Fitness expert and member of Aromatherapy Associates? panel Nicola Addison tells Debra Brock how we can all easily improve our wellbeing
 

 
DB: How would you define wellbeing"
NA: For me it?s pillars of health: activity levels, nutrition, your brain, your stress levels, family and work. You don?t need to have any of these as excellent – but you do need to have all of them as consistently good. Consistency will always win. There?s no point having your food at 100% but your stress levels through the roof, or exercising hard but getting three hours sleep a night.
DB: If you ask anyone how they are at the moment, they?ll nearly always say busy or stressed. So what are simple, achievable changes we can make to really help our wellbeing" NA: We live in a society where it?s cool to be busy and stressed. It?s a reflection of how important we are. I find so many people manage their time and priorities to put themselves last. Actually, if we prioritised one very simple thing, it would give our brains and bodies a little bit of time and make us feel really good. And that?s for us all to be walking for 30 minutes every day. For me that?s a pre-requisite for health. It can be one lot of 30 minutes or three lots of 10 minutes, but it will really help those feelings of tiredness and stress. There?s something about the plod, plod, plod of your feet and your heartbeat that brings down your sensory system a bit. We also know that fresh air and activity releases en...