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There is a deep,
powerful connection between our physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual well-being.
The "Secret" to life is that the way we think directly
influences all aspects of our life.
LifeBreath Fitness encompasses all four dimensions of existence to help
transform our
students towards a happier, healthier life.
The
Secret to an Amazing Life
The way we view life
is called our “paradigm.” It’s the lens through which we see - and
it creates the way we perceive and live life. Attitude is one name for that paradigm. I believe that people are born either more positive or
more negative in attitude; however, attitudes can be changed through
purposeful thinking and living. Your attitude is your choose and as the
old saying goes, “Attitude is everything.”
We see it every day
– miracles occurring through fortitude and superhuman courage –
athletic marvels, people living through the most horrendous conditions,
medical miracles, and people helping people. LifeBreath is a powerful
tool in helping people shift their paradigms and creating optimal states
of health and well-being.
I
suggest the following:
For
Optimal Physical Health
•
Breathe! Every physical process involves using oxygen.
• Move your body every day.
• Find exercises that you really enjoy doing.
• Balance your exercise program.
• Cardiovascular, endurance, flexibility, agility, balance, weight
bearing,
energy work. Remember that even healthy activities can
be
done out of balance.
• Eat often and eat healthy. If you don’t know how to eat healthy,
learn.
• Drink lots of water.
• Stay grounded.
“If
you built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under
them.”
Henry
David Thoreau
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Spend time in nature.
“To
live content with small means; to seek elegance
rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study
hard,
think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars
and
birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all
cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a
word,
to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up
through
the common. This is to be my symphony.”
William
Henry Channing
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Get plenty of sleep, rest, and relaxation.
•
Meditate daily.
•
Create a good work ethic. Do more than is expected of you and do
it
cheerfully.
•
Be very careful how you speak and how you think. There is great
power
in the spoken word and your thoughts.
•
Find a passion in life and follow it.
“The
purpose of life is a life purpose.” —Robert
Byrne
•
Find admirable role models.
• Become a steward. Leave things better than you found them.
• Know that there is a law of reciprocation and karma. Understand
that
there is a force of action / reaction and the law of choice and
consequences in everything that you think, do, and say.
• Pain and illness can be our greatest teachers.
“Of
one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of
healing
– peace is the measure.” George
Melton
•
We project who we are in life.
• Choose who you want to be and project it.
• Attend to the little things in life and do it joyfully
• Sharpen your (life) tools and use them often.
• Be careful not to take on labels or put labels on others.
• Laugh often, especially
at yourself.
• Play often.
• Learn how to prioritize.
• Learn how to create balance in your life.
• Never stop learning and striving. If you do, it will kill you.
• Find work you really enjoy.
“What
is it in the end that induces a man to go his own way,
and
to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass?… It is
…
called vocation (which) acts like a law of God … Anyone
with
a vocation hears the voice of the inner man; he is
called.”
Carl Jung
•
Learn about holistic health and eastern and western medicine.
• Take responsibility for your own health.
• Remember the three R’s:
Respect
yourself. Respect others. Responsibility in all actions (karma).
•
Make happiness a priority. Make your health and well-being a priority.
Everyone
around you will reap the benefits.
•
RELAX !
For
Optimal Emotional Health
•
Breathe! Breath is a key to mastering your emotions.
•
True peace, spiritual enlightenment, radiant health, and emotional
well-being
can
not be achieved without forgiveness.
•
Forgiveness is the great healer. We must forgive ourselves.
“If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at
least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.”
Sebastein-Roch
Nicolas
•
By forgiving our past and letting go about worry for our future, we can
learn
to live joyfully in this moment. Only this moment is real.
•
Learn to be present and live in this moment.
“Life can be found only in the present moment. The
past
is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go
back
to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch
with life.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
•
There are different levels of compassion. Work towards compassion
without
getting caught up in everyone’s “stuff.”
• No matter who you are, what you have been through, or where you are
in
life,
you absolutely have the power to change your life.
• True happiness comes when we learn that self care begins and ends
with
ourselves.
At that realization, we no longer demand happiness and
sustenance
from others.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.”
Eleanor
Roosevelt
“There is no need to run outside for better seeing
... Rather
abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave
it,
the less you learn. Search your heart and see.”
Lao
Tzu in the Tao Te Ching
•
Dare to dream!
•
No dream is too small or too big.
•
Never take away anyone else’s dreams.
• Make happiness a priority. Decide
to be happy.
•
Live with personal authenticity and integrity.
• Ask, when at odds with yourself or others…
• Would I rather be happy or would I rather be right?
• Remember that life is a journey.
We can find great reward in loving ourselves.
• Great love and achievements involve great risk
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with
yourself.”
Mark Twain
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to
sail
my ship.” —Louis May
Alcott
•
There are only two basic human emotions that all other feelings fall
under:
love and fear. In which state would you like to live your life?
• When you say, “I love you,” mean it.
• When you say, “I’m sorry,” mean it.
• When you say, “I forgive you,” mean it.
• Believe in love at first sight.
• Love deeply and passionately.
• You might get hurt, but it’s the only way to live life.
• When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to
correct
it.
• One of our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we
are
powerful
beyond measure. Overcome your fears and
fly!
•
We all have addictive tendencies. Addiction is being stuck in the past,
blocked
creative energy, or power turned inwardly on ourselves. Work
through
your addictions and you will find freedom, joy, and love.
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he
feels worthy
of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made
him.”
—Abraham Lincoln.
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Understand and Remember -People do the best they can.
• Never judge another unless you walk in their shoes.
• Mirroring is the idea that when someone or something bothers you,
there
is
a life lesson to learn.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead
us to
understanding of ourselves.” —Carl
Jung
“If you judge people, you have no time to love
them.”
Mother
Teresa
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You are in charge of your emotions.
• Events are just events until the mind comes to judge them.
• Are you a fault-finder or a positive attribute-finder?
• Honor the path that others are on.
• Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
• Love isn’t caring FOR others. Love is caring ABOUT others.
• Transformation occurs when we change our inside world. It does not
occur
from the world outside us.
• The past does NOT equal the future.
• Try to make fear a counselor and a motivator.
• KISS ... Keep It Simple Sweety!
For
Optimal Mental Health
•
Breathe...
•
Healthy, full, diaphragmatic breathing keeps the mind clear, focused,
and
relaxed.
• Hang out with positive people.
• Give thanks, then give it again and again. I call this the
Attitude of
Gratitude.
•
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
• Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s mostly small stuff.
• Be impeccable with your words. Speak with integrity.
• Only say things you will sign and date.
• Say only what you mean.
• Become a really good listener.
• Concern yourself with the things that you can influence and let go
of
those
you can’t. STOP WORRYING!
• Don’t
assume things.
• Walk the Walk as you Talk the Talk.
• Don’t believe gossip.
“The mind can actually change physiology.”
`The
Relaxation Response, Dr. Benson, MD
•
Teach yourself how to think positively.
• You can’t afford the luxury of negative thinking.
• Gay ga zunta hay ... means
“NEXT!!!” It’s an old Yiddish quote
meaning
to move on in relationships. Move on in life. Time for a
change.
Time for new.
• Don’t take anything personally
• Go with the flow and TRUST.
• We are our own Life Script Writer. At the same time, we must hand
our
lives
over to God. What a wonderful duality!
“The last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s
attitude in
any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own
way.”
Viktor
Frank
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert
Einstein
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be
true
either is true or becomes true.” —John
Lilly
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When I see an attribute in YOU that I admire, I MUST have it myself,
otherwise,
I could not recognize it.
• Do you see the cup as half empty or half full? Choose full, and
suddenly,
you
will see that your luck will change.
• Think “win/win.” It realy can be achieved.
•
Beware the Six I’s
I
should have
If only I had
I
judge
I
can’t
I
won’t
I
am
• Spend a lot of time minding your own business.
•
100th monkey
concept:
If
enough people think the same way, it will effect the whole world. This
an
be wonderful or it can be dangerous and scary.
For
Spiritual Health
•
Breathe...
for
within The Breath you draw in is spirit and all the “good things”
of
life.
• Remember that every day is a gift.
• Remember that your loved ones are just temporarily on loan to you.
• They may be recalled at any given moment.
• Every relationship is holy, from the stranger at the grocery store
to your
beloved
ones.
• Show people your “heart smile” everywhere you go. You’ll be
surprised
how
it is received. Become a beacon of light wherever you walk.
• Communicate with God, nature, goddess, universal chi…whatever you
call
it.
“I maintain that cosmic religious feelings is the
strongest and
noblest incitement to scientific research.” Albert
Einstein
•
Learn about unconditional love.
•
Believe in miracles.
• Learn to recognize small coincidences and happen-stance as a strong
force
in helping you see and hear spiritual guidance.
• Learn about attunement.
• Having patience is having faith in the Divine.
• We are never healed... we are made whole. This can only occur from
within.
• Listen to your intuition. Strive to be intuitive.
• Meditate
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise
and
restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
Mother
Teresa
• Trusting in God and Breath
Not, what I am, O Lord, but what
Thou Art;
That, that alone can by my soul’s
true rest;
Thy love, not mine, bids fear and
doubt depart,
And stills the tumult of my troubled
breast.
Girt with the love of God, on every
side,
I breathe that love as
heaven’s own healing air;
I work and pray, and follow still my
guide,
And fear no foe, escaping every
snare.
‘Tis what I know of Thee, my Lord
and God,
That fills my soul with peace, my
lips with song;
Thou art my health, my joy, staff,
my rod;
I lean on Thee, in weakness I am
strong.
—Psalm 195 Hobatius
Bonar
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