Healthy Living

Top Thermogenic Foods

Eating frequently is not only important for metabolism, it is important for maintaining your lean muscle. The breaking down of food requires energy! If you are not eating enough, your body still needs to get this energy.

Muscle contains vast stores of glucose, if you don’t consume it, it will consume you.

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Rita Canada, our official Natural Health/Weight Management for Executives and Entrepreneurs Expert

Can 10 Million People be Wrong about Meditation?

More than four years ago Time magazine reported over ten million Americans meditate and since then the number has constantly grown. Once thought of as a ritual performed by men who shaved their heads, wore long robes and lived in a mountain cave, this mind quieting, stress relieving natural self-healing practice is becoming so commonplace that corporations such as Deutsche Bank, Google and Hughes Aircraft recognize the intuitive powers of it and offer meditation classes to their employees.

In addition, the scientific community has stepped up to the plate and is offering factual data to support many of the proclaimed benefits of meditation.

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Ed McDonough, our official America's Life Balance Expert

Anticipating Obstacles

Have you ever embarked on a personal improvement program only to fall off the wagon within a few weeks of getting started? What caused you to fail?

Did you have trouble making the time to apply the program's material? Did you try to do too much at once? Were you talking to yourself in a disempowering way, saying things such as, "I never finish what I start" or "It won't matter anyway"? We fail to succeed because we fail to anticipate the forces in our lives that have the potential to derail our focus. It doesn't matter what the source of these factors are; whether they're related to a lack of time, a lack of personal belief, or a lack of real conviction. The unexamined presence of these saboteurs in your life will slow you down (at best), or (in a worst case scenario) stop you in your tracks.

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Kim Fulcher, our official Coaching for Women Expert

Tai Chi ~ A metaphor for life

Tai Chi is a wonderful way to become completely connected with yourself and with the universe while you become healthier. It is a routine of movements that reminds you to see and act within the beauty, grace, and knowledge of nature as you mimic certain animal movements and move in Yin and in Yang. The movements are very slow and continuous, allowing you to absorb energy, massage internal organs, open up joints, exercise muscles, and are always done while breathing deeply and being focused on the intricacies of the movements. It is as physical is it is mental and spiritual.

To me, tai chi is a big metaphor for life. If we can really "get" this in our physical body, these lessons ripple out into all aspects of our life. Here are a few of those lessons:

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Carolyn Cooper, our official Energy Healing Expert

Personal Development for Women: The 7 Phases of Change

Lose The Weight For Good With The Seven Phases of Change

The process of losing weight requires change; in lifestyle, routines, and habitual choices. One of the primary reasons you've fail when attempting to lose weight is that you haven't planned for the phases of change you will experience as you begin the process of transforming their body. Let's do something about that. Join me in exploring the Seven Phases of Change, and take control of your weight for good!

Phase One: Acknowledgment Phase one is about honesty. You must clearly define the habits that aren't working for you, and make a commitment to change. (For example, eating a pint of ice cream in front of the television will not help you reach your goal weight. Going for a walk with a friend will).

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Kim Fulcher, our official Coaching for Women Expert

5 Myths About Vegan Fashion

"I could never be a vegan. I love shoes too much!" "What do you mean you don't wear wool in the winter? Shearing doesn't hurt the sheep, does it?" "What do you wear to keep warm?" Those are just a few of the many comments I hear regularly from women when they consider what they think it means to be a vegan. In a word . . . deprivation. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As with the food we eat . . . if I had a dime for every time I hear, "You're a vegan! What do you eat? Oh, yeah, salads." Period. It's as if that's it. And, the only thing they can think is, "Yikes, that would be horrible. I like salad, but every day at every meal . . . I don't think so."

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Ginger Burr, our official Vegan Fashion Expert

Experience the Law of Attraction

More and more the term Law of Attraction is gaining publicity and becoming known to mainstream America. The big question I'm always being asked is "Is it real and does it work?"

The answer is a definitive YES, if you understand the fundamental principles of the attraction process and how to accurately apply them to get the results you want.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert

Eat MORE to Lose Inches.

That’s Right...food can be your friend! When, how often and what you eat can rev up your metablolic engine. It is physically impossible to shed body fat when you are starving yourself, so choosing nutritionally balanced and healthy meals is fundamental to fat loss.

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Rita Canada, our official Natural Health/Weight Management for Executives and Entrepreneurs Expert

Personal Development Tips: 5 Tips for Making Over Your Look

October's MAP(tm) is all about taking a fresh look at the way you present yourself to the world. But making over your look is about more than just makeup tips and "girl talk." The real key to creating authentic beauty is realizing that it's already there - you don't have to be or look like anyone you're not in order to be beautiful, you just have to let others see the beauty that you already possess. Once you understand that, all that's left is making sure you know how to make the most of your natural gifts.

Here are 5 tips for making over your look that can help you uncover the beauty within, and show everyone just how beautiful you really are.

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Kim Fulcher, our official Coaching for Women Expert

The Surefire Way to Stress Relief, Rejuvenation and Lasting Life Balance

As a Personal Development Life Coach and Life Balance Expert, I am often asked, "In this fast paced world we live in, what can I do for stress management? How can I consistently unwind, relax, revitalize my energy and bring more harmony into my life?"

Although there are many ways to reduce stress, renew your energy and bring peace into your life, I always recommend beginning with the most reliable way to bring lasting balance into your life. It's a method I wholeheartedly recommend from my personal experience, which anyone can use to get maximum stress relief and make the shift towards living a harmonious, balanced lifestyle.

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Ed McDonough, our official Life Balance Expert