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1). 12 Things You Can Learn From A Two-Year Old I think if you asked any child about the adults around them, they'd probably say we're a little wacky and seem to be stressed out a lot of the time. H 2). 9 Ways To Feed Your Soul By Simply Walking We live in a culture that honors Type A, driven behaviors. That includes exercise and for many people, it’s taken away the joy out of simply walking. Instead of seeing walking as something you must do to get in shape, see it as a gift of being alive and let yourself fully enjoy the experience. 1) Walk with deep awareness of how it feel... 3). Can You Imagine A Beautiful Life? Imagine waking up one morning to find that you are using your unique talents in a fully satisfying way, that you feel wonderful in your body, and that your life feels rich and complete. Now ask yourself, how much time and money have you spent trying to live up to the cultural ideal of female beauty? Every year Americans spend over $40... 4). End The Battle With Your Body We're no longer shocked by the celebrity photos that show protruding hipbones, bony breastplates, countable ribs, and collarbones practically piercing through the flesh of their shoulders. It looks normal to us now. It's the look we're supposed to achieve. The media sounds a loud alarm over the celebrities who get too thin. And then th... 5). How To Lose Weight By Eating For Energy Are you bewildered when intuitive eating guides tell you to eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full? It can be a difficult skill to relearn after years of dieting and/or bingeing. One entirely different way to eat the right amount for your body is to change the goal from "getting full of food" to "eating for energy". Food is ... 6). How To Lose Weight With Intuitive Eating: 4 Quick Tips Confused? Frustrated? Fed up? Do you feel bewildered after trying diet after diet and never being able to keep the weight off? In fact, if you’re like most people, you eventually ended up gaining all your weight back plus a few extra instead of losing. Do you notice that there are no diet fads currently sweeping the market? There’s a ... 7). How to Stop the Media Attack on Your Body I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the ongoing message that the natural, curvy, womanly body I was born into is unacceptable. I'm tired of being horrified when I hear that five-year old girls already criticize their bodies and think they need to lose weight. I'm tired of the media forcing their limited, unattainable version of beauty on us. 8). I Have A Dream Like Martin Luther King, I have a dream. My dream is... · Of women loving the uniquely beautiful bodies they were born with. · Of no one wasting another minute of their short, precious life trying to diet into some skinny, impossible ideal. · Of women in beautiful, curvy, womanly bodies fully ri... 9). Play More, Suffer Less I don't even like the word "exercise" anymore. Like the word "diet", which really just means what you eat, the meaning of the word "exercise" has changed. It once meant you were "physically moving your body for the sake of your health". That doesn't sound bad at all. Unfortunately, it has come to represent activities that are mostly b... 10). Stop Exercising And Start Playing Have you ever berated yourself because you didn’t exercise yet again today? Have you felt that creeping guilt in the back of your mind when you climb into bed knowing you didn’t follow through on your workout plan? Well, it’s possible that you are not at fault. You may just be acting like a normal human being. Take a mome... 11). The Stunning Effects Of Blessing Your Food Grandma was right. Bless your food. It's a rare thing these days to hear someone blessing their food. Other than Thanksgiving…and quaint Norman Rockwell paintings…our food goes unblessed. Happily consumed, largely unappreciated. There is real magic in the blessing of food - or anything else. This is not airy-fairy New Age... 12). There’s A Brain In Your Belly The belly is much more intelligent than we've been taught to believe. I‘m sure you‘ve heard the phrase, "Follow your gut." In fact, we have lots of terms like that in our language: *a gutsy person *gut-level feeling *gut it out *have the guts *trust your gut It turns out that these slang phrases actually h... 13). Three Facts the Media Does Not Want You to Know I don't know about you, but I usually feel rotten after I leaf through one of the popular women's magazines. Have you ever noticed suddenly feeling ugly, fat, frumpy, or flawed after reading a copy of Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, etc.? Well, it's not a coincidence. The fact is that most women's magazines don't exist to inform, help, ... 14). Top 10 Ways To Prevent Obesity In Kids I’m sure you’ve seen the dire reports about childhood obesity becoming rampant in America. It’s a scary thing and not an experience any of us wish upon our children. Preventing obesity can be easy and empowering for children. Give them control over their bodies. Teach them to tune in to their real needs and to treat themselves with love and respect... 15). Top 5 Red Flags Of Diet Scams Have you wasted valuable time and money trying to lose weight? Then tried again and again? One thing Americans know how to do is market. The desire for quick and easy weight loss has created an ideal opportunity for modern-day snake oil salespeople to pick your pockets by selling magical diet products. One minute you’re innocently read... 16). Two Opinions on Marilyn Monroe Norman Mailer said of Marilyn Monroe: "Her stomach, untrammeled by girdles or sheaths, popped forward in a full woman's belly, inelegant as hell, an avowal of a womb fairly salivating in seed - that belly which was never to have a child - and her breasts popped buds and burgeons of flesh over many a questing sweating moviegoer's face. She was... 17). Write A Love Letter ON Your Body Have you seen the movie "What the Bleep"? There is a great scene in that movie where the body-hating star breaks through to loving her body. She starts to draw hearts and love messages all over herself and relaxes into appreciation instead of loathing. We're taught a lot of things to do to our bodies. Work it, sculpt it, starve it, pus... 18). You Are Not Doomed To Be Fat Forever I know, you're probably thinking you have to diet to lose weight. But nothing could be further from the truth. With rare exceptions, most people were born into normal weight bodies. But then we learned to diet. Dieting causes the body to go into survival mode. Dieting itself sparks the intense biological urge to consume large quantiti...