- Choose colors when you eat! Eating plants first such as dark leafy green vegetables is key. Green is associated with refreshing, vital energy. Greens are full of vitamins and nutrients and great for improving circulation, lifting the spirit, purifying the blood and strengthening the immune system. According to Dr. Amen, you can heal your mood when you change your food.
- Colors in beautiful photography/paintings on our walls uplifts and fuels our moods, mind, body, and soul. A beautiful dance of colors fuel much needed emotional changes. Colors are known to help reduce anxiety, fear, and at the same moment they improve brain-power.
- Sleep better to be better. We need sleep to rejuvenate, rebuild, detox and restore. Reduce mindless snacking and screen time in the evening. Choose the color of your comforter, pillows, and sheets to make sleep a happy place to relax.
- Avoid mood crashers! Drinking caffeine gives us false energy and is a mood crasher. Support your mind and body by drinking colorful smoothies or ginger teas in the am.
- Enjoy yoga classes in the am. Choose to exercise in 100% colorful cotton clothing. “Yoga practices can directly stimulate the vagus nerve, by increasing the vagal tone leading to an improvement of autonomic regulation, cognitive functions, mood and stress coping.” The Vagus Nerve connects our brain/gut axis.
- Ask yourself- Do your habits support a healthy DNA, microbiota & mindset? ©CRogers
