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Affirmation of the Week
Everything is changing; look for the new metaphors in your life. |
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Weekly Wellness Radio Show
The Turn On your Inner Light Radio Show airs Tuesday evenings 7:00 to 7:30pm, on WGBB 1240AM in Long Island.
Guest of the Week - Dr. Karen Sherman
On Dec 27, 2005 - Dr. Karen Sherman, a New York psychologist specializing in relationship counseling and author of Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep, Make It Last. Learn how to take the stale out of your stalemate. Click  to play this interview. Click archives for directory of past shows.
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Health Tips of the Week
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Article of the Week
Resolve to Make Peace with Your Worst Enemy: Yourself We are surrounded by enemies and it’s time to make peace with them: our food, our bodies and our past. We have become so militaristic that I don’t think we even realize that we are constantly waging war. This past summer, when it was hot and humid, all people wanted to do was beat the heat. At that time I advised everyone to learn to get along with it. We never win when we try to fight nature and our natural rhythms. We feel better when we do not expend the energy to force life to fit into our narrow context. All I hear during my workshops is that we are so unhappy with our weight that food has become a formidable enemy. Food isn’t the only enemy! Another is our bodies whom we view with hostility, even with disdain, trying to beat them into submission at the gym or tame them with deprivation. At the top of the enemy list are our souls whom we beat up over the past: failures, poor choices and sour relationships. All these foes don’t give us a minute’s peace. Food is particularly frightening during celebrations, holidays and vacations because “there will be too much delicious food.” During ordinary days we fight our common sense and eat fatty, processed foods to comfort us when we are sick, tired or sad – never reaching for healthy nourishing food which we know would make us feel better. We weigh ourselves gasping, jiggle the scale or relocate it, buy a diet book, join a diet program or order small portions of food to be delivered to our homes. We skip meals mostly breakfast, drink our food or cut out entire food groups. Ironically, most of these diets cause us to gain weight because we have slowed down our metabolism by fasting and our bodies begin to hold on to stored fat. Then we get disgusted and swing to the other extreme. How about trying this amazingly effective strategy? Stop obsessing about food. Instead, we can perceive our food as nourishing, pleasurable and the fuel that gives us positive energy. When we change our attitude about eating, we will sense when we are full and what healthy foods our body craves. We will lose the weight we always wanted to lose easily. All we have to do is get rid of the guilt and really taste our food. Let stop eating in numbness. The next invader: Why is it that so few of us like our bodies? more |
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Frank Mikulka's Fitness Tip Of The Week How to Recharge Your Motivation
I’m really enjoying my training program and am now training 6 days a week. However, lately I feel that it is becoming routine and honestly I’m losing my motivation. Any tips to recharge? (Terry, Astoria)Answer
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Debbie Mandel, MA is the author of Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul, and Changing Habits: The Caregivers' Total Workout a stress-reduction specialist, motivational speaker, a personal trainer and mind/body lecturer. She is the host of the weekly Turn On Your Inner Light Show on WGBB 1240 AM in Long Island and has been featured on radio/ TV and print media. To learn more: www.turnonyourinnerlight.com |