How to feel good inside and out?

If you want to smooth out those frayed edges, lower your stress level the natural way or just plain feel good. Try these proven ways to bring both your body and mind into balance, find out which ones work for you and make them part of your weekly emotional fitness regime.

• Have thirty minutes of Sunlight daily and walk each day wards off depression, provides vitamins, and gives us a much-needed boost to our immune systems.

• Walking daily, brisk thirty-minute walk outdoors is free, and one of the best habits we can cultivate for our bodies, minds and spirits. It can smooth out moods through releasing serotonin, same with antidepressant medication, it elevates our moods, keep us fit, control weight, and give us time to be with friends. Walking three to four times a week for 45 minutes helps in managing depression as medication.

• Talking to someone or talking over what's bothering us actually reduces stress in the body and elevates levels of the bodies natural system. Sharing feelings soothes the body system, mind, and crying does just the same. That's why we can feel satisfaction after a good cry. Sharing elevates our soothing body being in the presence of other people who can help to regulate our bodies vital rhythms are both natural healers.

• Have a warm bath because heat causes prolactin to be released into the bloodstream. Prolactin is natural soothing the body that we often associate with nursing mothers. It can make us feel calm, soothed and serene. One easy way is to take a warm bath, settle in after a long day and just immerse yourself in the warm water and breathe your stress away. Some people like to add some natural soothing scent or oils that appeals to you and add some bubbles as well if that makes it feel more luxurious.

• Have enough sleep, Rest and Quiet Time
People lie down in a quiet, darkened room for fourteen hours each night, conditions the body very well. When they were in the states of relaxation and clarity, their pituitary glands were releasing prolactin into their blood streams. Better tell yourself when you go to bed that it's over for today, anything that needs handling can wait till morning and just sleep.

• Journaling elevates the immune system and calms the autonomic system, it smooths out the heartbeat, perspiration and breathing. In journaling, we gain insight and perspective, we flush out concealed or veiled material and bring it out onto the page where we can see and reflect on it.

• Worries are usually self created. We make our lives more stressful than they need to be by our internal, emotional reactions to situations in our lives. The way you react on things, the inside may be stressing you out just as much or maybe even more than what's actually happening. Before you give up your valuable peace of mind by stressing about something, try asking yourself a couple of questions like "how important is it" or "how much will this matter in five years?”