Are You Nurturing Yourself With Basic Heatlh Related Fitness Components?

If you are NOT covering the basics in health related fitness components, it’s only a matter of time before you suffer the consequences.

Nurture your body, or neglect it and push yourself into an early grave!
Worse yet, your neglect could end up pushing you into a sick bed and your suffering could possibly go on for years and years and years!

Do you have any idea what you need to do to provide yourself with the basics for health building?

When do you think it might be a good time to find out?

Do you want to wait until you are SICK before you build your health?

If you aren’t suffering… why bother?

Bad habits die hard!

“Hey, I need my vices to get through the week!”

Are you protesting the loss of your coping comforts?

“Only the good die young! I’m not hurting anyone.”

Why should you give a second thought to your health if you are enjoying yourself?

Why?

Because, when your suffering begins, you will have no choice but to suffer! Read more

Can a Detox Diet Help You Bring Your Life Into Focus?

There aren’t enough hours in the day!

Seriously!  How do YOU get everything done?

Do you ever feel like you are chasing your tail?

That tail chasing feeling is usually accompanied by the nagging feeling that you are forgetting something.

What a bummer when you ARE forgetting something!

Like your supplements or medication! … Need a reminder service?

That can be arranged… but what do you do if you are forgetting to breathe?!

I don’t mean the minimal breathing that keeps us alive.

Breathing is automatic.  If we had to remember to breathe, we would die.

Athletes and singers think about their breathing.  They practice at building their breath.  However, most people don’t realize they are not breathing effectively.

You’d feel a lot better if you were using your lungs to their full capacity!

There is great value in a breath building program!

Would you like more energy, more calm confidence, the ability to recover your well being?!

That is what a breath building program can do for you.

However….

The problem is that unless you have some ulterior motive to improve performance, or your singing voice, you’re not likely to stick with the application of breath building exercises.

Do you really care how you sound in the shower?

You are just not likely to give breath building your time.

Even if you are really suffering, you may not notice quickly enough  improvement in how you feel to motivate you to continue doing it.

So how can you benefit from better breathing if you don’t have the motivation to accomplish it?

The number one reason that you hold your breath… is tension.

Reducing your tension will increase the size of your breath, because your rigid muscles will no longer be squeezing the life out of you!

RELAX!  So that YOU can breathe a sigh of relief!

The cause of your tension could be obvious… or not.

Consistent relaxation practice is the only way to make progress!

If you reduce your tension you breathe more deeply.

“Practice relaxing?  I think I know how to do that!”

Don’t be insulted, I know that you know how to relax; however, I’m asking you to make time each day to devote to releasing the tension that is constantly building.

Simply committing to consistent practice will get you the results you need!  I really want that for you.

Relaxation is not something anyone can give you.  It is something you have to do for yourself.

Give yourself health building, stress reducing, life saving RELAXATION!

• You must work at this.
• You can’t find it in a pill.
• There is no magic yoga posture.
• Every method requires consistent practice.
• Guided meditation, or meditation technology is helpful only when you use it consistently.
• Adequate sleep is necessary to achieve any significant level of relaxation.
• Facing your emotions is the only way to release tension.

Okay, hold the phone here.

How do you consistently practice relaxing if you are ants in the pants uncomfortable to sit in quiet stillness?

REALLY good question!

How do you do ANYTHING that makes you ants in the pants uncomfortable?

Let me ask you a question.

Are you sick and tired of being tense, stiff, and downright irritable?

Do you have really nice friends who are often outwardly irritable?

Are some people just hopelessly stiff, prone to bouts of bitchiness, and cursed to a life of pain and misery?

How can your lovely friends achieve quiet stillness so that they can release those trapped emotions that are plaguing them?

Can a detox diet really help to bring you to a place of focused quiet stillness?

How can a detox diet help you release trapped emotions to resolve blockages, relieve  tension, decrease stiffness, and lessen irritability? Read more

How Do You Easily Relieve That Bone Tired Feeling From Post Holiday Fatigue?

Before you reach for a bottle of pills or alcohol, think of simple and wholesome ways to relieve that deep down tired feeling.

The woman of the house is the most prone to suffer post holiday fatigue.  Please, if you don’t need a bit of nurturing today, then find someone near and dear to you who is, and make sure she takes care of herself.

Ten years ago, when I first began my struggle with auto immune disease, I was forever looking for pain relief that was natural and wouldn’t knock me out.

I was taking a class on the weekends with a group of women from my daughters’ school.  The subject of pain relief came up and one of the ladies suggested I try a hot bath with plenty of Epsom Salt.

It seemed a bit too simplistic to possibly help with the extreme pain that I had been coping with, but hey, I would have tried anything at that point.

You would not believe the amount of pain that you can soak away in 20 minutes!

You need to use 2 full cups Read more

Stiff Neck?

Do you literally have a pain in the neck most of the time?

Are you often tense?

You are in good company.

It seems to be going around.

If you have had head, neck, shoulder, or back pain lately answer the following questions:

1. Have you had any water to drink today?
2. Do you work up a light sweat with activity regularly?
3. Do you eat your foods mostly processed, or whole?
4. Do you eat your foods mostly cooked, or raw?
5. Are you a habitual user of stimulants?
6. How easy is it for you to express your emotions?
7. Are you harboring any grudges?

Now ask yourself one more question.  Are you ready to take action to reduce your pain?  Sick of that stiff neck? Read more

Relax! Do You Sweat the Small Stuff?

Recovering my computer this past weekend (again) sure didn’t feel like the small stuff.  In the big picture, it isn’t something I will remember next week.

“Relax!” I kept telling myself.  Yet I kept barking at my kids, and I could feel the tension creeping up the back of my neck.

Finally, I’d had enough of myself (and so had my kids), so I sat myself down to be still in silence.  Twenty minutes later, I felt a whole lot better.

Most people don’t relax unconsciously.

Do you get anxious if you aren’t watching television, or listening to music, or reading a book, or busy with some other distraction?

If you will be still in silence, you will become aware of the tension that lives in your body.  That is, IF you can stand the stillness long enough to let yourself become aware of it.

This stored tension will squeeze the life out of you if you don’t release it!

The only way to keep up with it, is to practice relaxing.  I know it seems strange that you should have to practice, but that is the only way to let go of the tension your muscles are storing.  The conscious effort to release it, is well worth the effort.  (Yes effort, see how hard it is to sit with yourself!?)

So if you DO sweat the small stuff………

How do you relax? Read more

Is Halloween For Kids?

Certainly the horror part of Halloween is not for the very young.  The thrill of being scared is attractive to many.

Is horror and gore negative?

It’s kinda hard to say that it is positive, for sure.  In my house I have always encouraged mascarade, and fun.

Blood and guts is a negative thing to focus on.

On the other hand pretend is a childhood fun that should be revisited on a regular basis!  Actually putting on a costume really helps you to step into a new character.

If you can pretend in everyday life, you can focus on what you desire as though it is already yours.  This is the secret to manifesting your desires.

Want to feel strong, happy, and content?

Pretend!

It might sound like pie in the sky to you.  What if it works?

What does strong, happy, and content feel like?  If you can’t remember, then try to imagine.

Become a kid!  If you are at a loss as to how to do that, start by watching funny movies, or reading a joke book.

Laughter will wake up the kid in you.

Here’s another idea, enjoy the kids tonight!

Have a childish Halloween!

Many blessings,

Carrie

PS– Remember everyday:

1. Relax and Release tension
2. Take deeep breaths
3. Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

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