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Eat Well

If you started the year with the intention to put yourself and your well being on your to-do list, then you are in the right place, especially if you are still feeling sluggish, overweight and tired from the Christmas and New Year excess. To help you get in the groove for a healthier happier 2012, we are kicking off the season with a series of posts looking at cleaning your insides by detoxing. In the previous post we looked at the seven benefits of going on a detox. Today, we look at three common mistakes you must avoid which can make or break your intentions to stick with your detox.

What Is A Detox?

As a child I remember my mother boiling up her home made version of senna pods and giving me and my brother spoonfuls of the concoction to drink every Christmas and Easter school holidays. As you can image, I hated it. The taste was bitter and as the mixture was a laxative it meant I couldn’t go out and play with my friends, just in case I got the runs and had to rush to the toilet. Yet despite our protestations and promises that we would eat our greens, mum insisted in giving us our regular “cleanse and wash-out” as she called it.
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Eat more greens...

Its official! 2012 is well and truly here. Don’t you agree there is something magical about a New Year? It feels like the first day of spring and there is a sense of buoyancy and expectation in the air. Like a feeling that “Ok, bring it on…?”…no one knows what is around the corner. Some say you create your own destiny through your past and present actions, others believe life is already pre-ordained and no matter what you do you can’t escape your destiny. Whatever you believe, as usual I say look after yourself, breathe, enjoy the journey, find the blessings in the madness, the stillness in the chaos.

And as this is the start of a New Year and yoga and healthy living is my “thing” I would like to share with you

12 Steps To A Healthier You In 2012

1. Eat more spinach and other dark green vegetables such as kale and pok choy to boost your calcium and strengthens bones, spinach is also bursting with other vital nutrients and vitamin which does wonders for your health. Think of Popeye and you will know what I mean.

2. Sleep more – as Benjamin Franklin’s said “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man’s healthy, wealthy and wise.”

3. Exercise more – instead of using the escalators at the tube stations, walk up them, go for a brisk walk during your lunch break or try this simple yoga routine at home.

4. Read more- reading is food for the mind and you can travel to Narnia or the Yellow Brick Road and still be home in time for dinner with your family.

5. Breathe more – tune in now and see how well you are breathing, if you don’t know how to breathe correctly check out this post.

6. Spend more time alone in silence and prayer – this is an ideal way to reconnect and remember the sacredness of life, here’s what prayer means to me and how I spend my Alone Time.

7. Hug more people – hugging is the elixir of life.

Drink more water...

8. Drink more water – your brain consists of 77-78% water, so it’s vital to nourish and hydrate your brain.

9. Laugh more – Laughter yoga is an excellent way to relieve stress and tension.

10. Cry more- let it all out, laugh till you cry or cry till you laugh. Either way crying is cleansing for the soul.

11. Forgive more – easy to say, hard to do…

12. Stretch more – when you feel stressed at work, take ten minutes and practice these simple Chair Yoga stretches at your workstation. You will feel lighter, refreshed and energised.

And if you want to discover more yoga exercises and relaxation techniques for a healthier, more peaceful 2012, buy my popular ebook A Woman’s Book Of Yoga -A Guide To Relax and Nourish Your Soul.

And now, can you think of anything else you can do to be healthier this year? I’d love to hear what you are doing to be healthier. Share your comments in the box below.

Take care and here’s to a wonderful healthy 2012 and beyond…

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Images, via flickr-Eat more veg-BC Gov Photo & Drink more water-Cajie.

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Jumping for Joy!

I am sooooo excited to be here, sitting down writing and communicating with you. I breathe deeply and Give Thanks, for your continued support and allowing me to be a part of your daily life.

Giving Thanks For 2012

Well, as you can see we are now in 2012. And together we are going to make this year the best year ever. Together we will create magic, find and discover our inner compass and use our intuition and inner wisdom and resources to breathe, be and become. Become healthier, more excited about feeling our best, feeling brighter, happier, glowing with vitality and just glad to be alive. Read more…?

Do you ever feel alone and wish there was someone special in your life? Someone who you could relate to on a soul-to-soul- level? Someone with whom you could relax with and share special fun times? Read more…?