The World says image is everything. Everyday billboards reflect models with thin physiques. We feel tremendous pressure to conform to the images we see around us. Some of us want to look fit but not necessarily be fit. We desire to lose weight, be thin, be fit, and be fabulous more than healthy. Whilst losing weight can improve our health and well-being, especially if one is overweight and looking great can be aesthetically pleasing, we should first strive to accept ourselves unconditionally. The Bible tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and not “conform” to society’s way of thinking. A transformational life requires a change in thinking. It suggests a process not an event like a quick diet fix. We have to unlearn old ways of thinking. Learning this new life takes time. Basically, it is learning how to live out of love. Life is an expression of God’s love. When we are in God’s love, we need life, including foods of life, words of life, and thoughts of life. The Ten Commandments for Living a Healthy and Fit Life is about choosing the life God has given to us. In this health and wellness Bible Study, many individuals experience weight loss or they see an improvement in their health or well being. When we change the way we think about exercise, food, relationship, and/ or God, we improve our physical, mental and spiritual health. In fact, our whole life improves.
In this health and wellness Bible study you will learn how to:
- Recognize principles of life that enhance and guard your health
- Apply principles of life to achieving, maintaining and sustaining a healthy life
- Choose foods that promote balance, growth, weight loss, healing and cleansing
- Develop a holistic attitude toward health and wellness
- Evaluate your mental images of self
- Understand the value and purpose of your body
- Establish the importance of rest
- Understand the importance of key relationships in your life
- Understand the aging process
- Improve your interpersonal and intrapersonal communication with yourself and your body–the temple
- Integrate exercise as a natural part of life
- Love yourself and others as Christ loves you
Choose Life and Sign up or Enroll today in LiveLiving’s health and wellness Bible study
There are 2 ways you can participate:
1. Purchase the bible study book online
2. Contact the Author for a webinar class
About the Author
Etta Dale Hornsteiner is the editor of LiveLiving’s magazine, which was first published in digital format in 2009. The magazine has become the perfect place for Etta Dale to display her joi de vivre and share all the things that inspire her: God and the sacred; holistic health and wellness; athletic discipline; and, theater and film. The magazine is imbued with the many skills Etta Dale has acquired through the various phases of her life journey.
Etta Dale taught English and Theater for 13 years in the United States and The Bahamas. She competed for seven years as a bodybuilder under the tutelage of eight-time Ms. Olympia, Lenda Murray. It was this fruitful attempt to sculpt the human body that intensified Etta’s love for fitness. She left the classroom to become a personal trainer. Helping people whether as a teacher or trainer was the simplest way Etta Dale could respond to the yearning within her heart to see the body of Christ healthy and whole.
Strangely, it was through bodybuilding that she learned the many ways of sculpting not only her body but her spirit and mind as well. She captures these lessons in a unique health and wellness bible study, The Ten Guiding Lights to Health and Wholeness. The study underscores the importance of disciplining oneself to cultivate good physical, mental and spiritual habits for whole health and wellness.
Etta Dale has a strong desire to see people healthy in their body, mind and spirit.
Etta Hornsteiner is a graduate of Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in English and minors in Sociology and Spanish. She received her graduate degree in Education and Theater from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
