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Journaling Tips: The Mindfulness Journal
[disclosure] Mindfulness. This has become a very commonly-used word these days. Mindful living, mindful eating … Are there other ways you can incorporate this philosophy into your life? Mindfulness is a complete body, mind, and spiritual practice. Through meditation and contemplation, you begin to remove negative energy from your life. You also begin to see what is triggering you and how your body reacts. One way to manage this is with a mindfulness journal. Here we look at how to create a mindfulness journal and how to effectively use it every day. The Set-Up A mindfulness journal resembles what most would call a devotional journal. In many cases, people use…
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The Importance of Self-Worth: 4 Steps to Improve Yours
[disclosure] Good morning! Here’s to the start of a wonderful week! One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is the gift of believing in our inherent worth as a human being. Without a clear appreciation of your own worth, you can’t go forward and touch others’ lives in a way that’ll be beneficial to them. Without this critical self-worth, you open yourself up to dangerous toxic relationships and settle for less than you truly deserve in life. Self-Worth and Yourself Your view of your own self can be hard to nail down. We’re so often concerned with what other people think of us that it can get in…
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Make Your Walks Count: How to Improve Your Burn
[disclosure] It’s easy to allow your walk for exercise session become a leisurely stroll around the neighborhood. I’ve been there. But if you’re going to utilize walking as a form of exercise, know that there are some ways to increase your fat burn. How Fast Should You Walk to Burn Fat? It makes sense that to burn fat and ultimately lose weight, you must get your body into fat-burning mode. But just exactly how do you tell your body to burn stored fat instead of pulling from available sugars? By warming up first! First, the Warm Up To wake up your muscles and let them know you’re in this for…
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What Do You Want Out of Life?
[disclosure] I know I have touched on this topic before, but circumstances have brought these questions back to the forefront again… I’m sure many of you have experienced the same thing – you lose someone important (parent, child, spouse, friend) and you start asking questions –which you may have asked and answered in your life—about your purpose and your goals. So here I am –doing a quick deep dive again. Are You Where You Want to Be? It’s hard to set goals when you aren’t even sure what you want out of life. Plenty of people stumble around and wing it. For some of those people, that could work. They…
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A Case Study: Believe in Yourself
[disclosure] Happy Tuesday! I took a mini-break during the 4th of July week. But I am back – re-energized and ready to go! As I mentioned when I started this blog, this is a sort of restart for me – a restart in health, exercise, and healthy eating. We traveled through the exercise search (it will continue of course) but now we are going to spend some time on self-development topics. It should be fun! We all have specific reasons why we are on the internet – starting a business, expressing ourselves, passing on our experiences, the reasons are endless. But something that we all have in common…
