One of the two major components of milk, whey is the liquid portion of the milk that separates from the curds (the other major component), during the process of making cheese. Whey contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.

Due to its strong amino acid profile and ease of absorption, it is arguably the most popular sports nutrition, weight release and healthy ageing supplement. WHEY Protein has been shown to augment muscle protein synthesis, support fat burning, boost the immune system, improve insulin sensitivity, and decrease appetite. Additionally, whey concentrate is shown to boost production of glutathione, the body’s master antioxidant.

Whey protein exists in three main forms: isolate, concentrate, and hydrolysate (where whey isolate has undergone additional processing.). Both forms contain whey protein, but whey isolate, which is made from whey concentrate, undergoes further processing. I prefer the concentrate if it is un-denatured (less processing, stays intake) and the casein and lactose have been removed. A large number of people have “milk” related allergies or sensitivity, including myself, so removing these makes a huge difference for many.

Look at several components when choosing: sugar content (where is sugar derived?) Is the product GMO free, soy free, gluten free, un-denatured. Where the whey is sourced (quality)? What is the grade of protein (quality-look for grade 7). Think “happy cows”!

My recommendation: If you want a general protein supplement that will help improve your health and not break the bank (and are lactose intolerant), pick a whey protein concentrate that is at least 80% protein. Isagenix makes a solid whey un-denatured, grade 7 concentrate.

If you want a pure, rapidly absorbed whey for post workout that’s easy on the stomach and you are not as concerned about other health benefits and price, try an isolate, or hydrolyzed whey isolate. Or my personal pick for after workout (mixed with Isagreens) I suggest ISAPRO Whey (only) formula.

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Spirituality is a process of personal transformation, either in accordance with traditional religious ideals, or, increasingly, oriented on personal experience and mental, emotional and physical growth independently of any particular religious framework. In a more general sense, in this context it could almost be any kind of meaningful activity or blissful experience. There is no single, widely-agreed definition for the concept of spirituality.

Let’s keep it SIMPLE folks and leave out the organized religion, for now. The spiritual life of any person is the path that a person chooses to follow in response to the God within. YES, God is within you!

How can we lead a spiritual life?

Spiritual growth starts with the desire to grow personally from within.
You don’t have to go to the forest or a lonely place to attain spiritual wisdom although I personally love to sit quietly in nature and converse with God/Universe. It is available in the calmness of your living room or in your own back yard. No need to visit a church or a holy place unless that is your personal choice. It is available for everyone who desires the connection to the greatness within.

Self- awareness is must to lead a spiritual life power. Finding what soothes your soul, having belief and hope in yourself and fellow man/woman. Spiritual growth means attaining oneness with the God, The creator. The creator created us to lead a fulfilling life full of love, kindness and compassion.

Benefits of Spiritual Life Power

When we grow and are ready to receive the message from the creator, the Creator will communicate with us. It is our job to listen. Personally, I have a conversation with God/Creator/Universe and surrender to the love and safety. I spend time sharing my heart and releasing that which no longer serves me and I am not afraid to ask for help and guidance. It ALWAYS comes. Not ALWAYS in the manner my brain imagines the outcome to be. Who and what we decide to “be”, in each and every moment, is reflected back to us in worldly forms. In saying that I remind myself that my brain (mental) really needs to take a break.

“Let Go…and Let God”

Personally I feel the Spiritual Life Power needs to be cultivated every moment, in all situations, all day long. I am very aware when I push or try to hard all becomes more difficult and frustrating. When I let go, surrender and give it to God all falls into place, an experience I have had over and over again.

Some questions you may wish to spend some personal time with:

What gives you “JOY” and peace in your LIFE?

What is spirituality to you?
What are your core beliefs? Are they loving or hostile and angry?

Who are you and what is your purpose and connection to this world?

What fills your cup up?

Where is your energy level in this area of your life?

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Are you often filling the wants and needs of others without having met your own first? Giving away your energy and keeping none for yourself? Do deadlines and difficult people leave you feeling frazzled and anxious? DO you feel overworked and under-appreciated? Do you fight daily with self-limiting thoughts and fears? Are you more of an enemy that a friend to yourself?

Let’s talk about emotional strength and self-esteem now that we understand that our thoughts (negative or positive) turn into feelings.

Our emotional strength flows freely when we have a healthy self-esteem. DO not confuse self-confidence with self-esteem. They are two very different things. We can appear confident on the outside but beat ourselves up on the inside (self-esteem). When we are emotionally strong we know ourselves, honour our strengths and without judgement work on our perceived weaknesses. We treat ourselves with respect, understanding and kindness. With emotional strength comes a gentleness with self and at any time we can call upon our own inner core of strength even in the midst of chaos and failure. Heck, it happens to the best of us. Being emotionally strong and understanding what that means will help you to cruise through anything life throws at you.

For most of us, emotional strength and high self-esteem are parts of us that we have to work on diligently to attain; they just don’t appear easily or automatically. It takes courage, of which you all have inside you or you would not be here listening today. It takes courage to build and balance the internal struggle. A process!! Remember to be kind and non-judgmental through-out the process.

Ultimately uncovering, strengthening and allowing our true self full expression is ongoing and does and will change your energy.

EMOTIONS & ENERGY

Emotions are currents of energy that run through you. We learned in the introduction that we are one big energy field and it is processed in and out of us daily.

Think of yourself as a walking, breathing processing system. Air flows into you and it flows out and while it is in you, you use it and change it before returning it to the atmosphere. Food flows into you and out of you changing in the process. Blood flows into your lungs, it is changed in the lungs and then it flows out of them again. See how all out functions flow? Well, energy is no different.

You also process energy. Energy flows into the top of your head, moves downward through the body and then returns to where it came from (the ground). Just like all your other body systems your life depends upon your energy system. The only difference is you can’t see your energy system under a microscope or visually in front of you. But it is still there….We can’t see electricity but we know it is there!!!!

Everyone’s energy system is unique (even though at their base they are all have similarities) as are all our body systems. Some run smoothly and effortlessly and others are turbulent and tiring.

Once you understand your emotions in terms of energy you can look at them and feel where in your body the energy charge is being created. You can look at your emotions, such as guilt, sadness, fear and anger as the result of the different ways that the energy is being processed in the energy system.

Emotions—anger, happiness or whatever the emotion—DO NOT DEPEND ON WHAT IS HAPPENING OUTSIDE OF YOU!! Changing another person or circumstance may alter your emotions temporarily, but your energy system WILL ALWAYS generate another emotion. If you believe that changing the emotion outside of you will change the emotion inside of you…well, you will have to continue constantly to do so!! And that my friend is exhausting!!!

Recognizing that your emotions come from within you and NOT from your interactions with people or things is important. YOU CANNOT always change people or circumstances, BUT YOU CAN always change the way you CHOOSE to process the energy within you. You only have to be aware or know where and how the energy is being processed, and THAT IS WHAT YOUR EMOTIONS TELL YOU.

Each emotion is a personal message for you, a signal to take a closer look. If you choose to not pay attention, another will come. When you look at your emotions as OBSTACLES, or an experience you would rather NOT HAVE, you miss the point. The emotion is offering you information about yourself that is very important. IGNORE the emotions…IGNORE the information!!!

Emotions can be your best friend. They don’t leave you. They continually bring to your attention what you need to know. GO back to your ENERGY CENTER CHART to help you understand where the energy is held in your body or released from your body.

Let’s do an exercise together so that you fully understand what we have just learned…EVERY EMOTION IS A MESSAGE

Close your eyes…Take a deep cleansing breathe…exhale and relax yourself.

Think of time (remember thoughts turn to feelings/emotions) when you felt a strong emotion, such as anger, happiness, jealousy or resentment towards yourself or someone else.

GO back to that time. Take a few minutes to feel what this emotion felt like in your body. Where did you feel it? (chest, stomach, neck, pelvis, throat???)

Remember the thoughts you were having when you experienced this emotion. (If you were angry, were you blaming yourself, someone else or the situation?)

Remember what you said when you experienced this emotion (i.e.: were you resentful, did you something hurtful to yourself or someone else?)

Remember how you behaved (i.e.: were you happy, did you laugh or dance?)

If you knew that your emotion was a message from your heart (soul), would you have changed what you did or said while you experienced the emotion?

What would you have done differently?

No teacher, coach, parent, priest or therapist can give you this important information. YOUR ONLY JOB is to LISTEN!! As the old Irish proverb says “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was”.

FEEL & FLOW

We often repress or push down our emotions so we don’t have to feel them sometimes that can be scary for us. Eventually they are pushed down so hard that either we feel as if we will explode (and we often do verbally or through an anxiety attack) or we feel nothing at all. In both cases this is harmful to your well-being. Stifled emotion will often rear its ugly head within our thoughts (thoughts turn to feelings/emotion).  An incredibly very vicious cycle playing over and over again! We can become physically ill (the emotion has to go somewhere) or we feel anxiety and overwhelmed by even the slightest curve ball that LIFE throws our way. We have learned today that we can feel our emotions inside our body when we pay close attention to where they are presenting themselves.

Head to Heart…AS we know thoughts start and then turn into feelings so why not bring them from the head into the heart, feel it and then allow the flow of release to come in a gentle, kind way.

HEAD TO HEART EXERCISE

Sit quietly. Close your eyes and breathe deeply allowing yourself to calm down.

Bring a thought into your head – perhaps a thought of anger, sadness, jealousy, hurt…Good now continue to breath. Are you having a physical reaction to the thought?

Once this has occurred it has become a feeling. Center your focus on the emotion and guide it down to your heart, gently. Place your hand on your heart and pretend you are breathing in and out through your heart. Breathe slowly and gently, until your breathing feels smooth and balanced, not forced.

BREATHE into the emotion, allowing all that comes with it (tears, rage, sadness, resentment), BREATHE deep into the emotion. Imagine that with each breathe you are drawing in a feeling of inner ease and flooding your mind and emotions with balance and self -love!

When your body  and stressful feelings start to calm, say to yourself or affirm that you have released (even if it is a little bit) the emotion. This will help you to anchor the good feeling of having released what you have been holding onto.

NOBODY SAID IT WOULD BE EASY!!!

You have courage. Courage is the willingness to act even when frightened. When we struggle with low self-esteem and have been emotionally dependent on others for our happiness for a long time, it will be a little frightening to make independent choices for ourselves that may earn the disapproval of others.

The ONLY WAY to begin is by taking small steps we can handle and release any self-judgement in regard to our progress. EVEN A BABY STEP moves us further forward then NO STEP AT ALL. You will be surprised at how much strength, confidence and pride you get from tapping into one little piece of your hidden inner courage.

It is important to free yourself from the attitude that things should be easy. TELL that woe is me attitude, in yourself, and others, to HIT THE ROAD JACK or JILL (whichever you prefer). Negativity is HIGHLY contagious, so avoid it the best you can not being around others that are chronically NEGATIVE!!

AFFIRMATION: I AM OPEN TO FEELING AND ALLOWING MY FEELINGS TO FLOW WITH GRACE AND EASE!!!!

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We can and do choose our thoughts, but how many of those thoughts actually serve to move us forward and how many of them hold us back? Creating negative habits along the way!!!!!

When we began to understand that we are energy, all is energy around us, we understand our thoughts are also energy and everyday most of us have a pattern/habit of “negative” self- talk or negative “self-thoughts”.

We are constantly thinking and talking to ourselves. This internal conversation we are having is called “self-talk.” Listen to what you’re saying to yourself in the privacy of your own mind. If what you habitually tell yourself is positive, optimistic, uplifting, and loving, you’re certain to be a person who feels happy and energized.

If the tone of your thoughts is negative, pessimistic or down right angry at yourself, you’ll without a doubt feel down and depressed and anxious.

Your thoughts are the birth of your feelings. Those yucky feelings inside all start with a thought. Or those happy, peaceful feelings start with a thought.

THINKING IS THE BIRTH OF FEELING!!

Negative, fearful self-talk undermines your self-esteem, creates painful feelings, and makes emotional strength very difficult to attain. One of the quickest ways to become anxious is to let or allow yourself to worry about the future. I am not saying that you can’t PLAN for the future what I am saying is WORRY (which is ultimately FEAR based) about the future causes anxious, negative feelings.

The BIG OLE WORRY HOLE often starts with self-talk statements such as “What if….”; “I couldn’t handle…..”; “I’m afraid that…..”

Our minds, if allowed to wander undisciplined easily bounce from the here and now and will project into the future or stay “stuck” in the past.

WE NEED to plan for the future, but not WORRY about the future. Planning creates security; WORRY creates anxiety. Planning is empowering; worrying magnifies helplessness.

So, let’s check in on your personal self-talk.

HOW DO YOU SPEAK TO YOURSELF? Are you kind, compassionate,encouraging, and upbeat?

WOULD YOU TALK TO YOUR BEST FRIEND THE WAY YOU TALK TO YOURSELF?

ARE YOUR THOUGHTS contributing NEGATIVELY or POSITIVELY to your feelings?

It is not our circumstances (whether that be financial, relationships with self and others or what has or has not happened to us in the past) that create our feelings; it’s our THOUGHTS ABOUT OUR circumstances that give birth to our feelings.

Your feelings, and the thoughts that created them, are YOUR OWN responsibility NOBODY ELSE’S!! If you truly want or desire at any level to change YOUR FEELINGS, take responsibility for your THOUGHTS (personal mental POWER).

CHOOSING (and it is a CHOICE) to change your thoughts your personal mental power is increased and your life begins to soar. When our thoughts and feelings are MAINLY positive, self-supportive and LIFE affirming you feel EMPOWERED and your SELF-ESTEEM strengthens!!!!!

What you think YOU ARE!! What you think YOU WILL BECOME!!

It will help you to think of negative thoughts as unsettling music playing on the radio; YOU HAVE THE POWER to turn the station to music you find, soothing, upbeat, and enjoyable. YOU are ABLE to change the station on your negative self-talk. Just TUNE IN to what you are thinking (without judging yourself) and if you’re thinking isn’t leading your LIFE toward healthier attitude and positive feelings, YOU CAN CHANGE THE STATION!!!

CHANGING YOUR THOUGHTS IS SIMPLE!!!! I said, SIMPLE, not EASY!! Unhealthy thinking is one of the most stubborn HABITS to break, one that we have built up over a lifetime. NO HABIT IS EASY to break. But, have faith!! Have no FEAR… Whatever it is that has been done, if patient with ourselves, we can undo. It will take some practice and perseverance, but believe me, it is worth the challenge.

So how do we do that you may ask?

VERY SIMPLY

1. We make the CHOICE to change our thinking
2. We formulate a plan of ACTION

Now that you have made the CHOICE to change your thinking let’s develop a PLAN of ACTION. 

TIPS FOR STRENGTHENING YOU PERSONAL MENTAL POWER

The underlying neuroscience concept for using THOUGHTS to manifest change is to define and get very clear on WHAT YOU WANT, rather than what you DON’T in your LIFE. Your brain attracts and creates experiences it imagines and thinks about.

Make your GOALS real by writing them down, imagining wonderful outcomes and thinking about the positive feelings associated with what you want. It’s essential to develop and keep a positive mental attitude and it helps to make and work a plan.

This statement is from Napoleon Hill‘s epic book Think and Grow Rich. Here are my take-away’s from his book and from what I know about practical MENTAL LIFE POWER (neuroscience): 

• Decide what you want in life, not what you don’t, because your brain will strengthen, make real and attract what you think about the most.

• Select your highest “heart’s desires” and goals. Ask the question, “Will I be pleased with this achievement in five years?”

• Make your goals and dreams real by writing them down, illustrating them with photos and art, imagining what it will feel, sound, look, smell and taste like.

• Remain positive and optimistic at all times.

• Make an implementation plan using your brain strengths.

WE must not forget to ask ourselves…WHAT are we feeding our brain? Are we giving it the nutrients it needs on a daily basis in order to have clarity of mind so we are able to implement our new plan for personal mental power? For more information on brain and sleep nutrients I personally use watch link below.

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Let’s think of ourselves as a car for a moment. A car with 4 cylinders. If one or 2 of the cylinders are not firing then the other 2 need to pick up the slack or they break down altogether because they are tired and burnt out attempting to keep the other 2 going!

Let’s break it down into terms of energy and self-management as this plays a very important role in our journey to PERSONAL LIFE POWER! Having a plan or strategy on how you are going to manage yourself PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, MENTALLY & SPIRITUALLY is the key in regaining your PERSONAL LIFE POWER!

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF

PHYSICAL
What are you fueling your body with? How do you care for your body daily? What is your energy level in this area of your life?

MENTAL:
Take a look at your mental attitude. Is it affecting your success & your personal power potential? Have you taken the time to listen to the words or thoughts that seem to repeat themselves? Where is your energy level in this area of your life?

EMOTIONAL
What is emotionally draining you? Have you taken some time to clear the clutter of really does not belong… >THE PAST! Where is your energy level in this area of your life?

SPIRITUAL
What are your core beliefs? Who are you and what is your purpose and connection to this world? What fills your cup up? Where is your energy level in this area of your life?

Let’s start with your PHYSICAL LIFE POWER

BUILDING BLOCKS:

Cleansing and replenishing our body systems is a key component to Physical Life Power. When we feed/fuel the body with the essential daily nutrients and cleanse out the TOXINS and impurities our body runs optimally! So many of us want that “quick fix”, without acknowledging the need for a deeper lifestyle change.

We need good quality protein! Excellent sources of carbohydrate and healthy fats, daily vitamins and minerals necessary for our body to function. We wonder why we are lacking energy and under performing in our daily lives. WELL, what are you fueling the body with? Caffeine, SUGAR, fast food or processed garbage?

Cleansing and replenishing are key:

The Dangerous Fat You May Not Know You Have and Why Cleansing Can Help

Movement/Exercise

Regular physical activity can produce long term health benefits. People of all ages, shapes, sizes, and abilities can benefit from being physically active. The more physical activity you do, the greater the health benefits.

Now we all know this to be true so why are we not incorporating into our day? I find that if we find an activity that is “fun”, we stick to it! Do what you love and DO THAT!! If the gym is not for you but dancing up a storm is….DO THAT!! The energy in your body will increase and you WILL feel amazing. Releasing those “feel” good hormones on a daily basis increases your PHYSICAL LIFE POWER.

Schedule exercise into your day, release the excuses and move!!

PERSONAL PHYSICAL LIFE POWER HERE YOU COME!!!!!!

STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT STEP MENTAL LIFE POWER!

I know you want to dig deeper. Book a free consultation and we can discuss where you can improve your LIFE POWER.

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