Showing posts with label self improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self improvement. Show all posts
Friday, 9 March 2012
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
The Observing and Masternig of your emotions
This is a BIG one!
How do you stay in control of your emotions, rather than letting your emotions control you?
Emotions are important, they can help you guide your life. If you know how to use them and if you use them correctly.
If not, they run your life for you, without you even knowing or having a real say in the matter. This is what we want to avoid. It is important to be in charge, and to get to know your emotions.
Emotions change your physiological state: your breathing, your posture and your thinking; it changes your body chemistry - in other words, it changes you!
Emotions dictate your day-today-life. As you react to your surrounding; through anchored cues, which pull an emotion to the forefront, and run the show for you.
Lets see what the dictionary says about it:
emotion
So,
How do you master your emotions then?
It has to start with learning to observe yourself - recognizing when you are in different emotional states, and how your body and thoughts are affected by it - posture, facial expression, breathing, focus, thoughts etc.
Secondly observe your thoughts, truly stay with them. Observing what you think, and how your thoughts affect you. This might be a tricky one; it's like being a second awareness in your head - "seeing" what you think.
Monitor your thoughts, and your emotional state with it. Get to know your feelings, and learn to recognize when you are under the control of a certain emotion.
If you want to break a negative emotion coming on, do something unexpected, like clap your hands, spin around, jump, slap yourself - anything - to break your mind starting to run it's normal program, with the undesired emotion.
Just going for a walk or a light run will help your body chemistry, and turn around a sour mood. Or doing two of the following : Change your posture to a good one, put a smile on your face(even if it's a fake one), focus your thoughts on the positive, control and slow your breathing - taking deep slow breaths through your nose.
In Conclusion.
To master your emotions practice to observe your thoughts - learn staying aware of what you think
As this sets you in the direction of your emotion.
A smile, a good posture and calm breathing will also put your mind in the right direction.
The better you get on observing yourself the easier it gets to halt and turn negative emotions once they start. You will also find that you will also experience less "negative" emotions.
Just for the record.
I don't really think there are such a thing as "Good" or "Bad". As, "it's all good" - however there are emotions that benefit your life and there are emotions that just help to give nuance to "the life experience". It is important to feel all emotions, but equally important to be in charge of your emotions so that you are the one who act, and not the emotion.
I mean, is it you or your emotions who buy/eat/choose/do/want: "the new I-pod", "the red one", "just a small chocolate", "a coke", "a line of coke", "a cigarette", "the chips", "a newer version", "delivered pizza", "ohhh the shiny one" and "whatever else they are advertising nowadays" or "whatever else you use to numb your emotions"
Good reading on the subject are among many others:
Paul Ekman - Emotions Revealed
and
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence
Much Love
How do you stay in control of your emotions, rather than letting your emotions control you?
Emotions are important, they can help you guide your life. If you know how to use them and if you use them correctly.
If not, they run your life for you, without you even knowing or having a real say in the matter. This is what we want to avoid. It is important to be in charge, and to get to know your emotions.
Emotions change your physiological state: your breathing, your posture and your thinking; it changes your body chemistry - in other words, it changes you!
Emotions dictate your day-today-life. As you react to your surrounding; through anchored cues, which pull an emotion to the forefront, and run the show for you.
Lets see what the dictionary says about it:
emotion
- A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
- A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion.
- The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility:
So,
How do you master your emotions then?
It has to start with learning to observe yourself - recognizing when you are in different emotional states, and how your body and thoughts are affected by it - posture, facial expression, breathing, focus, thoughts etc.
Secondly observe your thoughts, truly stay with them. Observing what you think, and how your thoughts affect you. This might be a tricky one; it's like being a second awareness in your head - "seeing" what you think.
Monitor your thoughts, and your emotional state with it. Get to know your feelings, and learn to recognize when you are under the control of a certain emotion.
If you want to break a negative emotion coming on, do something unexpected, like clap your hands, spin around, jump, slap yourself - anything - to break your mind starting to run it's normal program, with the undesired emotion.
Just going for a walk or a light run will help your body chemistry, and turn around a sour mood. Or doing two of the following : Change your posture to a good one, put a smile on your face(even if it's a fake one), focus your thoughts on the positive, control and slow your breathing - taking deep slow breaths through your nose.
In Conclusion.
To master your emotions practice to observe your thoughts - learn staying aware of what you think
- and how you think about it.
As this sets you in the direction of your emotion.
A smile, a good posture and calm breathing will also put your mind in the right direction.
The better you get on observing yourself the easier it gets to halt and turn negative emotions once they start. You will also find that you will also experience less "negative" emotions.
Just for the record.
I don't really think there are such a thing as "Good" or "Bad". As, "it's all good" - however there are emotions that benefit your life and there are emotions that just help to give nuance to "the life experience". It is important to feel all emotions, but equally important to be in charge of your emotions so that you are the one who act, and not the emotion.
I mean, is it you or your emotions who buy/eat/choose/do/want: "the new I-pod", "the red one", "just a small chocolate", "a coke", "a line of coke", "a cigarette", "the chips", "a newer version", "delivered pizza", "ohhh the shiny one" and "whatever else they are advertising nowadays" or "whatever else you use to numb your emotions"
Good reading on the subject are among many others:
Paul Ekman - Emotions Revealed
and
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence
Much Love
Monday, 30 May 2011
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Inspiration - rewiring
Hello my Lovelies!
the importance is not to know things, but to be what you know!
Time to wake up!
Bruce Lipton is rather phenomenal, and one of P's favourites, she found this yesterday and has acted, she is now determined to start being what she knows, rather than just knowing but not being... and that is awesome news...
Be present with your concious, watch the 'program play', then re-record the 'tapes' needed
Much Love,
the importance is not to know things, but to be what you know!
Time to wake up!
Bruce Lipton is rather phenomenal, and one of P's favourites, she found this yesterday and has acted, she is now determined to start being what she knows, rather than just knowing but not being... and that is awesome news...
Be present with your concious, watch the 'program play', then re-record the 'tapes' needed
Much Love,
Friday, 6 May 2011
Live food - Raw food - Heated food - Dead food - Deadly food
What do you eat?
If you find that you are eating mostly from the Deadly food list maybe it is time to think twice about your eating habits.
Live food - this is food which is alive
Examples:
Shoots and Sprouted seeds and nuts
Wild or Organic leaves/fruits/mushrooms/vegetables/flowers/berries/grasses. consumed straight after picking
Insects (eaten by mistake or with purpose as a part of the above)
Eggs (as above, picked from the nest)
Oysters
Living bacterial cultures - sauerkraut/nut or seed cheeses - this can be either raw or dead foods that you make alive with foreign bacteria through, for example fermentation
Raw food - food which has not been heated.
Examples:
Fruits
Vegetables
Dried Fruits
Sashimi
This one is easy, anything that has not been heated. Full of enzymes and fibres (if plant products), vitamins, minerals, good fats etc.
Heated food and/or Dead food - food that has been heated.
The nutritional value has decreased and the water has for the most part been cooked out of it. The molecule structure of the food changes and enzymes are killed. Some foods can have certain compounds released better through cooking, for example due to the fibres breaking down.
Depending on how you prepare the food it will be more or less dead. When I say dead food, it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, as in some cases you will receive more energy (calories), however you will not come close to the nutritional content in raw or live foods.
Superior ways of heating foods are: steaming, stir-frying in a wok using lime or water (not oil), using the oven on low-heat, and boiling (soups).
Deadly food - food that actively does harm to your health and your organism.
OK, here are the killers, I have more or less put them in the order that I rank them when it comes to damaged caused, particularly the first seven:
Soda - any kind of soda, you know them, Coke and all the rest.
Sugar - refined sugar in particular - sugar is (a) seriously addictive and harmful (drug). Avoid at all cost.
Flour - particularly white flour.
Artificial/Chemicals - Aspartame and all the other scary conservatives and e-numbers, they cause you serious harm.
Fast food - or more appropriately named, Junk food (you are what you eat, junk=trash people)
Ready Meals - same as fast food, it is trash!
Cooked or hydrogenated fats - Deep fried foods, or heated fats in general - seriously a bad idea.
Refined salt - Pure Sodium, if you want salt, change it for a natural salt, with the minerals all intact, a real salt has colour (red, grey, pink, purple, black) any colour but white.
Smoked foods - the smoking process creates carcinogens.
Dairy- pasteurized dairy, no matter what the add campaigns say, it's bad news. It has puss, blood, hormones, vaccines, the protein casein (which promotes cancer growth), and it causes serious mucus build up in your lungs and sinus. Furthermore, it promotes asthma and allergy, and if you are not white European you will have even bigger problems with dairy.
Soya - Most likely GM - Full of female hormones and other nasty substances, if you want to eat this your best bet is to eat small amounts and make it yourself (then it is a live food)
Meat - another dark horse to your health, if you really want to eat meat, eat only organic meat and fish from clean water, and do so in small amounts, and infrequently. Wild game is the best meat you can eat - pig (pork), cow (beef) and commercial chicken are some of the worst. And naturally sausages and hot dogs, they are nasty things and don't really deserve to be called meat.
Alcohol -not a food but it has to be on here, as it does your body serious harm, if you want to drink, do so modestly and infrequently.
Simple tips that will get you away from the Deadly list are:
Simple tips to improve your health through the diet:
That's it for now people, Love yourself and treat your body with respect, it deserves it.
PS. at the moment the only animal products I eat are honey, bee pollen and insects (unknowingly).
If you find that you are eating mostly from the Deadly food list maybe it is time to think twice about your eating habits.
Live food - this is food which is alive
Examples:
Shoots and Sprouted seeds and nuts
Wild or Organic leaves/fruits/mushrooms/vegetables/flowers/berries/grasses. consumed straight after picking
Insects (eaten by mistake or with purpose as a part of the above)
Eggs (as above, picked from the nest)
Oysters
Living bacterial cultures - sauerkraut/nut or seed cheeses - this can be either raw or dead foods that you make alive with foreign bacteria through, for example fermentation
Raw food - food which has not been heated.
Examples:
Fruits
Vegetables
Dried Fruits
Sashimi
This one is easy, anything that has not been heated. Full of enzymes and fibres (if plant products), vitamins, minerals, good fats etc.
Heated food and/or Dead food - food that has been heated.
The nutritional value has decreased and the water has for the most part been cooked out of it. The molecule structure of the food changes and enzymes are killed. Some foods can have certain compounds released better through cooking, for example due to the fibres breaking down.
Depending on how you prepare the food it will be more or less dead. When I say dead food, it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, as in some cases you will receive more energy (calories), however you will not come close to the nutritional content in raw or live foods.
Superior ways of heating foods are: steaming, stir-frying in a wok using lime or water (not oil), using the oven on low-heat, and boiling (soups).
Deadly food - food that actively does harm to your health and your organism.
OK, here are the killers, I have more or less put them in the order that I rank them when it comes to damaged caused, particularly the first seven:
Soda - any kind of soda, you know them, Coke and all the rest.
Sugar - refined sugar in particular - sugar is (a) seriously addictive and harmful (drug). Avoid at all cost.
Flour - particularly white flour.
Artificial/Chemicals - Aspartame and all the other scary conservatives and e-numbers, they cause you serious harm.
Fast food - or more appropriately named, Junk food (you are what you eat, junk=trash people)
Ready Meals - same as fast food, it is trash!
Cooked or hydrogenated fats - Deep fried foods, or heated fats in general - seriously a bad idea.
Refined salt - Pure Sodium, if you want salt, change it for a natural salt, with the minerals all intact, a real salt has colour (red, grey, pink, purple, black) any colour but white.
Smoked foods - the smoking process creates carcinogens.
Dairy- pasteurized dairy, no matter what the add campaigns say, it's bad news. It has puss, blood, hormones, vaccines, the protein casein (which promotes cancer growth), and it causes serious mucus build up in your lungs and sinus. Furthermore, it promotes asthma and allergy, and if you are not white European you will have even bigger problems with dairy.
Soya - Most likely GM - Full of female hormones and other nasty substances, if you want to eat this your best bet is to eat small amounts and make it yourself (then it is a live food)
Meat - another dark horse to your health, if you really want to eat meat, eat only organic meat and fish from clean water, and do so in small amounts, and infrequently. Wild game is the best meat you can eat - pig (pork), cow (beef) and commercial chicken are some of the worst. And naturally sausages and hot dogs, they are nasty things and don't really deserve to be called meat.
Alcohol -not a food but it has to be on here, as it does your body serious harm, if you want to drink, do so modestly and infrequently.
Simple tips that will get you away from the Deadly list are:
- Change your products from refined products to unrefined whole products - wholegrain etc
- Substitute your rice/pasta/potatoes etc. for Quinoa
- Change your soda drinks for fresh juice or water
- Start using a real salt
- Use the cooking tips as given under heated foods
- Stop using your microwave oven
- Stop buying fast food, McDonald's and Co does not serve happy meals, they serve depression.
- Always eat organic. Particularly meat products.
- Start reading the ingredients on the products that you buy, if they have conservatives, sugar, salt, hydrogenated fats and soya lecithin (to just mention a few) just don't buy it.... if you really want cookies, well do like your grandmother, make your own (but use unrefined sugar and wholegrain flour)
Simple tips to improve your health through the diet:
- Eat a fruit before every meal
- Don't drink with your meal
- Drink plenty of water in-between meals
- Drink a fresh juice every day
- Start your day with a Green smoothie
- Chew your food properly and eat in a calm state
- Give thanks for your food
- Leave two hours after eating before going to bed
- Feel no guilt in combination to your food choices, eat and love it.
That's it for now people, Love yourself and treat your body with respect, it deserves it.
PS. at the moment the only animal products I eat are honey, bee pollen and insects (unknowingly).
Monday, 17 January 2011
You are what you drink
Water is the fountain of youth, and the elixir of life.
When you were born you were about 90% water. Think about it, that is allot of water. and when you are born, you are fully alive.
At the moment you are around 70% water.
When your body reaches 50% water, you are clinically dead.
We lose about 2.5 litres of water every day, through normal functioning, we need to get that back through our food, our skin and through drinking water.
Most people don't drink enough water, and water is life.
To make it easy, water is involved in most bodily functions, and if you want them to function well you want your body to stay hydrated with new fresh water.
Most people are chronically dehydrated, this shows up in various ways, everything from asthma and IBS to headaches and dry skin.
If you are overweight you can usually lose easy kilos by just starting drinking the right amount of water.
Your body needs about 1,5 - 2 litres per day to function normally, if you loose allot of liquid due to exercise or hot weather, more might be good. the more you weigh the more you need. and depending on your state of dehdration, and how dry your food is you might need, much more.
Before you leave bed in the morning, drink a large glass of water (the larger the better) first thing in the morning...
Drinking warm water in the morning is also very helpful and cleansing for the system.
When you were born you were about 90% water. Think about it, that is allot of water. and when you are born, you are fully alive.
At the moment you are around 70% water.
When your body reaches 50% water, you are clinically dead.
We lose about 2.5 litres of water every day, through normal functioning, we need to get that back through our food, our skin and through drinking water.
Most people don't drink enough water, and water is life.
To make it easy, water is involved in most bodily functions, and if you want them to function well you want your body to stay hydrated with new fresh water.
Most people are chronically dehydrated, this shows up in various ways, everything from asthma and IBS to headaches and dry skin.
If you are overweight you can usually lose easy kilos by just starting drinking the right amount of water.
Your body needs about 1,5 - 2 litres per day to function normally, if you loose allot of liquid due to exercise or hot weather, more might be good. the more you weigh the more you need. and depending on your state of dehdration, and how dry your food is you might need, much more.
Start your day with plenty of water
Before you leave bed in the morning, drink a large glass of water (the larger the better) first thing in the morning...
Drinking warm water in the morning is also very helpful and cleansing for the system.
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