Happy March and (hopefully) spring! I’m hoping that our beautiful weather here in Northern California will hold out, it’s been in the 70’s for a week and my trees and plants are starting to come back to life. I hope they don’t get surprised with a sudden frost or snowstorm! I am going to hold good intentions for good weather here on out, for my neck of the woods as well as the rest of the country – it’s time for sane weather after the crazy winter we have all experienced.
Things have been really busy for me with lots of exciting things happening. Yara Nielsenshultz of Red Pepper Writing is working with me as an Entrepreneur Coaching Package client! And the best part is you can follow her journey as I coach her through finding the motivation to exercise, improving her health and fitness, becoming an intuitive eater, and discovering how all this can help her gain more focus and energy to put into growing her business! Watch it happen at my Fit for Business blog.
If you know someone who you think would benefit from or enjoy this newsletter, my Tell a Friend program is ready! If you refer someone to the Stop the Weight newsletter, I will give you Coach Felicia Satterly’s (of Transformative Journeys) report, “Transform Your Life in Six Simple Steps” as my thank you gift! Just go to the Healthier Outcomes newsletter page, scroll half-way down, and you will see where to input your information. Thanks!
Here’s to a great spring!
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“Exercise is boring!” Sound familiar? Boredom is one of the most common reasons people stop working out or resist starting a program. If this is you, why not try one or two of these ideas for beating the boredom and finally reaching those fitness goals that you just know are waiting for you!
- Try a new exercise video. Say the words “exercise video” and for many people images of Jane Fonda and leg warmers instantly appear. But a quick web search will leave those images far behind. Consider Budokon, a combination of martial arts, yoga, and meditation. Or Yoga Booty Ballet – the name alone can bring about a smile. The point is to do something different. Even if you exercise mostly at the gym, an at-home video option is good to have on hand when you cannot make it to the gym and need a quick workout.
While some stores (such as Costco or Target) carry exercise videos and DVDs, you will find a greater selection online at sites such as Gaiam.com, CollageVideo.com, or Amazon.com.
- Make a small investment. Home exercise equipment does not require an outlay of thousands of dollars. For cardiovascular exercise, check into a Lateral Thigh Trainer or mini trampoline (such as the Urban Rebounder) – each has been sold online and in infomercials, costing less than $200. For strength training equipment, consider a Bosu or balance disc – both help to work your muscles in unique ways, focusing on balance and core strength.
- Get out of your gym comfort zone. Do you tend to use the same treadmill (or other favorite) workout after workout? If so, switch to something different. Better yet, use a different machine each time you exercise. You can also use different machines within the same workout. For a 30-minute session, pick three machines and spend ten minutes on each. The time goes by fast and your body appreciates the variety. Also, if you use entirely machines for cardio, consider a class such as kickboxing or spinning. Stuck on classes? Try an elliptical trainer or walk uphill on a treadmill. The switch will limit boredom not only from a mental standpoint, but a physical one too because our bodies respond better when we vary the exercise stimulus.
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Q: I start exercise with the best intentions to be consistent, but something always happens within the first month that gets me off track and I have never been able to make it a habit that I just do on a regular basis.
A: This question, in many different forms, is probably the most often-asked question I receive about exercise. How do you find the motivation – not only to get started – but to stay committed and consistent?
The answer to this question can’t be answered in a single sentence, let alone this space in the newsletter. That’s why I decided to offer a new e-course that has just been released at MotivationToExercise.com. There is no charge for this course. It will take you step-by-step through five lessons to find your motivation and how to keep it going.
"The Five Keys to Finding and Keeping the Motivation to Exercise"
Here's just some of what you'll learn:
- how to make exercise a priority and overcome the excuses, even when you don’t feel like working out
- how to let go of perfection to stop the on-again, off-again exercise routine
- how to motivate yourself by making measurable progress every single day
- how to break through boredom and plateaus for better results in less time
- why support is essential and how to get it
- and much more...
To sign up, visit MotivationToExercise.com
Here is a comment from a previous Motivation to Exercise ecourse graduate…
“As an entrepreneur, my life can be unpredictable. One thing I am serious about is maintaining a healthy lifestyle including regular exercise. Even for someone like me, exercise can feel like a chore sometimes. This e-course was wonderful. The writing style is so personable and encouraging. The tips are practical, and the course was so easy to follow. No matter where you are in your exercise journey, this course will help you stay motivated!”
- Jenn Givler, JGivlerCoaching.com
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Would you like to get together for an hour of free-style business networking?
All you need is a computer headset with a microphone plugged in your computer and an internet access.
It is to be held on Tuesday, Mar 27th at 11am CST/ 12pm EST and for one hour in BRPD's online meeting room, you will:
- be given the opportunity to introduce yourself. You only have 30 seconds to get members of Strictly Business network on Ryze, to be interested in what you do and how your product or service can help them solve their problems. Therefore, I encourage you to use the forum board to seek advice on how best you can craft a compelling 30-second introduction/ pitch. Some members of this network are experts in sales and marketing, they'll be very happy to help you craft your introduction.
- be given the opportunity to post your URL link, email address, telephone number/ skypeID and other website addresses so that the rest of the members know how to get in touch with you for business or at least referrals.
- be given the opportunity to network freely through group text chat or private text chat messaging and if you would like to take the mic to say something to the group of attendees, feel free to let the moderator know and the mic is yours.
At the end of this event, you will be known as who you are/ what you do and be liked and trusted by members of this network.
It's time to make verbal connection with each other!
To attend, go to Strictly Business home page and enter your email address in the web form on the page. You will receive instructions to access the online meeting room upon activation of your registration.
Please encourage other non-members to join our network and register to attend this event.
It's F*REE after all. See you all there!
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March 2007
 by Kim Bloomer
This month I want to share information from my friend Kim Bloomer who hosts her online radio show “Animal Talk, Naturally!” I thought many of you who are interested in your own health and fitness may also be interested in related information for your pets. If you would like more information like this, please let me know, I would love the feedback.
In truth the term “natural health” is redundant because real, true health can only be natural. Unfortunately for us as well as our pets we’ve relinquished control of our natural health care to the sick care industry: the medical community which can only masquerade as health care.
Recently on our podcast, Animal Talk, Naturally!, we had holistic veterinarian, Dr. Stephen Blake, DVM (aka the Pet Whisperer) as our guest. He called the thinking behind a lot of modern medicine as reductionism thinking or flat world thinking but holistic, natural whole care as quantum or round world thinking. Really it is getting back to what we know is truth and what is really health. It is very basic and while this article won’t be long enough to share all of it with you here, if you can open your mind to all of this, you’ll begin to understand how we’ve been thoroughly duped and in only 50 short years.
Dr. Blake explained the ABCs of natural pet care as:
A is equal to avoidance of chemicals, toxins, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, etc.
B is equal to boosting through proper species specific feeding, rest, sunshine, clean good water, possible supplementation and so on.
C is equal to cleansing. By doing a detox or cleanse in your pet’s body, you will help to eliminate the accumulated toxins and mitigating factors hindering your pet from optimal health. For more details on this refer to our article “Healing Crisis and Why That is a Good Thing”.
I often quote from a book by Dr. David Stewart, Healing Oils of the Bible, because of his great insight into the insidiousness of the fraud perpetrated upon our society with the overuse of pharmaceutical drugs. He states in his book how more than 100,000 people in the USA die each year from properly administered drugs and an additional 100,000 plus die from improperly prescribed and/or administered drugs! That is the equivalent to a jet liner crash every single day of the week and more than double the deaths that occurred on September 11, 2001 per week. This is not being talked about in mainstream media because big pharma has deep pockets to share with them. Understand that veterinarians are trained exactly by the same pharmaceutical companies and have the same training as human doctors with the exception that they train on animals instead of humans. So it stands to reason that these numbers could be even higher for pets due to less regulatory control on the pet population.
We have somehow come to think that a trip to the veterinarian should yield us some kind of drug or vaccine to assure us we got our money’s worth on the visit AND that our pet is getting the protection and/or cure he or she deserves. Nothing could be further from the truth.
No synthetic drug will ever cure or prevent illness. Rather we will find our answers in nature. Fresh air, daily sunshine (sans sunscreen -watch your pets, they bathe in it daily for short periods given the access and we need to do likewise), good clean fresh water free of fluoride and chlorine, and food appropriate to the species (not commercial junk made to line the pockets of those in the pet food industry not nourish our pets).
Understand that the pharmaceuticals we’ve come to rely on for health will not do much but to drive an illness deeper into the body until it is something very serious. 94% of the marketing claims on legal drugs (pharmaceuticals) are unsubstantiated and unsupported by scientific evidence. If the brakes in our cars were that unreliable, do you think any of us would be driving cars? I don’t think so!
However, those of us in natural care face a daunting task of re-educating the public to these truths with the AMA, AVMA, FDA and all those other letters trying to thwart the process. Just so you have a bit of reference to the claims you see on mainstream television news about how many deaths there are by supplements verses pharmaceuticals, here is just ONE statistic you can chew on:
From 1993-1998 “fewer than 200 deaths occurred from herbs and supplements (mostly from weight loss products) almost 1 million people died from FDA-approved, properly prescribed, medically administered pharmaceuticals and medical procedures.”(Healing Oils of the Bible).
Even scarier is both doctors and veterinarians alike rely on the information given them by the drug companies. This is only one of the many reasons why I choose to not only use a holistic veterinarian but to care for my dog as an entire being through proper nutrition, food, clean water, fresh air and sunshine. Health doesn’t come in a pill. It comes from caring for your entire self, your entire pet, as a whole using what God provided us in nature.
In contrast to allopathic drugs, nature provides us the exact opposite which goes to the cause while easing the symptoms. My favorite example to use is the essential oils. They don’t lie or send wrong messages to the body like drugs do. Rather they clean the receptor sites, erase wrong information in the cellular memory, and THEN restore God’s correct information or original information back into the DNA! This means that the body can then be well -for both pets and humans.
I hope you’ll consider the facts set here before you and dig deeper into natural health for you and your pets.
DISCLAIMER: The only oils referred to in ALL my articles are Young Living Essential Oils. I DO NOT use any others and would not state what I do in my articles about any other brands.
Kim Bloomer is a natural pet care educator, professional lecturer, host of the online radio show Animal Talk Naturally and a proficient blogger and writer on natural pet health. Kim is also co-author of the book Whole Health for Happy Dogs. She worked in the veterinary field for many years and continues to do extensive research into natural health care for dogs and cats. Kim is currently enrolled in the Clayton College of Natural Health studying for a Bachelor of Science in Holistic Nutrition/Doctor of Naturopathy. Kim is a member of the American Veterinary Naturopathic Association.
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Learning to Eat Consciously
with Liz Berney, Ph.D.
In this six-week intensive, you will learn:
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How to eat what you want when you are hungry
- How to stop when you are full
- What to do when you want to eat and are not hungry
- How to change your beliefs about food and your body that undermine you
Learn more at ChoosingYou.org
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