Getting healthy. You’ve heard it all. You’ve tried it all. Diets. Exercise plans. Pills. Powders and potions.
You know what to do, but you don’t.
Well, you dabble.
You know, you eat healthy once in a while. Maybe you go to the gym a little bit more frequently than you eat healthy. Either way, you never seem to be able to stick with creating healthy consistently. Life always seems to get in the way.
Deadlines. Fatigue. Family commitments. Late night business meetings. Red wine… and Twinkies.
You know dabbling is no longer enough.
You know it.
Excess weight, exhaustion and foggy thinking are impacting your home life and your ability to keep up at work and you’re starting to get a little freaked out. Shoot, you even wonder if chronic symptoms and low energy are affecting your creativity and ability to focus.
Have you ever asked yourself why you don’t stick with your get healthy plan?
Maybe you think your diet and fitness goals are unrealistic. Or maybe you think it’s because you don’t have supportive people in your life, or… you really don’t know what to do so you flounder.
Author Wayne Dyer said, “change your thoughts, change your life.”
But, that could be a huge undertaking since we all have anywhere between 50,000 — 70,000 thoughts per day!
And that seems a little unwieldy for a reductionist theory person like me.
Don’t you agree that it makes much more sense to reduce 1000s of anything down to potent and usable golden nuggets?
For the get healthy game, I’ve done the reduction work for you, and I’m repeatedly led back to the age-old question over and over again, Who am I?
Who are you?
Think about it.
If you can answer this one question, all other answers to all other questions either, 1) become a moot point, or 2) come easily to you.
I know, this can feel like a lofty question, but after pondering on it for years, the same answer, the lowest-common-denominator response that always rises is,
You are life itself.
You carry within you the force of the Universe, the force of God, Spirit, Mother Nature, the Divine. What you call this force, it’s your thoughts about it and how you live it that makes all the difference.
I mean, if you believed that you literally carried the same life-force as the Sun that holds each planet in its orbit and makes life on Earth possible, or the Moon that animates and moves the oceans with it’s gravitational force, how could getting healthy be hard?
Why would you the invincible, the unconquerable, the omnipotent partake in anything that does not bring forth your highest self and grandest goals?
But you say, I don’t know how to access this life force amidst my crazy busy days? When I am trying to meet deadlines and run errands and attend late night dinner meetings how could that even be possible?
I’ve got a super, easy-peasy, sure-to-deliver exercise:
First, place your hand on your heart then close your eyes. Breathe in and breathe out. This is not necessarily a mediation, but an exercise of presence to your breath flowing in and flowing out. After several inhalations and exhalations, get present to the fact that you are not breathing. You are actually not breathing, but being breathed. By this force. You don’t choose breathing. It’s chosen you.
In it’s most fundamental sense, your most vibrant health, peak energy and productivity, your most innovative creativity and clearest thinking, your ideal weight is an exercise of presence.
I know, it’s like whoah, right?
You are being breathed.
By the source of life.
YOUR TURN
Now that you know this breathing exercise to pull you back to your highest self, to get on, and stay on your get-healthy, be-your-best-self track, I want to hear from you.
Tell me…
What do you think could be possible, with this level of presence on your side?
What healthy goals do you think you can now accomplish, that you weren't able to access before?
Share your insights and post any questions you have about this in the comments below!
