"Finding Balance thru Exercise, Health and Spirituality"

Yesterday I attended my Relief Society Women's Conference and wanted to share what I learned. We got to chose 2 "Break Out" classes and one was this one. 

 

I chose "Finding balance through Exercise, Health and Spirituality" by Cami Checketts.

 

How can we focus on the positive aspects of our physical bodies?

• Take care of yourself for the right reasons- good health and the ability to serve.
• Count your blessings (remember all the wonderful things about your body).
• Remember that your body is an amazing gift from a loving Heavenly Father.

How can improving our physical health increase our spirituality?

• Good health increases our mental capacity thereby allowing us to learn and improve ourselves.
• Good health makes it easier to serve others.
• Good health prevents a multitude of physical and mental diseases, making us better able to perform the Lord's work.
• Good health increases our confidence, which helps us be more effective missionaries, more effective in our callings and happier wives and mothers.

How can we keep a healthy balance?

• Turn to the Lord- Fasting, Praying and keeping The Word of Wisdom.
• Smile, be confident, and know that you are loved by a Heavenly Father who cares about each aspect of your life and will help you.
• Make a small goal each month.

Barbara B. Smith, "Our great physical powers require us to take good care of our bodies. At the very least we should obey the Word of Wisdom, eat properly, sleep and exercise regularly, and abstain from taking anything into our bodies which will destroy their powers, for we will be held accountable for them as we strive to be what we are really meant to become."