30-Day Balance Experiment 2010-Day 1

If you would like to join me on a 30-day experiment to balance our God-given minds and bodies, check in right here!  My approach is qualitative not quantitative. I am not going to tell you my weight or what I eat.  What I am going to post here are 4 thoughts and 4 actions pertaining to the four quatrants that keep us balanced: SPIRITUAL/ PHYSICAL/ MENTAL/EMOTIONAL, or soul, body, mind, heart.

Feel free to email me your successes or frustrations. My personal goal is to feel healthy, energetic, and be able to wear the lonely, beautiful clothes hanging in my closet. Today even my 'fat pants' are tight. What piece of chocolate (or potato chip, or glass of wine, or roll, or....) is worth being  limited to these ten-year-old Ferragamo black pants whose waist has already been expanded by my magical seamtress???

This 30-day journey we are taking is NOT A DIET. It is an EXPERIMENT. Let's just see what happens when we follow ancient wisdom and  21st century science to finally break that cycle so many of us have replayed: eat and drink/hate ourselves/go on a diet/eat and drink/hate ourselves/go on a diet, ad infinitum.

I don't go cold-turkey. I follow Dr. Andrew Weil's method of adding a few healthy meals/exercises a day with the aim of ending up with that balanced life we are seeking. It's not a deprivation/compulsive eating seesaw.

So, here we go!

SPIRITUAL thought/action: "Everything we believe about love, fear, transformation and God is revealed in how, when, and what we eat." Geneen Roth, Women Food and God.  Today I calm myself and listen in deep silence, if just for this  moment. 

PHYSICAL thought/action: My body is like a Waring blender. If I don't turn it on (exercise), all I have is the lumpy mess of food I've put in. Low speed or high speed, viola! Lumpy mass transforms into smooth liquid. (I promise I'll get more scientific later on.)  Today I will break old patterns with one action that makes a difference: take a walk, get on an exercise machine, dance, or play a sport. 

MENTAL thought/action: What we think about is what we get. We are always moving toward our most dominant thought whatever it is. Today I attract what I desire starting with my thoughts.

EMOTIONAL thought/action: Accepting the unacceptable (not stuffing our feelings with food) transforms our lives and opens up whole new horizons. Today I shower forgiveness on everyone including myself. 

Bonus activities: Make a list of your favorite clothes and then visualize yourself wearing them with a smile.

See you tomorrow! Right now I have a date with our elliptical machine.  Yours on our journey, Lolly