The first time I heard the notion that we have an internal dialogue I was surprised. I think that is because I had taken it for granted. My internal dialogue was part of my automatic way of thinking. I never stopped to look at and examine what I was saying to myself, and how my thoughts affected me. Years of meditation have given me a different perspective on this. The first thing you do when you meditate is to look at your internal dialogue. It is like a stream of consciousness and unless you … [Read more...]
Diet Myths You Need to Let Go Of
One of the common themes I have seen in my practice is the notion that when you lose weight your problems go away and your dreams get fulfilled. I wonder if that is part of the reason people regain the weight they lose. What they thought would happen by losing weight does not happen so they lose the motivation to delay immediate gratification, the pleasure they get from certain foods and the discipline it takes to eat right and exercise daily. To lose weight successfully means you keep it … [Read more...]
Keys to Successfully Changing a Habit
Do you feel you are constantly repeating unwanted unhealthy patterns you can’t seem to break? No matter how hard you try, you never get anywhere except more unhappy. This makes you feel like you are lost, stuck in a rut, a negative loop going nowhere. Or maybe you have accomplished what you thought would make you happy and instead of feeling happy you feel empty. I have built my practice around helping people get unstuck, re-create themselves and find true fulfillment and joy in their lives… … [Read more...]
Why you should start meditating and stop thinking?
If you were a vibration of energy wouldn't you want to vibrate at a high frequency, just like beautiful music, perfectly coherent? That is what meditation does, it raises your vibration and helps to undo the old patterns of the brain that keep you locked in a less desirable frequency. If you want to take charge of your health, lose weight, and get off auto-pilot learn how to meditate. Meditating daily is like putting money in the bank. You are able to deal more effectively with stressful … [Read more...]
Myth Buster: 21 Days to Make a Habit Change? Think again
We all know how difficult it can be to break a habit and create a new one. If you do a Google search on how long it takes to create a new habit you will get somewhere between 21 and 28 days. No one has really proven that to be the case. The ‘21 day myth’ may well come from a book published in 1960 by a plastic surgeon. Dr. Maxwell Maltz, who wrote a classic book called Psychocybernetics. He noticed that amputees took, on average, 21 days to adjust to the loss of a limb and he theorized that … [Read more...]