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- Making the Choice to be Healthy & HappyBy Janet Rowe of Health & Natural Lifestyles To start, I would like to say that you are all amazing women. Give yourselves a big pat on the back! Women are truly amazing creatures full of creativity, multi-tasking, nurturing, ambition, organizational skills, and the list goes on and on. For some of you, the hectic pace of another school year is in full swing inclusive of all the sports, dancing, Brownies and birthday parties that follow suit. With this schedule, of course, comes the driving and time spent volunteering, whilst still maintaining the house, the meals, husband, etc. For others, it involves a full time career, while balancing the children, school, house and husband. Oh, and let’s not forget the care and attention of elderly parents, whom our cherished time is limited with. And somewhere in our day we are meant to make time for ourselves to do that feminine maintenance so that we can actually look and feel feminine throughout our entire chaotic day-by-day. I always get a kick out of the Martha comic strip as it really is very true. We have to be and do so many things, that we just have to laugh at the foibles that come with trying to do everything. We take on many tasks and still remain sane, or do we? As life unfolds, we just seem to continue going until we get sick, or perhaps another family member gets sick. Now think about it. What if something happens that is very serious, something that requires more time to help or to heal? This definitely means change. Perhaps it’s you. You have crashed; the stress has become too much, you are depressed, weak and have slipped into victim mode. How many of us would know what to do if we did crash, or become deathly ill? What would happen to your family, your mortgage, your time spent “doing”? What would have to change? Yes, it is much easier to not want to think about these things, but reality is reality. It is a weird and strange feeling to all of a sudden loose a grip on this reality but truthfully, you don’t have to let it happen to you. Fortunately there is a solution and it’s in the name of prevention. To prevent sinking to an all time low is to SLOW DOWN, get rid of the stress, and take back your power. So what if you have already crashed, what then? This may sound strange, but embrace it, maybe this is your higher power’s way of telling you to slow down. Maybe it is spirit’s way of helping you gain reality of your own soul, or helping you to believe in yourself, or testing your faith in love. Maybe there is an ultimate life lesson. Maybe it is a challenge to go against the odds. This is where we need to live in the present. We are supposed to have balance in our life, and to do that you need to organize it, to practice it and schedule time for yourself in order to regain your power. Don’t worry about feeling guilty or selfish about setting personal boundaries and saying “No”. Did we sign some kind of a contract when coming on to earth that we would be Superwoman? Did we get a husband that signed one of these contracts to be Superman? Day after day I see people in varying degrees of illness. Some live in the past blaming all of their woes on others, doctors, their job, the kids, everything that makes them a victim. Are others to blame? Or should we take the responsibility on ourselves? Nine times out of ten we choose to include others issues as our own. All the readings, and self analyzation, the many reality shows, the speakers, everyone out there in some way is trying to make us realize the same thing, take back your power, create balance. Listen to your soul and don’t try to be something you are not. The only real contract we have on this earth is to give love, receive love and to accept love. The Dan Millman book, The Laws of Spirit explains the various “Laws” to live a happy, healthy abundant life and is really a great book exampling the transformation of living a balanced life, through spiritual laws. I highly recommend it to help people understand illness, and how we have come to experience it within our lives, family, and how simple positive changes can change our life. The happiest, healthiest people on earth have found this balance, making life a wonderful journey. When we work it should be something we love to do, so that we can grow in knowledge, while living within our own power. When we love, we should do it because it brings joy and butterflies in our soul. When we dance or play, we should enjoy every moment as if no one is watching; as if there is no judgement, fear, or expectation. Recently, the movie The Secret, was released and is valuable in understanding the “Law of Attraction”. It helps make sense of how much the power of our thoughts have over our lives; how we can create health, happiness and joy in everything we do through our repetitive thoughts. It is a great example of how positive thoughts result in positive actions and results, and how we can choose to manifest and practice creating the things we want to happen in our lives, and take back control. We make choices daily. We can choose to believe and feel sickly - after all we probably seeded that thought through our imagination of some symptom our body gave us - or we can reverse it and visualize repeatedly the opposite: health, vibrancy and balance. Which is better to tell yourself, “I can and are getting well, and making progress every day,” or “I am so sick I wish I could just curl up and die.” All thoughts are choices with consequences. Choose to believe and take action in being happy, healthy and joyful in all levels. Create positive actions and thoughts in everything. Regain control; listen to your higher power. Find your soul, start visualizing change to your circumstance, make the choice to be happy, healthy, peaceful, and love yourself - your life. Remember to slow down and smell the roses! Janet Rowe, owner of Health & Natural Lifestyles Inc., offers Live & Dried Blood Analysis & a variety of therapies & therapeutic supplements. Call 403.212.6077 or visit www.healthy-option.com |