Finding the motivation to exercise can be difficult. What and where is this special motivation needed to get out of bed and out the door to your workouts? If you're waiting to wake someday with an intense desire to exercise you will likely be waiting a long time. Motivation doesn't just happen and isn't [...]
Virtue - behavior showing high moral standards. A virtue is a a commendable quality or trait, a powerful force. Even the Latin root of the word virtue means strengh or power. Virtues are a ways of thinking that enhance our ability to act and motivate us to lead lives of [...]
Scientists have identified multiple genes that regulate physical strength and biological age. Most notable among them are those involved in the sustainability of our muscle tissue. It’s the decrease in the expression of these genes that causes our muscle to deteriorate dragging down our healing power. When does the aging process start? We can’t [...]
It’s great that we focus on the best eating plan and exercise program that works for us in order to achieve great results in the shortest amount of time. However, there is one thing that comes into play before any of these things are nput into action. Motivation Motivation is something we all want [...]
Equipped with a high-powered immune system and intracellular anti-oxidant defense system, the body is truly a disease killing machine when operating at peak performance. Unfortunately for most people it isn't. Rather than teaching people how to cure disease (so much money spent yearly on research) we need to be educating people on how to [...]
To be authentic, to express and live as the person we truly are in our heart, takes courage. Courage is not a trait given to a few select or random individuals at birth while denying others. Courage is a character trait, a quality and behavioral habit that can be gained and developed equally by [...]
Self-esteem is a standard of measurement or value judgment defining how we feel about ourselves and our self worth. It is ultimately an emotional evaluation and most often based on how we stand up to and compare ourselves to others. These types of emotions are a roller coaster ride of feelings; they are fluctuating [...]
One of the most common problems afflicting modern society today, especially women, is an unhealthy body image. Because we are very impressionable at that early age this unhealthy body image begins in childhood. When unhealthy actions and unrealistic ideals are communicated to us, we internalize them. Once internalized, we pass these distorted ideals on [...]
Stepping Outside Our Comfort Zone A very wise mentor of mine once told me: “Success lies on the other side of your comfort zone.” In order to understand what this means, requires we define what “comfort zone" means/is. According to online sources: it is “the level at which one functions with ease and familiarity.” [...]
We live in the age of technology, an age that provides us a wealth of information that is readily available at our fingertips on every subject imaginable. A new generation of health and fitness seekers has emerged as people all over the world, seek out alternative ways to feel better and live longer, turning [...]
