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Maintaining Healthy Habits in 2025

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life?

This was a good topic for me to ponder as I close out 2024.

In 2025, I want to be active. I want to make a habit of closing my exercise ring on my Apple Watch. Whether this is by walking or doing a workout, this gives me a metric to motivate me to keep moving. If I can commit to this now, it will help me as I get older–and I’m getting older!

Another thing I want to make a habit of is learning as a way to keep my brain active. I’m using Duolingo and Pimsleur and also have access to Rosetta Stone. I’m reinforcing my Japanese and math skills and learning Korean on Duolingo. Also, since I booked a trip to Vietnam in January, I temporarily added Vietnamese to the list.

I enjoy planting/repotting and harvesting things from the garden daily. I don’t know if this is a habit but I will call it that. I love making and sharing things with my harvests whether it’s food or lei.

What are your habits that improve your quality of life? Living Hilo Style.

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  2. Aloha Anne! Always enjoy your posts. Thank you for sharing. My one habit per day is to stop whatever I am doing every couple of hours to do five minutes of moving meditation. On average I enjoy 5 sessions per day for 5+ minutes. It helps me get into a better THRIVE state which impacts activities in between my sessions. I am now on my 2080th consecutive day of using this habit to improve my LQ (Life Quality).

    I originally learned the QiGong moving meditation practice from my online teacher, Anthony Korahais, Flowing Zen. Anthony wrote the best selling book on QiGong called Flowing Zen which is available on Amazon. Great teacher. Great programs. I am in his 301 course for advanced students now.

    I have been studying with him for 6 years. I learn better through teaching. Started teaching on Moku Ola and then when COVID closed the park, moved the teaching online. An innovator by nature, I was reading about the Islamic prayer practice, which is five times per day, every couple of hours, for about 5 minutes. I wondered if this could be applied to fitness. As a long time fitness education business developer, I wondered if I could apply the 5X5+ concept to a moving meditation practice. Field tested it with 30 volunteer students through simple video lessons for 30 days in the month of June 2020 and the results were amazing!

    I have continued to evolve the program, which we call QiGA, by filming online video lessons in Power Spots in Hawaii, California, Yucatan, Buenos Aires, Cebu, Palawan and all over Japan which is where we currently are living a nomadic KVAN lifestyle visiting 1222 Michinoeki, what we call our Michinoeki Pilgrimage. Noriko is the videographer and I am the producer/presenter. Amateurs but enjoying the journey!

    We have 188 volunteer QiGA researchers around the world who field test our video lessons, helping us evolve the QiGA (qi=energy, ga=connection) on demand video lessons, email based, moving meditation program designed to help all involved enhance their LQ (Life Quality). We will begin sharing it January 5th, 2025 if you or anyone else would like to field test it. You can request it with an email to: griffrost@qiga.life

    We have used the 6E parameters to design the program. Enjoyable. Easy. Effective. Efficient. Extensive. Evolving. Our LifeMission is to help people improve their LQ. Our goal for QiGA is to make it available eventually on a global online platform like Youtube for FREE.

    Thank you for sharing! Admire your efforts! Noriko and I are 68 and 67 respectively. 50 years together. Back in Hilo for June and July to visit 7 of our 8 grandchildren who call Hilo home. We consider, after spending more time in Hilo than anywhere else during our lives, our hometown.

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    • I love it. I’m enjoying Duolingo for language lessons for prepping for travels and I’m also doing math as well. I noticed that there is a music section in Duolingo too. Maybe I should look into it.

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