LB Inspired Blog

"Free Your Mind, and the Rest Will Follow!"

 

I've been thinking a lot about weight lately. In my business I often work with clients who are struggling with weight - body weight, physical weight, in other words - poundage! Some want to gain but by far most want to GET RID OF IT! Guiding clients in making better food choices can certainly be life changing for them, but often the truly sustainable effects come when they release the mental weight they may be carrying. Typically, here is where the magic lies! As with physically lifting a material object, what we hold on to weighs us down. When we are willing to let go, we become light and free. My nature has always been quite light and free spirited but as a fairly young adult I started accumulating "stuff" and getting somewhat "established" (like we are "supposed to"?).  Add prematurely "inheriting" a lot of other people's "stuff" + my large dose of sentiment, and suddenly I was feeling quite BOGGED down by this "attachment" to THINGS! Even if these material possessions were not in my sight, I held them in my mind - items to sort through such as photos, paperwork, clothes, rooms to clean! The perfect recipe for feeling heavy and scattered. All this I knew was not in line with my freebird, travel loving spirit! I would think, "how could I move now? How could I leave my well established comfort? This lack of "free will" bothered me even more!  So these last several years I went to work on this "weight". It took courage and A LOT of decision making for this sentimental fool. Since then I've done SO much simplifying. I told my sister at times I feel like I am living my life backwards!  I now live in a small place and don't have a car! (Well, it is NYC.)  Someday, I will accumulate "more" again (it's not that I don't love comfort and luxury!), but the approach will be much different with all this clarity and mental space I've created. My living space may be small but my mental space is practically wide open! What mental weight do you carry?  My extra weight was material things. For some it could be past hurts, grudges, unfinished business, etc...  I encourage you to find a way to drop some of these pounds!  Less actually is MORE and you will be on your way to to feeling light and in turn you can shine that "light" of yours more brightly!

 

LIGHTEN UP ALREADY PEOPLE!

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Renewal and Transformations

Happy New Year from my blog here.  Hope everyone is enjoying.  Mine is off to an incredible start!  I traveled to Colorado over Christmas and spent some wonderful quality time with family and friends. I took in that big blue sky, watched herds of elk roam out my window, and tried to breathe as much mountain air as possible! aahhh....

 

I am now working on a new website as well as an entirely new blog which should be updated a week or so. I'm changing to a format that is more user friendly w/out a Mac! ;o  There is a Mac in my future, but for now I am thankful for both my Dells which have been good to me.  In my coaching profession the word of the moment is - resolutions!  Whatever yours may be I wish you the best year ever. Here are a few inspiring photos I took in the city over the holidays.

Thanks for taking a peek at my blog!  Wishing you much health and prosperity in 2010!

Pen in hand

Although it is now October, I actually took this picture on September 2nd when I was sitting outside on a picture perfect day - putting life a bit in perspective by skimming thru one of my all time favorite books, "The Law of Attraction" by Esther and Jerry Hicks. This book is a powerful reminder of how much our thoughts manifest our life and how we really need to train our minds not to fall victim to doubt and fear, as we are so deeply programmed to do.  As many of you know I have an innate sort of passion for helping people positively empower themselves and break thru fears that hold them back from true happiness.  But, I myself have to regularly practice this and continually incorporate it into my own mindset. It can truly at times be hard, dedicated work, but the magic it can bring is limitless! :)  

Anyway - aside from the book in the background here, I was about to do some free flowing form writing about my own future visions of my life. As you can see though I hadn't gotten very far on the page before humoring myself by taking these pictures with my iphone, only because I thought the shadow of the pen looked like the Empire State building!  One should always make time to pause in life for a lil' (or better yet A LOT) comic relief. :)

 

  

Learning curves

I'm starting this blog with the intention of enhancing my devotion to help empower others in their lives and sharing some of my own "findings" and thoughts from my journey.  Therefore, I am committed to increasing my web presence for L.B. Inspired and Inspired To Health. I am slowly learning how to use the many features of this blog site.  Thank goodness for my friend Devin's help!  He's awesome.  It's been a slow start and I keep putting it off because I'm still learning and the page doesn't look anything like what I envision.  But I decided to give up the perfectionist tendencies and to go ahead and post so that I put it in motion!  It's just going to have to evolve over time.  This blog will surely be ever-changing as is life.  This is also the case with health or good health.  You never just arrive and your done. It's an ongoing process.  So here this is an un"done"blog as well!  But if we give attention, tend to, and nurture the things we care about on an regular basis - those aspects of life whether it be our relationships, work, or our bodies in turn take good care of us and life becomes a great pleasure.

I'm feeling extremely zen today and am embracing a cozy rainy Sunday in the east. Those who know me well know that I am a bit "nomadic" (yet I also LOVE to nest)!  I feel extremely grounded though within these "walls" of my self which I think is a must for true happiness. Travel's always been a passion for me and experiencing new places, and cultures...  I'm a lover of life thru and thru.  But no matter where I am in the world I often find myself dreaming of being here, swimming in the crystal clear waters of Lake Michigan. This is Sleeping Bear Dunes, a couple of miles from our house Up North (Michigan)!  God's country it is - an unspoiled jewel.  Welcome to my blog.