What’s Weighing You Down?

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Body Image, Burdens, Exercise, Experiences, Expressing Emotions Safely, Fear, Feelings, Food, Hardship, Health, healthier body, Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Healthy Weight, Life Challenges, Navigating Your Emotions, Pain, Psychology, resentment, Significant Experiences, Thoughts, Traumas, Weighing You Down, Weight, Weight Loss, world of emotions

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

I Amazed Myself!

13 Thursday Sep 2012

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100th Post, Accepting Help, Creating a Healthy Lifestyle, Happiness, Health, Healthy Lifestyle, healthy-living, Inspiration, Positive Psychology, Prevention of Diet Related Diseases, Psychology, Recipes, Reversal of Diet Related Diseases in Children and Adults, rich experience

Today is my 100th post! I’ve always admired people who are creative, have experiences and information to present and are willing to share who they are. That’s not how I saw myself 99 posts ago.

I truly am amazed that I took the leap to accept help from a friend who encouraged me to start a blog when I had no experience at all with blog sites. I also had encouragement and suggestions from another friend who is an avid blog reader. I dived in and learned how to upload photos, figure out what tags are and how search engines work. Yet the biggest step I took was when I nervously clicked the “publish” button to “go live” with my first post.

I had already been researching and writing a book for families on positive psychology, prevention and reversal of diet related illnesses, and healthy living, with the hopes of one day getting published. While I have used some of what I had already written, I am in awe and love the feeling of being inspired, even if it’s at 3am., with a great idea to write about or a new recipe to create.

I appreciate all of the people who read what I post, allowing me to share a part of myself with the world while making a positive difference in the health and lives of others.

A big thanks goes to my wonderful friends Linda and Jamie, who got me started on rich experience!

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

The risk it took to remain tight inside the bud…

10 Monday Sep 2012

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Birthdays, Birthdays and Negative Feelings, Blossoming, Buried Feelings, Defining Moments, Familiar vs. Change, Fear, Feelings, Feelings we hang on to, Healthy Mind, Mental health, Negative Feelings, Personal Growth, Psychology, Taking Risks

“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

What have you done for fun lately?

18 Friday May 2012

Posted by creatingahealthylifestyle in Family Fun

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Flow, Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness, Fun, Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Positive Psychology, Psychology

What brings out the fun in you? Do you allow yourself to enjoy activities without being concerned about results? Are playing games fun? What about doing puzzles? Do you like social fun?

When was the last time you got so involved in an activity that you lost all track of time? This is called being in “flow.” Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. The state of flow can happen while creating something artistic, writing, cooking, building something, playing a sport, walking or running, playing a game, gardening, or almost any other activity. It can happen while you are doing something alone or with others.

If you have children or spend time with children, teach and model having fun. There is way too much to be serious about in the adult world. The problems of the world will not be solved by worrying about them. In fact, they just may be solved by us connecting with ourselves and each other having fun and getting along better.

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis