Bible Study on Self-Care: Body | Bible Study Journal
video number two in the self-care mini series is all about taking care of your
body that's a huge part of self-care do you not know that your bodies are
temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have received from God you're
not your own you were brought you were bought at a price therefore honor God
with your bodies 1st Corinthians chapter 16 verses 19
through 20 so you only have one body which is kind of like obviously you
don't have one body but it's true you only have one body in this life you have
to take care of it you have to the importance of proper nutrition and
adequate exercise is often overlooked I know for me when I was in my 20s
especially my early twenties I did not care what I ate I ate whatever I wanted
and I pretty much didn't really you know I stayed the same size and I didn't
think about cholesterol and I didn't think about you know is this good for my
heart or eating vegetables I was somewhat mindful of it but I feel like
you know now I'm Way more mindful of it and so eating well and exercising
drinking water that is extremely impactful when it comes to our health
eat your vegetables just like I said it helps to keep your body going one thing
that I like to have and I used to do this a lot more often is fruit smoothies
and I would just buy frozen fruit at the grocery store a huge bag for a really
cheap price and I would put that in the blender with some water and there you go
is a fruit smoothie and that was you know my fruit and vegetables you know
same thing you just can get a big bag of frozen vegetables I know a lot of people
think that you know buying vegetables are expensive and it can be but buy
frozen you know if that's what you can afford that's what you can afford and
it's perfectly fine there's nothing wrong with it but eat your fruit and
vegetables it helps to keep your body going drink water it helps to flush your
kidneys and it just you know our bodies are made up mostly of water so drinking
enough water and I know some people have gone a little bit crazy with this by
drinking a gallon a day and I don't think there's any medical or scientific
research to back up drinking that much water I'd say but you need to make sure
that you're drinking at least eight cups of water a day
so Jesus died for us we should at least at the very least take care of the
bodies that God gave us I mean he sent his son to die for us and I know that we
don't take our bodies with us to heaven you know I understand that but that
doesn't mean that we should neglect it I mean it's scriptural it says our bodies
are temples it is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in us whom we have
received from God we are not our own we are bought at a price and that price was
Jesus's blood therefore honor God with your bodies you know it for us to go
about and continue doing the work that God wants us to do we need to make sure
that we're taking care of our physical body exercise often I hated exercise for
really long time but then I realized that walking is really good exercise and
I love to walk you know you put on some music and walk if that's what you like
to do do it yoga I really like yoga too I've been really into that lately if
that's what you like to do then do it you know whatever exercise even if you
have a staircase in your house walk up and down the stairs for 30 minutes
that's exercise you know you don't have to join a gym or do all this super
intense exercise you know that you may or may not enjoy me if you enjoy it do
it but if you don't enjoy it don't force yourself to do it just find an activity
that you do enjoy one thing that I heard about this year in 2020 that has made
such a huge difference in how I look at exercise and it's called the to day role
and I think I don't know who came up with it but I heard it from a video his
name is Matt I don't know how to pronounce his last name but I'll
definitely put a link to his video and he says that the 2-day rule is you never
go more than two days about exercising so for example if I exercise yesterday
but I did not exercise today then I have to exercise tomorrow I hope that makes
sense it kind of puts me in the mode of like exercising every single day and I
know there's been a lot of myths and stigmas that you shouldn't exercise
every day but there's nothing wrong with that I walk pretty much every single day
if not at least five days a week for thirty minutes ten hour and you know at
a brisk pace and I feel really good after so you know I don't let more than
two days go without exercising so that basically means you know what the bare
minimum exercising every other day so try to implement that I don't know maybe
it'll work for you or if that's too much start slow just start at one day a week
because at least you're starting somewhere sleep I mentioned this in my
in the video about your mind you know self-care for your mind but sleeping
it's so important it helps to your body heals while you're asleep and sleeping
just makes you feel better it helps you from feeling groggy and just dragging
all day and make sure that you're getting adequate sleep don't stay up
late on social media or watching TV go to bed trust me you'll feel so much
better in the morning and of course love yourself love yourself in the skin that
you're in no matter what you look like or you know what weight you are it
doesn't matter you just love yourself for who you are right now because God
needs you to be so incredibly special and He loves you just the way you are
right now so love yourself you know it's okay to take care of your body and to
work on yourself but love where you are right now so that's it that's all I have
for today thank you so much for watching and I'll talk to you next time