Get Off The Couch

By: Adrian Barrett

Regular exercise makes you look better and feel better. It is
that simple. Movement is a sign of life. Stagnation is a sign of
something you might contemplate while passing a cemetery. If you
want to feel radiantly alive in mind and body, get off the couch
and begin to move. Regular exercise, no more complicated than
walking, can restore health to all your muscles, bones, glands,
organs and cells. Inactivity is one of the major causes of
disease but activity is life.

Action is one of the laws of our being. Why not resolve right
now to take charge of your health and your life? You owe it to
yourself and you are worth the effort. If you do not believe so,
read and meditate on the Eighth Psalm. It is one of the most
beautiful in the entire Books of Psalms.When weather permits,
walk out of doors, by the beach, the ocean, the lake, or in a
park away from pollution, noise and commercial distractions.
Window shopping is not exercising. In foul or inclement weather
it might be necessary to walk through a large mall or around an
indoor track, but always remember that exercise in the open air
is essential.

As often as you can, head for the sea, the mountains, or the
lakes and get moving. You will add years to your life and will
be aiding in the battle to prevent disease, atrophy and
disintegration.

Exercise in the open air is just as important for those who are
well as for those who are ill. Impurities are expelled from the
skin and lungs when circulation has been quickened by vigorous
exercise.

The great British physician, Dr. Edward Johnson of London,
writing as far back as the nineteenth century, maintained that
the lungs and skin were the most important organs appointed to
expel waste matter from our systems. Vigorous exercise can
result in the expulsion of up to two pounds of useless waste
matter per day. Yet the sad truth is that these two bodily
organs remain comparatively idle in most people. Man, who was
created in the image of God is today a poor physical specimen
for the most part.

Oh, we have great athletes with amazing physiques and skills,
but take a look around the next time you pass a donut shop or
get caught on the cookie isle in the grocery store. We now live
in a society where hundreds of thousands of people are too fat
to fly on a commercial airplane.

Regular vigorous walking is the best solution for diseased
bodies. It increases the peristaltic action of the intestinal
tract. The motions of walking cause all of the internal and
digestive organs to swing, stimulating their function.

You might experience some pain in your muscles because they are
being reinvigorated after long disuse. Nature will bring them
back to life. There are today many good exercises known to
produce satisfactory results if performed properly and
regularly. Yet for most people, walking is best. When one begins
to walk, sickness begins to go. There is no good reason why man,
with his superior intelligence, should be at the low end of the
scale of creatures in the matter of strength, health, and well
being. So put on some comfortable clothes, lace up those good
walking shoes and get moving.

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