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Love Your Body, Love Your Self
“My body”, “my meat suit”, “the vessel I use to experience this planet”, whatever you want to call it, one fact remains: Each of us has only one body for this lifetime. How we fuel it, care for it, and maintain it, is solely up to the individual owner. Ideally, we hydrate it with clean water and energize it with whole, real food which has not been processed by man in an attempt to improve upon what Mother Nature has abundantly provided. Even though most of us probably have some idea how to eat for optimal health and energy, our mindsets towards our bodies are often very toxic. For many, it can even be to the point of self-loathing.
We don’t like the way we look because we carry too much body fat, or our skin is not clear enough, tight enough or smooth enough. The list of reasons we can find not to be in love with our bodies is long and varied. Becoming aware of these thought patterns, aware of our distaste for our bodies, is the first step towards loving ourselves more.
You cannot give to another what you do not possess yourself. Loving yourself unconditionally will open up and improve every relationship you have with others. Continue here….
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April 2012 Newsletter
There are 5.5 weeks until May 24 weekend! There is still time to firm up and feel stronger. Here are a few basics to always fall back on if you have detoured from clean eating over the Easter break -
- Eat breakfast every day – include a protein
- Drink min of 3 litres of water every day
- Eat more veggies, min of 5 servings a day. 2 fruit per day.
- Eat less bread, pasta, bagels, muffins, processed items. Avoid all white varieties, stick with whole grain, not whole wheat.
- Be physical every day. A 20 min walk every day adds up to how you look and feel over a 6 week period. Do yoga, swim, go for a bike ride, play Frisbee with your kids, do burpies, the options are limitless!
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Cleanse Yourself Of Unwanted Habits
Here are some steps you can take to cleanse yourself of unwanted habits this spring:
1. Remove all processed foods from your home. Chips, ice cream, crackers, canned fruits and veggies, pop, and the like. If it didn’t at one time grow on a tree, vine or in the ground, swim, walk or fly, get rid of it. When cravings hit, and they will, no matter where you hide it, you will find it. Don’t do that to yourself! Just don’t have it in your home. If you live with a partner who doesn’t fully support your journey, here is a suggestion. I have clients who do this and it works well. They have a locked box where the unsupportive partner keeps all the toxic substances. Chips, cookies, milk chocolate etc. Only that person holds the key and vows to NEVER give the key to or open the box in your presence. Of course the best case scenario is you have a partner who supports your desire for overall optimal health, but that again is another article. Continue article here
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Getting Ready for Warm Weather Clothing
By the time this article hits the web, there will be less than ten weeks to the May 24th long weekend. To those of us in Canada, this is epic! Our first real taste of warmth, time with friends, and if we’re fortunate maybe it will mean time spent on a dock with a cold one in hand on a lake in Muskoka! Our first long weekend to kick off the summer. A highlight of the year for those of us who love the outdoors for sure! It also means the first time we may need to shed our winter clothing and expose our bodies to the masses.
How do you feel about that? Do you say “bring it”? Or does it cause panic? “What if someone thinks I look fat? Or worse, flabby? How will I endure?” Will you spend the next four months strategically planning how to avoid all situations where you may have to show your belly, thighs, arms? Luckily for you, girlfriend (or boyfriend), you have more than enough time to firm up and feel more in flow about your body. Guys, you have more muscle and respond to workouts faster, but women are softer so it all works out!
In the big picture, it will do you well not to care so much what others think — but that is another article! Spring is an awesome time to release and purge excess from our lives. It’s a fabulous time to clean out our closets, drawers, cars and even end relationships that are toxic and no longer support who we are and wish to be, as we expand and move forward. 2012 is a year like no other. The speed of energies moving into the planet now, are like no others we have ever experienced on earth. Use them to your full advantage. Know your desire and set forth the energy to create what you want. No other time in history has been as powerful. Harness these energies and create your ideal health and vitality like ever before. To continue the article go here
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Fitness: Fear Is An Inhibitor – Parvati Magazine
I literally laughed out loud when I saw the topic for this month’s article. Even the best of us fall off the wagon sometimes, and I have been stuck in many ways the past several weeks. Workouts were sporadic at best. My eating was… well, let’s just say there is plenty of room for improvement, and not mention my affair with coconut cappuccino ice cream! This stuck mode was even stalling my relationship with my man. I wanted to discuss a topic with him for weeks, but didn’t bring it up. I have been the queen of procrastination lately, stuck in the status quo and afraid to move forward. Fear, whether acknowledged or not, is a very powerful inhibitor.
This of course, brings up the question: what is there to be afraid of? To move forward, we typically must let go of something. What we need to let go of, is something we have held tight for a long time and have believed, at one time anyway, that it served us well. In letting go of the past thoughts and habits, we create space for the new: something, someone, some situation which is better than we now experience. The issue with the new is, well, it’s new, unfamiliar, and unknown. What if letting go of the familiar creates something other than what we desire? What if the outcome, the reaction from another, is not what we hope for? Is it better to live with things as they are, even if not in total joy, than to let go and experience the unknown? I say no way. To continue the article go here
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