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Life is not linear - we live in CYCLES

26/8/2019

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​What does this mean for our everyday lives, and for our ability to resurrect ourselves back from exhaustion and burn out to the vitality and wholeness we are born with?
 
With the passing of days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia we time-stamp life, and so assume we are moving forward in a linear fashion.
 
Ponder the fact that, every single day we actually go around the sun. The sun does not actually rise in the morning or set in the evening - we move around the sun - day after day, millennia after millennia. It is only our position in relation to the sun, that determines whether we are experiencing Summer, Autumn, Winter or Spring. 
So, if we are cycling around and around the sun, then we continuously move back to the same point, every day. This is a simple truth, but something we don’t stop to reflect on.  As each day passes by, we make it our ‘past’, as we move to the next.

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Making Lasting Lifestyle Changes: The simple key

8/5/2019

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Typically the impetus for making changes to the way we live, comes when we find ourselves reaching a critical point of tension or discomfort in life. Something is not right and often it is our body telling us in clear ways that things are not working – our body tells us change is needed.
 
Where we go wrong however begins right there: instead of making what has come up in the body a point of recognition, we instantly begin coming up with the solution or answer that will solve the problem, or in other words, we go outward first to:

  • Join a gym
  • Stop eating chocolate
  • Eat healthy
  • Find a new job
  • Start writing to do lists
  • Go to bed earlier
  • Speak up more… and so on
 
Sound familiar?
 
We know from experience that actually making changes to our lifestyle for a day or two is easy, but when it comes to sustaining the effort, not so. We generally last a short time before we find ourselves falling back into old habits, feeling disheartened and defeated when it comes to our ability to change what we know we need to.
 
In fact, our usual strategy to find the solution or quick fix is actually destined to fail.
 
Why? 


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Understanding True Well-BEING

9/8/2018

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In response to the continuing rise in our generally chronic state of un-well-ness, we now have a global wellness industry worth a staggering $3.7 trillion. So worldwide, that’s $3,700, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 we are spending in our attempts to remedy how chronically un-well we are feeling!
 
So is our approach to wellness working, or does the fact these figures are so monumental, in combination with the apparent unceasing rise in discontent and dis-ease, suggest that we have quite decidedly missed the mark?
 
Being truly vital today has become something of an enigma, thoroughly trampled amidst the new norm of exhaustion, anxiety, stress and the strain of keeping up with life as we currently know it.
 
Is it any surprise then that in 2014-15 more than 11 million Australians (50%) reported having at least 1 of 8 chronic diseases. (2)

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Only 7% of Australians are healthy but are they really? Can we even claim the 7?

23/5/2018

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​According to a recent national survey only 7% of our general population are considered healthy. But what ‘measures of health’ were used to arrive at this conclusion? Do the 7% represent what ‘healthy’ ought to mean? In other words, can we even claim the 7%?

​The Deakin University study used 5 parameters to ascertain whether a person qualified as ‘healthy’. To qualify the surveyed respondent must:
  • not smoke
  • meet most Australian Dietary Guidelines
  • get around 150 minutes exercise or more a week (roughly 30 minutes 5 times a week)
  • spend less than 8 hours sitting down or inactive every day, and
  • get around 7 to 9 hours sleep every night.

The reasons cited for using these parameters were because if people adhere to 3-5 of these parameters they are less likely to be obese.
 
But is an ‘absence of obesity’ our new gauge of what constitutes health?
"If the meaning of well-being lowers its definition to one which will imply we are merely free of grave illness and disease, we are seriously lost in ignorance. Ignorance is therefore the illness in this case."
Serge Benhayon An Open Letter to Humanity, p 88
According to the parameters set by the study, a subject could answer 5 out of 5 and still be a serial binge drinker, could be abusive to their partner and be highly stressed, withdrawn or depressed. Does this qualify as healthy? Or have we strayed (a long way) from health and its true meaning?

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Xmas – give yourself the best present ever: YOU

18/12/2017

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Does Christmas signal a time for joy, to take stock of the year, to appreciate and celebrate? Or do we use it to give ourselves a licence to abuse ourselves silly, and maybe even others? Or is it a mixture of both? This thought-provoking article by Susan Scully encourages us to examine the way we approach the holiday period, and how we can change it. 
 
Once the clock strikes 12.01am on 1 December, wind-down mode and the party season goes into full swing. It’s often a time where what we could actually get done or complete is left unattempted or unfinished; where new projects are often held-over until the following year – which might not be helpful for your workplace, home or business.



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Another ‘Silly Season’ or will we find the true gift of Christmas?

1/12/2017

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Have you ever stopped to consider why many of us call such an auspicious time of year the ‘Silly Season’? Ask Steffen Messerschmidt from UniMed Brisbane and he will offer you a list as long as your arm illustrating the craziness of what we put ourselves through in the name of ‘celebrating’ this time of year.
 
From the stress and strain of:


  • Shopping amongst the hoards
  • Days of planning and preparation of food that is consumed in a few short hours
  • Christmas parties, end of year wind-ups – which usually means more alcohol and less sleep
  • Finding the perfect gift for loved ones
  • Finding ourselves alone and lonely when ‘everyone else has someone’
  • Feeling obliged to spend time with family members we otherwise avoid
  • Managing finances during this often expensive time
 
To the:


  • Over indulgence in unhealthy foods we otherwise avoid
  • Over consumption of alcohol
  • Emotional upheavals and alcohol-fuelled eruptions
  • Unmet expectations we and others hold for the day
  • Exhaustion of making sure all runs smoothly and is ‘perfect’
 
The end result is all too commonly… exhausted, emotionally wrecked, stressed, over-eaten, hung-over… all in the name of celebration and festivity. 

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Expression is Everything

1/8/2017

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"Everything is Energy" – Serge Benhayon.

​Today what we see in the world is the end result of life choices – we see illness or disease, varying degrees of behaviour that do not make sense, overwhelm, anxiety, suicide, death, relationship issues and so on, and we naturally want a fix, stop or remedy to either what we are physically or emotionally experiencing, or what we see is happening for others.

While it is important to seek and receive the respective and necessary treatment for whatever ails us as part of taking care of ourselves, do we ever go beyond the surface and ask or consider “I wonder why…?".

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Exhaustion – a modern day plague?

1/6/2017

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By Jennifer Ellis

When it comes to 
exhaustion most of us know well enough how we got there: running ourselves ragged day in and day out, pushing through when we’re running on empty, burning the candle with not enough sleep or poor quality of sleep, stress and/or anxiety, shift work… and the list goes on.
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Our remedies are also well-enough known as we reach for caffeine, sugar and other stimulants to propel ourselves to get through the day before collapsing on the couch for a dose of television or scrolling through social media before bed at night. Do these scenarios sound familiar?

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Cycles, Winter and deeply restful sleep: Do you get it?

8/5/2017

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By Jenny Ellis

There is no avoiding the fact that we live in and are responsive to constantly repeating cycles, not just the obvious 24-hour cycle we live on a daily basis, but its existence within a weekly, monthly, yearly cycle and so on. Every 24-hours, our bodies undergo a natural rejuvenation cycle, with most of the night-time marking a part of that cycle in which the body’s ability to rejuvenate us is key to the way we will feel the next day.

 
Within each 24-hour period we have times when we are naturally inclined to be active and productive. When we honour these times and go about doing what’s needed, our bodies are responsive and appreciative of this activity. In that sense we will get to the end of our ‘work day’ and feel good about the day, satisfied and pleased with what we achieved.
If we pay careful attention however there is a distinction between achieving a lot in a day, which can be done by driving ourselves without break or care for it’s impact, and staying active and responsive to what presents itself TO BE DONE that day, and doing it.

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