by Erin Owen | Feb 14, 2012 | General
It’s simple
Though not necessarily easy
It doesn’t require any special pills or
supplements
Nor the purchase of a special book or DVD
Nor is it sexy
So for all these reasons
It’s not a raging fad
But it is the longest known
Approach to dieting and weight loss
That I know of
It’s called mindful eating
And it requires two things:
One – you
Two – your attention
The first is pretty easy to come by
Since you are usually with yourself
The second is not so easy these days
With your complex “to do” list
And so many devices beeping and distracting you
But once you get your attention on board
It’s pretty simple
Here’s how it works:
You, alone with you, and whatever you are eating
Focusing all your senses and your wandering mind
on eating
(you’ll soon discover why, in yoga, we call it a
monkey mind – swinging here and there, up to all
kinds of mischief!)
Pay attention to what you notice
The data that each of your senses is gathering in
And respect what you learn
Starving? Interesting. Take a bite, of course,
but ask yourself why did you wait so long to eat?
Don’t like the flavor? Don’t eat it then. Period.
Not hungry? Don’t eat. Enough said.
Full already? Great. Stop eating and move on.
Adding seasoning (or dressing or whatever) out of
habit? Really want it?
Swallowing bites whole without chewing? Why in
such a rush?
Eating for reasons other than hunger? First,
welcome to the club. Second, take note of why and
pause. Breathe into what you are observing and
write it down. Then, move on and do something else
– but don’t eat.
Mindful eating.
Yes, it is eating.
But, it’s different this way, being mindful of why and when and how.
And – most important – respecting what you learn
and heeding that wisdom.
In this way
I lost weight
Without dieting
Or exercising more.
And as a result I felt:
-Lighter
-Freer
-More in control
-Better about myself
-More energized
-Comfortable in my skin and in my clothes
-Clearer in my thinking
-More focused and inspired about work
The old way is dieting
The new way is mindful eating
If you decide to give it a go
And try an honest experiment
With mindful eating
I guarantee you will feel some or all of this way
too
And maybe lose weight as a by-product of getting
to know more about your relationship with food
But if implementing this approach is more
challenging than you expected
And you would like support
breaking through to the other side
Then sounds like it’s time for you to meet with me
Ready to achieve more without burn out, ignoring
your family or becoming a slave to overworking?
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with me today.
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by Erin Owen | Feb 6, 2012 | Ezine, General
Ever heard of Reiki?
The name alone – Reiki Master – conjures up all
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I just completed my third level of Reiki training
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by Erin Owen | Jan 27, 2012 | General
“You mean a food’s energetic qualities can affect
my ability to lose weight and perform at my
optimum level?“
Absolutely!
Let’s say you really want to lose weight because
dragging the extra pounds around is tiring you
out, making your joints ache, and ultimately
making life less fun.
Ask yourself: “Are the energetic qualities of the
foods I’m eating supporting my desire to lose
weight?“
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Here, the term “energetic qualities” simply
refers to the ways in which a food’s unique energy
affects the energy in your body. Does it warm you
up or cool you down? Does it build you up or clean
you out? Does it make you feel lighter or heavier?
Does it make you feel more grounded or more
energized? Does it make your insides more damp or
more dry? And so on…
I know, I know. You might be wondering: what
happened to simply counting calories? Or, looking
at the ratio of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats?
Looking at your food choices through the lens of
energetics might be totally new to you, and that’s
a good thing! If you want to see different results
in your life and boost your performance, you can’t
keep doing the same thing again and again. You
need to be inspired to try on a different way of
thinking and being – so, stay with me and see what
you learn.
If you want to lose weight, then your energy is
likely sluggish, making it easier to stay glued to
the couch and than head outside to enjoy your day.
To counter this, you want to pick foods that will
motivate your body to get moving and let go of the
excess.
Here are two foods to consider — one you’ve
heard of and another that may be totally new to
you:
–Fresh ginger root, which is known to promote
healthy digestion and blood circulation, as well
as warm up the body, which is said to aid in the
fat burning process
–Burdock root (aka “gobo” in Japanese cuisine),
which is known to cleanse the blood, thereby
freeing up your energy and even leading to clearer
thinking. It’s energetic effects are also
recognized as helping to reduce sweet cravings and
reduce fat levels in the body.
Eating either or both of these foods is like
saying out loud to everyone you know: “Yes,
indeed, I do want to get things moving and release
this extra weight now! I want to feel lighter and
move more easily in my body so I can perform
better in my daily life!”
On the other hand, here are two foods that you
should definitely keep eating if you want to enjoy
the same old heavy, achy, stagnant feeling:
–French fries. Yes, they taste so good, but the
general category of fatty, greasy, deep-fried
foods have sluggish energetic qualities that
contribute to poor digestion and slower
metabolism. Plus, as you likely know already,
foods fried at high heat are laden with trans fats
and contribute to inflammation in the body, which
can cause or exacerbate joint pain.
— Ice cream. You likely already know that high
sugar intake relates to high insulin levels in the
body which leads to more fat being stored and more
difficulty releasing fat from its storage places
in the body. But you may not know that processed
foods that are filled with refined sugars actually
drain your energy, muddle your thinking, and can
make your bowels sluggish.
Eating either or both of these foods is like
saying: “Ooooh, yes, I really really really want
to hold on tight to this extra weight, feel tired,
and generally lack in enthusiasm for life? Please,
please, can I?” But, really now, do you? I don’t
think so.
So, try on this new idea of food energetics and
see what you learn about yourself, your weight,
your performance, and so much more.
For further information about food energetics…
There are many different ways to think of the
energetics of food. To read more about Steve
Gagne’s view of food energetics click here.
Annemarie Colbin shares here her view on how our
emotions affect the energetics of food.
And for a more medically oriented Eastern view,
click here to read more about the Traditional Chinese
Medicine view of food energetics.
Ready to achieve more without burn out, ignoring
your family or becoming a slave to overworking?
Then book your Performance Breakthrough Session
with me today. Enter discount code “Embrace2012“
for 50% off my public rate and invest less than a
dollar a minute for this transformational 1-on-1 coaching
session with me!
Not yet received my free, 1-minute audio wisdom course
in your email in box? It’s designed to melt stress, refocus
your energy, and refuel your spirit FAST! And you can listen to
it anywhere, even on the go. Sign-up on any page of my website
and receive a link to your first short audio inspiration. It’s
just like having me there by your side!
Looking for a speaker for your next event? If you
want to inspire your group to get better results
at work and at home (and get their Zen on too)
then I’m your gal. Email me directly to talk
details.
by Erin Owen | Jan 24, 2012 | General
“You mean my food choices affect my energy level
and performance?“
Yah, a lot.
Let’s say you want to feel more energized so you
can get more done.
Ask yourself: “Am I eating food with lots of life
force energy?“
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Life force energy is the qi (or “chi”) that gives
life to (and animates the life within) every plant
and animal in our world, including you!
Whole foods, straight from nature, have the
greatest amount of life force energy.
Foods that come from a box or bag, that have been
processed, have much less life force energy – and
in some cases have none worth speaking of.
Think of it like a really, really long game of
telephone. Remember that game from childhood,
when kids whispered words into each other’s ears,
beginning at one end of a line and waiting to see
what silly words came out at the end of the chain?
The original full nutritional potential or
meaning of the food gets a bit more diluted for
every step it takes along the
growing-picking-distribution-processing chain —
or in the case of whole foods like carrots or kale
— for every single minute, hour, and day the food
is away from its roots or its roots are out of the
soil.
Using the analogy of the telephone game again, if
the food started out as carrots in the ground with
green tops sprouting above ground – by the time it
ends up as canned carrots, it might have some of
the original color and flavor of the carrots, but
not much life force energy and greatly reduced
nutritional value.
Your ability to perform on the job or at home or
in the community is directly affected by the
amount of life force energy in the food you eat.
Your food choices affect your performance. You
need that life force energy to fuel your own life.
Ask yourself: “do I want to perform like a carrot
with its greens on top or a partially cooked
carrot saturated with liquid in a can?” I know,
it’s silly to think of it that way. But, just
imagine how different your energy level and
performance might be if you made different food
choices!
You might normally choose so-called fast foods or
convenience foods and drinks because you really
want to quell your hunger and fuel your brain as
quickly as possible, thinking that these foods
will give you the energy to do what you need to
do. But, unintentionally, your food choices end up
working against you.
The next time you’re looking to boost your energy
so you can perform better, will you reach for
another coffee or caffeinated soda or energy drink
or candy bar? Or, instead…. how about next time
you reach for beautiful, fresh, whole foods that
are actually bursting with life! Life that you can
use to be your best and perform at your optimum
level!
Ready to achieve more without burn out, ignoring
your family or becoming a slave to overworking?
Then book your Performance Breakthrough Session
with me today. Enter discount code “Embrace2012“
for 50% off my public rate and invest less than a
dollar a minute for this transformational 1-on-1 coaching
session with me!
Not yet received my free, 1-minute audio wisdom course
in your email in box? It’s designed to melt stress, refocus
your energy, and refuel your spirit FAST! And you can listen to
it anywhere, even on the go. Sign-up on any page of my website
and receive a link to your first short audio inspiration. It’s
just like having me there by your side!
Looking for a speaker for your next event? If you
want to inspire your group to get better results
at work and at home (and get their Zen on too)
then I’m your gal. Email me directly to talk
details.
by Erin Owen | Jan 16, 2012 | Ezine, General
Imagine if each of your thoughts and feelings was
a radio broadcast…
…being sent out into the world…
what would you want that broadcast to say?
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This is incredibly important to consider,
because…
…if you practice awareness of two of the
principles I share with my clients,
then you know…
well, first…
What exactly are these two principles?
One, everything is energy…
and…
Two, wherever you direct your attention, energy
follows.
In other words, like attracts like.
So, what exactly does that mean?
Your radio broadcasts are inviting more of the
tone, content, and focus of each of your thoughts
and feelings into your life.
So, pause a moment and ask yourself: am I
broadcasting what I want more of?
Or, instead, like most people, are you doing the
opposite?
Let’s say you really want to lose weight,
and you are regularly thinking with disgust “ugh,
why am I so fat? why am I always struggling to get
out of this ugly body?”
That means you’re inviting more of “fat and
struggle and ugly” into your life.
That’s certainly not what you want…
but those are the energy frequencies your inner
radio station is broadcasting to the world.
What if, instead, your thoughts focused on what
is beautiful and wonderful about you right now, or
…what you will think when your body is at a more
ideal weight and you are feeling better about
yourself.
That would send a broadcast to the world saying
“hey, I want more self-love and acceptance and an
ideal weight in my life”
…or, focusing more on the impact of that lighter,
fitter you, you broadcast to the world “how
amazing is it that I feel such incredible energy
and strength? how wonderful is that I feel great
in my body and everyone around me notices that I’m
positively glowing with joy?”
How incredibly different is that?
Or, let’s say you find yourself getting caught in
a tail spin of anxiety and worry about cash flow,
with concern for how you’ll pay your bills and
boost your income,
to support the growing and changing needs of your
business or home life.
These are truly legitimate feelings and concerns,
of course.
But you certainly don’t want to be inviting more
“anxiety” and “worry” about a “lack of money” into
your life.
What if, instead, you allowed yourself to get
excited about the opposite of what you’re feeling
that’s to say.
What if you focused your awareness, your
thoughts, your feelings on “how cool is it that
everything I need and want shows up at the perfect
moment”
or “why is it so incredibly easy to grow my
business?”
or “how amazing is it that perfect clients are
knocking down my door?”
and allowed that buzz of excitement of this new
way of thinking or feeling to permeate your whole
being.
That new vibration will then literally shaking loose
the old stuff,
those previous thoughts and feelings that you now
know you do not want to broadcast to the world
because you don’t want more of that in your life.
Instead now you’ll be sending out a radio
broadcast to the world saying “woo hoo, life is
awesome and I have everything I need now!”
Much more energizing and empowering!
So, no matter what it is that you’d like to
invite into your life…
- more intimacy with your partner
- a fitter, stronger, more slender physique
- more clients and customers to support your 2012 business goals
- greater financial abundance to take that trip you’ve been dreaming of
- or, perhaps the support of a coach like me who can share more Eastern-inspired strategies to guide you in further clarifying what you want for your life and business in 2012 and show you how you can take simple, sustainable, inspired steps to make that a reality…
Focus your radio broadcasts on what you want more
of.
Turn your inner dial to the frequency of
thoughts and emotions
to support what serves you best.
Now.
In this moment.
You don’t need to wait.
You don’t have to wait.
Embrace your potential now.
For you, for those you love, for your business.
Live life to its fullest.
And perform at your optimum level!
Why not?
You deserve it!
Ready to achieve more without burn out, ignoring
your family or becoming a slave to overworking?
Then book your Performance Breakthrough Session
with me today. Enter discount code “Embrace2012”
for 50% off my public rate and invest less than a
dollar a minute for this transformational 1-on-1 coaching
session with me!
Not yet received my free, 1-minute audio wisdom course
in your email in box? It’s designed to melt stress, refocus
your energy, and refuel your spirit FAST! And you can listen to
it anywhere, even on the go. Sign-up on any page of my website
and receive a link to your first short audio inspiration. It’s
just like having me there by your side!
Looking for a speaker for your next event? If you
want to inspire your group to get better results
at work and at home (and get their Zen on too)
then I’m your gal. Email me directly to talk
details.
by Erin Owen | Jan 10, 2012 | General
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“I’m getting tired of you”…
These are the words my five year old greeted me
with this morning, five minutes after my husband
walked out the door for a five-day trip.
Did I take it personally? No. Did I reply in
defense of myself? No.
Instead, I leaned into that energy. I opened my
heart, and put myself in my son’s place. I
sympathized with him, and asked him why he felt
that way. I agreed with him, and said “oh I
understand honey.” In short, I gave him the space
to feel what he was feeling and be heard without
judgment.
So why do I share this story with you? This is
certainly not a parenting blog. But we each in our
everyday life face contradictory situations that
can be tough to handle. We each have a choice
about how to use our energy in responding to these
situations.
I invite you today (and maybe each day the rest
of this week) to lean into whatever energy comes
your way. Be in the flow of the moment, and put
yourself in the place of what initially might seem
to be the opposition.
Open your heart, open your ears to listen fully,
and open your mind to the experience. Let go of
expectation and judgment, and be curious and ready
for what just might possibly be a pleasant
surprise.
As a parent, I have to pick my battles. And the
same goes for how I handle challenges in my
everyday work life.
Perhaps today you’ll find that you not only
conserve your energy to put to better use, but
also find yourself more at peace in the world.
Then. Notice how this affects your performance –
how you show up in your interactions, in your
creative work, in your delivery of the “final
product” at work.
And let me know what you discover!
Ready to achieve more without burn out, ignoring
your family or becoming a slave to overworking?
Then book your Performance Breakthrough Session
with me today.
Looking for a speaker for your next event? If you
want to inspire your group to get better results
at work and at home (and get their Zen on too)
then I’m your gal. Email me directly to talk
details.
