Tag: health

Yet To Be #101

Draw me, we will run after thee.

Day 12 What’s in a name Part 3

In biblical times, anointing someone sets that person apart. Aromatic oil was poured on the person’s head. Some oils used in those days were frankincense, the king of oils best for healing. Myrrh is used in burials as a perfume mixed with aloe to help cover the stench of death. Cassia as in Exodus 30 is good for maintaining physical health and when used with aloes and myrrh as in Psalm 45 verse 8, helps to fragrant garments. These oils are sweet-smelling to the olfactory system, smooth and pleasant.


King Solomon wrote in his song chapter 1 verse 3, his name is as ointment poured forth using the name of the Lord as a simile, a comparison to the sweet smell of oils in those days. It is not enough to know the Lord’s name or to merely speak his name but it goes beyond these points into a profound understanding of the soul drenching beauty of his person, in his name.


God knows his son’s name. The intimacy between the Father and the Son is so strong, so secret to them alone that when a child of God utters his Son’s name in worship, the essence of his Son in that name ascends to God by the Holy Spirit as a divine scent forever peculiar, attractive and pleasant in the nasals of the Father.


Therefore do we love thee. Lord, draw us, we will run after thee. Song of Solomon chapter 1 verse 3 and 4.

Destress and Breathe and Exercise

slow controlled breathing can help lower your heart rate, your blood pressure and ease anxiety

Can breathing exercises help strengthen the lungs against Covid- 19?

As per an article from aarp.org, strengthening the lungs with deep breathing is good for pulmonary health by clearing out the lungs to help reduce the risk of infection and pneumonia.  Exercise does the same thing.  Aerobic exercise helps to keep your heart, lungs and circulatory system healthy.  Aerobic exercise means with oxygen which includes brisk walking, swimming, running, cycling, dancing any form of exercise that elevates the heart and forces oxygen into the lungs.

So does exercise and deep breathing protect you against Covid 19?  Experts cannot totally agree, but according to research Covid 19 attacks the lungs and if deep breathing and exercises are beneficial to increase lung health, why not do them?

Slow controlled breathing can help lower your heart rate, your blood pressure and ease anxiety. 

So, take another breath and relax or go for a walk.

 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ( not without purpose) But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection (discipline)…1 Corinthians 9 verses 26 and 27a