For many years as a sport scientist, personal trainer and performance coach, I have been working with clients who come to me for advice about how they can improve the performance and quality of their bodies; some want help to lose weight and tone up, others need to reduce their blood pressure and the effects of stress, some want to put on muscle and everyone wants to look and feel better. But, invariably I have found that it is never my clients physical bodies that require improvement in the first instance.
Effectively, the body is a barometer for life; if something is not going well in a certain area of life, it manifests through the body.
The evidence that this is true was only too apparent to me when working with my clients. I found that when they did address the underlying cause of their dissatisfaction (that is, their dis-EASE), their physical bodies responded with a lot less effort and they began to see amazing results in all areas of their lives.
Ultimately what I found was that my clients had a perceived gap between who they were and who they wanted to be and this gap manifested itself as some form of dis-EASE in their physical body.
Did you know that your life is a reflection of your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviours?
Therefore in order to create your ideal life (or a life of EASE) think only the thoughts, feel only the feelings, believe only the beliefs and behave only the behaviours that will create the life that you want.
To achieve a life of EASE follow the Five Steps to EASE Creation
Step 1) Activate Your Being
Activating your Being is about you designing the person you want to become and then being this person now. Activate your Being by answering the following 3 questions: 1) Who are you? 2) Who do you want to be? 3) What is your life purpose?
Step 2) Activate Your Thoughts
Thoughts are the root cause of your reality; therefore you must begin to master them in a positive sense in order to manifest a life of EASE. You contain within you everything that you will ever require to achieve all of your goals and dreams but before this happens you must first know exactly what it is you are looking to achieve and then begin to focus your thoughts upon it.
If you were living a life of EASE what would it look like?
Step 3) Activate Your Feelings
Perhaps the most important aspect of manifesting your life of EASE is to focus your attention on the feelings that achieving this ideal life will give you. An excellent way to maintain these feelings is to find some pictures or images of your goals and create a collage with them, place it on your wall and view it at least twice daily.
What does your life of EASE feel like?
Step 4) Activate Your Beliefs
Beliefs are thoughts repeated constantly and held as truth to you. Therefore the best way to believe your life of EASE is possible is to associate with the people and the things that you want to be like. Put simply, you must read books, attend seminars, associate with the people and places that you are aspiring to become.
Step 5) Activate Your Behaviours
Creating an action plan and then implementing it is the final step in creating your life of EASE. It is the Doing part of the EASE process.
A successful action plan contains the daily behaviours, obstacles, solutions, support, and rewards that are necessary to achieve your goals.
What behaviours do you need to perform to achieve your goals?
What obstacles, solutions, support and rewards do you need to achieve your goals?
Congratulations! You have now done everything in your power to set the wheels in motion towards achieving your life of EASE.
Everyone responds differently to stressful events. That stress response is part instinct and part to do with how we think. We can train our minds how to best respond to the stressors in our lives. Stress does not need to be all bad. Some stress in our daily lives is good and challenges us to reach even higher heights.
Many people go through their days not aware of the stress in their lives. They might think, "Well, how serious can it be if I don't even know it exists?"
Regardless of how little or how much stress you have in your life, being able to identify it will be a big help to you. Once you are able to identify the stress in your life for what it is, you can then go about the business of dealing with it more effectively.
Make no mistake about it - if there is stress in your life, chances are you are reacting negatively to at least some of it.
Stress Busting Tip
The very best thing that you can do for yourself is to eat, drink and rest - to your health!
Stress is easily brought on by not eating and drinking properly. When you don't get the number of hours of sleep that you need each night, you are only setting yourself up for additional stress.
Limit the amount of salt, sugar, caffeine and alcohol in your diet. Drink plenty of clean, pure water each day and do at least moderate exercise each day. This will breathe new life into your skin, hair and will nourish all of your vital organs.
Take time to breathe properly! Take deep belly breathes to send pure oxygen to all of your body.
Laugh Your Stress Away
Humor is a terrific stress-reducer and antidote to all manner of upsets. It has been clinically proven to be effective in combating the worst of stress.
Experts know that a good laugh relaxes tense muscles, sends more oxygen into your system, quicker and lowers your blood pressure.
So next time you feel yourself start to tense up, tune into your favorite comedy on television. Read a funny book. Call up a good friend and laugh heartily for a few good minutes. It doesn't even hurt to just force a good laugh now and then. You'll find your stress melting away with each breath!
Americans were attracted to humor while reading the stories of Norman Cousins. This man successfully overcame cancer by watching his favorite comedy shows on television.
These days, you can attend an organized humor meeting and even in places such as India where laughing in a public place is frowned upon.
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