Psychology of Healthy Eating Tip #5.
The principle behind sustainable healthy eating is to make good decisions MOST of the time.
So my favourite advice is, IF you are going to indulge, THEN SAVOUR IT!
There is more joy in a single savoured chocolate than in a handful gobbled with guilt.
Want to know more about savouring? Read this post: “Double your joy by learning to savour“.
Get in touch if you need some strategies to keep a healthy balance.
We live in a caffeinated, adrenal world with competing demands placed upon our ‘bodymind’ for most of our waking hours. We’re all aware of the frequent drive to achieve in every realm of modern life – work life, home life, family life, and social life. Often there is little space left for us to pause and top up our depleted systems. We really need time where there is an absence of striving and a complete absence of ambition.
People regularly say to me that they just don’t have time to nurture themselves… but soon enough your system will falter and it’s more that you can’t afford NOT to take the time out to rest. If you leave yourself open to fatigue you become susceptible to burnout, illness and injury. Chances are your enforced rest will come at a time of even less convenience!
So give yourself permission to rest and it will allow you to give more to the pursuits in your life and to actually enjoy them more. Self-care is not selfish! It is not a luxury. It is essential so that you can keep giving and keep going. End of sermon.
Without decent R&R, this is what you miss out on… (more…)
Stop self sabotage by harnessing the power of your PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE self.
Are you trying to create change in your life? Have you set an intention that you are working towards? Do you have a vision you feel passionate about realising? Consider the concepts of “past”, “present” and “future” self to help you in this process…
Let’s take, for example, a goal concerning your ‘health and wellbeing‘. First, you need to get really clear on what it means to you to be healthy. How do you see health and wellbeing manifesting in your life? Rather than setting a broad goal of “being healthy”, pinpoint more closely what you value and aspire to. A more effective goal could be something like “feeling vital, vibrant and being a positive role model for my kids”.
Using the concepts of past, present and future self to help you achieve greater vitality, you could reflect on the following questions: (more…)
When you’re feeling STRESSED – try child’s pose
When you’re feeling SAD – try a handstand
When you’re feeling TIRED – try legs up the wall pose
When you’re feeling STUCK – try a twist
When you need a BOOST – try a gentle back bend
When you need to LET GO – lengthen your exhale
When you need to SLOW DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS – earth your brow… (more…)
We all have some of the following…
Words left unsaid, Deeds left undone, Thoughts unexplored, Items without a home, Feelings, half-felt, Physical aches unaddressed, Apologies or appreciation unspoken, Visions unrealised, Aspirations cast aside, Healing yet to be fully resolved, All those ‘nearly there’s…All these things, these incompletions, can be an energetic drain on us whether we are conscious of them or not. They can get in the way of us achieving our full potential and relating whole-heartedly to those we care about most… (more…)