I love being healthy. I’m one to move, one to nourish myself. I enjoy it because I feel great and, most of all, I’m having fun during the process.

Since a young age, I have been fortunate enough to have an understanding of what a healthy lifestyle is. Early on, I found out about healthy foods and exercise. The interesting thing was that it kind of found me. I just started to notice how I felt after training. I would go for a run, or go for a ride on my bike and I noticed how my body felt energised after. I also noticed how my body started to respond in the way it looked.

The same thing happened with food. I started to observe how my body felt when I was hungry. I would notice how I would feel after eating different types of foods. I noticed how I felt sometimes after eating less and sometimes after eating more. Again, I noticed the effects: My overall energy felt great. My body felt great. Most importantly, my mind also felt clear.

The reason I am telling you this is: You will see that I never went about making myself diet. I never went about looking for a way to get fit or lose weight. I simply noticed how I felt and followed that. It was so powerful for me because I felt free from placing any judgements upon myself. I wasn’t hung up on trying to get a result or having to diet.

There was one stage, though, a few years back, when I did make it about how I looked. In doing so, I started to make my diet strict. I labelled things as good or bad. When I missed a training session or ate some chocolate, I noticed my mind kick in and beat me up. I, then, started to notice I felt trapped into what I was doing rather than going with the natural flow. If I got a result, it was only temporary until I so-called, ‘fell off the wagon’. I then would create situations for my body to put on weight or to feel not my best. My power was in the food or in the way I exercised.

These days, I see so many ways in which people place power in having to work out or eat right. We, then, blame ourselves for not doing the right amount of exercise or eating the right foods. We, now, find ourselves thinking, rather than feeling what we love.

I believe that we place too much power in exercise and foods. This creates a toxic environment within our minds. We, then, find ourselves over thinking and feeling disconnected from our feelings, our own intuition.

It is within our own feeling that we will always know what is true for us. How can we when we keep looking to the external, the doing for what will make us healthy and fit? We are actually placing our power outside of ourselves and becoming a slave to something we are trying to control, our health & wellness, which then ends up controlling you.

I’m not saying do nothing. I’m saying quite the opposite. Follow what you yourself truly feel moved to do rather than placing an agenda or expectations on your health and well being. Your body is actually designed to be healthy. Your natural state is good health and well being. We just get in the way by ignoring or trying to control our natural state.

I know that if you chose to simply let go of trying to get healthy or look a certain way, you will come to love yourself. You will open your heart and begin to be pulled towards activities and foods that are aligned with supporting you in being healthy and well. Most of all you will actually enjoy the process.

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