Bullying – how to be part of the solution

Millions of people are victims everyday worldwide because the simple matter of being who they are, not looking like the predominant social standard.

 

 

May the gyms or training fields be other places where the stalkers can find new victims, or insist with who are already?  The answer is yes – it’s going to depend on you, trainer, this stops or corrects.

 

The bullying consists in, during a lapse of time, stalking somebody purposed to injure the self-esteem, or forcing to segregate out from a bunch of people. The agressions can be physical, psychological, verbal, sexual, social, an even laboral (mobbing).

 

The reason why you must not allow the bullying in your gym or training field is as simple as the attendants go to learn, perfect by contending themselves. So, if you detect the competitive spirit opens a chance to the aggression to the contender, you must stop the situation immediately.

 

The ideal would be your place has a clear written regardin rule (for example: bullyin is not allowed here). But the truth is that, whether a rule or not, the stalkers ever will look for the way to injure. That’s why we give you here some urgent ideas you can apply while the parties look for specialized professional advisory for healing that situation.

 

 

As a trainer:

• Have clear your behavior rules: They must be based upon the respect, they must be shown with right facts. If your pupils see you stalk, although you reprimend them, they’ll understand they have an understood permission to stalk.
• Choose carefully the ways you are going to encourage your pupil: It’s not the best idea comparing to other ones, or, if he doesn’t do the routines with the intensity you expect, the better would be asking why his performance is not the wished before disqualifying him.
• Don’t do a party with the stalkers neither the victim: More than neutral, remind them you are the leader in the room or at the field, so if they are not capable to respect themselves, they respect on you at least. You don’t have to scream it but to say it straight.
• Don’t ignore the aggression, don’t encourage it neither: Make the gym or the training field to be a kind place for everyone. But neither act like nothing happens because the indifference, in this case, is more dangerous than any kind of action due to it can get like agreement or complicity.

 

 

Against the stalker(s):

• Once you have identified who stalk, talk one by one and in private. Your message has to be clear and straight – at least inside the gym or the training field, that behavior is not allowed.
• If the Stalker(s) relapse(s), call the attention in public. The message and the tone must be exactly the same. If you can add you are not going to tolerate it once again, that could work.
• If both previous rules don’t work and your gym or training field has a written anti-bullying policy, apply the top penalty.
• Never let the stalkers join you into their party. Usually, who stalk empower when they make the victim to believe it’s not about their bunch but there are much more people beside them. When you say them you are not part of the aggression, this begins to weaken.
• If the Stalker(s) is (are) under legal age, contact the parents or tutors and explain the situation as well as your position about.
• Don’t add exhausting training routines as a punishment. The true penalty for the stalker(s) is not doing two additional sets or staying 30 minutes more but to have restricted access to the place or services you offer.
• It’s probable the stalkers cancel their membership or fee. Don’t see it like a lose – see it like an affirmative action which looks for protecting the positive experience of working out at the gym or the training field.

 

 

With the victim:

• Talk in private, let clear he must take action to block the aggressions in an assertive way, and that you don’t see any reason for he to ashame, feel fear or guilt.
• If he needs to talk to you, give the proper space and time. Remember you are the leader at the gym or training field. So, if you’re not trustworthy, who more he could vent with what he feels? Check out this guide if you need more orientation.
• It’s not enough to say “you gotta be strong”. It’s necessary to give effective, smart ideas to accomplish it. If you own the proper psychological or pedagogic resources, offer them. If not, refer the victim to specialized professional advisory – the most is free.
• Regarding the previous, never advise to respond the aggression with a larger aggression – the violence only borns more violence, and you’ll get more bruised in the end.
• Don’t revictimize – don’t expose the victim to a new aggression, in other words. Don’t overprotect, neither.
• Use the training to provide confidence and courage. But that doesn’t mean exhausting but teaching to feel proud of the achievements, understanding they all were reached based upon the own effort. It’s a very practical way to go educating on self- esteem.
• If we have recommended you not to be part of the stalking party, neither join a party with the victim. Keep in the middle but open to ssolve the conflicts breaking out between both parties.
• And don’t forget if the victim is under legal age, contact the parents or tutors to coordinate a supporting circle providing tools and resources to overcome the aggression episodes.
• If the victim decides to cancel his fee or membership, give the time and the space. Probably, he needs it to think better about the issue. Indeed, let clear the doors are ever open.

 

If you need more orientation, write us on our Twitter account or our e-mail: chulucanasgym@gmail.com

  

Thanks! An athlete must be good in discipline, must form a possitive attitude too.

By ChulucanasGym
Model and photographs by Ronald Benites.

One of the problems many athletes face is the anonimity because they have no clarity on a personal branding-&-publicity strategy, because they don't get to catch the attention of mass media as well. And when you are not public, who will be following about the things you do and get?

If you are in that bunch, your choices are discouraging or continuing to fight.  If you choose the second one, you can do it from the resentment -attitude that the most adopt wrongly- or you can do it from the enthusiasm itself; from the conviction you are superating your own limits, you can break the records as well.

How much does this count in an athlete? It has much to count, because as much as how you go educating and displaying your attitude, that much you will know  to asume your results and setting new challenges. If you ever keep possitive, the victories and the defeats will mean learning. If you trend to be negative instead, everything wwill generate you anxiety and you will live in a constant frustration status.

Of course your possé has much to count in the formation of a possitive or a negative attitude, and you must have the sufficient intelligence in that sense for realising when that pulls you, when that harms you. Depending on the answer, you must be too brave to step ahead or stop in your spot.

Coming next, some advice you can apply for creating a possitive attitude, based upon the experience of many peoplelike you, living with and within the sport, and who can superate through this.

Being Kind Is Free
They say the two expressions those open doors are "please" and "thanks" ("push" and "pull" are not)., and this is the key of your whole success - the respect. As much as you treat well to the people, the people will treat you well... or the most, at least.

The ameability is the skill you get to have your life well-mannered, with affection, deserving the care of the rest. Although being kindis remembered in the same level than being rude, the ameability presets favorabily the people for listening to you and helping you in what you need. Inclusive if the person doesn't have the capability of solving your problem turning it under control, be sure that your good treatment could commit that person to allow you for finding  and answer, a solution, or simply for that person does you that favor  you need in the best possible way.

Being kind also attracts the people and puts the spotlight on you. And as an athlete, one of the things you must be more focused about is the support , being just cheers, being to get a little different complex things as a sponsorship. It also allows you to have certain concessions in services you use to take. An athlete ever causes admiration, but a kind athlete  will be ever the person whom everybody will want to suport what they can.

And ever and forever, do it because you feel is right. The people use to realize, soon or late, when your attitude is real or when it's just a disguise.

Humble But Not Shy
The humility is the own recognizement of everything you are capable, thinking you're not much or less important than the rest. It's simply about how much great you can become, what costed you work to get, not making you haughty, disparaging, or arrogant, what could be its worst opposite edge.

The another negative edge of the humility is the shyness, the feeling you have of not deserving what you have got or the recognizement you receive, what borns from your own insecurity. And this is the keyword of all this advice.

If you shine with your own light (not lended, not stolen), don't fear the rest realizes it. Simply shine.  Don't mistake  turning off that bright because you will regret  in the future, or you will feed  a dumb aprehension against the rest because they don't give you such a space or chance.
The first trick is you learn to love yourself with everything you have for better or for worst, for recognizing you can improve the good and correct the bad, and feeling proud (not arrogant) for every task you are getting.

Do you remember of saying thanks? If they recognize it, thank it, don't get focused out of yourself, chase your next goal.  And when you get it, repeat the procedure. And this advice applies too for social media, no matter how many followers you got (what is relative) , telling them what you're achieving, thanking when the people appreciate it feeds your soul and prepares your body to step ahead much gladly.

If the people don't recognize it to you, take it easy, analyze if it's about a hard critic or simple envy. Anyway, don't let that disencourage you. Turn it into a fuel to go to the infinite and beyond.

Your Privacy Has Limits
everybody highlighting everything public, sports inclusive, could generate restlessness and curiosity. Its natural and even legitimate.  The question is how longer those restlessness and curiosity can reach. Answer: Until you allow it.

Set up access rings and deserve the people with access priviledges to your life according to the trust grade you go developing with them: the intimate, that only matters you, the private, that usually counts on your inner possé, the public, that can be known by the rest.

Never mistake letting a circle invading anoter one because when you lose control of the access, neither yourself will realize what belongs whose, when too. Yes, you'll end so confused like that.

Don't give your full trust to the people approaching to you. In some sense, first study them carefully. If possible, request for reliable references to the people who proved a more objective vision, and go slow on those lands. Just the same applies for social media.

Your Possé Has Not To Be Toxic
Talking about the people around you, a mistake we use to make is interacting with people who feed our ego so much, that  when we meet wisest people, we think they are attacking on us. In the other side, we have the people who seem to give us an Algebra or Aritmethics books - problems after problems.

Have the enough clarity to detect when your possés begin to become toxic, poisonous, polluting. When things are not clear for you, have the courage for requesting somebody trustable (not toxic) for helping you to see the situation, not to solve the problem on behalf of you.

The healthy thing in those cases is leaving out the toxic possés and migrate to others  which you can grow in a  balanced way. It will be difficult, but remember you  made to going the difficult back, so it has much to to with courage for taking a radical decision.

That applies not only to people but environment. If you can leave them behind, it would be the recommendable. if not, setting them up as much as  you have a quiet place to rest, at least. The same with your social media.

Goals Take Time
everybody repeats it to you, but it's also true that everybody looks for this to get short as much as possible, and the mistake is right there. In the effort to made everything more inmediate, many people end to skip steps, harming them long-term that can destroy, inclusive, their own life.

Use to step at time and standing up firm when you get it. Then step next. Although the temptation to skip is present everytime, even you can, it's better to go step by step.

Obviously, this means to invest time overall, but the virtue of every athlete is the perseverance, get focused on something until reaching it. Check out back what we put about humility, just in case.

Here is good to remember the power of Not once proving that, in fact, the idea or the proposal  is not the best one. Yes, you'll have to develop your skill to analyze the things cold head. It doesn't get inmediatly, neither, and it's possible you mistake in the beginning. Do it because the mistakes teach too, or the mistakes especially teach instead.

Diversify
If you heard somebody advising you (especially your parents) to have in mind something additional to the sport, consider it. Remember tat even if you are exclusively dedicated to it, the sport has a limited life among your whole life, and what will you do when that moment comes on?

Many athletes have one or more additional proffessions, those practice paralelly or once  their cycle has finished. Inclusive, if you thought to open your own academy, gymnasium, or training school, don't you think it would be useful to have some managing or accountability course?

It's recommendable you be a proffessional in the sport you do, and actually many federations worldwide offer official courses and certifications  those give you more weight... proffessional, we mean. Also, it's not a bad idea to make an alliance with with some university or institute for creating extension courses targetting the same purpose.

Now, if your choices are out the sports field, prepare for them so  if you have to assume them, you do  with the required competence. Look! Puting on your resumé you're a qualified athlete, raise scores. We promise it.

Healthy Body In Healthy Mind
Yes, we know the quote is in reverse, but this variant also applies in the formation of your attitude. Because it's not only about reaching an outstanding physique but that goes aside with emotions management, solving your problems adequatly, learning to get related with the persons possitively, and -why not- setting free of prejudge (anticipated ideas) or stereotypes (tagging the people without knowing them).

A big part of your physical performance depends on how much you have your mind prepared. When one of them is unbalanced, unbalances everything.
Your mental work passes not only by receiving a adequate and specialized proffessional advice (a psychologist, sports-specialized if possible), but you take the necessary time for going to work out your mind through  neuroprogramming or meditation. Some people will prefer to trust in the power of the pray, what also allows you  to project toward a spiritual dimension. Do it because it also works.

The reading or doing other productive hobbies will also help you to gro up your mind and acquire new knowledge you can add into the practice of your sport or discipline. Ultimately, it's not only about to be skillful but wise.

You Lose If Stressed
As a next consequence, learn to detect when your stress level raises much than it doesn't affect mentally only, phisically too. And if it affects you physically, your performance could fall down. However, learn to work under pressure. That's why the most experienced athletes themselves advice you to dedicate to the sport you like much for you can process those stress levels in a possitive way, avoiding you to disencourage, what could be awful.

[READ ALSO: The 7 tips of Pedro Bautista.]

Laugh, sing, dance. Make something that take you out the stress zone, that sets your mind free, so being easy to retake the focusing when needed, and learn that your resting times are to rest.

Your Opinion Matters... And Inspires!
everything you learn in your training, competition process, and in general everything around your athlete' life can be an interesting life leson going beyond the sports. Don't miss the chance to share that learning with the people, especially the new generations, who are ever looking for a model to follow.

In the same way, we remind you not to miss the chance for using the media to share that wisdom. Although they could be interested on the number of medals or your next sports event, don't fear to add something new to your statements that generates top stories. If you have any regarding doubt, contact us for advicing you.

If you are identified to any social cause, don't doubt to give it time and put your image, incorporating your experience as an athlete for getting more people to adopt possitive attitude. From washing the hands correctly to campaigns against bullying and discrimination, a cause is ever waiting for you to empower.

My Profile – Wílmer Talledo “Romario”

Outdoor Training

By ChulucanasGym

Much more before  there were the classic gymnasiums, the Hellenic predecessors of the actual facilities, the way how the people kept fit was outdoor. If it’s true the Greek Classic Culture was the one that printed a lot  those activities through its art, there is evidence that every ancient world’s culture had training sessions mainly addressed to war exercises, all them made in the open.

As the time has been going on, the conception of the physical training has been getting close into the gymnasiums as we know them more than 3000 years ago, and only some specific activities have been left to work out outdoor, especially the ones referred to adapt to the natural landscape, as adventure sports. However, the effort to look for a major contact with Nature is motivating the people to depend less on indoor and to rediscover  the advantages of doing it not depending on the limitations of four walls and a roof.

As the environmental quality is guaranteed, one of these main benefits is to oxygenate with pure or mostly pure air. Another of those advantages is improving the mood much more evident compared to indoor only provided the landscape is cared or if it still conserves itsinitial natural setup. That’s why many outdoor training activists, our partner Ronald Benites among them, have demanded the authorities to have more green spaces inside the cities and to conserve the areas as the forests, beaches, wetlands, or any space where the human action has created few or none impact.

Over this basis, the outdoor training activity chances are wide, from calisthenics  to  major physical exigency sports. You choose the one you like a lot because whatever will come OK, the issue is you put in activity, so we have you some very useful tips for it.

1. Check Out The Weather Conditions

There’s no more disappointment than to schedule a day for beginning your training sessions and a heavy rain just starts to fall. It’s not about the heaven sending you any kind of message, it’s about you forgot to check out the weather conditions for the zone where you’re going to work out. Then, the solution is such simple as paying attention to the forecast on your favorite TV or radio station, or newspaper. Also remember today there are services offering you a high level of accuracy those allow to know the weather forecast and check it out real-time, that you can have it as an app on your smartphone, even.

2. Protect From Solar Radiation

Even in cloudy days, remember that having long time outdoor means to be exposed to B-type ultraviolet rays (UVB), unlike their A-type brothers (UVA), those can cause skin burning or cancer, or cataracts in the eyes (we will see which protection on the next point). Then, use a sunscreen that allow you to isolate them while you are out there. Remember the medical consensus is to use that with a 40-to-up sun protection factor (SPF). However, ask your reliable doctor or dermatologist about  wwhich one is the most adequate for your skin type. Also remember the sweat removes the sunscreen, so it’s necessary you to retouch it as suggested, one to two hours in general.

3. Choose The Right Outfit

One thing is working out indoor, where you can work out even naked, but another very different is doing it outdoor where you have to face different elements as solar rays, the wind, the temperature, the humidity, and inclusive the insects. Lookfor  and wear the clothes that guarantee you two things at the same time: protection before those elements, and flexibility for doing your movement in a free and natural way. Also choose the sportshoes those allow you to anchor very well  to the soil (or whatever you have to get your feet on), and that results easy to handle. If you work out during the daylight, wear a hat or a cap according to the circumstance and protect your eyes  with special sunglasses those filter UVB rays, those don’t go flying at the first abrupt movement. Get advice  with your trainer, in a serious sport store, and with other people those also work out outdoor.

[READ ALSO: Mask For The Muscle]

4. Never Forget The Medical Kit

If we didn’t advice it before is because we suppose your gym has an accessible one, but when you’re not in a facility of that type, or you’re totally alone at worst, and you have an eventuality as a contusion or any kind of accident, who and how helps you? That’s why it’s worthy to invest in a kit containing band aids, alcohol in gel, iodium, cotton, gauze, sticking plaster, some cream against bites, and even your sunscreen. It’s a good idea your kit box to have a card  wit your name and your phone numbers in emergency case - nobody never knows. Oh, and never it’s useless to know about first aid.

5. Have A Specialized Monitor

As much as the difficulty and the risk of the physical activity you do is major, the ideal would be it has the supervision and the guidance of a person who is paying you attention constantly, who knows how to act if any type of eventuality happens. If you work out in group, it would be fine that one of you to be someone having most experience for becoming that monitor. Remember that one thing is the gym, where you are just a couple of feet away, but another very different is out there where you could be inclusive a couple of hours away.  So listen carefully to your monitor, follow up the recommendations literally. The idea is you to come back to work out, not you to go just once and being forced not to come back for a long time or not coming back never again.

6. Hydrate

Yes, it’s obvious, but it’s necessary to remind it for the same reason than the previous tips. If you are at the gym, you only got to go to the water dispenser or buy a bottle with water, but out there, especially if you are far from the city, the better is you go well-supplied with enough water for hydrating before, during, and especially after  your training session. The same thing if you are accostumed to drink re-hydratant beverages, those only you have to consume after your training session for replacing salt and carbohydrates, not before. Find out more related information here.

7. Leave Clean The Space

It doesn’t matter  if you’re the only person who works out there, and much more reason if it’s about a collective space, avoid to leave trash although that’s not yours, especially if that could harm someone else. Working out outdoor implies a big commitment with the environment, so the hygiene would be a logical and consistent attitude. In consequence, not polluting (anyway) and educating the others through your example not for doing it  will be another of your responsibilities.

8. Create A Community

Although someone will prefer to isolate physically from the rest for a better training, our suggestion is you to try connecting other people like you doing certain outdoor sport or discipline around your region, your country or the world for interchanging experiences, warning for any cause, or even seeing the chance to visit each other for sharing the experience by promoting a kind of sport tourism. The social media are currently the means for commiting that task effectively and efficiently. Use them responsibly.

9. Share Your Experience

If you are who think your relatives, friends or contacts deserve to share the same satisfaction you get when you work out outdoor, try to write something and post it on your social media where you tell how you had, describe the place, and motivate the people to go with you or by themselves. If you want, share your experience with our crew on our Twitter account, by writing us at chulucanasgym@gmail.com, or leaving some message right below. We’ll enjoy to read you!

The photos on this post were provided (from the top to below) by César Campos, Ronald Benites, Pedro Changanaquí, and Félix Oviedo.

The muscles of the hunter

Continué à courir, Champion!

EXCLUSIVE by ChulucanasGym.

It wasn’t easy to cross the Atlantic for him, even when he’d wanted to do it on his bicycle. Only supported by his family, Hugo Ruíz arrived to the south of France for havinh a more specialized training, after being invited by a local club.

Now, Chulucanas, Peru-native cyclist runs in Aurillac, a town with about 25000 inhabitants, below the Alpes, in a terrain going from 500 to 800 meters altitude. Inside some 20 sq km, tempered weather the most of the year… no comparison to his hot homeland!

- What do you like of Aurillac?

- What I like of Aurillac is that it’s very good to run because of its variety of topography, that helps me so much in my training.

- How did you do to adapt to this place?

- The truth itself is I adapted to the place fast. People is very kind and the city is very pretty. Actually, what it costed some weeks to me was the time zone change.

[Peru is GMT-5 and France is GMT+1.]

- How is your day here?

- Normally, everyday is the same. [laughs]Training, resting, and take advantage to read or study about something.

- What differences do you find out to your routine in Peru?

- Basically, my routine is the same to Peru. The only difference is I run more often here every week. In Peru, there were 1-2 runnings per month, normally.

- What’s that you miss a lot from Peru?

- I miss my family a lot.

- When your season ends here, what are your inmediate plans?

- Finishing, I need to have some rest, some vacations, then starting my preparation for the next season.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

Let's Return To Nature

By Ronald Benites

There is a place where all the effort and sacrifice we display at the gym is tested - the natural mean, outdoors, right there where electtricity and technology are limited use, where we are among the Creation.

Very few of us remember, or want to remember, that much before wireless and smartphones existed, human beings had to be in-shape for going amid the forests, the mountains, and the water, looking for our livelihood. It was necessary to be well fed but also having strong and flexible muscles for moving forward fastly, sagaciously, successfully. Despite it, surviving was impossible.

Inclusive when we were setting down as human settlements as towns or first cities, constant physical activity was basic to sustain our life.

As our knowledge allowed the technology developed muchly, we also were losing the connection to tat mean where we encourage or were encouraged to survive. In some sense, the confort of a roof or the immediacy of a click have been taking off our ancestral spaces, and altough we try to recreate few yards away our homes or inside them, it's not the same.

So, for who works out hard constantly at the gym or a sportscenter, the return to Nature must not be considered as an extravagant but necessary activity, not like an extraordinary milestone but a frequent habit.

The reason is so simple as the contact to Nature revitalize us when breathing pure air, forcing to be in constant physical activity, solving our lacks with creativity, getting amazed by the processes and interactions of living beings to the landscape... because we came from there and we have to return there as often as we can for cleaning our soul.

We could say that unfortunately our urban spaces drown our natural spaces much more everytime, but we are responsible in some sense about that process when we refuse to propose an ordered growing and a more rational exploitation of the environment, and the manner we live.

So it's desirable that we must incorporate the respect and conservation of our natural spaces where we can intervene preventively for our physical, mental, and even spiritual health, also demanding our basic services to be correctly implemented and satisfied. Spaces where we can practice physical activity and sports, meditate, produce healthy food, and even follow therapies of diverse kind too.

Our actual or aspirant authorities have there a straight interesting agenda item they must not skip but promoting, managing and defending.

Personally, I enjoy a lot being in contact to Nature. I feel I clean my soul, and there are fortunately many spaces around Chulucanas, my city, where I can reload myself after going some minutes up by walking, running, or biking (actually, the pictures of myself on this article were taken in this place).

But I confess  I have a big predilection by the mountains, abouth those I am going to feel ever wondered.  You know. Maybe become living there some day further, eating tasty and healthy, working out my body and soul while listening to the animals or the creeks' water in the background... in the end, returning to that space where the human learned once upon a time to be human.

The right weight

Grandma was reasonable in everything but this.

 

It’s not a game. Obesity has begun to charge very expense bills to our communities. Only in Piura Department, the medical statistics establish it is the first cause of heart diseases (stroke, arteriosclerosis) and diabetes. In fact, it occupies the second place across Peru in this condition prevalence, that treated out of time can be mortal.

 

The diet and the lack of physical activity are the recurrent causes, according to specialists. The usual food is ever made of rice, tubers, and fried or boiled meat and much spices, and beverages with much sugar and colorants that have replaced to the natural juices and refreshes.

 

Growing besides

In the other hand, the new lifestyle consists in spending long hours in front of the TV or the PC, many times interacting with other pairs virtually but forbidding spaces and moments of physical encounter. This frame is not supposed.

 

The medical doctors coincide that during the teenage, instead growing upside, we are growing besides. Also, they point out that the problem gets worse if we have haven a bad or deficient nutrition during our childhood, so we don’t gain enough height and the body trends to accumulate fat instead of mass.

 

The most optimistic medical forecast is that before 40 years old, many of us already will experience our first stroke or, at least, will have blood stream problems. And the problem is in rural and urban ccommunities, as well.

 

The lifeguard plan

There are actually ways to reverse the frame, and everything depends on a strong personal commitment with your health. Here we present you some useful ideas:

1. Eat according to your real energy requirement: Not all the people need the same wear, so a nutritionist (or specialist in nutriology) can advise us what we have to eat, how much quantity, what time, why and how to combine it in a healthy way.
2. Do exercise: World Health Organization suggests that, at least, 30 daily minutes at home, a park, or the gym, are ideal to improve all the body functions including the slow down of the cell aging.
3. Set your mind free: encourage yourself creatively to take out the stress by doing an activity that take your brain out of the routine, but that enriches it.
4. No vices: If you don’t find a way (or even if you have it clear), don’t run to the alcohol, the tobacco, the drugs, or something that generates you damages for your remaining lifetime. If you think it convenient, visit a mental health specialist for having a guide.
5. Try not to stick to the technology: It’s actually possible to live without it. It seems hard but what the advertising doesn’t say us is the continuous dependence to the electronic devices causes us sedentarism, so problems with our weight. The other part that the advertising doesn’t say us is that a kind of techno-addiction is developed.
6. Appreciate yourself: The key to be happy is loving because of who you are, not who you look like. But this doesn’t mean you uncare of yourself.
7. Choose a medical consultation: If the physical body has problems, or it doesn’t respond like it should, the best is looking for a medical doctor. The friends and relatives –unless they have a diploma in Medicine and be competent—can give ideas but not a professional opinion that can save our live. However, ever look for second and third recommendations to go to the right place.
8. Research and share: On the Internet, there is everything, and especially the information that will open you up a positive perspective to care your health. If you access those contents, study them, file them, discuss them, and share them with your people. Who knows – the fact that can improve the life of somebody else could come from you.

 

The model featured on this entry is André Verona and the photographs are © Marco Mejía.