The 10-minute rule promotes a simple yet powerful way to improve your health and well-being. By dedicating just 10 minutes a day to activities like exercise, meditation, or preparing a nutritious meal, you can experience...
In today’s fast paced world, finding time to exercise, eat right, and have proper rest is very important for physical and mental well being. What if we say just 10 minutes in a day can improve your health and could be beneficial for you?
What is the 10 Minutes rule?
Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Centre brings an idea of 10-minutes for you after observing the busy schedules and health concerns in today’s fast paced world. Consistency is the only key which can benefit for long term health benefits. Either it's a workout, yoga, mindful breathing, meditation, or preparing a healthy food meal. Dedicate your 10 minutes in a day and feel the changes in your body.
Health benefits of this 10 minutes rule:
To boost physical fitness, no need for intense workout - simple exercise are even best for your health. It is proven in the study that a 10 minutes workout can help and improve your cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and metabolism.
- A 10 minute walking, jogging or cycling session can enhance blood circulation and you can prevent yourself from heart attack and heart diseases.
- Doing squats, pushups, or lunges can help tone muscles and improve endurance and strength of muscles.
- If you want to burn calories or want to lose weight you can have 10 minutes HIIT(High-intensity interval training) workouts.
Your mental well-being is as important as your physical well-being, following this just 10 minute rule can help you in your self-care routine. How?
- It will help you in reducing stress and anxiety by meditating or by doing deep breathing exercises or laughing exercises. It will reduce the cortisol level (stress hormone) or depression level.
- One of the most favourite and loving exercises is listening to music, journaling and practicing gratitude can help you in uplift in your mood and promote emotional stability.
- Taking short breaks during work (Which might not be possible sometimes), can help you in refreshing your mood. Talking with your colleagues or partners can help you feel relaxed.
This 10 minute rule will also help you in promoting better sleep.
- Light stretching and yoga can help you sleep better.
- Before bed, reading for 10 minutes can help you sleep better and it will also help you in blue light exposure.
- Before bed time you can assign yourself a task for the next day by writing to-do-list or journaling, it helps to clear your mind, reduce overthinking etc.
The 10 minute rule also helps in encouraging eating healthy food. How?
- Boiling eggs,chopping vegetables, making shakes and health drinks, will just take 10 minutes but it will ensure a nutritious meal.
- Instead of eating junk food, use 10 minutes to prepare a fruit salad, nuts, yogurt etc, which can help you in your body weight management as well as your health.
- Eating slowly and without distraction can improve your digestion.
How to apply 10 Minute rule in your daily life-
- Start on a habit or activity you want to add in your daily routine, and start with this 10 minutes method.
- Don’t stress about doing the best or perfect, just enjoy and go with the flow.
- Set a 10 minute alarm to keep yourself accountable.
- Do it everyday at the same time to build consistency and build routine.
- Focus on the activity in those 10 minutes, avoid the distractions.
Conclusion:
The 10 minute rule proves that small activities can lead to big changes. Whether it's about fitness, work or any other. Applying 10 minutes in your life can help you to become healthy, nutritious, or in personal development. You can start this today even from now by taking ten minutes rest at work, Give 10 minutes to yourself. It will help you with many diseases which could be serious which we can’t even notice or see, depression, stress and many others are part of self-harm. During exercises, jogging or any physical activity if you feel abnormal pain (Pain in Knee or joints, ) or discomfort you can reach us or book your test for better examination of your condition.
FAQS-
Q. What would happen if I don’t follow this 10 minute rule?
Nothing is going to happen, even nothing is going to change either in your health or lifestyle. Just ignoring health issues will lead to serious conditions like back pain, cervical, etc.
Q. Can I follow this rule in my study plan?
Yes you can use this idea in your study plan by planning 10 minutes revision, 10 minutes test, 10 minutes break which might help you in stress free study.
Q. Can I feel sudden changes?
You might feel sudden changes in your daily activities, abilities and capabilities but what’s important is consistency. For better growth, for better health, for better planning this 10 minute rule can help you.
