All Entries Tagged With: "exercise motivation"
Healthy Diet, Regular Exercise Can Improve Cancer Survival Odds
With all clients in my Seattle hypnosis and Bainbridge Island hypnosis offices I talk about the importance of a healthy diet, regular exercise and how this impacts health. I have worked with many people who are living with cancer or who are cancer survivors. I talk about the importance of a plant-strong diet, being physically [...]
You Want To Be Healthy For The Rest Of Your Life, Don’t You?
You Want To Be Healthy For The Rest Of Your Life, Don’t You? is this weeks reading from the second edition of my book, Becoming Slender For Life. It saddens me when people are limited in what they can do because of behavioral choices that they make. For most people, being overweight or obese is [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Exercise?
Do you find it hard to exercise? How about stop thinking of it as exercise and think about ways to be more active? What liberties in your life will be available to you if you are more active? I often point out to clients that are out of shape that if they had the opportunity [...]
Fit Outweighs Fat
Being fit does outweigh fat when it comes to living longer. But it’s even more important to be fit than to be slender. There are so many health reasons to be slender that it really is really worth the extra effort required to be fit and Slender For Life™. Yes, it is hard to lose [...]
12 Tips To Help Get Your Child To Exercise
Here are 12 great tips to help get your child off the couch and out to exercise. Exercise is a critically important factor in bringing an end to childhood obesity. I posted yesterday about the importance of healthy plant-based school lunches – that include potatoes – and it is important that we make sure that [...]
Motiviating Overweight Kids to Exercise Starts with Mom and Dad
Motivating overweight kids to exercise starts with their biggest role models: Dad and Mom. I have been talking and writing for several years now that childhood obesity is a family affair. Children do not become obese on their own. Someone brought the junk food into the house or drove them to the fast food restaurant. [...]
Only 12% of High School Students Get Enough Exercise
I have written previously about childhood obesity and lack of exercise amongst high school students and younger children, but I found this report particularly disturbing. Not only are kids not exercising, they are drinking more soda. Childhood obesity is a preventable epidemic that is fueling our rising healthcare costs. Our nation’s economic recovery is dependent [...]
Getting Fit at Home ~ Rheumatoid Arthritis & Exercise
I’ve written on several occasions about rheumatoid arthritis, exercise and self-hypnosis so this article about getting fit at home with your family caught my eye. RA is in my family and when I first started experiencing the pain and inflammation of arthritis I knew that I needed to pay attention. Building on the work of [...]
Exercise For Age-Related Memory Loss
No matter how old you are, or long out of shape you are, exercise may slow age-related memory loss – so start moving! The exciting news is that it is never too late to exercise. And, no matter how old you are, it’s never too late to learn hypnosis for exercise motivation. Over the past [...]
Life with Mom Week 10 ~ Routine
Week 10 of our life with Mom has been one of routine – how wonderful! Routine is good! Mom has continued listening to her weight loss hypnosis CD and continues to lose weight. She is down over 10.5 pounds – more than halfway to her goal. She is exercising gaining strength, flexibility and movement. The [...]
If We Had Only Listened To Jack LaLanne
Jack LaLanne’s death on Sunday made me stop and wonder what if we had only listened? I remember him saying in every interview that “if God didn’t make it, man shouldn’t eat it.” As a fat kid growing up, I hated Jack LaLane. I already felt bad enough about me and I sure didn’t need [...]
Pushing Physical Education To End Childhood Obesity
We must start pushing physical education in our schools to end childhood obesity. We do have a health care crisis in the US, much of it preventable. Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. 1 of every 3 children or teenagers is overweight or at risk of being overweight. In my Seattle weight [...]
Exercise & Hypnosis For Fibromyalgia
If you are suffering with Fibromyalgia, exercise is essential and hypnosis can help you alleviate the symptoms of FMS and motivate you to exercise. I hear “I Don’t Like to Exercise!” frequently, especially from clients who are in chronic pain with fibromyalgia. Clients in my Bainbridge Island hypnosis and Seattle hypnosis learn self-hypnosis so that [...]
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