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Mindset in Your Healthy Habits Program

By Barb · Comments (0)
Friday, January 14th, 2011

The concept of mindset usually is seen as something you ‘obtain’ by reaching deep inside, pulling it out like a rabbit from a hat, and putting it to good use, say, tomorrow. But I’d challenge this concept based on the experience of working with individuals who approach their life change, as most of us do, with several inner voices, all trying to get our attention.

The way that the brain works, frequently we observe a phenomenon where the outer, conscious mind has an intention and the inner mind, just below the surface, acts as sabotage to this very same intention! The determination of taking a daily jog, for example, may be bombarded by such thoughts as ‘don’t do it, it will be uncomfortable, remember last time’, and on and on.

The mild stress reaction associated with that ‘morning jog’ thought has the power to shut down, in a mild way, the system’s capacity to work at its very best and be happy in the process!

Understanding the  ‘mindset’ is part of finding the solution that will keep all the conflicting thoughts at bay, keeping you in charge in the same way that a conductor leads his orchestra. Instead of approaching the new habit with a kind of dismay (ugh, another diet), ask yourself what is the most inspiring thing you can think of about your new future self, what is the most easy and fun change you can make right now, here, today that is a workable idea AND is in the direction of the new goal. It will be something you are looking forward to doing, or something that is not a bother (skipping bread at the dinner table, for example).

The entire brain has the potential to find agreement and harmony in this thought. The positive emotions associated with the idea will boost the activity into realization, followed by pride at your creativity and the results you are looking for in the short term AND the long term.

A journal can help the process by locking the steps into place, where goals become habits and your program begins to gain momentum of its own.

For more information and a sample journal, simply drop a note to info@bodyvisionsl.com and we’ll see you next time.

Get your free step-by-step action plan to creating a healthier you at http://bodyvisionusa.com! Tatiana Abend is a professional Health and Wellness Coach. She runs Body Vision USA, a professional health coaching company that provides online health coaching.
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5 Tibetan Rites: Discover the Secret of Youth and Anti Aging

By Barb · Comments (0)
Friday, January 14th, 2011

The 5 Tibetan Rites are a series of simple exercises that are claimed to make you younger, which is why they are often referred to as the fountain of youth.

They have been used in the Western world since the 1930′s, when they were introduced by a gentleman called Peter Kelder who in turn had learned them from a retired army officer called Colonel Bradford.

The exercises have a lot in common with yoga but put their own unique twist (literally, in the case of one of the exercises) on this.

So long as you are in good health, you should be able to carry out the various exercises. You don’t need any special equipment and they can be carried out more or less anywhere.

As with any new exercise regime, it’s best to start slowly. Indeed, the recommendation is that you begin with a small number of repetitions and gradually build up to the full number over a period of weeks.

It’s important to get in the habit of doing the exercises daily as you’ll get most benefit from them that way. I find that the easiest way is to do them as soon as I wake up, even before cleaning my teeth. It’s a simple habit and works well for me. You may find that another time of day suits you better and that’s fine – the important thing is that you carry them out each and every day as the cumulative effect is very beneficial.

If you are skeptical, you may be wondering whether there is any scientific proof as to whether or not these simple anti-aging exercises will work for you and whether or not they really are the secret to almost eternal youth as they claim to be.

And that’s a difficult question to answer as the kind of scientific studies needed to show that haven’t been done (partly I think because there’s no money involved for the big companies to perform that kind of research).

But there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that the exercises work for plenty of people and give them a new found energy.

The good news is that the exercises are easy to carry out and don’t involve you in spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on expensive equipment or gym membership.

All you need to do is get hold of the instructions and follow them!

Some people who have followed the easy exercise routine have reported that they have lost weight. Others have found that the pain they were in has reduced. Still others simply report that they have felt younger.

Nowadays, we’re living longer on average and it makes sense to keep your body in good health and at peak performance for as long as possible.

The best way to find out whether the 5 Tibetan Rites will work for you as a rejuvenation idea is to try them for yourself. Target yourself a 30 day period where you commit to following the simple routines each and every day. Then monitor how you feel before deciding whether or not to continue with them. It really is as simple as that!

Find out more about the 5 Tibetan Rites and how they can help you in my review of the Five Tibetan Rituals.
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Where to Find Raw Food Recipes For Every Occasion

By Barb · Comments (0)
Friday, January 14th, 2011

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s Renegade Roundtable, which can be found at http://www.RenegadeRoundtable.com. In this excerpt, Nomi Shannon shares on The Raw Gourmet, Raw Food Celebrations and great raw food recipes.

Renegade Water Secrets with Nomi Shannon, raw food chef and author of The Raw Gourmet and a new book, Raw Food Celebrations.

Kevin: We could talk for hours. I wanted you to talk a little bit more about “The Raw Gourmet” and your new book and what someone can find in there, because it’s a great book. It’s great for people who want to do parties, who want to do themes and all that sort of stuff. And I think it’s really missing in the palate of raw food cookbooks that are out there. This one is kind of needed. It kind of fits a pretty nice niche. So why don’t you talk about that a little bit.

Nomi: All right, thanks. Well, you know, I think that the “Raw Food Celebrations” is the first book out that is specifically for celebrating. And what we did, Sheryl and I broke it down, so that if you wanted to have a theme, it doesn’t have to you can pick a recipe from here or from there, it’s broken down into I forget how many themes, seven or eight — Italian, Thai…she did the Thai because she and her husband have been to Thailand many times and the food is incredible. She did stuff I never heard of, like [indecipherable] and stuff like that. And delicious coconut soup and stuff. Brunch, buffet, cocktail, if you just want to have a bunch of people over, and just sort of have hors dousers and drinks. You know, we have a few nice drinks in there. They don’t have alcohol in them, but you could put alcohol in them, if you wanted to.

And what we did is we did a timeline, so it’s like three weeks before the party dehydrate, cut up the red peppers and dehydrate them, because they’ll keep forever, and then you toss them in or throw them on top of the soup. Five days before, four days before, three days before, the day of. And we tried and succeeded in most of the categories to have the amount of work you do on the actual day of your event, if you choose to make, there’s probably seven to nine recipes in each grouping, and if you choose to do the whole thing like that, and have the event as we structured it, then we really made it so that you can plan a week ahead and on a Saturday or a Sunday have a nice event. Or you can just
pull out one recipe at a time.

And we worked very hard to make it. Like my lasagna recipe I showed a few of the sauces last, whatever day I did the food prep in Fort Bragg, I think it was Saturday, and I made three or four sauces in less than 45 minutes. And turned out they were all the sauces that go into the lasagna. But we start making them four days before. And then really what takes the time is assembling the lasagna, and you do that the day before. So it’s a fun book for that, and it’s a book for someone who is starting but they don’t want to have like an energy soup concept, or for someone who’s been making food for a while and would like to make a nice family meal or entertain their friends. It’s absolutely structured so that you don’t have to be raw to enjoy the food.

Kevin: That’s great.

Nomi: And then “The Raw Gourmet” is your basic, this is the best first book to get, or one of the first books, and if you really, literally read it from cover to cover, you will know everything you need to know to have a raw food kitchen. I don’t get into things like, you know, it’s a food book, I do not get into deep things like healing and cleansing and all that because it’s a food book. But it’s everything you need to know about a raw food kitchen. We’re actually going to reprint it, and someone asked a question about I used Braggs in the book. Well, I do use Braggs in that book because I didn’t know it was a bad product at the time I wrote the book. I would substitute Braggs now for Nama Shoyu, which is a supposedly raw soy sauce, or maybe a little sea salt, or something salty like that.

And I’m thinking well maybe those people at my publisher can change every Braggs in the book to Nama Shoyu, but that’s a big undertaking, so maybe that won’t happen.

Kevin: Yeah. And where can someone go to get that book?

Nomi: The best place to get the book, I mean, yeah, you can get them at places like Barnes and Noble, or health food stores and stuff like that, but the best place is to get them from my site, rawgourmet.com, and the reason for that is I give a free booklet with each book. With the purchase of “The Raw Gourmet” you get a soup booklet, which is thirteen to fifteen raw soup recipes, and with “Raw Food Celebrations” you get a book called Raw But Not Naked, and it’s a book of salad dressings.

Kevin: Wow, cool.

Nomi: And actually there’s no other way to get those booklets. And they are, each booklet is worth seven dollars. I did that purposely because you have to pay for shipping and so it’s a free gift, and it mitigates the cost of shipping plus. So, and then of course you’re supporting the author, so that’s always nice, too.

Kevin: That’s great. And that’s at www.rawgourmet.com.

Nomi: Right.

Kevin: Where is that on the site, right on the front page?

Nomi: The first thing you’ll see is on the left, when you look at the products, there will be a picture of “The Raw Gourmet” and “Raw Food Celebrations.” There’s also lots of recipe at my site, Kevin, and there’s articles. I’ve been writing a newsletter for about ten years and I’m gradually posting them it the archives. So there’s probably eight or ten up there now. There’s a lot of information at my website. There’s also, when you sign up there’s a free newsletter. It’s one of the first things you’ll see. If you haven’t been to my site, sign up for my free newsletter. That comes out sometimes once a week, sometimes less. The one I sent out today was “how to deal with your doctor,” your medical doctor. How to get the responses you need from him, or her.

Kevin: Cool.

Nomi: Last week I put out a bunch of recipes called “Summertime Recipes.” Sometimes I put specials out, I always have really good specials. But when you sign up for my newsletter you also receive a free seven-part course which is called The Raw Truth. And that gets emailed to you every other day or so until seven have arrived and it stops. It’s just little snippets of information about fat and other things like that, and each one will have a recipe with it.

Kevin: Oh, each one has a recipe! Oh that’s great. So where you can find that is when you go to Nomi’s site www.rawgourmet.com , you can go there right now and on the left-hand side, as of this recording it’s an orange box and it says “newsletter.” You can get seven recipes seven days in a row that you can prepare for your family or for your friends or for yourself.

Nomi: And if you want to see the most recent picture of me and my little grandson Seth go to, I think it’s just “The Raw Gourmet.” Because I never, I’m just the most un- photogenic person, and the picture of me is like ten years old, so my daughter sent me a picture and it wasn’t too horrible so I posted it last month and it’s a picture of me and the baby, who is almost a year old now.

Kevin: That’s great. Well, I want to thank you for time, I really appreciate it. For those of you who are listening you can go to www.rawgourmet.com and I would recommend getting the seven recipes and Nomi’s newsletter and definitely checking out the book. Ann Marie loves it and she’s going to be preparing some of those recipes. So you’re going to be hearing a lot about it on the Renegade Health Show. So Nomi I want to thank you for your time.

Nomi: My pleasure.

To read the rest of this transcript as well as access The Renegade Roundtable experts just like Nomi Shannon please click here! Kevin Gianni is an internationally recognized health advocate, author & film consultant. He has helped thousands of people take control of their own health naturally. For more information visit raw food diets and holistic nutrition.
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Superfoods diet – Extremely beneficial diet supplement

By Barb · Comments (0)
Friday, January 14th, 2011

‘Superfoods’ is a term used for foods that have an enhanced concentration of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Our body needs a healthy dose of nutrients on a daily basis. There was a time when people got their daily share of nutrients from their daily meals. With foods gradually losing their health quotient, superfoods have emerged as the popular and easier option; these superfoods provide your body with these much needed nutrients. If you want to put in an extra bit of effort there is always the superfoods diet plan, but for others a superfood supplement is equally in order.

Superfoods diet – A nutrient rich diet

Doctors continuously advise on healthy balanced diets and daily exercises for a healthy body. These lifestyle changes are equally good for weight loss. Superfoods, in terms of a diet, are defined as those foods that are particularly rich in nutrients which help fight against ageing and a range of other harmful bodily conditions. Also a superfood diet helps boost the immune system as well as combat a range of other problems. There is no doubt that spinach is one of the best superfoods. Its inclusion in your diet means that you get a constant supply of vitamins A and K for your body. Apart from its vitamin content, it also contains folate and manganese.

Pumpkin is yet another superfood that can be included in your diet; its nutrient rich with a fibrous content that gives you a feeling of being full. If you are a non-vegetarian, turkey should be your food of choice. It’s a great source of proteins, vitamin B and selenium. Other naturally available superfoods that can be a part of your diet include, but are not limited to, blueberries, beans, walnuts, oats, tomatoes, tea, and wild salmon

Benefits of superfoods

Superfoods offer a range of benefits almost all of which focus on the health of an individual.

Taking vitamins in isolation can lead to an imbalance. Superfoods offer you a collection of nutrients that support each other leading to a more balanced diet. Intake of superfoods is known to help reproduction and ensures that your children are strong and healthy. Superfoods like soaked grains improve your strength and stamina. Intake of superfoods supplements is an essential source of nutrients and minerals that are needed by your body but are not commonly available in natural foods. Various superfoods provide antioxidant properties. There are superfoods, which help facilitate the treatment of a range of serious ailments and allergic conditions. There are nutrients that are commonly available through non-vegetarian food. Superfood supplements make sure that these supplements are available to vegetarians as well.

It will be difficult to list all the benefits associated with superfoods. Some benefits are product and food specific. It will be a good idea to consult a health expert or your doctor about superfoods or superfood supplements and their benefits.

Why superfood supplements?

The fast pace of life today, makes it difficult for you to eat a diet that has all the requisite nutrition for your body. The solution for this problem comes in the form of superfoods supplements. These superfoods supplements offer a healthy dose of minerals, antioxidants and a variety of other nutrients; a range of herbal supplements give you a completely natural option in superfoods. Not only do these herbal supplements act fast but also offer other benefits like facilitating the burning of calories and aiding skin tone and elasticity. Many herbal supplements focus on improving your overall health.

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