A Clear Purpose
Do you know what you really want? Do you have a clear purpose or goal in mind? Having a clear purpose will help you find balance and live a healthy life. This chapter will help you define your purpose for the various areas of your life in a fun and empowering way. A 5 step process will guide you to develop an “on purpose” action to get you on your way to a spectacular life.
Adjusting Your Inner pH for Optimal Health
Most people are familiar with acid rain and the damage it does to the environment; acidic foods have a similar effect on the internal human environment as well. When you eat a diet high in acidity it can stress your body’s regulating systems, it then needs to work harder at achieving a neutral pH. This deprives your blood of minerals and can lead to chronic illnesses. This chapter gives you a rundown of acidic foods, explain the impact they’re having on your body and gives you tips on how to achieve a more alkaline pH to safeguard your health.
Be Aware and Awake in Your Life
Many people today live life on autopilot, programmed like a computer, wondering why they’re not fulfilled and happy. It’s time to resuscitate your life! This chapter brings a genuine attention to what you’re really doing with your life and examines how ritualistic daily activities and bad habits could be sabotaging your spectacular life.
Balance – Walking on the Edge
Do you feel like something is out of balance or off-center in your life? What area of your life is screaming for attention? Achieving balance in different areas or your life is not a science but an art. It’s not about looking for ‘perfect’ balance but rather being aware of changes you can make in your life to feel more complete, more at peace. This chapter helps you identify what in your life needs re-balancing and provides suggestions on how to achieve a better balance.
Beauty Sleep
Do you have trouble sleeping? You're not alone. Many people have problems going to sleep or staying asleep. Good sleep, however, is crucial to your well-being. Sleep is needed to rebuild, repair and recharge your body, and without a certain amount, your health will inevitably suffer. This chapter identifies the link between lack of sleep and chronic disease, signs of a sleep deficit, and how to finally get the good night sleep you need.
Benefits of Greens
This chapter introduces the notion of green drinks as part of a daily supplemental routine. It explains the health benefits of green drink ingredients. Not to be confused with green tea, green drinks are a tremendous source of energy, give your body a well-balanced pH, and provide you with the nutrients you may be missing from green leafy vegetables. Some green drinks are equivalent to six servings of organic fruits and vegetables!
Boning Up
Each year about 2.5 million North American men and women suffer a broken bone as a result of bone strength deterioration. Osteoporosis is a disorder of the bones in which the quantity and the quality of the bone tissue is decreased and the bone becomes weak and susceptible to breaking. Strong bones are essential to good health. This chapter reveals what hurts your bones, what helps them, and what supplements can be used to enhance bone density.
Boundaries – Stop, You Are in My Space!
A boundary is like an invisible line in the sand that says: “There are things I will and will not do for others, there are things I will and will not accept from others”. Many people are programmed to accept what others want from them for fear that people won’t love or accept them if they don’t. This chapter helps you reconnect with what you want, and what is important to you, and talks about how to respect those wanted needs. This chapter will also help you set some tough and solid boundaries in your life, and explain why such boundaries are important to your health and wellness.
Breathe Clean
The air you breathe in your home and office environment can be even more polluted and harmful to your health than the air in a high-traffic urban area. North Americans spend an average of 90 percent of their time inside, and exposure to indoor contaminants can be up to 100 times higher than contaminants outside. This chapter tells you what’s floating around in the air, where those contaminants are coming from, the associated health ramifications, and the best ways to create a cleaner indoor environment.
Cardiovascular Training – The Heart of the Matter
Your heart is a muscle and as with any other muscle it needs to be exercised. Aerobic exercise gives your heart a good workout, bringing your heart rate to a specific zone that is unique for each person. This chapter addresses why cardio workouts are important and how they improve your health, how to bring your heart rate to a specific zone that supports your current health and fitness goals, and how long you need to sweat to reap the benefits!
Change and Transition
Change can be good, bad, exciting or frightening. We often feel that change just happens to us and that it is completely out of our control. In this chapter we discuss how we can actually co-create changes in our lives and, more importantly, that we have control over how we react to change. We will see how change is inevitable, how preparing for change and embracing it can go a long way to help us live a balanced and healthy life.
Cookware Awareness
Have you ever noticed a strange taste after cooking or storing your food—a metallic or plastic taste? Pots, pans and food storage containers are made from a variety of materials that can enter the food that you cook in them—and when you eat this food, it can be toxic. This chapter reveals the pros and cons of different cookware, and which ones may harm your health. It also reveals which food containers don’t protect against high/low temperatures and what foods react with what materials.
Core Strength Simplified!
Core strength is a huge component of physical fitness. Having good core strength means keeping all the muscles that are needed to keep your body erect—sitting or standing—healthy. Good core strength will also prevent you from injuring yourself, whether it be in the gym or simply bending to tie your shoe. This chapter demystifies what core strength is, how it benefits your body, and what exercises can help you attain a strong core.
Cosmetics – Painting a Different Picture
The average person absorbs approximately five pounds of cosmetic chemicals every year, and nine out of ten women use makeup past its best-before date. Many women don’t realize, however, that everything that goes on the skin is absorbed into the blood stream—including cosmetics. This chapter reveals the harmful chemicals in some cosmetics and the reasons it is important to avoid them. It also offers up healthier cosmetic alternatives and tells you how to differentiate between cosmetics that claim to be ‘organic’, ‘natural’ and ‘mineral-based’.
Deodorant – Sometimes the Facts Stink
Concern over deodorants is growing as the chemicals used in these products are showing some evidence of a higher incidence of breast cancer. Although the studies are not conclusive, some of the facts can’t be ignored. This chapter reveals common chemicals used in deodorant and their related potential health hazards. It also lists some natural alternatives.
Ergonomics – Position Yourself
In today’s work environment, many people are sitting in a chair for eight hours every day. Unfortunately, improper sitting posture can create misalignments in the spine causing irritation or interference on the nervous system, leading to a host of painful symptoms and health problems. While there is no single correct posture, there are general guidelines. This chapter teaches you how to sit properly and how it can make a considerable difference in your health and well-being.
Food for Your Heart and Soul
You want to feed your body with the right foods, the right nutrients and the right supplements. But what are you feeding your heart and soul? Your heart and soul needs as much attention and nutrition as your physical being. You are one body, mind and soul. Even if your physical body is in top shape, if you’re not fuelling your heart and soul you may feel unfulfilled, unhappy, and out of balance. This chapter gives you suggestions on the importance of nourishing your spiritual self.
Food Labels - Learning How to Read Them
Since you can’t just look at a food and tell whether it’s healthy, you’re going to need to do some reading! Learning how to read food labels properly will help you take better control of your diet and eat better. This chapter teaches you how to read food labels, to understand how much nutrition and fat you’re really getting from food choices, what a serving size should be, and how to decrypt the different nutritional claims—like what the terms ‘light’, ‘low fat’, ‘low calorie’ and ‘fat free’ actually mean.
Going Organic
This chapter talks about what the term ‘organic’ means, how to tell you’re getting the real deal, the nutritional benefits of these foods, the different organic requirements from country to country, and why it’s important to buy local produce in the name of the environment. It also discusses genetically-modified foods, hormones, antibiotics, synthetic chemicals, and other ways foods can be made harmful to your health.
Guilt – It’s Eating You Up
If you were often made to feel guilty as a child, you may have carried that learned behaviour with you into adulthood. Guilt can eat you up from the inside out and deprive you of energy, focus, peace of mind, success, and ultimately happiness. Learning to break up with guilt is possible and necessary. In this chapter you will explore, through other people’s stories, tips and success strategies to break up with guilt once and for all.
Have a Ball – Really!
An exercise ball works multiple muscles at one time, engaging your core muscles and forcing your body to balance itself. Strengthening your core muscles will improve your posture and balance, making you feel strong and able! This chapter talks about the different exercise balls on the market today, which ones are best, the amazing benefits a ball can provide, and how to incorporate an exercise ball into your daily routine at home or at work, in lieu of simply sitting sluggishly!
It’s All in the Attitude
To a great extent, physical, emotional, and mental wellness are all dependent on attitude. It’s not so much what happens to you, but how you react to it that is important, and that is all about your attitude. This chapter helps you assess your attitude, how it impacts your life, and suggests necessary changes to adopt a positive approach that helps you deal with events and changes in your life.
Just Breathe
Breathing is a fundamental force that has subtle interrelationships with every parts of you—body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Breathing properly can have a significant impact on your overall health, increasing your vitality and decreasing stress. We have forgotten how to breathe optimally, although breathing would appear to be an automatic response. Sedentary work environments and lazy lifestyles have conditioned many people to breathe in a constricted way. This chapter walks you through proper breathing, the health benefits that come along with oxygenating yourself adequately.
Laughter – Sunshine of Your Life
It’s important to be able to laugh at yourself often and realize that not every situation is earth-shattering. There are proven health benefits to laughter, both emotional and physical. In this chapter have a laugh while discovering all the known benefits of laughter, and how it may even increase endorphins in your body, also known as natural ‘feel good’ chemicals. Go ahead, yuk it up!
Leaving the Past Where it Belongs
Cleaning up the past is the perfect way to achieve true present awareness and happiness. Giving yourself permission to be in the here and now, in the moment, and leaving all those old grudges, hurts and disappointments behind can bring you peace of mind and better balance in your life. This chapter gives techniques to be “present in your present” and, for cleaning up your mental and physical environment to put the past behind you.
Less is So Much More - So Simplify!
Simplicity in life is about letting go. It’s about peace of mind, about being happy with who you are and with what you have. It doesn’t mean you stop wanting things, but it does mean that you start wanting the right things to really fulfill yourself. In its purest form, simplicity in life is about knowing what your needs and wants truly are. Simplicity means keeping a positive attitude, smiling more often, and looking for the good in things, people and events. Simplicity is freedom. This chapter explains how to achieve this and how less can offer so much more.
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