, and discussions. Bridging the gap between optimal wellness, spiritual growth, and radical self care Latham Thomas is emerging as the go-to-guru for modern holistic lifestyle for women during pregnancy and beyond! A sought after nutrition and lifestyle expert, her television appearances include The Dr. Oz Show, Fox News LIVE, CBS News, ABC Eyewitness News, NBC-LXTV, and Inside Edition. She has been featured in the New York Daily News, New York Post, Time Out New York, Vogue.com , Whole Living, Essence Magazine, the cover of Experience Life Magazine, and The New York Observer. She lives in New York City with her son Fulano and their turtle Climby. Latham will publish her first book- "Mama Glow: A Hip Lifestyle Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy" in November of 2012 with Hay House. Latham is helping to green the planet one belly at a time.
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