What is Harder - Starting Over or Starting New

We have all been there. The new project, the fear and anticipation, the excitement of something new.

We have all been there. Trying to breathe life into an old project, the boredom, the failures, knowing in your heart that it is just no good. Knowing that you are just not good enough to do it.

These words bring to mind all the diets, exercise programs, eating healthy resolutions and promises to yourself and others.

It is the promise to mow the yard and plant some flowers that keeps getting put off until tomorrow.

It is the vacation that goes wrong from day one and has to be salvaged rather than enjoyed.

IT is the sub conscious knowledge that is working to protect you from some unknown fear that is holding you back, making you sleepy and forcing you to put off starting over. So much easier to start new. Problem is, eventually you reach a point that there really is nothing new.

Vacation to a new place still starts as a vacation - plan or no. Did you learn from the last one to pack differently, to have a larger budget, to buy tickets in advance?

Your first attempt at a diet was probably a vague I will eat healthier. I'll have more salads and stay away from sugar. When that failed you had to start over with a specific diet, Atkins, cabbage or what ever. When that failed you were too afraid to start again. You fell back on the statement - everyone knows those diets don't work.

Maybe you eventually tried a meal plan diet where your meals are delivered to you and all you have to control is how many you eat every day. Yes if you eat 2 days of meals in one day the plan won't work. And by the way, did you learn to count calories or recognize portion size.

Have you reached the point of realizing that the only way to control your eating habits is to control what is available to eat? Do you accept that you must plan menus and alternate menus and buy only for those menus? Does that food delivery plan look more appealing?

Have you reached the point of realizing that no food plan alone will get you to your true health goal? Without the exercise to build muscle and burn fat you are just washing dishes in cold water without soap.

Gloom, despair, what is the point of trying, I will just fail.

It is buried deep in our subconscious, the will to live. That subconscious desire to live keeps us from doing some of the things we need to do to live well. Sounds strange doesn't it. How could our minds keep us sick and fat and weak when the mind is supposed to be keeping us alive and well.

The mind can be tricked with drugs and with memories. Otherwise how could any one say they can't live without a cigarette or a drink or a fix from cocaine or sugar.

EFT can be a valuable tool in the detox of the mind to free you to go on to a healthier life. But freeing your mind does not change the fact that losing 40 pounds will not happen this weekend. That falls into the category of life goal - once you lose the weight you have to keep it off.

The body has to go through a period of cleansing -- detox if you will. In a hospital, they use drugs to help the body go through a withdrawal from cocaine. If they didn't you could be looking at heart failure just from the stress and toxins released.

Your personal addictions to sugar or cigarette may not require hospitalization to overcome, but they do put a strain on your body and mind when you take them away. Since your mind wants the body to feel good, it will demand those things that are not good for you. Your mind may be confused about what is good or bad, but it remains strong in the demand for what it is use to on a daily basis.

Every day you must start over. You may add some new experiences to the mix, but basically you are working from an existing starting point. Habits are now just unconscious actions. You don't think about brushing your teeth in the morning, you just do it. You do what you do every day because that is what you do every day.

Getting healthy does not fall into the category of new project or starting over project. To be healthy falls into the category of habit, each day doing the same things, eating well, exercising moderately, sufficient sleep and managing stress. Remember that the managing of your stress is a great place to insert strength training - punching a speed bag will do more to remove your stress than a cigarette and it will build muscle which will burn more fat.

Curtis Grant said,

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act
on it. people who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the
middle of a field in the hopes that a cow will back up to them.

So maybe it is start new or maybe start over, but take some action today to build the habits that will take you to a long and healthy life.

until next time smile
Sharon

Fear - Inertia -- What Stops You?

As you may have noticed I have not been posting very much lately. I have the worst possible excuse -- fear. A couple of months ago I received a letter from someone who had read one of my articles on the web site. She took great exception to it and was very verbally abusive. I do not expect that everyone will agree with what I write or publish. I have had letters in the past that questioned why I wrote something. I have also had letters that thanked me for my view point.

I am not a doctor nor do I claim to diagnose or cure any condition. I write about the natural health benefits available to everyone in this world. I take a positive approach to any disease. Yes, I understand pain and suffering but I do not focus on that pain. I believe that most people want something to believe in, to focus on, that can help them get better - get beyond the pain.

However, what her letter did was make me question my style of writing. It caused me to go back and look at some older articles. I hope I have improved my writing over these years, looking at some of the older articles - I needed improvement. I also found some pages that came up as errors when the link was clicked - my web site needed some long overdue maintenance.

With all the distractions in my life including work at the store, family drama and a broken swimming pool, I have done nothing. It is that over whelming--- too many things--- that causes inertia because it is easier to do nothing than to pick a problem and start solving it.

So today I start again. I gathered up my herbal supplements and actually took them. I ate a proper meal and did some exercise. I am posting to my blog - at least one of them. I deleted the letter from my email so I cannot go back again and again and read it. I welcome letters from my readers - even the ones that disagree with me. But, should I ever again get such an abusive email I will immediately delete it, forget it and continue writing about what I know about. And I will continue to write with a positive outlook and the possibilities available to change disease to health. Oh, and I am slowly getting all those broken links fixed.

And I apologize to you and to myself for allowing 1 email to upset my apple cart to the degree that it did.

until next time - smile
Sharon

Change of Life

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.

Jim Rohn
Author and Speaker

Change, what a big overwhelming mind stopping word. Is there a day that goes by that we do not in all earnestness declare that we will change? Maybe the statement is aimed at losing weight or stopping smoking or starting to exercise or eating healthy. Maybe it is an illegal drug or alcohol. Maybe it is depression or anger.

We read how to change or when to change or why to change. On a firm conscious level we accept the need for change but the powerful subconscious always agrees that we will change but not until tomorrow. Guess what, tomorrow can not come ---- it can never be tomorrow TODAY.

I would like to reprint something here.


The greatest stumbling block to achieving anything of importance in your life is circumstances. We let circumstances get us off the hook when we should be giving it everything we've got. More dreams are shattered and goals lost because of circumstances than any other single factor.
How often have you caught yourself saying, "I would like to do or have this but I can't because...?" Whatever follows "because" is the circumstance.
Successful people use circumstances to catapult them on toward their goal, while the masses use them as road blocks. A circumstance may cause a detour in your life but you should never permit it to stop you.

George Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying, "People are always blaming circumstance for what they are. I do not believe in circumstance. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstance they want and if they can't find them they make them."

Napoleon said, "Circumstances hell, I make them."

The next time you hear someone say they would like to vacation in Paris, or purchase a particular automobile but they can't because they have no money. Tell them they don't need any money, your reward will probably be a blank stare followed with, "What do you mean I don't need any money?"

Explain they don't need the money until they make a decision to go to Paris or purchase the car. When the decision is made, they will figure out a way to get the amount needed. They always do.

The circumstance they are using is one of the most common: a lack of money. The real cause of their problem is lack of decision. You always attract what you need when you decide it must be done. Try this yourself today. You know the task you have been putting off "because..." Make a decision, forget the circumstance or adopt Shaw's theory, but get it done!

Bob Proctor

Take action my friends. Don't just talk about it whatever it is. Stop boring your family and friends with your talk about someday. There will never be a perfect time. BUT there can be the delicious feeling of accomplishment when that small step is taken and the door is opened to a new life.

On a sad note, spammers have picked up my email address and are broadcasting some very unsavory emails as though they are being sent by me. I have contacted my provider and been told they can do nothing because the emails do not originate with roadrunner. My inbox is flooded with bounced emails. What disturbs me most is that my name is being used for such a dirty project. That is my honor and reputation they are trampling in the mud.

This circumstance has brought something to light for me. I now realize that some emails I get are not from the supposed source. Someone else's name is being used.

My personal email is being removed from my website. Instead I will use the website address. Some of you have my personal address in your email address book. Fine keep it and continue to use it. Personally, nothing makes my day brighter than to write a blog post or article and have people respond to it.

I want to end on a lighter note, so joke it is.

A tale of a jogger

You see there was this jogger. He was regular in his exercise and
quite punctual.

Every morning he'd follow the same route, passing the same bagel
cart. And each day he'd toss 60 cents onto the counter of the
bagel cart as he passed.

And, no, this does not define a yuppy jog-by coining...

One day he was hewing to his usual habit when he noticed that
the guy at the bagel cart had taken after him and was calling
for him to stop.

He stopped, waited for the bagel guy to catch up, and then said,
"I know, I know, you want to know why I drop 60 cents on your
counter each day, right?"

"No, that's not it," replied the bagel cart guy, "I just thought
you should know that bagels are now 75 cents each."

until next time - smile
Sharon
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