The human body is only a thing of beauty, grace and intelligence. I approach every subject in my life from a Mind/Body/Spirit/Space perspective because I know blocks to our perfect health or body shape (or anything) are anchored in our homes, our emotions, thoughts and relationships.
No matter what shape or size your body is right now it’s perfect right now because it wants to be healthy too. Your body is at every moment working to bring you in line with your dreams.
Removing the blocks will allow your body to do its magnificent work. Here are some tips and things to consider if you are working too hard at getting to your perfect weight:
- Balance Earth Energy in Your Home & Office. Earth energy is associated with food, gathering, nourishing, digesting and thinking. An overabundance of Earth element in your environment will make it very difficult to invite the slim, vibrant healthy you in. Earth energy is anchored in our spaces by things that are low, soft, comfortable, browns and tans, beiges and yellows, square and rectangular items and décor, representations of earth in art of photos.
Are You an Earth Energy? Click here to discover yours and then you can download the Guide for more information. It’s very cool. If your Personal Feng Shui Energy (Nine Star Ki) has an Earth Component in it (2, 5, or 8) you will have a tendency to gather things to you, to hold on to things including past emotions which translate to weight gain. Read on to discover how to balance that energy and unlock the anchors that prevent your perfect self from easily emerging.- Counterbalance Earth Just a little of the other elements can be effective to bring your spaces into harmony with your new healthy and slim self. Balance in Feng Shui doesn’t mean 20% of each of the 5 elements, just a bit can be the perfect ingredient to life the energy and spice it up.
- Add a bit of Tree energy: Trees pull their energy from the Earth; in the same way that Trees pull their energy from Earth, Tree energy will uplift Earth energy and help to make things not so heavy. Adding a bit of Tree energy will help you become more independent and visualize your best self.
Tree Energy can uplift excess Earth Energy that can prevent permanent perfect weight. Add light blue, light green or even tall thin items to your decor to help you. This set can be found at Frontgate.com
Décor Items: Things that are tall and slender, light blue or light green, vertical stripes, plants, trees or representations of trees and plants. Replace the light bulb in your refrigerator with one that is blue (your appetite will wane with the thought of blue food). Other ways to bring Tree energy into your life: Be independent, look for creative ways to address your life, visualize yourself doing things in your healthy, fit body.
- Add a bit of Tree energy: Trees pull their energy from the Earth; in the same way that Trees pull their energy from Earth, Tree energy will uplift Earth energy and help to make things not so heavy. Adding a bit of Tree energy will help you become more independent and visualize your best self.
- Balance with the other elements Balance can be achieved by making sure the other elements are also represented in your spaces:
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Metal—metal energy will give Earth energy somewhere to go. For instance, Earth is all about gathering details and items, researching and Metal energy is about delivering those details to the world, timeframes, travel and accountability. Décor Items: silver and metallic items, things that are round, spherical, arched or oval, things that are white or metal colors (gold is more of an Earth color). Other ways to get Metal energy into your life: get out into the community and give of yourself, deliver a speech, work toward a deadline or even you want to use to motivate you, hold yourself accountable to yourself and your life, join a group that is focused on healthy activities or slim-gain.
- Fire—Clarifying and brilliant, we all need fire energy to express our best selves. It helps us to network and be known for who we are. This energy actually supports Earth in the biggest way, creating more Earth energy. Use Fire energy to balance and light the fire of passion and interface with others into your life. Décor Items: Light, open the draperies and let the sun shine in; campfires, candles or representations of fire or sun; red, orange or vibrant pink; triangular, conical or pyramidal shapes. Other ways to get Fire energy into your life: Get out with people, exercise: take a walk, get outside, and networking. Do things with people that don’t include food: hiking, rock climbing, yoga… It’s important that you take care of you and building YOUR resources…do something that is ‘self-ish’ each day that doesn’t include helping someone else, or volunteering and taking on other people’s pain and stuff. Once you take care of you, you’ll have a lot more to offer others. Do something that makes your heart light and happy—a belly dancing class, karaoke, find a topic you love and give a talk on it at the Ladies Club. Pets and animals are Fire energy, just petting a cat or dog, talking to a bird can uplift your positive Earth energy.
- Water— Water energy is two things: its flow is downward, toward all things deep, spiritual and emotional and it is bubbly, social and fast moving. Water energy can unground you and get your life flowing again. Water energy is associated with our Kidneys and sexual organs. Kidney energy in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is the life force. When Kidney energy is low, we are tired, look aged, and decline. Water energy can bring freshness, insight and vitality. Be cautious using Water energy as too much can erode or muddy Earth energy. Your front door and all doors are associated with the influx of life force into your spaces and life; make sure they work perfectly, are used daily, are beautiful and welcoming and open onto a beautiful view inside. Décor Items: water feature (flowing toward the center of your home or in a 360 degree fashion), black décor items, mirrors, reflective surfaces, organic shapes, asymmetrical items. Other ways to get Water energy into your life: Check below regarding underlying emotional issues that keep you stuck, take a bath or shower, drink more clear, clean high pH water (not with meals as it will dilute your digestive acids), get onto water or put your feet in water—canoeing, kayaking, swimming, etc.
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- Counterbalance Earth Just a little of the other elements can be effective to bring your spaces into harmony with your new healthy and slim self. Balance in Feng Shui doesn’t mean 20% of each of the 5 elements, just a bit can be the perfect ingredient to life the energy and spice it up.
- Notice and Change The Images Around YouThe shapes and the images we see create our reality. Place tall thin items around you. Avoid low, squat or ‘fat’ things like pony bottles of Heineken, or squat pillar candles. Remove the fun, but chubby chefs, the images of eating or food. Enter through your front door rather than through the kitchen, where you’ll be reminded of food. Turn the lights off in the kitchen at 6:00 pm; go for a walk and look at the trees.
- Address Your Wardrobe: You are initiating change: discard or donate all the clothing that you don’t love or use. If you’ve been working for a while at changing your body image, you may have a few different wardrobes in different sizes. After you discard the items you don’t truly love or the ones that aren’t stylish or classic, box the rest according to size and get them out of your closet and dressers. Have only one size wardrobe available at a time and as you move down, shift the others. If you notice those getting tight, don’t go get the larger size, make a special effort for a few days until you are back on track. Do the above emotional releases and Feng Shui to help you.
Other Tips on Getting to Your Healthy, Fit, Vibrant Body
- Start each day anew. And start each moment a new. See your day as a 24 hour period and if you choose to eat something that you love, enjoy it! Taste it fully. See it glowing in your body, fulfilling all your nutritional needs.
- Take Your Time Life is never the same, every summer is a different one and developing the core of a healthy life STYLE will give you an anchor…but this takes time and be patient with yourself. Old habits, other people’s habits, and allowing yourself to pay attention to your own needs might not come right away. Let it develop and keep learning about how you take care of you.
- Use Your Intuition and Answer your body’s REAL need. Noticing what is really going on in our whole body, your emotions, physical, mental and social can help you stop eating food when what it is you really want is some attention, love or interaction. Do you miss company? Do you need a hug? Did someone bring up a sad memory or disrespect you? I noticed that sometimes when tired, especially if I were driving a long distance, I would eat to stay awake. I realized this was a pattern from my childhood and that my body, long ago, got the signals confused so that when I needed sleep, I’d substitute food. When I realized this, it took some effort to just go lie down, take a nap or go to bed early (one day I was in bed for the night at 5:30 pm and slept until 9:00 am the next day!) I have since been so thankful that I was brave enough to answer my body’s true need and think of the calories I didn’t consume because of it.
- Be gentle with yourself. Unresolved childhood issues and programming are often the underlying cause of weight gain. Don’t be hard on yourself and take good care with your inner child. Be gentle and begin to parent that little child inside yourself from a loving standpoint. Psychologists say that on the road to healthy, interdependent adult, we get stuck at the “age” and behavior where our parents couldn’t get us to the stage on the journey. [This has tremendous effects on our own Inner Child as well as our parenting capability for our own children but that’s another post]. To claim your adult power, change the sayings from childhood like “Eat all that’s on your plate” or “Give the biggest piece to the guest” or “you are so fat.” These are programmed into us and our subconscious inner child takes it as truth and acts on it. As the grown-up in your own body, you can delete those old patterns and assure your small child self that there’s enough, that it’s worse to waste your healthy body, that food is just one way to have fun and we can also have fun playing other ways. You’ll no longer have to rebel against this form of denial. Reprogram that voice and say, “I can eat as much or little as I want,” “I deserve the biggest piece and will take it if I want.” (Check out http://www.tapping.com/magnus (or his YouTube Videos) for one great way to remove subconscious cellular programming as well as The Emotion Code, by Bill Nelson to help you.
- Work with a trusted psychologist who can help you take back your life and help your inner child enjoy itself again. I recommend working with a professional, getting a solid foundation and assessment of your underlying issues and allow someone to help you through. You don’t get extra bonus points for going it alone, in fact, it can slow you down. Our bodies register and sometimes house these events in our tissues to keep us alive in the greater scheme. Oftentimes, through professional guidance, they can be released from our bodies by expending energy, punching, kicking, etc. Where we hold our excess weight can often tell us the issues we need to release.
- Discover the Underlying Cause Check out: Louise Hay’s book Heal Your Body, which lists the underlying emotional issues associated dis-ease and with each body part and vertebrae. This is no time to be timid. If you are holding weight in your upper arms, ask yourself: “How am I perhaps holding anger at my mother for something she did or didn’t do for me while I was growing up? Did she defend me against abuse? Did she teach me how to be a powerful woman/centered man? Can I release, forgive and move on?” Do this with love, you don’t have to confront her personally because she had her own limitations while raising or not raising you. This is your private information and it can be healed. Then do some yoga and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you become toned and healthy. A few others:
- Bodynamics, a study of work from that explains and heals the ‘interpersonal and developmental causes of illness.
- EMDR, Eye Muscle Desensitization Response is a non-invasive, practitioner driven way of healing trauma. Many have been cleared of PTSD such as Viet Nam Veterans. Frankly, I believe we all have traumas that have thwarted our best health. Sometimes just getting out of bed some days is a heroic feat, don’t you think?
- EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, is a method of healing the emotions stored in our cells by tapping specific meridians and points. (See http://www.tapping.com/magnus or his YouTube Videos) He’s thorough and easy for me to follow.
- Discover life without wheat, sugar or dairy. Or just pick one of those and focus on the joy of vegetables, sautéed with herbs and spices. Get creative with the food you eat and understand how the human body works.
- Try acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Massage, All this ancient information looks at the body through its systems and how they work together. Focusing on detoxification, exercise and ‘right action’, working with a professional practitioner, can set your body in balance and help you not have to deal with pain or dis-ease. Here are three beautiful articles that explain tiredness, over thinking, and weight gain understandably.
- Focus on healthy, fit, and trim. Take your focus off ‘weight’ and ‘fat’. What you say and focus on grows. Instead, let the slimness in, the health in, the beauty in. Before you go to bed, see yourself slim, get photos of your favorite body (yours or someone else’s’) and look at it and tell your being that this is the body you have now, easily and joyfully.
- Begin to LOVE your body, starting at your toes, say hello to them, the skin, the muscles, tendons, bones, blood, and work your way up. Get physical, stretch and if you want, give yourself permission to have more sex — it’s healthy (sorry if this is blunt and/or personal but it is a very healthy and can be fun way to get in touch with your body and begin to love it again)
- Delight in beauty of others. When you see a slim person, delight in how it looks and feels. Watch how she or he moves and honor it.