Vigilance For Women’s Wellness Becomes Vital As We Age!

By Linda Penkala, Author, LMT

Optimum Health For Life

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Vigilance For Women’s Wellness Becomes Vital As We Age!

The season of Summer can be a welcome springboard, offering new choices for health. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Summer is the peak of Yang energy, characterized by warmth, vitality, and expansion. This is associated with the Fire Element and the Heart, ushering in a time of growth, social connection, and nurturing mind/body/soul balance. 

Filling our cups with travel, BBQs, family reunions, beach or boat time can nourish us as we navigate the coming seasons that seem to have their own stressors. What we choose matters, as it is key to our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

Today, the current trend reflects these top health concerns for women: heart disease, breast cancer, and osteoporosis. Addressing these synergistically for greater impact can be a solid, forward-looking, targeted path: specific wellness choices to positively impact heart health, lower cancer risks, and affect bone health. What if a set of daily lifestyle practices can improve the above health concerns by lowering stress, enhancing movement, lessening stress, and reducing inflammation? Here are practical choices that best fit your daily needs.

Daily Habits For Life:

Breathwork – like Box Breathing or 3-5-8, activates the body’s relaxation response to improve mental and physical health, lower stress, and regulate emotions. This reduces your resting heart rate and naturally lowers blood pressure.

Movement – walking and running are effective weight-bearing exercises that increase bone density, can lessen anxiety and stress, help the heart, and offer a break from screen time.

Connect with Nature – make a walk-and-talk date either at work during lunch or outside near trees.

Find humor and comedy – lowers stress hormones and improves the immune system. Have intentional friend dates with those who make you laugh!

Smell an essential oil – lavender or peppermint to immediately travel to the amygdala, the seat of emotions, to offer calming and clarity.

Humming – while driving to engage the Vagus nerve, inhaling through the nose, lips together, and hum it out. At night is a beneficial way to relax naturally.

Tapping – begin or end each day with a tapping sequence on the EFT (emotional freedom tapping) app, on YouTube, or on www.thetappingsolution.

Prayer – is grounded in science and scripture to lessen anxiety, increase hope, and turn toward gratitude with God’s guidance, all aiding heart health.

Nutrient-dense food choices: limit processed foods and sugar, while increasing veggies, healthy fats, and whole grains to lessen the risk of heart disease and certain cancers.

Taking a proactive part to reduce women’s loss of life from CVD (305,000 lives in the U.S.) by addressing the above wellness tips is a wise choice. For a deeper dive with more holistic selfcare tips, visit my book, The Pause to Relax: A Woman’s Guide to Robust Heart Health on Amazon or my website: www.lindapenkala.com.