Simple Food ~ Sane Life

Recent changes in my life have brought about a shift in thought process and life ‘must haves.’ Monday I returned home from an amazing four days at Tony Robbins’ seminar Unleashing the Power Within. Now before you think I’ve turned into a proselyte, hear me out. Before, during and after the weekend, I’ve had time to experience shifts and gain clarity in my life. Being a health coach, my passion and gift for understanding life is through science and soul—more specifically food and health.

In the health coaching process, one of the first things I ask people is what their goals are. When I ask them why they chose these goals, so often the answers become about what they want to prevent, what their fears are about their health. As a pharmacist, I often hear from customers about preventing side effects, and treating symptoms. More fear.

According to Merriam – Webster’s Dictionary to prevent means to keep from happening.

Who in their right mind wants to prevent health?!

I invite you to take a look around life, especially a healthy life, and witness how much of it is about prevention. For decades we have been in a state of fear, better known as prevention, when it comes to our health. There are messages bombarding us everywhere about preventing—heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and in general, ill health. We are trained to look intently toward being in a dis-ease state or unhealthy.

If we are in a constant state of prevention, we are living in fear of ill health and disease.

No, thanks! Instead, step up, make a new choice, and create!

Take a deep breath, and think to yourself the word create. Repeat it, over and over again. A smile comes to your face because it is fun and empowering to create! Do we create a healthy meal or prevent it? Create a healthy athletic body or prevent injury? It’s your choice!

Play a word game with yourself, and engage others in this easy play.

With everything in your life, and especially your health, turn it into a creation process instead of a prevention process! Use your mind to ask: What can I create here? There are no limits to creation unless we create them!

Create art, writing, media, music, a garden, a meal, an exercise plan, a laugh track, a life with endless energy, a career you are happy with, passionate loving relationships, a healthy happy home, and outstanding life of being you. You name it and you can create it!

Invite others to join you in this game. Challenge them to choose creation and play with their choices!

How far can your choices take you? As far as you can imagine, and then farther than that!

Are you relieved, smiling, excited, happy, laughing, or joyful? If not, keep playing! The only cost is reaching beyond your limiting beliefs around your life, health, food.

Engage your whole being to create your health!

Peace,

Karyn