Daily Healthy Habits to Keep You Illness-Free

You may be considering changing your lifestyle so you can live a more illness-free and 
healthy life. You may know that changing your diet and exercise routine are part of that. 
After that, you may be drawing a blank. There are some daily healthy habits you can 
start doing to keep you illness-free. Here are a few of the habits that you may not 
consider, may not even think about, or may think you can't apply to your life. 

Meditate

You may think that meditation sounds odd for a daily habit that reduces illness. The 
truth is, meditation can have a direct connection to your overall health. Meditation, 
which can be done in many forms, helps your body to slow down. It helps you to focus 
on root issues and find ways to handle those issues so they don't get out of hand. It 
allows you to calm down from daily issues such as problems with your children, work, or 
just things that are upsetting you. It is a time to reflect and to focus on your overall 
emotional health. 

When you don't deal with these emotional and mental issues, you cause your body to 
become tense and stressed. These tension and stress can increase your blood 
pressure, cause headaches, and lead to your immune system breaking down. Simple 
daily meditation habits can help reduce that and increase an illness-free lifestyle.

Journaling

You may hear the word journaling and immediately cringe. It does bring to mind to the 
idea of daily journal entries that are tedious. The truth is, you can journal in a number of 
fashions, including video journaling. The reason journaling works to help keep illness at 
bay is because of what journaling is supposed to do. It has a direct connection to stress 
levels and can reveal stress inducing instances and people to you that you may not 
think of as an issue.

For example, if you are feeling anxiety and you have worked through the normal 
checklist of suspects, journaling can help you narrow down the others. By working 
through a journaling process on a daily process, you will find yourself able to rant, able 
to release stress, and able to figure out what may be causing undue stress so you can 
remove it. The reduced stress means a calmer body and mind, which means your body 
works at a more efficient level and your immune system is healthy and able to fight off 
illness.

Hydration

You may have a great meditation, journaling, workout routine, and diet routine. You may 
think that you have it all figured out, but if you are still getting sick, you may be missing 
the biggest link to reducing that illness. If your hydration is off, you could be causing 
stress within your body and organ system. Your body needs water to work properly, and 
no juicing does not cover it. If you have everything else covered and you are still getting 
ill, try to increase your water intake. You can do this with several methods, including 
gallon jug marking and apps that are designed to remind you to drink water. 


By applying these habits to your daily routine, you will start to notice that your immune 
system seems to be stronger and you seem to get sick at a reduced rate. Keep in mind 
that a lot of the healthy habits you take on have nothing to do with eating or 
supplements and more to do with keeping your mind and emotions as healthy as 
everything else. 
