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What’s Weighing You Down?

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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What's Weighing You Down

What if achieving your desired healthy body and healthy weight wasn’t just about the food you eat?  What if unresolved thoughts, feelings, and experiences are what drives you to make the choices you make about your body? This includes what you feed it, if you exercise it, and basically whether you treat your body as a friend or foe.

Each one of us has gone through experiences throughout our lives that have been painful, fearful and heavy with emotion. Many people have experienced a significant illness, injury, loss, financial hardship, relationship or family conflict, and/or work or career related challenge.

What’s weighing you down? What experiences from your life, past or present, feel heavy? What burdens are you carrying around?  What’s weighing you down and preventing you from traveling with ease in a lighter healthier body?

Click the following: Navigating The World of Emotions for safe ways to express your feelings.

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

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Brain Compatable New Years Resolutions

28 Friday Dec 2012

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Brain Compatable New Years Resolutions

If your New Years resolutions don’t have significant meaning to you, they most likely will fall by the wayside quickly.  With that said, think about what you really want for 2013, and why.

How would you like to feel about each resolution? Imagine what it would really look like and feel like to have what you desire. Do you have feeling words or a visual picture, either in your mind or in print, that capture your goals?

To get your brain on board, you may want to create a “personal poster” with words and/or pictures that capture your resolutions, and then focus on it for 18 seconds a day. Or, write down the feeling words and post them on your mirror or refrigerator to see multiple times a day. When we rehearse, imagine, or talk to ourselves about something for 18 seconds, it gets stored in our long-term memory. This also keeps our thoughts congruent with our desires, and when this happens, it propels us towards activities and behaviors that produce the results we are looking for.

Gather your family or a friend or two and have fun creating meaningful resolutions for the new year!

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

Running on Empty

16 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Drinking Water, Feelings, Healthy Body, Hungry, Mental health, Mentally Fatigued, Optimal Health, Physical Health, Running on Empty, Sleep Deprivation, Tired

My gas tank was on empty and the thought of having to push my car was stressful. How often do we think about how we push ourselves when we are running on empty?

Our vehicles have gas tanks and fuel gauges, and if we pay attention so do our bodies. If we don’t override our feelings we can tune into when we are hungry, tired or mentally fatigued. It is often said that people take better care of their cars than they do of themselves. So today, take a short break when you need to, fuel your body with healthy foods and water so it can function optimally, and go to sleep when you feel tired.

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

The risk it took to remain tight inside the bud…

10 Monday Sep 2012

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The risk it took to remain tight inside the bud... “The risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin.

We tend to hang on to what we know, either because we don’t know how to be any other way or because we fear the unknown that comes with changing, even if we don’t like it, it’s familiar.

Most of us don’t like change, yet alone big change, like blossoming into a beautiful flower or if you prefer, sprouting wings in a cocoon and then breaking free into a butterfly. At a certain point, we all go through events where we find ourselves in a position where it is more painful to stay the way we are than to take a risk and grow.

Last week I experienced one of those defining moments in regards to some negative feelings around celebrating my birthday. I took a risk and shared my long-standing buried feelings, some I didn’t even know I had, with some trusted friends.  The amount of support I received was amazing. Although it was uncomfortable at the time, it was no where as uncomfortable as tightly holding on to those feelings alone. I felt a sense of relief by sharing and knew that a huge shift took place, a blossoming!

Is there an area of your life you are ready to blossom in?

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

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