How To Be Healthy In A Relationship

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Beginning a new relationship with someone should be a joyous thing. However, there are several ways that a relationship can become less than healthy. It can affect not only your emotional health but also your physical health if your relationship doesn't progress in a healthy way. You might find that you get into bad habits for a number of reasons, from becoming too absorbed in your relationship to encouraging each other to make less healthy lifestyle decisions. When you're no longer in the dating game, a lot of things can change, but it's important to take steps to remain healthy in every way.

Don't Lose Your Sense of Self

Relationships need to be healthy in an emotional way, helping to protect your mental health. One of the most important things to remember is that you need to remain an independent person, with your own sense of self. While you can also become a couple who are in sync, you don't want to end up like a single entity, instead of two people with their own thoughts and feelings. Both of you should make sure that you still have your own friends, hobbies and time to yourselves so that you can maintain healthy boundaries between you.

Take Care of Your Sexual and Reproductive Health

Although you might be in a monogamous relationship, you still need to think about your reproductive and sexual health. It's smart to make appointments for regular STD testing, particularly if you reach a point where you're considering not using condoms. If you're not planning on having a baby any time soon, don't forget to think about your choice of contraception and ensure you're using at least one effective method of birth control. Remember that condoms are the only form of contraception that can prevent both pregnancy and disease.

Make Healthy Choices Together

It's more common than you might think for couples to get into unhealthy habits together, especially once you reach the stage of cohabiting. When you live together, it's very easy to feed into each other's laziness or lack of willpower. You can convince each other that pizza for dinner again won't hurt or that it would be much better to snuggle up at home than to go to the gym. But if you make an effort to make healthy choices together, you can encourage each other to be health instead of unhealthy.

Grow an Open and Trusting Relationship

Being able to trust each other and communicate is essential in any relationship. You need to spend time nurturing an open and trusting relationship if you want to have a healthy and loving partnership. Good communication is vital for a strong relationship, so spend time talking about issues both big and small. If you don't talk about things, feelings can get buried and go ignored until everything bubbles over. You should talk regularly, even about issues that might not seem like a big deal.


If you want your relationship to be healthy, you have to nurture the relationship but also take care of yourself.


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3 Ways Your Physical Health Affects Your Emotional Health

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People often put physical and mental, or emotional, health in different categories, as if they could be easily separated out from one another. This is a pretty terrible idea, because when all is said and done, the different aspects of health and wellness are intimately tied together, and it by no means is a simple matter to divide the different causes and effects of poor physical health, poor emotional health, and poor mental health.

You might be interested in an aura healing appointment in order to help regain your sense of wellbeing, but if your physical health is in turmoil, it’s likely not going to do a whole world of good.

Here are some ways that your physical health directly impacts your emotional health.

Chronically elevated stress hormones make you more susceptible to anxiety and less able to face your challenges

Stress isn’t just a psychological thing, like people often believe it is. When you’re feeling really stressed out in your life, the answer isn’t just to “toughen up”, because stress is something that is heavily rooted in the body as well as in the mind. When we feel stressed, we are experiencing elevated levels of stress hormones in our bodies including, primarily, cortisol, and also adrenaline.

When these stress levels are chronically elevated — when they’re always high because of poor lifestyle habits — you become far more susceptible to anxiety, and you become far less psychologically and emotionally resilient. Whereas you might once have been more than up to the task of meeting your challenges head-on, and getting a ton of productive things done each day, you are likely to hit a point, after enough time spent in chronic stress, where everything just falls apart.

 “Burnouts” are physical as well as mental.

Lack of sleep causes depression and makes it harder for you to focus

When we sleep, our brains restructure themselves in subtle ways, and we seem to store and categorized our memories and experiences from the day. When we sleep, our bodies also release various hormones, repair damaged tissue, and do many other things that we’re not entirely clear on the details of.

Because of all of these reasons, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that researchers have found that people who don’t get enough sleep each night (around 8 hours for the average person) experience shrinkage in important areas of their brains, and are significantly more prone to mood issues like depression.

Too much intense exercise over-taxes the central nervous system

When you work out until you literally collapse on the floor, you might feel like you’re being dedicated and are getting as fit as possible, but if you don’t keep things in balance and get enough rest and the right balance of nutrients for recovery, you’re setting yourself up for real issues in the near future. Intense exercise takes a heavy toll on the central nervous system. When we do too much, we can experience Overtraining Syndrome, which wrecks our health and immune systems.

Needless to say, when this happens, we’re likely to experience severe brain fog, low mood, and have trouble feeling positive about life.

  

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