After age thirty five, on average, you lose five pounds of muscle every decade. You will definitely start to notice the change over the course of middle age. It happens at the cellular level because your mitochondria become tired, a process known as mitochondrial dysfunction, which may make you feel more fatigued during and after exercise or cause muscle pain.
Your mitochondria are the tiny powerhouses inside your cells that turn food and oxygen into energy. When they’re damaged and tired and start accumulating sludge, you will feel tired and achy. It happens because of eating empty calories such as sugar, flour, and processed foods that expose you to toxins. So if you don’t take action, your muscles will get weaker and smaller as they’re replaced with fat, and you’re not as strong as you used to be. The key is to focus on preserving and building your muscle mass as you age past forty.
Along with exercise, here is an excellent exercise to support your body on the cellular level. Your body has trillions of very loving, hard working cells fighting for you day and night. Don’t you think they deserved a little thank you and some love from you?
Try this exercise for a week or two and you will notice that your darling little cells will return your love and work twice as hard to make you healthier and prettier.
Sit comfortably or lie down, breathe in and hold your breath for a couple of seconds and breath out. Repeat three times.
As you continue breathing say to yourself “I breath in healing and relaxing energy.” As you breath out “I breath out tension, negativity and anxiety” and then “I become more and more relaxed.”
After a few minutes like this imagine you are floating like a little cloud in the sky and the warm golden light envelopes you. Start to breath in this healing light. As you breath feel the loving, golden energy filling your lungs. It begins to spread through your body, it goes in your neck head and shoulders, down in your arms and hands. It spreads don you back and belly. Now this healing golden light moves down your legs into your feet. Your whole body is full of warm, healing golden light.
Imagine the cells cells of your body, trillions of them, each one filled with this healing golden glow. Imagine one of your cells anywhere you like. See it, feel it, visualize it filled with a warm, healing light energy. Your precious little cell is expanding, relaxing, happy and joyful as it bathes in the healing light. Every cell in your body is celebrating, enjoying the warm and golden healing light.
Your cells know what to do; your body knows what to do. You are complete, as you are supposed to be, and your body, mind and soul are equipped with wonderful healing mechanisms. Allow yourself to enjoy this knowledge allow the warm golden light to spread its glow throughout your mind and spirit. You are blessed and loved!
Afterward, gently bring your attention back into the place your are in, and resume your daily activities, knowing you are filled with light and your cells are zinging with joy!
