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Mindfulness and Self-Awareness: #1Tool for Improving Quality of Life

the Inner Fitness Challenge Tool #1 — Mindfulness and Self-Awareness.When you begin any fitness routine, you first work on your mobility so you can execute each exercise properly. If your mobility is limited, you can injure yourself. How do you strengthen your Inner Fitness mobility? By practicing the Inner Fitness Challenge Tool #1 — Mindfulness and Self-Awareness!

Our brain likes to give us shortcuts, so it saves energy. As a result, we do so many things automatically… from tying our shoes to conversing with our loved ones. And often those automatic responses can get us into trouble. We eat things we shouldn’t. We say things we regret. We react in hurtful ways. To turn this around use mindfulness and self-awareness.

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60-Day Inner Fitness Challenge to Strengthen Your Mind and Spirit

The 60-Day Inner Fitness Challenge will help you cultivate a resilient, balanced, and healthy mind by using the best Inner Fitness Skills and Tools.When we think of fitness, our minds often drift to images of gyms, weights, and cardio workouts. We visualize the commitment required to sculpt our bodies, the discipline needed to adhere to a workout regimen, and the perseverance necessary to push through physical limits. But what if we took these same skills and applied them to our minds and spirits? Welcome to my 60-Day “Inner Fitness” Challenge – a holistic approach to mental and emotional well-being that, like physical fitness, requires dedication, practice, and persistence.

60 days is not too much when you work the 3 P’s. Don’t let yourself become overwhelmed by the idea of a 60-day commitment. Included in the 60-day challenge is how to Prepare for it, how to Participate in it to get the most out of it, and then how to make it part of an ongoing Practice that truly transforms your life. Isn’t that the purpose of a challenge… to get past roadblocks and create real transformation?

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Being Spontaneous or Predictable — Which Do You Prefer? Do You Yearn For More?

When life is overwhelming, predictability gives stability like an anchor that keeps you from totally losing it.Predictability is safe. Some say it’s boring. Being spontaneous may be scary or thrilling. Predictability or spontaneity — which makes you feel most alive? Or do you need both?

When life is overwhelming, predictability gives stability like an anchor that keeps you from totally losing it. It creates calm in a world of chaos. At times like these, you’re tapping into the benefits of predictability:

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Resolve Internal Conflicts with My NLP Tea Time Exercise

If you’ve ever feel conflicted or indecisive, this NLP Tea Time exercise can help you resolve internal conflicts so your various Parts can act harmoniously.

Ignoring, numbing, or fighting against your feelings isn’t the answer. When you have an internal conflict, the discomfort you feel is a signal that something is important and you need to pay attention! You can make friends with your discomfort, resolve internal conflicts and restore inner peace.  Let me share my secret for how I do it…

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Parts Integration – How to Stop Self-Sabotage and Cultivate Internal Harmony

Use my Tea Time exercise that’s based on NLP Parts Integration Technique to create internal harmony and end inner conflictPart of you wants to, part of you doesn’t  — so you turn an opportunity down because it feels safer…but you then regret that decision. Learn why you experience feelings like these and how Parts Integration Techniques can help you create internal harmony and balance so you never miss out on an opportunity again!

Too often we’re plagued by self-sabotaging behavior. For instance, you want to lose weight but you keep turning to that carton of chocolate ice cream for comfort. Or you want to be a successful manager, but you rub people the wrong way, or unwittingly create drama so you’re always putting out fires.

Self-sabotaging behavior occurs when different “parts” of your self are conflicted. You want success, but a Part of you doesn’t believe you deserve it. You want to be healthy and fit, but a Part of you self-medicates unhealed emotional wounds with comfort food.

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