Path to a Healthy Heart

Listen to relaxing music before bed. Image by Jon GET BETTER QUALITY SLEEP Get eight hours of sleep. This helps lower blood pressure and increases your metabolism. Go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. It is believed that the sleep you get before midnight is better quality, so get to bed by 9 or 10. Listen to relaxing music before bed.

Image by Hape Gera MANAGE AND CONTROL YOUR STRESS Practice meditation research shows this lowers stress, blood pressure, and the risk of heart attack and stroke, and it also may reverse atherosclerosis. Transcendental Meditation not only relieves stress, it also promotes a healthy heart and cardiovascular system. Just 20 minutes a day can change your life, for the better.

EXERCISE EVERY DAY Walk briskly for a half-hour outside every day. Start your day with a quick stretch and warm-up. A 10-20 minute rejuvenation routine wakes up your lungs, glands, brain and heart, plus boosts the hormone production of serotonin (feel good) and dopamine (focus). Be sure to stretch in the morning. Stretch your toes, which helps break up and release toxins as well as boost circulation. Image by Jtlowery Image by mikebaird

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