We rationalize and fill our minds with self limiting beliefs
about how long it's going to take… to lose weight, to get our blood pressure
down, to heal and repair, to change negative relationships, lifestyles, or diet…to
find love, joy and happiness.
The reality is, and the beauty and the curse is, that we all
have free will. We are the only species on the planet that has free will; the
choice to choose at every moment
every thought, what we are going to do, think, and feel. Yes, we even choose
how we are going to feel about
something.
We can follow our amygdala primitive brain and react based on
history and past experience, or we can choose to think differently and take our
mind in a different place. We can choose loving, nourishing, self-affirming
thoughts and actions, or we can choose fear, worry, doubt and chaos.
Food is the foundation that gives you the ingredients needed
to nourish your body; but if your mind is not in the right place, you won’t be
able to digest it. Choosing stress makes it physiologically impossible to
digest your food, lose weight or to heal and repair. Diet is the food you eat;
nutrition is what is derived from the food. Nourishment is not just physical;
it’s mental, emotional and it’s spiritual.
Here’s some food for thought. How will you choose today? How will you make two minutes count? What
choices will you make today as far as your food, relationships, thoughts and
actions? Will you choose love? One of my mentors said to me recently, “Change
takes only as long as you choose.”
Carpe Diem,
Lisa
About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT
Author of SavvySecrets: Eat, Think & Thrive, Seven Steps to Optimal Health; Lisa’s
mission is to inspire wellness through speaking, writing, coaching and yoga
dance.
Lisa is the Executive Director of an Integrative Wellness
Program for an oncology group in Bethesda, MD; she is part of the New Self
Health Movement, the International Health Coach Association, and the Wellness
Inspired Network. Lisa is the mother of four adult children, a grandmother,
and believes that optimal health should not be a secret!
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