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What’s Weighing You Down?

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by creatingahealthylifestyle in Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

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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'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

It Only Takes 18 Seconds to Change Your Brain

27 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by creatingahealthylifestyle in Healthy Mind

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18 Seconds to Create Long-term Memories, Better Health, Brain, Brain Research, Failures, Gratitude, Happiness, happy moments, healthier body, Healthier Lifestyle, Imagination, Long-term memory, Mistakes, Positive Experiences, Self-talk and the brain, Successes, Traumas

If you want something different… Imagine it! Maybe it’s a to lose weight, become more active, overcome an illness or injury, or to have a healthier body.  Perhaps you would like to have more money, an improved relationship, be able to perform better at school or at work, or a career change.

I was at a training the other day and an expert on brain research spoke about how our brains create long-term memory.  When we rehearse, imagine, or talk to ourselves about something for 18 seconds, it gets stored in our long-term memory.

How easy is it for us to focus on what’s not working, aches, pains, illness, past experiences that did not go well, failures, mistakes, traumas, and negative self-talk?  How foreign is it to focus on gratitude, being thankful, happy moments, positive experiences, successes, and self-praise, yet alone do it for 18 seconds?

Pay attention to what you pay attention to. Dwell on the what you want and what you have that is working, for 18 seconds. It will change your brain.

Love, Health & Happiness,

Phyllis

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