5 steps to health and wellness

Here are my 5 steps to health and wellness: Practice daily to feel more alive and energized. They are not in any particular order. Just important to do on a regular basis!

Step 1
CHANGE YOUR THINKING. Become aware of your thoughts and instead of focusing on the negative stuff and the things that are not working, focus on the positive. Focus on good health and energy flowing. Make sure you laugh and smile every day. Lighten up. Don't take things so personally. Be kind to you! Stop being so hard on yourself. Each day ask yourself: How can I be more loving to me today?

Step 2
MOVE YOUR BODY. Make sure you do some kind of movement every day. It can be walking, yoga, stretching, swimming, dancing etc. Our body's need to move and stretch. Have fun with it. Exercise with someone or whatever works for you. If your sitting watching television, do some stretching or some kind of movement while sitting on the couch.

Step 3
BREATHE. Take several deep breaths many times a day. Become more aware of how you breath and getting more life force energy into your being. Breathe into your belly, move the breathe up to your diaphram, then up to your collarbone and breathe out fully. Breathe in peace, breathe out stress. Breathe in good health and breathe out negativity. Breathe in love and breathe out fear.

Step 4
MEDITATE DAILY. Take time every day to be still and turn within. Come back to you. We are so busy and always doing that our adrenal glands get very depleted. Make time for you to stop and be still. Go into nature or find a special place to sit for a few minutes every day. Close your eyes and connect back to your self  and breathe. Fill your self up with light and love. Send loving energy to every cell in your body. Thank your body for all it does for you. Send loving thoughts and prayers out to all those you love and to the planet.

Step 5
EXPRESS HOW YOU ARE FEELING AND GET IT OUT. It is so important for our health and wellbeing to acknowledge how we are feeling and get the emotional energy to move out of the body - especially grief and sadness. It is ok to cry and to be vulnerable. If you are feeling angry or frustrated and cant speak about it, write it out, or exercise it out. Find someone to first acknowledge how you are feeling and then release it. Do not give it any power. We give our emotions alot of power especially FEAR and it can sometimes control our life and affect our health and our Spirit.
Be grateful each day for your each part of your body and for all you have in your life.

Peace and blessings, Laurie
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