The health and functioning of your brain affects everything: who you are, what you think, your relationships, what you achieve, what you would like to achieve, your physical health, your mental state of being, and much more.

The health of your brain can be raised to new heights by reducing stress factors and increasing life enhancing factors:

	Perception
	Oxygen
	Water
	Exercise
	Rejuvenation
	Sustenance
	Detoxification

Perception
Your perception is the result of life experiences which have formed beliefs, habits, thoughts, and actions. Perception influences the creation of neural-pathways in the brain. When perception is changed, so does the way you react to new experiences.

How you perceive your life is often how your life will perceive you. Perception is one key to stress related disorders. Alter your perception, and the way stress affects your body will be altered.

Oxygen
Without oxygen we would die in minutes. It is our single most important fuel. Increasing oxygen intake increases blood oxygen levels, resulting in increased alertness, well being, detoxification, and rejuvenation.

We take breathing for granted yet, when we breathe in a deliberate conscious way, our physical and emotional state can be dramatically altered.

Many of us take small shallow breaths, barely enough to survive, but not enough to thrive. When learn how to breathe properly, breath changes our life experience, for the better. Yogis in India have known for thousands of years that breath can be used to influence emotional states and to increase vitality.

Air quality is also key to our vitality. People naturally feel wonderful when they are in a deep green forest or near a waterfall. While we have no control over outdoor air quality, there are many ways to improve indoor air quality.

Water
Up to 55% of our body mass is water. Virtually every function in the body requires the presence of water. A well-hydrated body allows our body to function properly and efficiently. Drinking plenty good clean water is one of the easiest ways to detoxify and feel more energetic. We also require water for proper functioning of our nervous system and brain function.

Exercise
The human body is designed to move, carry weight, and do physical work. Without sufficient movement, physical effort, and stretching, our physical form suffers. Movement also allows all our organs to function better.

Rejuvenation
In western culture, we simply do not pay enough attention to rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. Our sleep patterns are directly tied to our body’s ability to rejuvenate.

Sustenance
Although there is an obesity epidemic in many parts of the western world, most of these people are literally being starved of the proper nutrition their bodies require. Nutritional deficiency is why so many people cannot beat their craving for food. Our bodies need a balance of good clean natural foods.

Detoxifcation
What comes out of our bodies, is as important as what goes in. We live in toxic times. People now carry chemical and toxic burdens in their bodies that were unimagineable only a few generations ago. Cleanses, fasts, saunas, colonics, drinking lots of water, exercise help eliminate toxins.