Carol Egan

What Does Busyness Have To Do With Hearing?

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Listen to Your Body_ A 4-Point Checklist-2The highly-coveted promotion that demands all your time, the sales quota you need to reach to hold your hard-won ranking, the report you need to get to your boss before the day ends, the after-school activities you want to go to with your son or daughter all demand so much of your attention that you can no longer hear the subtle messages your body is saying to you. What

Like, do I need more sleep? Does this or that food nourish and energize my mind and my body in ways that support what I most want to accomplish and achieve? Is this chronic symptom really hereditary, or is there an alternative approach to consider? Do I genuinely not have enough time, or is this one of the many reasons, excuses and justifications I get in my way of creating everything I want in life? Is there another way?

How can you make your best choices for yourself and your life if you are coming from a place of over-committed, disconnected-from-self busyness?

In my work with 100s of clients, I’ve identified four simple things, that help them slow down, so they can actually hear what their body likes, and what their body doesn’t like.

Implement my four recommendations to slow down too, to better hear the subtle messages your body is saying to you.

  1. Gratefulness. Upon rising, breathe deeply and create gratefulness for everything in your life, for even just a few slow deep breaths. Create gratefulness for your health. Your family. Your friends. Your job. Your boss. Even create gratefulness for the very contrary co-worker. Every experience and every person offers us an opportunity to appreciate and grow. Breathing deeply and creating gratefulness for all that is good in your life will brings you back to yourself and the simplest, little things that matter most to you.
  2. Journal. Journaling is an amazing exercise to get to know yourself and find your own voice. The act of writing down what is on your mind releases the ‘junk’ that impedes clear thinking and makes way for what is buried below all your life’s demands. It’s like cleaning the slate, tabula rasa, to return to what matters most to you. I recommend 3 free-writing pages when you first wake up to tap the moments between the unconscious sleeping mind, and the wakeful conscious mind, to release subconscious thoughts.
  3. Rest and Reflect. Rest and reflect to regroup, to unwind, to think through things more clearly, to let go … of the constant demands in your life. Rest and reflect to just rest and reflect, to decompress and think more deeply. Take a walk or go on a bike ride. Read a great book or go for a swim. Take a nap. By taking time to rest and reflect, by taking time to just be, you will become more intune with your inner clock, your circadian rhythm. From this rested state, you will not only feel more refreshed, you will be able to hear more clearly the messages your body is telling you about what it needs to thrive.
  4. Schedule You Time. Scheduling “you-time” provides the time to discover what really matters to you. Scheduling you time offers you time to focus on what matters most to you, on doing, thinking and taking actions aligned with what you deeply know matter to you. Scheduling you time offers you the opportunity to do whatever it is you most need … to reboot, to relax, to create, or to just think more deeply than the daily flow of life typically allows. Here are some simple ways to create you-time:
  • Light a candle
  • Turn off the television and listen to music
  • Take a bath with essential oils
  • Stop for 30 seconds and breathe deeply
  • Drink a cup of ginger or chamomile tea with some raw honey and lemon

In today’s hyper-connected world, reconnecting to self to hear the subtle messages from your body, to hear what it needs to thrive is no longer negotiable, chronic disease is off the charts. By taking time to slow down and implement one or more suggestion from my checklist, to rest, unwind and reconnect, you will more clearly hear your body telling you all that it needs to thrive, and more readily be able to heed it’s call.


Want to learn how I help  my clients put autoimmune disease in remission and reduce insulin by 75%? Email me at: carol@carol-egan.com

Prepping For Clean Eating

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PreppingjpgWith clients, and at events, I always say, “it is not about food.” What I do as a health coach is not simply about what you eat, it is not simply about food. What I do as a health coach is I support you in living your life fully. We are biochemical machines. Our mind, our body and our Spirit run efficiently, IF given the proper fuel needed, IF given nutrient dense foods laden with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, anti-oxidants, enzymes and all the cofactors provided by whole food sources. So while what I do as a health coach is not simply about food, it is our starting point. When you “crowd out” toxic foods by adding in nutrient dense, whole food choices, you turn your body on at the cellular level. You will immediately notice a boost in your energy level, your mood, and how amazing it feels to be in your own body!

 

Planning and preparation are essential to eating clean. Choose two days per week to plan ahead for your week. IF you have healthy food choices prepped and ready to go, clean eating makes healthy, vibrant living possible! Organize your ideas. Choose foods and recipes you love, but always incorporate simple go-to’s with more creative, fun recipes that you think or know you’ll enjoy… and that you know will satiate you. But before you head off to the grocery store, make a list of all the ingredients and items you’ll need.  Creating a list before you get to the store will insure that you buy all the ingredients you need for the meals and snacks you selected to make. When you get home at the end of a long day at work, or you are packing your lunch ingredients up for the day, won’t it be so wonderful that you have things prepped and ready to go?

 

Preparation is the key to success in everything we do, so I set aside time to prep for clean eating on Sundays and Wednesdays. I wash, cut, and get
ready to go all the ingredients I need, so I can literally create most anything in just minutes. Taking 2 days per week for prepping healthy, clean eating meals ahead not only saves us time when we are tired at the end of the day, or are dashing off early in the morning, it too will reduce stress associated with the “not enough time syndrome” many of us experience with our very full schedules. By setting aside a few hours a week to prepare healthy, clean meals and snacks we set ourselves up for success in so many ways.

 

  • Wash, cut and bag fresh fruits and vegetables. I prep fruits like pineapples, mangoes, melons and even grapefruits for smoothies, juices and even salads, since they require more time to prep than let’s say an apple or a banana. I too de-stem strawberries for quick access.  I  wash and prep  spinach, kale, salad greens, celery, carrots, peppers, sprouts and even skin my lemons for my salads and juices, so that I can whip-up a quick juice or salad in a snap too!  And I even bag or “Mason-Jar” my salad the night before for the next day!
  • Complex carbs. Pseuodo-grains. I always prep quinoa ahead, for quick, ready to go use, to scoop on my salad, make a breakfast cereal, or even add to a veggie sauté. I love to prepare chia puddings and bake sweet potatoes ahead too for another breakfast choice, a snack, or even top the sweet potato with broccoli for a perfectly light, complete dinner. Oh, did I say that the smaller size Mason Jars are perfect for chia-seed puddings on the go to?

Carving out time to spend in the kitchen might seem like yet another task to do, but I assure you, setting aside just two days to make preparations for the rest of your week will offer you both healthy food choices as well as reduce any stress equated to preparing meals last minute. It really becomes a win-win. Your health and energy soar. Your weight stabilizes. Your skin glows. Your stress diminishes. Kind of a “no brainer,” if you ask me!

 

Happy Prepping for clean eating!

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