Think of walking out on the beach with the sunrise gently warming your face while a slight breeze cools you down as you feel at peace with a truly clean sense of mental clarity and all the energy that you have ever wanted. No worries. No exhaustion. Nothing is there but your own strength and life's balance. This feeling is what you get when your trio is in sync. When you eat clean, exercise, and take care of your mental health, the result is a phenomenal equilibrium that is enlightening to your life. Others may get this same sense of balance during or after conquering something grueling like a marathon, a long-distance swim, or a bike ride that chaps your ass and noodles your legs. You are spent and broken but your trio was so in sync that your body performed to do something that it may have barely completed. It feels in those moments that there is nothing but life in the most vivid and unadulterated way.
It wouldn't feel right to mention Harry Potter without the contributions of Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in their righteous youthful violence against Voldemort and his crew. With the trio of mental health, nutrition, and physical exercise it's no different. The trio's contributions to one another interweave their impacts on your life. If you can't work out, then you may not be able to relieve certain stressors that are slowly building within you. If you don't eat right and give your body what it's needed, your cognitive and physical performance will lag you like an early-20s Sunday morning hangover. If you are depressed, you may not feel like you want to eat or work out as you only find comfort in overthinking in your own bed. You can't be successful in one of the areas of the trio without taking care of the other two. Yet, it's easy to say to take care of the trio but then comes life with all of its obstacles and endless easy ways out. Out of shape. Out of mind. Out of health.
Taking care of the trio is habitual. It needs to become thousands of little habits that culminate in an equilibrium of strength and clarity. To build these habits, start by planning out your day.
0500: Wake-Up / Visualization
0510: Warm-Up / Work out / Cool-down
0630: Breakfast / Packing for Work
0645: News / Read from Daily Written Meditation
0700: Drive to Work / Listen to Audiobook
0745: Work
1000: Snack
1200: Lunch
1400: Snack
1630: Drive home / Listen to Audiobook
1710: Decompress / Yoga
1800: Dinner
1900: Journal / Writing / Reading
2030: Meditation
2100: Sleep
Your day doesn't have to look like this. Your day can look like whatever you need it to as long as you take care of your mental and physical health. It's just easier to get into a groove and stay there. Some may view this as enslavement to a ritualistic or routine way of life but in reality, it will only free you from falling victim to uncertainty and your own whims. Regardless, understanding and taking care of the trio is critical in the rising.
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