Monday, November 22, 2010

Got a thought in your head?

If I told your best friend died - what response would your body have?
If you were told you just inherited a million dollars - what response would your body have?


Your body responds to what YOU THINK.




THINK ABOUT THAT
 When you hear a song from your past that reminds you of a tender moment - how does your mind respond?


When you hear music for Dancing... upbeat, lively and LOUD.... What response does it trigger?  


Your mind and body responds to Music




When you see a baby laughing.... a weak elderly person.... a crowd cheering... a mob screaming.... You have a response.  Good, bad, up, down.... You have a response.


You respond to what you see.


When your lips touch something sweet, sour..... some one's lips .... You have a response.


Don't you understand?


Everything we see, feel, hear, touch  affects us 
PHYSICALLY , MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY.


So,  dah.... be careful little eyes what you see
be careful little ears what you hear
be careful little hands what you touch
be careful little hands where you go
be careful little heart whom you trust 
(Sunday school song)




TODAY what will YOU CHOOSE to : 
FEED your EYE'S
FEED your EAR'S
FEED your MOUTH
FEED your NOSE
FEED your HAND'S
FEED your MUSCLES
FEED your HEART

The things, events and thoughts that bring HEALTH and WELLNESS
TAKE control of yourself for Heaven Sakes!!!

Stop allowing your circumstances and those around you to control you!

Take Charge of you
This is possible because we are
FREE in HIM!

He has impowered us to be in control of HOW we process what is happening in and around us.  

GET WITH IT!

THINK it, GET it, DO it
For your health and wellness

Now, turn up the music and rock your day
Fill yourself with music that speaks to your soul

Ephesians 5:14-16  

This is why it is said:

   “Wake up, sleeper, 

   rise from the dead, 
   and Christ will shine on you.”

  Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,  
making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.


Salute!  to your health and wellness

PS - get your vitamins and minerals 
and exercise your body, 
64 oz of water, 
and find a hundred things to Thank God for today
Share it with someone

Friday, November 19, 2010

Turn the page

"Turn the page it's a new day"


Song's that inspire me.....

How powerful our thinking is


We can direct our thoughts to ideas of defeat  or to great achievements

Each day we actually have a new fresh start on our attitude which is influenced, inspired, affect by our thoughts. Our thoughts become action and our actions become who we are

Excuses are the enemy.  It's so very sad when I hear a "bucket full of excuses" why someone lives in defeat.  Sorry to say, it actually becomes their comfort for their failure.

Stop with the pity party and excuses.  

When we acknowledge have our creator who MADE US in HIS IMAGE.  When we acknowledge our creator placed the stars in the sky and magnificent oceans on the earth.  When we acknowledge all things were created by a God who references himself as OUR FATHER.  He gave us dominion over the earth.... and OUR CHOICES!  When we acknowledge our  God of the Heavens who is available and able and wants to encourage, uplift, support, comfort... meet ALL OUR NEEDS!

Then Why:
Why do we make excuses and gravel upon the earth moaning and crying about all our "stress" and "difficulties" and "illnesses.  Why do we only CONFESS  our limitations instead of CONFESSING  and seeking our strength to rise above it all, in HIM.

It's time we kick ourselves in the pants, get up, get going.... freakin acknowledge who we are in Christ and take it on!

Stop with the excuses and start with the reasons why we can not  and will not fail!

there  I said it

Now, wake up and accept responsibility to SPEAK POWER into your life.
SPEAKING the WORD OF GOD.  It's a powerful resource that brings light, healing, inspiration, energy, focus, determination..... joy, life, "VITA"!

So sad to think someone can be alive (physically) 
but be dead (Spiritually and mentally)
Don't they call that a Zombie?

So, stop with the excuses - Start Honoring your Body, Mind and Spirit by taking contol of your Health and Wellness:

Choosing life giving foods:  Fresh colorful fruits and Vegetables, whole grains, clean proteins

Choosing to MOVE your body, stretch, walk, jog, lift weights, swim... ride a bike

Choosing to fill your mind with positive words, music, visual things
that are True, Lovely, honest of good report

Choosing to have a loving, grateful heart, a heart of thanksgiving, a humbling attitude that
we have a purpose to fulfill.

Slap yourself awake for heaven sakes   

Psalm 42:5  



 5 Why, my soul, are you downcast? 
   Why so disturbed within me? 
Put your hope in God, 
   for I will yet praise him, 
   my Savior and my God.

Ciao
Have an amazing day writing today's story on a new page of your life

To your Health and Wellness, Salute!

Salute!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

eat fruit, poop and get going

When you believe he's all you need 

that will be your defining moment 
As you live your life 
walking in his light 
Trusting him completely 
that will be 
That will be your defining moment


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVVPTP-VyzQ


Back in the Garden

Seeking to be our own God  
Listening to ....
believing we can;
Walk  in our own strength
Trust  ourselves


Fallen

Why do I fall?   Why do I war with myself?  Doing one thing while saying something else?

Well........ There you go

Whom do I serve?
Me or THEE?

I'll be humming today..... 
                         therefore keeping my spirit tuned into what I want in my mind

"HE is all I need":   Including Approval from those around me
"I surrender all":     Including donuts! 


I'll be moving  my body mind and spirit....today.....

Keeping the rhythm in my soul, body.... dancing to the "being joyful in HIM"
    MOVE IT!   WALK IT!   just don't Talk it

It may be a war :  Flesh against Spirit......  I'm going to STOP fighting my battles in the Flesh but Fight it in the Spirit (because it's a SPIRITUAL Battle).

GO to the GARDEN today and Make the Choice that HE IS ALL I NEED

My Defining MOMENT!  
Free in HIM 
Released from the bondage of fear, disappointment, un-forgiveness, jealousy, misunderstandings, anger, ..... fear of failure

Now go eat some fruit, go poop and get going!

Ciao
TO your health and wellness!  Salute

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Step away from the Donut!

"Recently I had a wonderful moment hearing and singing a song I recall growing up in the Church.     I surrender all!

CeCe Winans: I Surrender All 
 (click on the link to hear the song)

All to Jesus I surrender 


All to Him I freely give 
I will ever love and trust Him 
In His presence daily live 
All to Jesus I surrender 
Humbly at His feet I bow 
Worldly pleasures all forsaken 
Take me, Jesus, take me now, 
I surrender all 
I surrender all 
All to Thee my blessed Savior 
I surrender all 
All to Jesus I surrender 
Make me Savior wholly thine 
May Thy Holy Spirit fill me 
May I know Thy power divine 
I surrender all 


This reminded me that there is NOTHING I can't accomplish when 
I Freely Give my All to the Lord
 Honoring Him by Honoring me  ( body, mind and spirit)

That includes Donuts!  (cryptic message)

So, since want to loose a few more pounds (not yet at my target weight)  I will do a liquid fast today.

It's not about depriving myself of food, 
it's about surrendering my "wants" my "desires"  
for my HEALTH and WELLBEING


It's about "taking control" of me and saying NO to me

It puts ME in CONTROL of ME!  

I desire:
To not be controlled purely by emotion (stress)
To not be controlled by my body (cravings)
To not have a "war" going on in side of me
   example: I want this but I can't have it..... (ahhh such nonsense we put up with)

So today when I have hunger pangs or just "feel like eating something"  I will 
1.  Stop
2. Take a deep cleansing breath to re-focus
3. Say to my self (or maybe out loud)  
    "I surrender all".... (referring to food, eating) 
4.  Then I'll whisper a prayer for someone or something, re-channel the energy
      I'm  experiencing at that moment...  
     and asking God to meet a need or desire for me, someone else or for 
    a situation that needs God's touch.  

That is what it's about.... Not starving to lose weight... Not just fasting to detox the
body....  

Fasting" to Balance my Body, Mind and Spirit and to gain control over ME making the right choices.

FYI:   being the ideal weight does not necessary indicate you are healthy
            but being over weight absolutely indicates you are not healthy


Ciao
Salute!  To your Health and Wellness 
     



Monday, November 15, 2010

Who has the ANSWER? Hand raised up saying "me, me"

John 14:6  

 6 Jesus answered, 

“I am the way and the truth and the life. 

No one comes to the Father except through me.




John 8:12  


 12Then spake 
Jesus again unto them, saying, 
I am the light of the world: 
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, 
but shall have the light of life.



When we wake up in the morning more concerned with "feeding" our Spirit than feeding our face..... That's power!

When we choose to change lifestyle choices to reflect balance.... That's powerful!

When we choose to "continually" renew our mind 

to be transformed and not conformed


 We're truly living in Victory.


As I was triaging a patient who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia
 the other day, it was enlightening to me, once again what I was hearing.

No one "chooses" to be ill.  But the majority of illnesses are due to lifestyle Choices
About 47 million adults in the United States (almost 25 percent) have metabolic syndrome, and the number continues to grow. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/ms/ms_all.html

Stats show that 80% of illnesses seen in the Doctors offices are due to lifestyle choices.

Without getting into more stats, documentation and effort on my part (ha)... here is my point.

When I hear people talk about "  losing weight".... my response it Keep it "balanced"

FIRST:   Seek the answer in our instruction manual- The Bible!  
             Why and how did  your body become.... to put it direct "fat"
             That's the first thing to do.   As in Nursing, we acknowledge the symptom - than
             look to find the "cause" of the symptom.  

          Being Overweight is a symptom, 
PURE AND SIMPLE.

SECOND:  After it's acknowledged that being overweight is a symptom.  
                   Take responsibility for the lifestyle choices you have made in the past and 
                  choose to change those choices.

THIRD:  Make a goal and then Develop  the Plan   
                 (all this is how we go about dealing with    an illness in a patient) 

The success is in both your level of awareness of the problem and your determination is to take responsibility

So, getting back to the person dealing with fibromyalgia.  I not suggesting I have a miracle cure.  I am suggesting that when a person becomes balanced in their lives, they have a better chance of increasing the quality of life with this diagnosis or any other diagnosis. 

The framework for my suggestion to any patient dealing with an illness 
(mental or physical)

1.  Acknowledge how your are made and who made you, and why you were made, and what your purpose for living is....  FEED and EXERCISE your spiritual Man every morning!

2.  Acknowledge your body's needs for vitamins, proteins and minerals.  Fibers, fruits, vegetables and clean source of proteins,  (I choose as much a possible- ORGANIC)
Balance the choices of foods and the portions of what you eat.  Be responsible to know
what your eating, why your eating, when your eating, how your eating!  

3.  Acknowledge your body's need for exercise and activities.  Not just pumping iron or doing aerobics.  Then mind body connection of activity!   FEED your body Fresh air, sunshine and activity.  Exercise that heart muscle with aerobic exercises.  Reduce the cholesterol level with  10,000 steps.  Increase your bone density with using weights.  
Detox your body with expanding your lungs - breathing deep!

4. Acknowledge your body's need for healthy thinking, thoughts.  Take responsibility for what you FEED YOUR MIND.  Make healthy choices by what you choose to watch on TV, movies... what you choose to read, listen to.  What you choose to expose your mind to is the difference between a life full of hope, truth and light and one who lives in darkness, despair and disappointments. 

I think I'll hang up my own "shingle".... the Nurse is IN.


Gotta Run

Ciao
To your Health and Wellness, Salute!