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Are You Living Up to Your Potential?

In the Women of Facebook group that I am a member of, there was a message the other day encouraging each of us to write about a word that has special significance and meaning to our lives.  As I thought about significant words in my life, the word “Potential” seemed to resonate the strongest.

After almost a full day with this word in my every thought…  I sat down and began to write.  After the first couple of sentences began pouring  onto the page, I realized that what I was writing was coming through me, rather than just being my own individual thoughts.  When I asked who the message was from, and the answer I received was “The Collective.”

While I know that my “Collective” Guides wished to share this message with me.  I also believe that it is a part of my mission in life to share this message with YOU!  So I hope you enjoy reading these words.

Receive the gift of this message about your Potential, and pass it along to the many special people in your life who are standing in the doorway of their Potential waiting to walk through.  Whether it’s in regards to health and wellness, relationships with family and friends, or business success, perhaps with the encouragement of the “Collective” we can all achieve the greatness we are destined to share with the world  during our time on this planet.

Many Blessings for a Healthy & Happy Life as You Achieve Your Potential!     -Aliesa George

A Message About Your Potential:  from the “Collective”
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Posted in All Posts, Mind-Body Health, Spiritual by Aliesa George on February 25th, 2011.

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What’s Your Main Focus – Features or Flaws?

Do you LOVE Yourself?  Do you LOVE your body?

Are you doing healthy things on a regular basis to treat you with love, affection, and kindness?

I am well aware that I’ve got my own challenges with body image, and have spent my entire life struggling to overcome them. (Some days I’m completely happy with me, and other days I feel like I’ll never have the body of my dreams… which causes me to feel bad that I’m not a lean, wispy, 5’6″ and 110 pounds. But instead a mere 5’4″, compact & muscular, and a fluctuating 150-155–Funny, 20 years ago when I was only 118-125, I had the same poor attitude and thought I was fat!) And unfortunately, I know that I’m not alone. With the hype and peer pressure from the media, and magazines–too many of us always point a negative, critical eye to our own body and we end up focusing on our flaws instead of our features!

So let’s take a moment to celebrate how much we LOVE our features!

I love sharing this exercise, and hope that you’ll drop me a line and tell me about your experience.

Here’s What To Do:

  • Find a photo of yourself that you LOVE!
  • Blow it up to an 8×10 glossy and print a copy.
  • Get out a sharpie or your favorite magic marker.
  • Around your body, write as many positive words as you can think of that express who you are and the things you love about yourself.
  • Strive to fill the page with words. (if it doesn’t happen when you first sit down to write–don’t worry… keep your pen handy and as things pop into your head, you can continue to add them.)
  • Frame your photo & put it somewhere where you will see and reflect on it daily!

There is great power in positive words. The messages that we send and surround ourselves with (our mental self-chatter) really does affect our attitude and our health. Negative chatter = negative attitude, and positive chatter = positive attitude!

Tell yourself daily how much you love YOU, and use this exercise to keep all the great things you love about yourself front and center so you’ll confidently be sending yourself daily doses of positive energy to stay focused on your great features instead of your flaws!

Self-love is a key to wellness success!

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Posted in All Posts, Articles, Health, Mind-Body Health by Aliesa George on February 27th, 2010.

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Moving Meditation: Pilates and Other Great Mind-Body Exercise Methods

I read an article the other day and it said, “Pilates isn’t a mind-body exercise in the meditative way that Yoga,  Tai Chi, or Qi Gong are, but it does use your mind to influence and improve your body.”

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It seems evident to me that this author has probably never experienced a Pilates workout!  And in my study of Pilates, Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and meditation,  I believe that these great mind-body methods are more similar than one might think for improving whole-body health.

Here’s Why:

  • All  have underlying principles & philosophies behind the exercises.   And even meditation (sitting still) is an exercise!
  • Each Mind-Body method has a system of utilizing the breath, and specific breathing patterns to improve technique and maximize benefits from your practice.
  • All require, concentration, coordination, and improve whole-body health, balance, and body control.

    • It’s not just, let’s move the body, but let’s be aware, in-tune, and conscious of what we’re doing, how, we’re doing it, the initiation point, end point, and in-between points for every movement.

    I think it’s wonderful that we have options for focused fitness and enhanced wellness for improved mind-body health.   There is a method out there to help meet the needs of each of us as individuals.  And if you want to develop and fine-tune your skills, cross-training and exploring different mind-body methods may give you an increased appreciation for your body, health, and the ancient wisdom that is at the root of each of these techniques.

    Look for my series of upcoming posts on the benefits of each of these great mind-body methods.

    • Pilates
    • Yoga
    • Tai-Chi
    • Qi Gong / Chi Gung
    • Martial Arts
    • Meditation

    And I’m curious to know… What’s your  #1 favorite Mind-Body Wellness method?  Answer the  survey, and if you have a moment – tell me why it’s your choice in the comment section below.

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    Posted in All Posts, Exercise and Fitness, Fitness, Health, Meditation, Mind-Body Health, Pilates, Polls & Surveys, yoga by Aliesa George on February 24th, 2010.

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