Here’s your opportunity to have your voice heard and play a critical part in the development of the upcoming Mindful Body program.
All you have to do is answer one of these three questions. Just leave your response in the comments at the end of the post. (Email readers, click here to let your voice be known.)
Remember it’s your participation that makes the simple mindfulness community what it is.
1. What is your biggest challenge or fear keeping you from creating the healthy, happy body you want?
or, if you already have and experience the body you want:
2. What is your best tactic or strategy for being healthy and/or feeling happy with your body?
or
3. What is one success story of you or someone you know changing their health and happiness with their body, and how’d you/they do it?
**Note: Feel free to stop reading right now and go directly to the comments section below to answer one of the above. I can’t wait to feature some of your responses!
If you’re not usually one to comment, I urge you, if you only comment on one post, this is the one. Even if it’s only a sentence or two, and feel free to leave it under a fake name if you must. It will dramatically help all of us.
Simple Mindfulness Can Change Your Body and Your Happiness
There is no more powerful influence on your body and happiness than mindfulness. It can be magic – if you focus on the right things.
The problem is that most people are lost when it comes to identifying the small changes they can make in their lives that deliver lasting results.
This doesn’t have to be you. If you aren’t living mindfully each day, you may never find the key to unlocking ease and happiness with your body.
I love this topic, and I’m creating a course I think will help a lot, but it can only be incredibly useful if I get your guidance.
I want to learn from you.
So please take a few minutes and leave one or more sentences answering one of these three questions:
1. What is your biggest challenge or fear keeping you from creating the healthy, happy body you want?
or, if you already have and experience the body you want:
2. What is your best tactic or strategy for being healthy and/or feeling happy with your body?
or
3. What is one success story of you or someone you know changing their health and happiness with their body, and how’d you/they do it?
That’s it!
This week you get to be the one contributing and creating the content that is going to help so many thousands of us in the months and years to come.
You can be a lot more help to the community than you probably realize.
Thank you in advance for sharing your thoughts.
I can’t wait to see your responses and incorporate them into my upcoming Mindful Body program.
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Here’s to creating the happy, healthy body that you want.
Big Hugs!
Paige
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Commented: 10/09/2012 at 4:24 pm
‘What is your best tactic or strategy and feeling happy with your body’?
Self love, self acceptance and not doing things because you need to improve or are not good enough.
Practicing meta/loving kindness meditation was the best strategy I found to feel happy with my body.
This practice made me aware of what actions I was taking that were not being kind to my body or when my self talk was harsh or judgmental.
Self love/acceptance supports you in wanting to do right by yourself.
Harsh judgment makes you turn to things to help sooth the pain.
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Commented: 10/09/2012 at 6:04 pm
What is your best tactic or strategy for being healthy or feeling happy with your body?
I have learned to be gentler with myself. I read a self-love prayer every morning that relates to my body, mind and heart. This helps centre me for my day.
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Commented: 10/09/2012 at 7:11 pm
My challenge at the moment is juggling competing demands – all of which can be unpredictable.
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Commented: 10/09/2012 at 11:14 pm
1. What is your biggest challenge or fear keeping you from creating the healthy, happy body you want?
Personally I deal with multiple chronic pain conditions and illnesses. Making the effort to improve my health and especially reduce weight, is a double edged sword. While it certainly helps *in the long term* with managing and reducing pain, the immediate increase in pain and fatigue hurts a lot, and that increase in pain is scary – even the expectation of increased pain causes a fear reaction. It’s then easy to create excuses, prioritize energy spending on work (because work also suffers when pain increases).
Fear of increased pain, and dealing with perfectionism and dedication to work, are my biggest challenges to cultivating mindfulness.
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Commented: 10/10/2012 at 3:24 am
this is so strange; i was talking to my sister in law last night about this very thing! what i said was i can talk it up really well; i know all the reasons and facts and the how to’s to be healthier, thinner, etc., but i can’t come up with a decent reason to do it; maybe reason isn’t a good explanation; i have lots of reasons to do it, but i can’t get the motivation or focus maybe to do it; i’ve joined a gym twice this past year and have cancelled it after a few months; i do have a few physical problems which prevent me from being on my feet for extended periods of time, but that is an excuse, not a reason really – so – to make a long story short – why can’t i just do it? i guess my reason is i choose not to – that’s pretty sad isn’t it?
Commented: 10/10/2012 at 5:21 am
I started having more success when I stopped looking at the outcome as a measure of success. Of course I have goals; the potential for improvement – eventually – keeps me excited. But I almost never get discouraged anymore if I don’t have the perfect linear trajectory toward that goal. And here’s the secret: I started looking at just showing up as the victory. It doesn’t matter if you’re better than the runner/lifter/walker/whoever next to you. What matters is that you are better than you were yesterday. And that only happens when you show up for yourself. That’s the real victory. So get on some comfortable clothes and shoes and just show up at the track/gym/sidewalk/wherever. If you do that, you’ve already won.
And when you show up at the track/gym/sidewalk/wherever, you may as well do something.
Commented: 10/10/2012 at 9:15 am
Paige- As I already know, you’ve got some great info. in this program. I eat well and exercise regularly. BUT my body has still changed – obviously. What I’m doing now – thanks to the Hicks- is visualizing and experiencing something in my life that I want. Guess what? I want a FLAT STOMACH. NO JOKE!! Need I say more?
Ahhh….and since I start visualizing this past week, I swear that I feel like I am carrying myself differently. If it’s the placebo effect, it is starting to work on me! As always, you inspire. xxoo-Fran
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Commented: 10/10/2012 at 4:53 pm
I’d love to answer your questions Paige! I have a morning free tomorrow. I’ll spend some time thinking of it tonight.
Can’t wait for your course!! I just heard Dr. Andrew Weil speak a week ago and had to write about his talk. I think you really would have enjoyed it.
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Commented: 10/12/2012 at 6:54 am
Thank you all so much for your responses! You’ve given me some awesome new ideas to add to the Mindful Body program. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you sharing your challenges and ideas. You’re definitely helping our community here.
Huge Hugs!!
Commented: 10/12/2012 at 5:20 pm
Since my interests lean towards martial arts, my biggest fear is injury. At 60, I finally had to admit that taekwondo was not going to be a sustainable practice, at least the way I like to do it. I’ve just switched to kung fu and tai chi, both of which I think I can do for many years to come. Listening to my body was the key.
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Commented: 10/16/2012 at 2:00 am
1. I struggle with keeping up the habit. I have been exercising on and off for a year and though I can definitely see changes in my body, I don’t know how to be consistent about it. Is it better to do 15-30mins everyday or to do an hour every three days? I also don’t know what exercises to do so I just do whatever I feel like.
When it comes to nutrition I’m eating mostly vegetarian Monday to Friday. I don’t know much about staying healthy as a vegetarian though, I just started doing it without a whole lot of research. All the different opinions on what you should or should not eat confuse me.
3. My boyfriend lost about 15kg in 6 months. He did the usual things, ate less crappy foods & carbs, not too late at night and went to the gym or running 3-4 times a week. I think what did the trick for him was full commitment as well as having 2 friends that went on the journey with him.
Commented: 10/16/2012 at 10:06 am
I’m finally making better choices for my body and health because of a brighter WHY.
I realized at a family celebration how very grateful I was to have the people I love there and how I missed those who were gone. (A little unconditional love and support from my Grandma would be precious today)
It suddenly made sense to keep me healthy so I can attend graduations, weddings, etc for my kids and grands and watch their lives unfold.This is a gift to them but even more to me -Now as I pass on junk food I tie it to a future event I want to be attending. Exercise for a graduation -years in the future, have a veggie plate for a wedding way down the road, etc. . It is an act of mindfulness to remember one of them will someday be taking Grandmas cheerleading for granted at every milestone.
I’ve made it a silly game and add fun to my day as I pretend I’m attending an Oscar or Nobel Prize ceremony for todays toddlers or teens and subtly remind myself I have value several times every day. Should one of them find the cure to cancer or resolve world hunger I would not miss the celebration for anything in the world-and definitely not for an order of fries.
Commented: 10/16/2012 at 2:16 pm
Whenever I start to feel a little unease in my body, even if it’s the slightest tinge of nausea, I immediately assess the foods I have been eating recently and usually I’m able to identify something that it would have been best for me not to eat or something I ate too much of. I’ve been pretty good at ruthlessly cutting those out of my diet.
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Commented: 10/18/2012 at 3:50 pm
I suppose I just don’t see myself as a fit and slender person. My dad was very much into sports, played on the national soccer team, and it frequently pissed off my mother. Furthermore, growing up with a self esteem lower than zero, physical exercise and excellence in sports was too scary: books gave a faster access to acceptance. So I guess an old fear of defeat and failure connects itself to a believed fear of physical pain coming from exercise.
But when I do, always by accident and always enjoyable, I feel great. Here is much work to be done.
My best strategy is eating very healthy and also great supplements from Nutriway, made from organic fruits and vegetables. But it is not enough, and I have just joined a gym. Here, my strategy is rather simplistic: Show up, do a little more every day and see what happens. The Kaizen way.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any good role models.
This really is a weak area. I have finally figured out enough about life to really enjoy it, and I must be a better steward of my body, or I loose the whole thing.
Commented: 10/18/2012 at 11:35 pm
Where would I be without you guys??? More awesome ideas and things to think about!
Thank you so much for your comments and being a part of this community!
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