9 Steps to
Health and Happiness for Busy Mums
Have you ever wondered why you continually make poor health
decisions. Imagine making good decisions easily and effortlessly. If
you like this feeling this may be the book for you.
Author Rosemary Manners says “I've
written this book for the busy mum to firstly help her to choose
health as a value and then to go on to achieve her health goals. It
is written for the busy mum because she is the centre of society when
it comes to sound heath decisions. She is a role model, teaching and
feeding the children. She is supporting the working man. The busy mum
has a network of friends to spread the word to. If she understands
the importance of happiness and health She is in just the right
position to help the rest of the community.”
Just to get you hooked here is the
opening of the first chapter;
The
beginning is about identifying the problem. To find health and
happiness it is your first step to find out why you don't have it
now. What are the obstacles that are stopping you from choosing
health?
I
remember as a child waiting and waiting. When I was growing up, there
wasn’t a great deal of money, but whenever our birthday came
around, we kids were allowed to choose a very, very special treat.
One
year I chose Luna Park, Oh. It was good to anticipate … marking the
days off on the calendar, and after the last cross we’d be there.
The big day arrived; I remember running to my favourite ride.
Do
you know what it was? I can see it now. It may be your favourite ride
too clink, clink, clink,
whoosh the
big dipper. And it was so, so big.
Everybody
knows you need to wait in the queue. I know you can imagine waiting,
and slowly, as your turns gets closer and closer, little butterflies
appear in your stomach. And they grow until you’re at the front of
the queue, listening — clink, clink,
clink, whoosh. Your breathing quickens
and then it’s your turn.
Into
the dipper car you pop — front or back? I chose the back. Would
you? And off we go, around the corner, then we start going up, up. We
hear the clink, clink, clink, whoosh of
the wheels as they turn, pulling us higher and higher and higher.
What a wonderful feeling.
Have
you ever been so high up that you’ve felt on top of the world?
At one
time or another, you may have been skiing. I reconnect with this
feeling when I think about one day when I arrived at the Remarkable s
in New Zealand. Awe-inspiring mountains towered over three small
lifts. So what do you do? As you look up at the mountains, you see a
few skiers walking up this one steep mountain slope with skis on
their backs. Imagine that.
So what
next? Catch the lift to its highest point then take your skis off and
head up the hill. Start trudging up a very steep path with those
heavy snow boots. And as the skis weigh down on your shoulder, you
notice your breathing becoming quick and shallow in the thin air. Up
and up and up; mountains all around; one boot after another. Up and
up towards the top.
As
you get closer to the top, you notice this exhilaration, a feeling of
excitement forming in the base of your stomach. Am I going to ski
down fast or slow? Will it be safe or dangerous? Will it take one
minute or two? And will I begin now or later? Do I feel prepared to
do this? The majestic mountains, that feeling of anticipation is big
now with the excitement building and building as I
get higher and higher.
Another
high place I remember being in was in South America; my feet love to
travel. I was high up in a mountain village where no English was
spoken. You can imagine it. My Spanish is limited, but that did not
stop the locals from approaching me for a chat. At a bus station, a
man sat down next to me with all his heavy bundles, ready for market
day. He was all dressed up in his colourful finery, and he was
talking and talking and talking.
I was looking into the old man’s eyes, listening to the words as he
was talking and talking.
Have you ever listened to another language being spoken when you are
unable to catch the words?
As
I looked into his eyes I noticed little things at first. And I looked
again. Have you felt that? I imagine you have. Something more than
talking, talking, talking…
So
many different people come into my shops each day. One day, a guy I
knew quite well — his name was Brian — drifted in the door on
cloud nine, floating.
He
got to the front door, and from the counter I could tell, as I know
you could have, that something big had happened in his life — some
event so big that he’d walked down from his house to tell me. He
wasn’t hurrying — would you have? He was floating
slowly, one leg after another. What was he going to tell me?
As
I looked carefully, I noticed his breathing was short and sharp, as
if there was something inside waiting to be uncloaked. His eyes were
bright, with just a little moisture inside. His lips appeared to be
full of blood as if it was really juicy. Can you picture this? The
colour and the shine on his face. What was it? His face was flushed
pink and shiny, like an angel glowing and floating
in the night. What was I going to hear
about sooner or later? Could I be imagining this? Was it something
that I’d like or not? How was his life changing? How was this man
floating?
Another
of my customers is 103 years old. I wonder how the world appears to
her from inside her head looking out. How much has her world changed?
And with all the experiences she has had, all the people she has met
and seen, I wonder how many times she has changed her mind in 103
years.
What
are we looking for, for us to access health and happiness? Is it
information? Is it to check whether this information is true? Is it
to know what to do? Why have we not solved the problem ourselves?
Or are
we really coming to learn the skills we need to change our minds?
We
often say that it’s easy to change our mind: ‘I do it every day —
about what I’m going to wear, what I’ll eat, where I’ll go,
what I’ll do.’ That’s true of course, but what about the
decisions we don’t know how to change, those decisions sitting deep
in our unconscious mind that we are not even aware of? They are
sitting there ruling what we do, how we react and what we say.
Limiting decisions such as 'only food with sugar in it is
interesting', 'I'm too busy....' ' I
don't want big muscles', 'I love McDonald's' and 'I
have no time.'...
When we
change our mind about a particular subject or behaviour that is
inhibiting our potential for wellness and growth, then our whole life
changes.
Start
at the beginning. Begin by working out, clearly identifying your
problem, thinking of examples of this problem and trying to discover
how you
frame it in your head. Probe, try to discover the source of the
problem. Know it is important that you are clear about what has to
happen so that you know the problem has gone....to read more download
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