07 Apr

Feed each other, and may I add….

FEED EACH OTHER, AND let’s go a step further and say, “feed each other good, wholesome, real food that heals.

Our PRIMARY foods are Relationships, Spirituality, Physical Movement, and Career.  Our Secondary food is our plates. Lets get balanced together.

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27 Mar

Stress Awareness MONTH

April is Stress Awareness Month

Spring is new beginnings. Spring is cleansing time for creation, including humans. Creation has cleansing built in for purpose.  Let’s make a goal to tune in and clean out our lives this spring.

Stress. Tension. Worry. Pressure. Anxiety. Panic attack. Many words describe it; it is important to find ways to deal with it. I have some tips from various sources on how to manage stress (a few of my own lines thrown into each point also).

  1. Unplug. Don’t let the technologies that help you do your word get in the way of your leisure time. Consider turning off work cellphones when you are with family or friends. Avoid checking work email while away from work. Try a “turn off” time of day, or one day a week, and turn attention on the things you did before handy device news and communication.
  2. Be realistic. Remember that everyone has good days and bad days at work, home, leisure, etc. Avoid negative self-talk.
  3. Reward yourself. When you finish a difficult task, or a simple one, celebrate. Enjoy a snack at your desk, take a short walk, call someone, or visit with a coworker or friend. Make a list of the things you enjoy, and have it handy when it is time for a reward. Your social network is one of your best tools for handling stress. Talk to others — preferably face to face, or at least on the phone
  4. Schedule time for fun. This is vital. If you spend every second of your day getting things done, you may resent never having time for yourself. Make a point to allow yourself some time for active rest and relaxation. I personally have made a schedule for break times in the day, and I have scheduled time for hiking and or other outdoor activity during the day or in the week and make it a priority that is not exchanged for work projects like (unless that is fun J ). A good belly laugh doesn’t just lighten the load mentally. It lowers cortisol, your body’s stress hormone, and boosts brain chemicals called endorphins, which help your mood. Lighten up by tuning in to your favorite sitcom or video, reading the comics, or chatting with someone who makes you smile.
  5. Practice breathing and relaxation techniques. You can do these at home or in a quiet place at work. Techniques include deep breathing, meditation, rhythmic exercise and yoga. I have a specific place, or places, in the day for these things when I know I will not be bothered, and know I have the free time consistently. A few minutes of practice per day can help ease anxiety. Research suggests that daily meditation may alter the brain’s neural pathways, making you more resilient to stress. Deep breathing counters the effects of stress by slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure. Be present. Take 5 minutes and focus on only one behavior with awareness. Notice how the air feels on your face when you’re walking and how your feet feel hitting the ground. Enjoy the texture and taste of each bite of food.
  6. Get moving. All forms of exercise, including yoga and walking, can ease depression and anxiety by helping the brain release feel-good chemicals and by giving your body a chance to practice dealing with stress. You can go for a quick walk around the block, take the stairs up and down a few flights, or do some stretching exercises like head rolls and shoulder shrug.
  7. Be grateful. Keep a gratitude journal or several (one by your bed, one in your purse, and one at work) to help you remember all the things that are good in your life. Use these journals to savor good experiences like a child’s smile, a sunshine-filled day, and good health. Don’t forget to celebrate accomplishments like mastering a new task at work or a new hobby.
  8. Enjoy good food. Eat well. Eat healthy. Incorporating the right foods into your lifestyle can reduce the amount of stress you currently suffer from. One of the main issues with stress is that it can cause unhealthy eating habits. The opposite can also be true, that unhealthy eating habits create stress. Additionally, stress makes the body crave foods that are high in fats and sugars. This flaw in eating, in time will inflict a greater stress on the body, plus other problems that pose a threat to your physical and mental health. Cravings are interconnected with food nourishment that does not appear on your plate. One way to create good habits in food is to balance the two categories of “foods”: Primary and Secondary. Primary are Relationships, Physical Movement, Career, and Spirituality. Secondary foods are the foods on your plate. “Eating healthy” is balancing within your bio-individuality. Nutrition on your plate can be one of your greatest healers to stress.

Jeana Anderson

Health Coach, Massage Therapist, Infant Massage Instructor, Holistic guidance, Youth services, Herbal Education, and Survival Education

jeana@besmiley.com

18 Mar

Clarification

As I venture into this world of trade and business, and take my hobbies and services to a new level, I am learning to create focal points.  The direction of services I intend to focus upon include, but are not limited to:  Holistic guidance in all areas of natural wellness, youth services in massage and health coaching, baby and infant massage instruction and health coaching, herbal education, and survival education for outdoor and everyday life.  I intend to create an open door or window, a stepping stone, or a bench, on your path to better wellness awareness.

17 Mar

Hello friends

Oh, key point here: No coincidences. It happened because I followed the calling in my head. I followed the rule: listen to the the voice of calling, not the “other” voice, and all moves forward and and only forward.

Listening (meditating day and night) is how goals are met. Praying is asking for the things that are humanly impossible (or specifically in the moment details). We do not get answers many times because he will not do what we can do for ourselves and others. All “just so happens” are meant to be.

Now…the rest of the story….

As I watch the geese from the ground, they are covering a field. I admire their colors and shapes. Then, all of a sudden, they get up, organize, and take off into a “v” formation in flight. They do this as if being called. No goose is on the ground saying, “north, really?!”, or “it is such a long distance”. They follow a universal guidance, a calling, to go in a specific direction, and they take action, and keep going their entire lives, and it takes them on their journey.
We all get a calling. We have callings for building a health center, for massage, for community service, for making chocolate, and the list is endless. We all must take continuous action our entire lives and keep moving forward.
BUT…
Infamous questions loom, hesitations linger, that stop us or slow us down. “I don’t have the skills”, “Who am I to do this?”, “I am not a professional ___”, are all questions and second voices that cloud our thinking.
If we are called for a specific purpose and to go into a specific direction, WE HAVE ALL the skills we need, just like the geese. We have exactly what we need. We have to take continuous action.
Quote from Dan Rather: If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
How many have fears? How many have not started?

Tenacity: mental or moral strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. courage implies firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty; spirit suggest a quality of temperament enabling one to hold one’s own or keep up one’s morale when opposed or threatened; resolution stresses firm determination to achieve one’s ends.

Chutzpah: Guts! supreme self-confidence; conspicuous or flagrant boldness. temerity suggests boldness arising from rashness and contempt of danger; audacity implies a disregard of restraints commonly imposed by convention or prudence.

We need Chutzpah to adhere to the calling, and we need tenacity to keep moving forward.

Example: you pass a writer’s box on the street, get the call, “write a book”; the second voice says, “ eh, na, you cannot write a book, you are not a professional writer, you have no skills to write a book.” You ignore the call. You walk on and pass another writer’s box, get the call “write a book”, and a person nearby says, “hey that box just called you to write a book, you better answer that call.” You laugh. You answer the call.
This is just the beginning … you write a book, then rejected 165 times from agents, a friend steps in as your agent, send to publishing companies, rejected, squish the second voice again and again, a few years later, self publish the book, and write a couple more books.

There will always be a second voice saying, “you cannot do that, you are not professional, you do not have the skills, etc.” SQUISH IT!

1) Pay attention to intuition: the first voice: the Goose call. This is the one that calls over and over.

2) Shush up the second voice. It always follows the first voice. The more you take action on the first voice, the smaller the second voice becomes.

3) Take consistent, DAILY, action. It is the universal flow.

4) Keep moving forward. Do not wait to for something to manifest itself. Keep doing something.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “you cannot fly, then run, you cannot run, then walk, you cannot walk, then crawl.”

(notes from my own thoughts and from Andrea Bearman, author and health coach)