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Your Body Is Talking, Are You Listening?

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by creatingahealthylifestyle in Healthy Body

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Aches and Pains, Being vs. Doing, Body Signals, Change in Mood, Creating a Healthy Lifestyle, Doing vs Being, first signs, Health, Healthy Body, Listen to your body, Major Crisis, Mental health, Messages From Our Bodies, Results Before Feelings, Signs of Stress, Stress, Your Relationship With Your Body

Your Body Is Talking, Are You ListeningHow closely do you listen to your body? Do you notice the first signs of stress, discomfort, minor aches and pains or a change in mood? If so, do you brush it off and press on?

Our culture has been more focused on “doing” rather than “being,” “results before feelings.” Sometimes it takes a major crisis to get us to slow down or stop and really look at how we are living our lives. We have miraculous bodies that, if we tune into them, can give us guidance and messages if only we take the time to listen.

To tune into your body’s signals try this:

1. Stop for a moment.

2. Scan your body for discomfort.

3. Tune in to how you feel.

4. Ask yourself what you need.

Often times by acknowledging the signal it will reduce the symptom and you may even get some insight into a better way of doing, being or living.

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

What Are You Modeling To Your Children?

28 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by creatingahealthylifestyle in Family Fun

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Being vs. Doing, Do as I say not as I do, Down Time, Family Fun, Good Enough, Interests and passions, Just For The Fun Of It, Likes and Dislikes, Mimicing, Non-verbal Messages, Parenting, perfectionism, Role Modeling, Rushing

“Do as I say, not as I do.” We’ve all heard this statement, probably more than once, as we witnessed adults/our parents doing something they didn’t want us to grow up doing.

Have to stopped to mindfully consider what you are modeling to your children or grandchildren on a regular basis? How do you go about your day? Your routines?  Are they done with joy or rushed and full of stress.  Do you model time for “being,” or is life mostly about “doing” and getting through busy days?

If I could do it again, I’d focus more on “being” and less on “doing.” In my experience, my doing too much, to get it all done, prevented me from really enjoying down-time. I’d focus less on “perfectionism” and more on “good enough.” One non-verbal message I’d want to instill is to take the time to do something just for the fun of it, regardless of the outcome. That’s where true learning of yourself can take place, experiencing new things and discovering likes and dislikes, interests and passions, needs and wants.

What do you want to model?

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

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