Faith and Fitness

Faith and Fitness is a course offered through Florida Gulf Coast University. This course introduces fitness as a true Spiritual Discipline. Our conscious effort towards personal wellness be-comes an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving when we focus on a much larger global picture. The way we grow, eat, and share food cures obesity, world hunger, and restores the planet. Exercise is no longer a chore; it is an opportunity to living life in abundance. Health and wellness cannot exist in a single dwelling if the rest of the village goes without.

The community’s health is dependent on the collective support and efforts of its individuals. This course will make clear, in addition to proper nutrition and exercise; wellness, by design, requires one to live in harmony with others; to love and to be loved by a village; every member of every age being a necessary and valued contribution to the whole. Everyone nourishes every-one, through the basic variables for health: food, exercise, and yes, love! We have never had a timelier message to re-learn.

The first Outdoor Learning Lab in America opened in Ft. Myers

A first of its kind in America. Teacher, Suzie Hassett, and a the Environmental Club of Littleton Elementary in North Fort Myers, Floridal, opened the first in America, Outdoor Learning Lab in a nature preserve on five acres behind the school. This project protects the endangered Gopher Turtle and teaches the Students and visitors of how to preserve our precious earth. Little by little, we build a Well Planet together. Check out this video

Friends of Wellplanet:

We invite you to join forces with larger audiences of folks who are leading the charge for a healthier Nation. Check-out Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution when he was recently on Oprah and sign the simple petition to create healthier food choices in our schools in our grocery stores, our fast food restaraunts and everywhere in between. Together we will create a Well Planet.

Financial support for Haiti can be extremely efficient through our page at Food for the Poor. Forbes Magazine reported in a survey of the 200 largest U.S. charities, Food For The Poor was ranked the fourth-largest recipient of private support. Food For The Poor's charitable commitment ratio was an impressive 97%. Join Wellplanet in supporting Food for the Poor during this crisis time for Haiti www.FoodforthePoor.org. Let us stand together for Haiti.

Tom Hafer, author of Faith and fitness,
addressing a group of a 1000 teenagers,
on the simple principles of a Wellplanet.

Tom Hafer speaking of the importance of a healthy community
during an intergenerational event.

“No man is an island, entire of itself”

Health and wellness cannot exist in a single dwelling if the rest of the village is dying. The community’s health is dependent on the collective support and efforts of its individuals.

”And all the believers lived in a wonderful harmony, holding everything in common. They sold whatever they owned and pooled their resources so that each person's need was met…every meal a celebration, exuberant and joyful, as they praised God.” (The Message, Acts 2:44-47)

It is clear, in addition to proper nutrition and exercise; wellness requires one to live in harmony with others; to love and to be loved by a village; every member of every age being a necessary and valued contribution to the whole. Everyone nourishes everyone, through the basic variables for health: food, exercise, and yes, love! We have never had a timelier message to learn.

Three principles

It is the way we grow, eat, and share food that cures obesity and world hunger, as well as curbing greenhouse gases. It is the way we see exercise. No longer is it a necessary chore, it is reclaimed as the beautiful physical healing gift it was intended to be. We at Wellplanet invite you to live the simplest most concise, eco-fitness challenge ever created for personal health, health of your village, and the planet. We invite you to care for yourself to better care for others! God’s Peace be with you.

Eat five fresh fruits and vegetables a day, or more.
(Preferably local, seasonal, organic).
Exercise thirty minutes a day, or more.
Prayer and Meditation focused on personal and global health for all.

Eat

If you concentrate on eating real, whole, and healthy foods first, there is less room for processed empty calories, refined sugars, and cheap meats (base your diet on a 2000 calorie diet). Whole unprocessed foods in their most natural state are how nutrition was intended by the creator who provided for us. Antioxidants, dietary fiber, and other nutrients are removed when whole foods are over processed. Trusting the creator, by eating foods in the most natural state, helps us navigate through the fast food and diet industry madness we currently living in.

Exercise

The more you exercise, the more efficient all the systems of the body work. Exercise is the single most effective preventative action you can take against the current epidemics of heart disease, obesity, hypertension, type II diabetes, osteoporosis, loss of muscle mass (Sarcopenia), ADD, arthritis, and depression. Exercise has also been linked to improving hundreds of other conditions of the body, including reducing risks of most cancers and Alzheimer’s disease. Truly, our creator intended for us to be physical creations. Personal efforts to staying fit is an expression of love for others by allowing you to serve longer and stronger, while reducing your dependency on healthcare dollars.

Prayer/Meditation

Silence allows God’s still small voice to be heard through the day's distractions. No cell phones, iPods, televisions, video games, or computers; only simple moments of quiet meditation or contemplative prayer. When we stop the chatter, let go of the anxiety of exercise performance, and reconnect to our creator; we are integrating meditation with exercise. This allows us to exercise in the moment, forgetting the discomfort of the body. All that is left is mindful breathing and a thankful heart that is praising God for the healing gift of exercise.