INSPO Fitness Journal July 2017

ask how you are today or when you talk to
people, often the weather is used as a conversation
opener.
When it is cold and bleak we do tend
to allow this to infiltrate our thoughts and
emotions. However, this is one of the biggest
issues we face when it comes to being able
to create joy and happiness in our lives. It is
that WE ALLOW external factors to waiver
our perceptions of our days, our beings and
our lives.
For greater mental and emotional health
to prosper, we need to learn to claim our
power back. When we give our thoughts and
emotions to something, we give our energy
and power away to those things. Through
this process we feel strong emotions of
victimisation.
If they are particularly negative then this
drains our life force energy and our happy/
calm hormones within the body decrease
and the stress ones increase. This then creates
a negative feedback loop to the physical
body and all its nourishing processes like
the digestive system, detoxification systems
and immune system. Hence, we carry extra
weight or become ill with colds and flues.
To start claiming your power back and
reframing your thoughts it is simple, but it
takes practise and patience with self, as the
ego mind is rather slow and can be resistant
to change. Things to practise are:
- Ground yourself often (aim for at
least three times a day). This makes for a
good excuse to get some fresh air and extra
movement in your day. Go outside and stand
on the grass or concrete (but grass is better),
focus on your feet connecting to the earth
and come back into that moment, focusing
on where you are at the present, not in the
past or in the future. Do some deep in and
out breathing and focus on bringing peace,
calmness and love to yourself. This is going
to help you bring more awareness when your
thoughts do go wandering.
- When you do become aware of when
you are having a negative response and/or
are in the past/ future, then don’t get caught
in the cycle. Practise observing what it is you
can learn from this situation. Then hold the
intention in your thoughts and heart that you
desire your energy and power to be returned
to you healed so that you may feel greater
peace, love, joy, energy, health and happiness.
The more you practise the process, the
less time you will remain in the “lower/glum”
thoughts or feelings.
Do not mistake my words for sounding
like this is an overnight cure. This takes
patience, a deep self-love and commitment
to yourself to practise. When the longer and
more frequent you are feeling in the energetic,
empowered, joyful, loving, peaceful
and healthy flows versus the spaces of time
you are not; then you will understand that
when the focus is holistic with our health
and happiness, our results are sustainable.
This is because we are changing complete
programmes within our belief systems that
hold us in a loop of feeling disempowered,
making us believe we don’t have the ability to
make changes to our health, happiness and
lives. However, this is simply not true.
Let us be empowered, in greater love,
peace and happiness.
DANIELLE ROBERTS (Nutritionist) is dedicated to helping people enjoy a healthy
and knowledgeable relationship with food. Her business Fuel Nutrition allows her to
share her passion for nutrition and healthy living. Danielle is a freelance nutritionist
and works with a number of Hamilton gyms. To make a booking, please contact
Danielle at www. fuelnutrition.co.nz
SAVE UP TO $15,000 OFF EQUIVALENT VEHICLE
FROM ONLY $33,990 DRIVE-AWAY
INSPO – FITNESS JOURNAL JULY 2017
39