We all have ups and downs in life. But rather than letting our happiness be at random or dependent on what we do or don't have, happiness is also a choice. Here's my top 7 tips for greater life happiness, allowing it to be more predictable in your life, and allowing you to have more control over your happiness.
Let’s keep it simple. Your unwanted behaviors – even if they are automatic – are simply behaviors and habits – or mental pathways. They are something you’ve learned, and you can learn something new. In fact, you are learning new things – and creating new neuronal pathways – all the time. By engaging your inner [...]
Motivation is a key to your success. But how do you get motivated? How do you tap into your deeper self and engage your inner drive? Chances are you've been holding yourself hostage with your goal, thinking you can’t feel good about yourself, or feel accomplished, until you’ve achieved the goal. No wonder you feel [...]
Whatever we focus on will grow. If you are focusing on the problem—guess what? The problem gets bigger, if only in your mind! A common perception is that we are at war with anything we don’t like. We fight cancer and disease, we have declared war on drugs, but these problems only get bigger. We [...]
I just uploaded a new video to youtube: Train your Brain to Curb your Cravings. We just took the video on Saturday from the class, and we are running a 6 week Train your Brain to Lose Weight series on Sat. Oct. 1 in downtown Vancouver: 205 E 16th St. uptown Village, email to reserve [...]
If you've struggled with the same goal or challenge over and over, it's because a deeper part of your mind doesn't want the change. When these automatic programs are working against our conscious goals, what we experience is self-sabotage.
A high calorie, fat-rich diet causes inflammatory toxins to be expressed in the hypothalamus {center of the brain}, contributing to changes in brain function. The outcome is insulin resistance and a reduction in the brain's ability to signal that your stomach is full. This leads to overeating and weight gain. In other words, the brain of an overeater is inflamed.
it’s a great time to review the year and look forward to a bright new future in 2011. Here is a wonderful New Year tradition. Write down all the things you want to let go of from the past year...
Our reality isn’t real at all – it’s just our interpretation of it. If you want to change your reality, change your perspective, change your perception. When you change your perception, you change your reality!
As we stay focused on what we do want- we give our mind clearer directions about what we do want. To engage your deeper mind in working for you, give it clear directions, and you can do this through the language we use. There is a part of our mind ( our unconscious mind) that doesn't hear negatives.
