Activity Keeps You Young

Life thrives on action. People who savor life fill their days with activity, and when they're not active, they feel less than what they ought to be. Action allows you to avoid feeling sluggish and dull, conditions that occur when you prematurely stop your momentum.

Life thrives with activity in that increased activity pumps life-giving blood through your veins and arteries at a greater rate. It's the boost to blood racing through your body while supplying your cells and organs with health enriching oxygen and nutrients, and flushing away deposits of harmful toxins. Plenty of enjoyable exercise helps to rid your body of built-up waste deposits that take years away from your life span.

Inactivity is like a narcotic - deceptive with a promise of pleasure - it distracts you from normal pursuits and allows stagnation to occur. Once it has a hold over you, it doesn't let you go.

Toxins increase, because they become settled in cells and tissues rather than being flushed away by an ample blood supply. If you're feeling dull or listless, you have blockages that cause your inactivity and prevent you from obtaining your dreams.

Positive Action Gets Things Done

You dream of what you want from life. As the years pass, certain dreams don't happen, and you'll set aside some dreams and replace them with new ones. To have a chance of realizing your dreams, you must focus upon what is essential to fulfill them and then take action to achieve the desired result. Cavett Robert, one of America's outstanding speakers says the following about taking action:

"A constructive life is built of the things we do - not of the things we don't do. Never forget that the only material used in building a constructive life is positive action."

Positive action gets things done. Some people are famous for being a dreamer, but these people most likely followed their dreams by taking action. Successful dreamers - writers, builders, inventors, speakers and others - took action to transport their dreams from thought into reality.

Know What You Want From Life

Living your life with any degree of momentum requires action and action requires doing something. Your determination focuses an action and brings it to a point of completion. The strength of your determination is proportionate to the probability of your success.

Clear, organized and well-conceived thoughts inspire actions that don't waste energy. Often, people live their lives drifting from one experience to another, wasting both time and energy. People "drift" when they either don't have a plan or simply don't act upon their plan.

Those people will find that their life is not on course. They aren't living joyfully and successfully. They aren't sure how to avoid "drifting." And are not sure how to direct their course.

Having a Goal Directs Your Course

To direct your course, you need to be clear about where you want to go - you need a goal. The more clearly you etch a goal into your mind, the easier the goal will be to accomplish. A goal gives you a destination; deep thought gives you a plan and focused action gives you the possibility to attain your plan.

While working on your plan, rest and recharge your energy, especially if your goal is difficult to achieve. Allow your mind to rest because you come across many stressful situations. Know how to deal with your stress. Some stress causes too much action - frantic action - and some stress causes too little action - laziness.

The first step toward having a satisfying, joyful life is to begin to know yourself well. The time you spend in meditation, deep thought or prayer will give you insight and momentum to take action on your life's plan.

Dr. Mary Rodio

Mary Rodio, Ph.D., is an Ethnobotanical Research Scientist and the Director of Natura Health Services, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona where she formulates botanical remedies that encompass her life's work in the fields of both Conventional and Traditional Medicine.

As a scholar of both medical science and cultural studies, Dr. Rodio focuses her research on the cultural identity and the neurobiologics that become imprinted on and affect the health and interactions of human beings.

Educated at various colleges and universities in the United States and Europe, Dr. Rodio has established an extensive and unique background with numerous courses beyond her academic degrees. Her graduate and post-graduate studies and/or research projects have been conducted at Brown University, Clayton College of Natural Health, Harvard University, Middlebury College, Providence College, Southeastern Massachusetts University, the University of Florence Medical School (Italy), and others. Dr. Rodio also holds degrees in Naturopathy, Nutrition, Medical Technology, and Foreign Languages and Culture.

Her past professional career includes work as a Medical Technologist in both hospital and private medical laboratories, Histologist, and Public Health Microbiologist for the Rhode Island Department of Health in the Food, Dairy, Water and Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratories.

Dr. Rodio makes appearances on radio and television as a guest, and has hosted local, radio and television talk shows. As a public speaker and an author of numerous magazine articles, she warmly shares her knowledge in an easy to understand manner.

With over twenty-five years of experience in the health field, Dr. Rodio provides the public with well-researched health information that unites conventional medical techniques with time-tested natural therapies.