What are your goals? What happens when you reach them? Who even recognized your success? Love yourself! How do you reward yourself? Rewards create a greater sense of accomplishment. They help you acquire the feeling that you are doing something you want to do, not just what you’re forcing yourself to do. Even the smallest of rewards when you reach your goals can work wonders as you move from benchmark to benchmark, goal to goal, pound to pound, and size to size success to success whatever they may be.
Develop for yourself a good reward system. Make the rewards meaningful to you. As a reward, a new pair of shoes may not hold as much motivation for some as a simple night alone with a book. Then again, for others, like me for instance, it might. A new pair of shoes, a new hat, a new purse, and especially a new dress does my soul well. Sometimes, though, the best rewards are those you can’t buy.
Plan to celebrate your long-term weight loss goal. Figure out now how you’re going to celebrate reaching your big weight loss goal. Involve other people in your celebration. Create a celebration that you can anticipate and then keep it within sight all the time.
Everyone likes a pat on the back every once in a while. Moreover, there is no better time to give yourself a pat on the back than when you have accomplished a weight loss goal. Rewards help you to challenge yourself and to improve even more. They even help to ease any reluctance you are still holding onto in the back of your mind regarding your success.
Most people approach weight loss from a position of agony. Our reluctance and our own fear constantly cause us to feel blighted, some of us berate ourselves and accept nothing but perfection. No matter how much progress is made some of us have practiced pulling our own spirits down that we miss the mark for success. Attitudes such as these display and very often speak of fear, guilt, doubt, and shame. For some of us, we beat ourselves up, we are our own worse critic. This is learned behavior and probably stems from an external source. Someone either in our past or who surrounds us currently have beat us up so much that they don’t need to anymore. We have taken over their work.
Sound familiar? If this rings a bell, it is definitely time for a change of mind. You are in charge of your life. You have choices. You can choose success and good health or, whatever the negative outcomes bring. Instead of focusing on the pounds you have not lost yet, celebrate those you have lost. For people used to beating themselves up, being a self-critic may seem like the best way to get motivated. However, consider this for a moment. If you attempted to motivate an employee like that, how long do you think they’d stick around? If you attempt to motivate your children, your neice and nephew, your friend, your husband, or your wife in this manner, how many times will you experience their loving smile? How long will you enjoy the benefits of their presence? How successful would they really be?
Therefore, instead of finding things to criticize in yourself, look at your positive aspects. Look at your success thus far, be grateful about them. Go further and show your gratitude to God, who is our help and our strength. Then begin to reward yourself regularly for your accomplishments for reaching a short-term weight loss goal. Learn to pat yourself on the back and give yourself a word of encouragement. Let your encouragement and your motivation come from within. Instead of focusing on what you do wrong, or waiting for others to encourage you, try paying more attention to what you do right. This positive approach to living will ensure your continued success in your shedding of extra pounds as well as other aspects of your life. You are in charge of our own destiny. Decide what you want, where you want to go, seek God’s counsel, ask for his help, and go for it. “Faith without works is dead.” Let there be no pity party within you!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
What does your body need? Do you even know?
Stress significantly contributes to ill health. It is a major factor in obesity, high blood pressure, strokes, ulcers, as well as heart disease. If I'm feeling stressed I need to relax, meditate, go through my "Letting Go" process, and I need to pray. http://michellerhnea.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-11-24T19:00:00-06:00&max-results=5
If nobody else doesn't love me, I do and I know my body needs the Vitamin B6 found in bananas, figs, prunes, potatoes chick peas, cauliflower, and fortified cereals. I know my body needs the antixodants and the nutrients found in red reshi or ganaderma. So I give the body I love what it needs. I drink several cups of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate that contains the ganaderma miracle everyday.
Also, biotin found in soybeans, liver, fish, egg yolks, and whole grains may also help my body deal with stresses in life. Biotin is a water-soluble B vitamin, acts as a coenzyme in the metabolism of protein. fats, and carbohydrates. Unrefined carbohydrates found in all fruits and vegetables, leguumes brown rice, bran and other whole grains is also be useful in helping my body cope. I've noticed that it is not the amount of protein my body intakes but the amount of protein compared to carbohydrates. Though I need the carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables, I need protein more, and not the protein in meats. As a matter of fact, my body doesn't handle protein in meats very well anymore. As I age, I need more natural proteins. such as that found in almonds. Spirulina and protein shakes, does my body well. I know that as I age my body needs it fill of calcium, is the most prevalent and one of the most important minerals in the human body.
It is necessary for my bone health and preventing osteoporosis, but it has many other benefits too.
It also helps to protect cardiac muscles, prevent colon cancer, alleviate the symptoms of PMS, and helps to maintain body weight and prevent obesity. I know I can get it from the stuff I love like, Kale greens, white fish, and black beans.
Because I love myself, I add more fluids to your diet, mostly good alkaline water. When I am stressed additional water, fresh fruit or vegetable juices, or green tea with ganaderma enhances the body's innate coping mechanisms. When I add calcium, B-complex, vitamin C, and potassium supplements to my diet, I am better able to cope with stress even when the stressful person or things refuses to go away. You have got to get to know your body and give it what it needs to feel good.
My body needs the miracle of ganaderma to promote health and longevity relieve fatigue, keep cholesterol in check, curb syptoms of high blood pressure, tame inflammation that flares up in the body, build stamina, and support the immune system. Of course we want to always consult our physican if experiencing help problems. Take out your journal and record your body's reactions to different foods you eat. My point is, what does your body need? Do you even know? Does you body feel good when you take the medication you've been prescribed? Does it feel good when you take vitamins? Which ones? How does your body feel when you don't drink enough water? How does it feel when you get 8 hours of restful sleep compared to 5 hours? Does your body feel better when you eat a bowl of mac & cheese as opposed to a bowl of brown rice? How does your body feel after exercising vs if you don't exercise at all? What kind of exercise does your body well? Love yourself and find out what your body needs. In the meantime, order your beverages containing the ganaderma miracle. It's a good start. "And I'm feeling good"....in my Jennifer Hudson voice. Click here to check out the miracle in coffee, hot chocolate, and tea :http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp
Works Cited
High Protein as an Effective Tool for Weight Management Am J Clin Nutr. Paddon-Jones D, Westman E, Mattes RD, Wolfe RR, Astrup A, Westerterp-Plantenga M.
Protein, Leucine, and Aging J. Nutr. Satoshi Fujita and Elena Volpi.
Higher Protein Boosts Muscle Metabolism and Weight Loss J Am Coll Nutr. Layman DK.
High Protein Diets Help Bones, Low Protein Diets Harm Bones Eur J Nutr. Tucker KL, Hannan MT, Kiel DP.
If nobody else doesn't love me, I do and I know my body needs the Vitamin B6 found in bananas, figs, prunes, potatoes chick peas, cauliflower, and fortified cereals. I know my body needs the antixodants and the nutrients found in red reshi or ganaderma. So I give the body I love what it needs. I drink several cups of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate that contains the ganaderma miracle everyday.
Also, biotin found in soybeans, liver, fish, egg yolks, and whole grains may also help my body deal with stresses in life. Biotin is a water-soluble B vitamin, acts as a coenzyme in the metabolism of protein. fats, and carbohydrates. Unrefined carbohydrates found in all fruits and vegetables, leguumes brown rice, bran and other whole grains is also be useful in helping my body cope. I've noticed that it is not the amount of protein my body intakes but the amount of protein compared to carbohydrates. Though I need the carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables, I need protein more, and not the protein in meats. As a matter of fact, my body doesn't handle protein in meats very well anymore. As I age, I need more natural proteins. such as that found in almonds. Spirulina and protein shakes, does my body well. I know that as I age my body needs it fill of calcium, is the most prevalent and one of the most important minerals in the human body.
It is necessary for my bone health and preventing osteoporosis, but it has many other benefits too.
It also helps to protect cardiac muscles, prevent colon cancer, alleviate the symptoms of PMS, and helps to maintain body weight and prevent obesity. I know I can get it from the stuff I love like, Kale greens, white fish, and black beans.
Because I love myself, I add more fluids to your diet, mostly good alkaline water. When I am stressed additional water, fresh fruit or vegetable juices, or green tea with ganaderma enhances the body's innate coping mechanisms. When I add calcium, B-complex, vitamin C, and potassium supplements to my diet, I am better able to cope with stress even when the stressful person or things refuses to go away. You have got to get to know your body and give it what it needs to feel good.
My body needs the miracle of ganaderma to promote health and longevity relieve fatigue, keep cholesterol in check, curb syptoms of high blood pressure, tame inflammation that flares up in the body, build stamina, and support the immune system. Of course we want to always consult our physican if experiencing help problems. Take out your journal and record your body's reactions to different foods you eat. My point is, what does your body need? Do you even know? Does you body feel good when you take the medication you've been prescribed? Does it feel good when you take vitamins? Which ones? How does your body feel when you don't drink enough water? How does it feel when you get 8 hours of restful sleep compared to 5 hours? Does your body feel better when you eat a bowl of mac & cheese as opposed to a bowl of brown rice? How does your body feel after exercising vs if you don't exercise at all? What kind of exercise does your body well? Love yourself and find out what your body needs. In the meantime, order your beverages containing the ganaderma miracle. It's a good start. "And I'm feeling good"....in my Jennifer Hudson voice. Click here to check out the miracle in coffee, hot chocolate, and tea :http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp
Works Cited
High Protein as an Effective Tool for Weight Management Am J Clin Nutr. Paddon-Jones D, Westman E, Mattes RD, Wolfe RR, Astrup A, Westerterp-Plantenga M.
Protein, Leucine, and Aging J. Nutr. Satoshi Fujita and Elena Volpi.
Higher Protein Boosts Muscle Metabolism and Weight Loss J Am Coll Nutr. Layman DK.
High Protein Diets Help Bones, Low Protein Diets Harm Bones Eur J Nutr. Tucker KL, Hannan MT, Kiel DP.
It's Just Life: Hello World!
It's Just Life: Hello World!: Why do I feel the need to write yet another blog about "life" when there are so many blogs written by Life Coaches? …..Hmmmm, good questio...
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Your Body Will Love You
Antioxidants are chemical substances in food that protect the body’s cells from oxidation. Oxidation is to the body as rust is to iron. It is like unto corrosion found around your water pipes in your basement. It is decay, decomposition, and deterioration. Oxidation is caused by free and unstable radicals like unto oxygen atoms. They attack the body’s cells and DNA. This could lead to cancer. These cancer causing atoms are stabilized by chemicals produced in plant foods called antioxidants. Antioxidants in plants foods keep the rogue atoms from harming the body’s cells. Specifically "Ganoderma lucidum is an Asian medicinal mushroom that has been used for the past two thousand years for the treatment of various diseases, including cancer. G. lucidum is currently popular as a dietary supplement in the form of tea, powder or extract. It has been previously demonstrated that G. lucidum suppresses growth, angiogenesis and invasiveness of highly invasive and metastatic breast cancer cells." (Thyagarajan A, 1)
Fortify your body with lots of all natural preventive medicine with plant foods and Organo Gold beverages that contain ganaderma. You can get your coffee, tea, or hot chocolate by clicking this link. http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp The science is simple and clear. The body is being constantly attacked by harmful substances from both our environment as well as our diets. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds are good for you. You increase necessary disease fighting chemicals by eating antioxidant rich foods. By eating plenty of plant foods you allow disease fighting chemicals to flow through your bloodstream freely and free radicals that destroy cells, tissues, organs, and DNA are counterattacked. Do you see why antioxidants from plant foods are imperative for fighting diseases such as cancer and heart disease? They are necessary so that outside influences such as smoking, pollution, synthetic chemicals added to our water and food does not harm us. Plant foods are the natural free-radical fighting mechanisms that God created inside of us. They give our bodies strength to fight in our behalf. According to the experts they are the best protection from the ills of common diseases associated with aging.
Food supplements are inexpensive and help to provide many health benefits to your entire body and brain. Many people use these supplements as part of an anti-aging program. Keeping your cells from being destroyed goes a long way with the ingestion of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds. They are key to staying healthy and aging gracefully. They are the best ammunition in the inevitable disease fighting battles. Therefore; arm yourself well by eating plenty of plant foods.
To get your body filled with the antioxidants of Ganaderma, order your coffe, tea, or hot chocalate at this link. http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp
It's in the bevarages and your body will love you!
Works Cited
Thyagarajan A, Jiang J, Hopf A, Cancer Research Laboratory, Methodist Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.International Journal of Molecular Medicine
Fortify your body with lots of all natural preventive medicine with plant foods and Organo Gold beverages that contain ganaderma. You can get your coffee, tea, or hot chocolate by clicking this link. http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp The science is simple and clear. The body is being constantly attacked by harmful substances from both our environment as well as our diets. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds are good for you. You increase necessary disease fighting chemicals by eating antioxidant rich foods. By eating plenty of plant foods you allow disease fighting chemicals to flow through your bloodstream freely and free radicals that destroy cells, tissues, organs, and DNA are counterattacked. Do you see why antioxidants from plant foods are imperative for fighting diseases such as cancer and heart disease? They are necessary so that outside influences such as smoking, pollution, synthetic chemicals added to our water and food does not harm us. Plant foods are the natural free-radical fighting mechanisms that God created inside of us. They give our bodies strength to fight in our behalf. According to the experts they are the best protection from the ills of common diseases associated with aging.
Food supplements are inexpensive and help to provide many health benefits to your entire body and brain. Many people use these supplements as part of an anti-aging program. Keeping your cells from being destroyed goes a long way with the ingestion of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds. They are key to staying healthy and aging gracefully. They are the best ammunition in the inevitable disease fighting battles. Therefore; arm yourself well by eating plenty of plant foods.
To get your body filled with the antioxidants of Ganaderma, order your coffe, tea, or hot chocalate at this link. http://thepurplerose.organogold.com/US/r_default.asp
It's in the bevarages and your body will love you!
Works Cited
Thyagarajan A, Jiang J, Hopf A, Cancer Research Laboratory, Methodist Research Institute, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.International Journal of Molecular Medicine
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
But, How do I Let it Go?
I have been told many times that I need to learn how to let it go but nobody could tell me HOW to let go. I wanted to let go. I knew that if I didn't let go I'd cry a whole lot longer than I wanted to cry. I knew letting go was the right thing to do, but I just didn't know how. I was told I wanted to hold on to the bad stuff but honestly, I needed someone to tell me what steps to take to let go. Unfortunately no one could instead they did one of three things, stared at me in disbelief, got angry and insulted me, or laughed. I guess I wasn't born with this kind of intelligence. I was sincere, this was not my kind of smart. I have learned that no questions is a stupid or bad question and I know that someone else out there has the same problem of letting go that I do. I saw folks move on as act like they weren't hurt or angry. I really couldn't do it so easitly. I was one who lived within the confines of "time heals all things." Well sometimes, it took too much time. So, without help from the people who told me to let it go, I created my own process for letting go. Guess what? It worked, as I went through this process a few times, I felt myself beginning to let go. I could literally feel the pain and heart ache or the anger and bittterness go. This is what I did because I was tired of crying and feeling badly. The first time I did, I didn't take note of the process I was creating for myself. After a few times, I began to take mental not of what I was doing, eventually I was able to go through the process and write it down. When I was done, I felt so much better. Here are the steps I took.
1. I began by lying down comfortably on my bed, sometimes I'd lie on my couch, yoga a mat, or blanket on the floor. I supportted my head on a pillow or a folded blanket so that my neck and throat were soft and relaxed.
2. I then positioned a pillow or blanket under my knees in order to support my knees and to stretch and relax my spine.
3. I closed my eyes and released my shoulders away from my neck and allowed my arms and my legs to rest slightly away from my body. The first time I did this step a little differently but I couldn't remember exactly what I did here so I created another way.
4. I kept my eyes closed but don't force them shut too tightly. Next, I began to breathe softly and naturally. I focus my mind on Jesus and his love for his people and remembered he said he came to bring me back to The Father. I took it personally, this was all about me and how I had to learn to trust him for real. In a short time the relaxing sensations from him flowing through my body began to permeate me. I felt like The Most High was releasing warm and nurturing breathes from my head to my toe. The deep and slow breathing flowed into every part of my body causing me to feel less pain, stress, and tension from the challenge I was facing in life. The breathing is similar to the breathing in meditation or yoga class.
5. I followed my breath with my mind as it flowed into my chest, my shoulders, my arms. I allowed the breath to go into my arms.
6. I repeated the words from one of my favorite gospel songs. "My Creator is greater than my pain, my problem". I repeated that and this, "He is greater than the stress and challenges I am facing right now. I forced myself not to think about anything but the things that were right and good in my life. I thought about how blessed I was. I learned to be content. as I thought about 100 things that I could thank God for at that moment. As I went through my list I began to praise God while I continued to take deep breaths. I praised Him for his goodness, his mercy, and his lovingkindness. As I praised him I began to cry. But this time the tears were different. I felt the agony I was going through being released. I felt like I was actually beginning to know what it was like to "let go and let God."
7. The breaths I took caused a softness and an openness in the palms of my hands. The breaths and the praising made me want to open my hands. I let the breathe flow down into my fingers and out. I felt like now I was in charge instead of my anger or my hurt. I felt the bitter that was building inside of me, subside. After a few of these sessions with me and my God. I could feel the bitterness leave and peace enter.
8. I followed my breathes into my hips, through my legs and into my feet. I was able to let go of the tension, the pain, and the problem down through my legss. I let it go into my feet.
9. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go, I repeated to myself. As I breathed I received each breathe as a gift of healing life and the life force from God.
10. I opened my mind to new life from God's energy flowing through my body. I visualized God's greatness and my blessings as gentle streams of God's goodness. I thought about Psalms 136 and was going to read it when I finished breathing and praising.
11. I could feel my body being healed, renewed, and restored as I imagined God sending positive energy penetrating from deep within my core into each layer of my body. He was healing me.
12. I let my mind become silent of everything except praises to God. I rested in this place of praise until I could feel a smile in your heart and on your face. Visualize your heart, your body healed and whole, supported by God. Let it go. Give it to him and don't pick it back up.
13. You may remain in deep relaxation as long as you are comfortable. When I was ready, I began to move my body, gently and lovingly, so that that I didn't disturb the healing that had taken place. I didn't want to feel anything esle. It felt good.
14. After a while, I slowly rolled over onto my side and came to a comfortable seated position I was smiling from deep down as I fell into a deep and restful sleep. Each time I took myself through this "letting go " process I felt my smile widen and my peace deepen.
15. I literally felt my burden lifted, I saw my healing. After the most perfect nap I opened my palms and lifted my hands in praise.
16. I honor Jesus as my source of healing and I thank him. I experienced a renewed source of energy and healing from God after I was done.
I began taking myself through this "letting go" process in 2008, and I am still smiling. Sometimes when I go through the process I play whatever music suits my fancy in the background, whether it be soft and slow gospel music, harps, or other instrumentals. It's almost 2012 and I still feel at peace.
1. I began by lying down comfortably on my bed, sometimes I'd lie on my couch, yoga a mat, or blanket on the floor. I supportted my head on a pillow or a folded blanket so that my neck and throat were soft and relaxed.
2. I then positioned a pillow or blanket under my knees in order to support my knees and to stretch and relax my spine.
3. I closed my eyes and released my shoulders away from my neck and allowed my arms and my legs to rest slightly away from my body. The first time I did this step a little differently but I couldn't remember exactly what I did here so I created another way.
4. I kept my eyes closed but don't force them shut too tightly. Next, I began to breathe softly and naturally. I focus my mind on Jesus and his love for his people and remembered he said he came to bring me back to The Father. I took it personally, this was all about me and how I had to learn to trust him for real. In a short time the relaxing sensations from him flowing through my body began to permeate me. I felt like The Most High was releasing warm and nurturing breathes from my head to my toe. The deep and slow breathing flowed into every part of my body causing me to feel less pain, stress, and tension from the challenge I was facing in life. The breathing is similar to the breathing in meditation or yoga class.
5. I followed my breath with my mind as it flowed into my chest, my shoulders, my arms. I allowed the breath to go into my arms.
6. I repeated the words from one of my favorite gospel songs. "My Creator is greater than my pain, my problem". I repeated that and this, "He is greater than the stress and challenges I am facing right now. I forced myself not to think about anything but the things that were right and good in my life. I thought about how blessed I was. I learned to be content. as I thought about 100 things that I could thank God for at that moment. As I went through my list I began to praise God while I continued to take deep breaths. I praised Him for his goodness, his mercy, and his lovingkindness. As I praised him I began to cry. But this time the tears were different. I felt the agony I was going through being released. I felt like I was actually beginning to know what it was like to "let go and let God."
7. The breaths I took caused a softness and an openness in the palms of my hands. The breaths and the praising made me want to open my hands. I let the breathe flow down into my fingers and out. I felt like now I was in charge instead of my anger or my hurt. I felt the bitter that was building inside of me, subside. After a few of these sessions with me and my God. I could feel the bitterness leave and peace enter.
8. I followed my breathes into my hips, through my legs and into my feet. I was able to let go of the tension, the pain, and the problem down through my legss. I let it go into my feet.
9. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go, I repeated to myself. As I breathed I received each breathe as a gift of healing life and the life force from God.
10. I opened my mind to new life from God's energy flowing through my body. I visualized God's greatness and my blessings as gentle streams of God's goodness. I thought about Psalms 136 and was going to read it when I finished breathing and praising.
11. I could feel my body being healed, renewed, and restored as I imagined God sending positive energy penetrating from deep within my core into each layer of my body. He was healing me.
12. I let my mind become silent of everything except praises to God. I rested in this place of praise until I could feel a smile in your heart and on your face. Visualize your heart, your body healed and whole, supported by God. Let it go. Give it to him and don't pick it back up.
13. You may remain in deep relaxation as long as you are comfortable. When I was ready, I began to move my body, gently and lovingly, so that that I didn't disturb the healing that had taken place. I didn't want to feel anything esle. It felt good.
14. After a while, I slowly rolled over onto my side and came to a comfortable seated position I was smiling from deep down as I fell into a deep and restful sleep. Each time I took myself through this "letting go " process I felt my smile widen and my peace deepen.
15. I literally felt my burden lifted, I saw my healing. After the most perfect nap I opened my palms and lifted my hands in praise.
16. I honor Jesus as my source of healing and I thank him. I experienced a renewed source of energy and healing from God after I was done.
I began taking myself through this "letting go" process in 2008, and I am still smiling. Sometimes when I go through the process I play whatever music suits my fancy in the background, whether it be soft and slow gospel music, harps, or other instrumentals. It's almost 2012 and I still feel at peace.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Power in Journaling
Just because you don't have the support you need for meeting your goals, does not mean that you won't reach them. I have learned to be my own support system. You can too. As an educator, I utilize journaling for many reasons in many situations. To help meet either weightloss goals or just goals you have for living, I find it helpful to support yourself by keeping a journal. You can write down your thoughts ina a variety of creative ways, try a poem or short story.
I lost the most weight when I journaled about it. I used a journal to keep track of progress on a weekly or daily basis. It serves as a good visual and helps you clearly see just how far you’ve come or digressed. Journally affords you the opportunity to look back to past entries where you recorded successes and use it as motivation for a really stressful week. Of course, some weeks will be good and some weeks will be a little bit harder this is simply a part of life. Keeping a journal of yor success, failures, ups and downs, feelings and emotions, and aspects of your daily life, you’ll be able to see an overall trend of progression. It will help you realize which goals have been met, which people in you need to let go, what works and what doesn't.
It will also afford you the opportunity to look at workouts and food choices that worked best for you and which ones didn’t. Record everything from your weight or inches lost to thoughts about how your body feels after a particularly difficult workout. Record the days you feel bloated and tight all over, the days you feel stressed as well as its source. Write down the scriptures you read and what you prayed for. Don't forget to record the day your prayers were answered. It feels great to re-read those joyous times and reminds you to give God praise again.
After I created the process for breathing, relaxation and praising in my “letting go” process. I also began to jouranl. I took my deepest thoughts and feelings about the things I agonized over. I journaled about my childhood, a traumatic event that occurred 16, the time my cousin burnt our house down when I was 15. We literally had nothing but the clothes on our backs. We had no place to lay our head. I wrote about my absentee father, my strong desire to be loved because of it. I journaled about the choices I made, the good ones and the bad ones. I wrote the people I loved and those that got on my last nerve. I wrote about every important event and every important person who crossed the paths in my mind.
I lost the most weight when I journaled about it. I used a journal to keep track of progress on a weekly or daily basis. It serves as a good visual and helps you clearly see just how far you’ve come or digressed. Journally affords you the opportunity to look back to past entries where you recorded successes and use it as motivation for a really stressful week. Of course, some weeks will be good and some weeks will be a little bit harder this is simply a part of life. Keeping a journal of yor success, failures, ups and downs, feelings and emotions, and aspects of your daily life, you’ll be able to see an overall trend of progression. It will help you realize which goals have been met, which people in you need to let go, what works and what doesn't.
It will also afford you the opportunity to look at workouts and food choices that worked best for you and which ones didn’t. Record everything from your weight or inches lost to thoughts about how your body feels after a particularly difficult workout. Record the days you feel bloated and tight all over, the days you feel stressed as well as its source. Write down the scriptures you read and what you prayed for. Don't forget to record the day your prayers were answered. It feels great to re-read those joyous times and reminds you to give God praise again.
After I created the process for breathing, relaxation and praising in my “letting go” process. I also began to jouranl. I took my deepest thoughts and feelings about the things I agonized over. I journaled about my childhood, a traumatic event that occurred 16, the time my cousin burnt our house down when I was 15. We literally had nothing but the clothes on our backs. We had no place to lay our head. I wrote about my absentee father, my strong desire to be loved because of it. I journaled about the choices I made, the good ones and the bad ones. I wrote the people I loved and those that got on my last nerve. I wrote about every important event and every important person who crossed the paths in my mind.
I evaluated my own strengths and weaknesses as a servant, a person, a woman, a wife-exwife, a mother, a friend, a sister, and an employee. I turned myself inside out in my notebook. The result were my two poetry book, The Purple Rose and She Speaks Psalms. You see, I didn’t write those for the public eye, I wrote those as a woman whose heart was bleeding and who was able to humble herself to The Most High and let him heal me. A friend read my journals and suggested I organize my writing and have it published. I decided to put the entries into poetry format so I took a poetry class. The publisher looked at my manuscript and suggested it be published in to books instead of one.
As I wrote, I tied my topics to my relationships with others, including parents, lovers, friends or relatives; to my past, my present and my future; or to who I have been, who I would like to be. I didn’t worry about spelling, grammar or sentence structure. I continued my journaling until the time was up. My heart knew when that time was. I highly recommend journaling as a way to redirect yourself and tap into the power that God put within you. There are stories that lie there that can help others.
Consistent journaling is a great motivator and will make goals much more attainable while helping to ensure your ultimate success. Journaling affords you a perfect venue to support yourself in whatever it is that you are going through, in letting go a hurt,in weight loss, in recovering from a sickness or even death of someone close to you. Experts say that journaling about traumatic, stressful and emotional times in life has resulted in improvements in both physical and psychological health over time in may instances. Your thoughts matter, your experiences are real and can help someone else. Start your journal today and see where it leads you.
Monday, November 21, 2011
In Each Moment: The Temp
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Why I Write?
I write because I
hear what the voice of many waters sing
get weary of turbulence in this life
praise Jesus the Holy King
cry because I am hurt
love to laugh instead of weep
am thankful he brought me from the dirt
wait in haste but desire to trust
pursue patience virtue and knowledge
am being trained to shy from carnal lust
need my maker to purge sin he sees
want to be healed of the old wound and scar
thirst to deliberately stir emotion in others
love to teach young minds and shake them ajar
I write because I
smell music swirling deep in my bones
can hear the praise song in my head ring
am quickened by the rhythm in the sound
help proclaim the nobility of my people
propagate, enlighten, diversify, and expound
am part of a glorious people’s past
feel the hurt and harm piercing from the bondage
want this knowledge to help our future last
pray for tender mercy, loving kindness, and the seal
love to praise and pray to The Most High
need to solidify my own inner beauty and zeal
need to reaffirm my inner strength with speed
desire to dwell in the house of God
aspire to always trust His lead
want to thank Him for allowing me to see
need to increase my faith in my Lord
seek a greater joy than man has given me
I write because I
hear the music and the song in my pen
suddenly have a whole lot to say
consistently fall and make crazy mistakes
want to leave a legacy for my precious young
understand that salvation sits on high stakes
am aware of spiritual wickedness in high places
study the cause of powers and principalities
love to put smiles on stressed out faces
have a story to tell
have a mission to reach
needed to come out of pity’s shell
I write because I
flutter as I feel the cadence beat
feel a joyous pulsating trance
love the sound to jump me out of my seat
find understanding, strength, and power in my pen
seek to comfort my sentimental spirit
need a love that seems far beyond men
have done everything I can think of to do
won’t give up but don’t dare fall
hold on to what I know is true
lift His name on high everyday
am glad I know Jesus and the plan
am grateful for all blessings and the narrow way
The Purple Rose ISBN 1-60474-262-3 The Purple Rose is a book of poetry which can be used as daily inspiriationals and a bible companion, written as tools for healing, inspiration, and encouragement. The author wants women to understand clearly that there is hope in God, and that they have within them the power needed to change those circumstances in their lives which they feel powerless to change.
hear what the voice of many waters sing
get weary of turbulence in this life
praise Jesus the Holy King
cry because I am hurt
love to laugh instead of weep
am thankful he brought me from the dirt
wait in haste but desire to trust
pursue patience virtue and knowledge
am being trained to shy from carnal lust
need my maker to purge sin he sees
want to be healed of the old wound and scar
thirst to deliberately stir emotion in others
love to teach young minds and shake them ajar
I write because I
smell music swirling deep in my bones
can hear the praise song in my head ring
am quickened by the rhythm in the sound
help proclaim the nobility of my people
propagate, enlighten, diversify, and expound
am part of a glorious people’s past
feel the hurt and harm piercing from the bondage
want this knowledge to help our future last
pray for tender mercy, loving kindness, and the seal
love to praise and pray to The Most High
need to solidify my own inner beauty and zeal
need to reaffirm my inner strength with speed
desire to dwell in the house of God
aspire to always trust His lead
want to thank Him for allowing me to see
need to increase my faith in my Lord
seek a greater joy than man has given me
I write because I
hear the music and the song in my pen
suddenly have a whole lot to say
consistently fall and make crazy mistakes
want to leave a legacy for my precious young
understand that salvation sits on high stakes
am aware of spiritual wickedness in high places
study the cause of powers and principalities
love to put smiles on stressed out faces
have a story to tell
have a mission to reach
needed to come out of pity’s shell
I write because I
flutter as I feel the cadence beat
feel a joyous pulsating trance
love the sound to jump me out of my seat
find understanding, strength, and power in my pen
seek to comfort my sentimental spirit
need a love that seems far beyond men
have done everything I can think of to do
won’t give up but don’t dare fall
hold on to what I know is true
lift His name on high everyday
am glad I know Jesus and the plan
am grateful for all blessings and the narrow way
The Purple Rose ISBN 1-60474-262-3 The Purple Rose is a book of poetry which can be used as daily inspiriationals and a bible companion, written as tools for healing, inspiration, and encouragement. The author wants women to understand clearly that there is hope in God, and that they have within them the power needed to change those circumstances in their lives which they feel powerless to change.
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