tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67957123239987422742024-03-12T21:51:16.136-04:00michelle bernard is the wanderer"But not every wanderer is aimless, especially not those who seek Truth beyond definition, beyond tradition, beyond the image." --from MONA LISA SMILE the movie ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
join mE in navigating the GREAT MYSTERY and living from an evolving truth the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-62652925880552726942015-01-06T08:32:00.001-05:002015-01-06T08:32:51.773-05:00from the wanderer<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am blogging at <a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.me/">www.sculptedbybernard.me</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I wanna give you a gust of energy for 2015...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">1 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don’t suppress your truth.</em> </span><span style="color: #605c5c;"> Feel your feelings fully [in your journal is the perfect place]. Take off the mask. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">2 Don’t accept <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">NOT POSSIBLE </strong>and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">do not just “hope” about <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT</strong>.</em> </span></div>
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If <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">IT</strong>, that thing you look to explore, be, do, have - is something you can prepare for, study, learn, practice, find, or ask for - then get some HELP from folks you trust and<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> GO TO IT.</strong></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the books are <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/sculptedbybernard-20" target="_blank">HERE</a>. [click<i> LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE - <b>books I adore!</b></i>]</span></span></div>
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It's time to invest in LOving our FAB selves.<br />
Here are 8 useful resolves to perk up 2014<br />
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1. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET a Gym membership</span> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">❣ come on. You know you wanna.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen, you must do this. Here's why :: You need to frequent a place fill</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ed with the <u>energy of transformation</u>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You need a teacher, trainer, and/or comrades that align with your healthy lifestyle choice. Do it, today!!</span><br />
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2. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET your very own <a href="http://www.michellebernardspeaks.com/inner-view.html" target="_blank">My Intimate inner-view book</a> </span>:: <span style="color: #660000;">I created it ➠ a guide-book that orchestrates am intimate journey into your sparkling self ❥ one that will excavate your spark, your passions, your purpose! It's a color-blast of a journal and calendar that I use to shine myself up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Get one <a href="http://www.michellebernardspeaks.com/inner-view.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Go through 2014 with mE. Yippie, soul amigo.</span><br />
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3. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET a buddy who inspires you </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( a solid <strike>amigo</strike> friend). You need someone to hold you accountable to live your authentic life, perhaps someone with similar resolves ♥ someone who will cheer and kick heels whenever you make even a baby step of progress!</span></div>
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4. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET rid of stuff ↪︎ chuck some old crap</span>. <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Start in the fridge. If you have high sugar, high processed food stock, trash it, put it in the compost. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[You know that stuff is not good for your bod, heck it might not even be good for the soil either]. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, you got gifts recently, right? New clothes, boots maybe? </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you got new winter boots and your old ones have a 2-inch slope on the worn-heel, throw them out!</span><br />
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5. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET some <u>Fit Toys</u>.</span> <span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is not heading where you think. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Fit toys include a speed jump rope, therabands, a TRX unit. All of these toys are for home and travel fitness fun. Use the links above to see what's up.</span></div>
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6. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIVE your profile an update {on the dating site}</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">✌ People grow brave-balls at the beginning of the year, you know. That means, new folks join dating sites in January. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">If your inbox is a wasteland {and it's mid-JANUARY}, change your profile a bit. Make it simple, almost mysterious...</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">(Don't try too hard to be mysterious. </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Mysterious happens when you are concise, not weird</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Add a current photo. ( It better be current, or you're gonna dig yourself bigger problems this year).</span></div>
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7. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a plan to pay down your credit cards ⤷ </span><span style="color: #351c75;">set up payment plans. Add more dough to your payments this winter. Use a calendar and sketch out how much ground you can cover between now and June. </span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;">Holiday gifting-debt should not exceed 6 months to Pay It Off. You'll feel better (lighter). </span><br />
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8. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GET drenched in faith!</span> <span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CONTEMPLATE the desired results of all your 2014 dreams! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">During your shower, bath, walk to work, lunch break, during a long run, before bed... maybe even all of these times, IMAGINE {with all your senses} yourself living and breathing the goals, the life you desire this year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"listen, I am never gonna focus on my health anymore, see, because I am too distracted by my old routine and I do not feel like dreaming about that hot black mini anymore. </span></blockquote>
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I'm just gonna tell my doctor to hush up about health and fitness cuz that shiz means I can't eat crossiants and bagels and tons of gmo-grown wheat and corn products like I want.
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And seriously, I dig putting off my health and delaying my feeling-good because it's the holidays for butt's sake. <b>I need to eat pie, pumpkin bread, Mac and cheese. </b> I don't mind being sleepy and sluggish, well not that much. Sure, I'd be nice to eat food that gives me energy and nutrients, that clears my skin and helps my digestion. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It'd be groovy to easily zip my jeans, tuck in my shirt, glitter up my back and rock that hot tank top at the New Year's Day brunch. <br />Yep, I'd be cool to post pics of my new BOD on Facebook. It'd be smokin to try on clothes and break out in big smiles cuz, shucks, I have over estimated my size again and I need the smaller pants. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It'd be nice to peel off the layers of BOD fat and crack the shackles from addictive foods and binging habits that have for so long held my taste buds and my mind hostage.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But crap, why focus on how good I could feel from eating healthy, at regular intervals, and in small portions-- and why focus on being a part of a health-minded, exercise community where I could feel supported. <br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why focus on this kind of personal growth that will inspire my children, my buddies, my partner, my community, myself?</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why bother?</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dreaming is for dreamers.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> <i>I am way too busy for that."</i></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">the my beLOvedBODy fat-loss ⤿ program</a> ⤶ I am ready to invest in myself this year! <a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">[click the link]</a></span></div>
the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-13363996678829850392013-12-17T10:30:00.000-05:002013-12-17T10:30:00.217-05:00No Santa-belly<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;">
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Welcome to the heart of the holiday season, LightBright. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #993366;" style="color: #993366;">If you are worried about eating your way silly through the end of the year, don't be.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #993366;" style="color: #993366;">This holiday season, <strong>don't starve your breakfast and lunch only to binge later in the eves at the soirees and galas you're attending. </strong></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Instead, you need to have a plan that serves you [and keeps you free from growing a Santa-belly] </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">+eat small servings and eat frequently</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">+serve food on small, beautiful plates</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">+eat from a similar menu of foods 4-days-a-week, then vary your palate on the weekends</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff00ff;" style="color: magenta;">Santa baby is much sexier than Santa-belly, beLOved!</span></h3>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #660000;" style="color: #660000;">I hate to be the one to tell you this, but think of this info as liberating, not depressing...</span></h4>
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but, yes, you are going to get distracted--but you don't have to drop your face into the pie.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #330000;" style="color: #330000;">Frankly put ↪ You may not lose weight during the next 2 weeks- well, three. That's okay, santa- baby.</span></h2>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #993300;" style="color: #993300;">Focus on <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;">maintaining</span> your <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;">muscle and fitness</span> during this HOLIDAY season instead of trying to lose weight! </span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">The biggest problem ☉</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">THEY DON'T WORKOUT AS REGULARLY!</span></h2>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">You all know :: I hate diets. Follow the<a data-mce-href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" target="_blank"> <span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;">RITUAL</span></a> and eat for FUel </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">ALL the Time and you won't need to diet and fail.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Try setting one of these goals for the HOLIDAYS</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">☛ I will add 30 minutes more to my workout week.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">☛ I will eat broccoli 2 times a week</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">☛ I will increase my dumbbell weight by 2.5- 5 lbs for shoulders and bicep curls</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">☛ I will take a luxury bath after my hardest workout each week</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">☛ I will schedule my shopping and partying around my workout schedule!</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Don't wait for December 31 to imagine your BODy in 2014. </span><br />
<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Focus right now.</span></strong></div>
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If you need help, <a data-mce-href="http://weebly-link/337705281473416752" href="http://weebly-link/337705281473416752" title="">CALL/mE</a>.<br />
<a data-mce-href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">Invest in your health and fitness,</a> kiddo!</div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff00ff;" style="color: magenta;">You can do this.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff00ff;" style="color: magenta;">You are worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Amazon gift card</span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ✌ some people think it's impersonal to give a gift card or money as a gift. I'm here telling you, <b>people really love to receive them, so give one.</b> </span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's easiest to send the gift card via email ( only 10 minutes online to order and ➠ ba da- bing, ba ca-boom ☈ press send). You can choose funky, animated cards that sing when they're opened, plus you get to write something heartfelt in the message blank. Believe me, the message you write is the real gift anyway!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. iTunes gift card ✾ </span> <span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no, this is not going to be a post about giving gift cards, however, if your giftee is a music soul, you will have delighted them with glee if you do this. An iTunes gift card will be golden!( and it's likely to get used within the week!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Shutterfly mugs or blankets 🐼 </span> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">they are personal favs of mine. I have gifted both to smiling receivers. <a href="http://shutterfly.com/">Shutterfly.</a>com is an online photography developer/ editor at your fingertips. Upload photos and store them until you're ready to edit and make a photo album or order copies. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You get to paste your pictures onto the mugs and blankets and even write a little blurb. Now who wouldn't think it swell to have a photo album blanket wrapped around them during a cold, January, hot-cocoa kind of night?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. A pack of sessions for yoga classes, Zumba classes, Pilates classes, soul cycle... ☮ </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you give someone money cuz they want to start taking these classes, don't necessarily believe they'll follow through. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Things come up, you know.</span> </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If someone has expressed a great desire to start taking "an exercise class", well, help em out. Put the tickets in their hands!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. An herb garden ( in a big ole basket, of course) ⚛ </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stuff the basket with the necessary grow-goodies ➠ soil, 5-6 4"pots, organic seeds, a hand shovel, and gloves-optional</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">( I don't use gloves. My mother told me I should caress the soil. It makes the plants grow)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. A groupon for a massage ☮ </span> <span style="color: #4c1130;">holy moly, do I need to explain how this will please the gifted? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8. Take someone on a holiday night out ⚛ </span> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">forget having your giftee exchange your gift for something better.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Give 'em an event </span><span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">{something you can share} </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, instead. Dress up. Make a day into night of it. Bustle around in your hat and mittens with a hot cocoa in hand. Listen to music/ carolers. See the town tree. Take pictures like a tourist. Film close-up video footage. </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Window gaze at macys, saks, perhaps jcpenney in some towns. Ice skate for an hour. At tea time, choose mulled wine. Find a cozy spot for dinner. A place with a wood fire place. Chuckle. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Don't lose your apples and spend gobs and gobs of your moolah trying to do perfect gifting. </span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Be creative. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Get personal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">❥ <i>Spend time with people</i> who you really really dig. </span><br />
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-35640884161125753922013-12-01T17:02:00.005-05:002013-12-03T16:38:48.267-05:00Gobble, Gobble, Gobble and then some<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;">
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">There it is again!</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">The sounds of the seasonal bird.</span></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">That jive turkey trying to seduce you into throwing all your tight BODy success away over</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">A tank of macaroni and cheese? </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">Vats of mega-buttery potatoes? </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">Pumpkin pie and banana bread bricks?</span></strong></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">I know you wanna eat.</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;">It's that time of year.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #4c1130;">We have been programed since "mama" to trough-load our plates on these great days 😏 To give ourselves gas is how we gauge satiety + satisfaction.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">We wait all day for those afternoon feasts -- starving ourselves of breakfast, yet noshing all the live-long day on salty apps, cheeses, breads, crackers, dill-infused dips, booze. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #993366;" style="color: #993366;">Holy moly… no wonder so much guilt. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #993366;" style="color: #993366;">You could cut the guilt into bite-sized shapes on these great day! {limited to a tablespoon portion of the high-power <b>fatbombs</b> --- only small bites allowed!}</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #274e13;">Or you could just...</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #274e13;"><b>de-program your butt!</b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">No day is a good day to gorge. Repeat. <em>No day is a good day to gorge.</em> Like a mantra. <em>No day is a good day to gorge. </em></span><em style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">No day is a good day to gorge. </em><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Bitstream Charter, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">{feel better?} [I tried…]</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #274e13;">This'll help ⇢ ⇢ My daily ritual, the impeccable <a data-mce-href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" target="_blank">RiT</a> encourages you to eat every 3-4 hours <span data-mce-style="color: #ffcc00;">{an entire palm-size meal for 2 meals and 2 palm-size for 2 meals}</span> to keep your internal fire on --metabolism/ with 1-2 cheat meals per week.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">Yep, this is a cheat meal time / Thanksgiving/ Hanukak/ Christmas/ Kwanzaa ❥ but let's treat them a little differently than I suggest in the RiT.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">For these <i>frightening food days</i> ⇰ </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">✣ eat every 3-4 hours!</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">✣ 1 palm-size portions, except during the BiG gig s</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">✣ <u>use a small dinner plate for the BIG gigs </u>{the "dinners"}, one that holds ONLY 2 palms worth of yummy-ness</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;"> ✣ make sure you have protein on that plate to help slow down the carbs from sugar loading your butt--- otherwise you'll be wearing that sugar on your butt, back, belly, chin, arm…☮</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">✣ if you want a second-helping, WAIT 3 to 4 hours and get one! {Don't eat all the goodies in ONE SITTING}</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">✣ do a workout in the morning and/or <a data-mce-href="http://sculptedbybernard.me/2013/11/19/do-your-100s/" href="http://sculptedbybernard.me/2013/11/19/do-your-100s/" title="Do your 100s">do your 100s!!</a> { I would have said this first, but I'm sure you already planned to do this!!}</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #660000;">Gobble, gobble, gobble every 3-4 hours ⦿ in small por</span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">tions!!</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">Ho, ho, ho -- no worry. </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #cc0000;">Easy feasts!</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #351c75;">No guilt- jive turkey, responsibility instead, beLOved.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">I believe in YOU, you hot thang! </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;">blowin' kisses to ya,</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #0c343d;">And maybe stop leaving' Santa cookies + milk. Maybe he needs a little help, you know. </span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #0c343d;">Try hooking him up with sliced cucumbers and tomatoes with a dash of ground pepper, sea salt, and cayenne --- and green tea.</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #0c343d;">We're in this together, guys!</span></div>
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checkout the my beLOvedBODy program ☉ and learn about The RiT!<br />
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-17813998746013722832013-11-08T16:44:00.000-05:002013-11-08T16:44:27.992-05:00Time for the 8s ☀ 8 habits of the fabulously healthyIt's the eighth so, we're doin' the 8s today [and we will on the 8th of each month]<br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stay crazy-dedicated </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to your <a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">beLOvedBODy</a> mission!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">1 smash your frickn scale</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">✯ your fabulous workout regimen includes cardio, strength training, and some form of flexibility training, Si? well, my beLOved, expect your BOD composition to change ⤠ fat to <u>lean BOD </u>ratio. That will probably mean </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">❥ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">you're gonna gain some muscle weight even while you lose FAT! <b>And you want that.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[so if you lose 6 pounds of FAT, but gain 4 pounds of muscle = you've only lost 2 lbs ++++ YOU HAVE PROBABLY SHRUNK A WHOLE SIZE AND YOU LOOK BETTER NAKED!]</span><br />
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If you look at your frickn scale every day and see the weight<br />
go down only 2 pounds after 4 months of training, you're gonna have a splat attack! <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Measure your progress by THE MIRROR and how much better you look in your clothes [and out of them]!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">2 use small, beautiful plates</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; font-size: 20px;"> 🎈 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-because you will eat less food, then. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, we fill the containers we're given. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a big house, you'll be inclined to buy more stuff for it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a big glass, you'll be inclined to fill it to the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a big credit limit, you'll be inclined to charge up till you fill it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small plates ▸</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">less food</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">▸ fewer calories! YIPPIE - and less worry if you fill it, right? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, the quality of your food is vitally important. <span style="font-size: x-small;">[check out <a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">my beLOvedbODy</a> for more info]</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">3 leave a little food on your plate</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"> </span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> ♁ very time you eat, don't finish all the food. Leave a few morsels, like art, like LOve, like care </span><span style="font-family: PCMyungjo; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: PCMyungjo;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 20px;">【 ah…I am satisfied, not stuffed…. There is no need for me to gorge… If there are people starving in BLANK, I am helping by simply using smaller plates than before, taking less food, and getting into the habit of eating less in general…】</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">4 cut up all your baggy workout clothes</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"> ✂ Don't hide beneath the baggy-wear. You need to see the BOD you are sculpting. How will you be able to focus, to see your progress, to get inspired ??? if you're hiding your BOD of ART?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Wear clothes that fit ✯ and notice how you shrink because of your consistent dedication!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">5 advance-schedule your workouts</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"> ✑ so that you can be consistent!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">✤ write your workout days and times into your weekly calendar EVERY WEEK until everyBOD in your house, BUDs, work crew, exercise teachers KNOW you have a date with your healthy life!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">6 eat every 3-4 hours</span></b><br />
◘ like it states in <a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THE RiT!</b></span></a> ⟷<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a <span style="font-size: x-small;">free download!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; font-size: 20px;">😋 </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're metabolism will remain high and your snack-monster will take a snooze.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/beloved-body.html" target="_blank">my beLOvedBODy program</a> is your source for understanding how to implement your 3-4 hour daily eating plan, sweet-'um.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">7 find a tribe that matches your vibe</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; font-size: 20px;">🔮<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji';">Y</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">our life crew can potentially inspire or sabotage your efforts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">LOve your peeps for life, but make sure that most often you <b>surround yourself with folks that think you're swell for doing life the healthy way! </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Read my article ❥</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.me/2013/10/08/dont-hate-the-haters/" target="_blank">don't hate the haters!</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">8 visualize your<u> masterpiece</u> </span></b><span style="color: #660000;"><b>▸ that would be YOU, baby</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; font-size: 20px;">🐌</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">I don't care how long it takes for you to get in the shape of your desire ⇟</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">I do care that you </span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: large;">SEE your BOD taking the shape and STATE OF HEALTH that you really want.</span><br />
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Use the mirror to <b>mentally </b>sculpt your BOD - like playing pretend. <b> Imagine </b>that you HEAR the doctor tell you that you do NOT HAVE diabetes type II anymore!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DO THIS EVERY DAY, mate!</span><br />
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K. That's 8 for your fabulous butt. <br />
Do 'em.<br />
Stay crazy-dedicated to your health. You are worth it!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[It's on the side-bar.]</span>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-87283109428240461422013-11-05T08:21:00.000-05:002013-11-05T08:24:17.695-05:00How do you tell someone they need to lose weight?<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">You don't </span><span style="font-size: 20px;">☜</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">not unless they ask you!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">First of all, don't ever tell someone they need to lose weight, because their weight, their job, their car, their debt --<b> is none of your business</b>. Really.<u> It isn't.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">{But, but, but, but... I can hear you…}</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I know you might imagine some extreme cases like, say your "friend" has gained lots of weight in very little time and you are concerned. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">You are a great friend to be concerned, that's clear. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">However, resist the "you're getting fat and you <b>need</b> to shed" confrontation <span style="font-family: AppleGothic; font-size: 20px;">⤷ </span>and instead <b>go deeper.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask instead, "how's life?" Ask, "how are you feeling these days?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weight gain is most times a symptom of another issue buried inside. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And if during your very patient and concerned friendly convo, your bud suggests they are distressed about their eating habits or feel like they are gaining too much weight, then ah…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">⤿</span> There's your entry point! </span></b><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In other words, do not bud into anyone's weight business unless you have been invited! </span></div>
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Why?</div>
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To be harsh, but honest -<span style="color: #660000;"> it's plain rude, Ms. Perfect. Or at least it appears so.</span></div>
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What I really mean to say is...</div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you busy yourself into their weight gain before invited, they will see you as an intruder. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When there's an intruder, we get defensive and protective. You will never be heard if you are trying to reach someone with protective armor up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you busy your opinion into convo without being invited, you will meet with a hurt ego. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your opinion sounds like a judgment. Let your friend recognize a need for an alteration on her own. When she acknowledges a desire to change, she will not view your desire to change her as a snotty, unsolicited crush to her ego, but as a way to help her realize her own stated goal.</span></div>
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<b>Listen, folks need to come to their own precipice of change in their own time ♥ when they are ready to feel another way.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">However, you can help coax them toward introspection </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">☼</span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> if you are kind, show that you're listening not judging, and you display a good example consistency in living healthy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course,<b> it may be necessary to coax when faced with certain life or death scenarios</b> ♨ Like - drinking disorders, physical abuse, and yes, health risks due to obesity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agreed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">In these cases </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">⇪, </span></span><u style="color: #20124d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">start a dialogue. </u></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ask caring, open-ended questions--- don't interrogate. Listen. </b>{get help from a professional}</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">By cultivating a caring and trustworthy environment, your friend will probably give you an invite.</span></div>
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-26230464979914106432013-10-29T10:10:00.002-04:002013-10-29T16:06:56.381-04:00OMG, what if I get older?<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Is what we've been believing about aging, true?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we get older we get weaker.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not true.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I teach dance aerobics and strength training in two gyms. The median age of my students is 44 years old. That means half of the gang is older than that!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do a series of push ups during every class ❖</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some on our knees</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">most on our toes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all with various extra movements like </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">a knee lift in the push up position ♥ then the push up.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I call the series "the 100s"</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 60 year olds kick a*s</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 40 year olds are hardcore</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 70 year olds grit and hit 'em hard</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Cuz you might be imagining a class full of those </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">mad, serious workout fanatics that look so intense and cult-like that you wouldn't even want to be a part of such a tribe ✙ </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">let me say, i wouldn't either.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">my crew loves to shake their tails, laugh, make jokes, be themselves - and we welcome everyBODy!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">When we get older we lose balance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Not true.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I learned the headstand in my 30s.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I am not a former gymnast or trained dancer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I had never ever done a headstand before in my life, not as a kid, never ever before.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I have taught 40 and 50 and 60 year olds how to stand on their heads, balance in tree pose, and focus in crow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Balance comes from focusing on breathing, creating a firm base, proper alignment, and PRACTICE.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Age has nothing to do with it if you can do all those things ▲. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we get older we need more health care.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not true.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my 60 year old students brags about not taking ANY medication. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's been working out since her 20s.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am med-free at 45.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our health depends so much on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">getting consistent exercise, eating real food {GMOs are creating big risks in this category, my peeps -- let's stop "them" from killing us...!}, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">and cleansing our BODies of the byproducts of stress!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we get older and thus more responsible to provide a quality life to others + ourselves [which can become stressful, suga], </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we have got to remember how to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">chill and feel good and relish in gratitude </span>☞ to stay healthy!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When we get older we get less fabulous.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Not true.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Fine wine, my peeps. Fine wine. You are.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Still, I gotta say, workout! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">dance! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">eat real food! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">breathe fresh air! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">smile! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">say THANK You! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b>support one another {and recognize their fabulous-ness} !! </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b>and you will get MORE fab in the process.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Did you know...?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b>from the words of Dr. Christiane Northrup ( my fav OBgyn - author of Women's BODies, Women's Wisdom )</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Cancer patients were given two different methods of healing - </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">ONE GROUP -the traditional rounds of chemo </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">ONE GROUP -group support therapy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Both groups healed at the same rate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The group dynamic can create a vortex of healing. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Every kind gesture made to another affects our biochemistry - when you do something kind for somebody, your serotonin levels go up {and anyone who witnesses, well so does theirs!!}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">SeROTONIN is like <b>natural happiness</b> excreted in the BODy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">OMG - kindness heals.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b>Behaving and Believing </b>that you are fabulous makes it so.</span><br />
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-75994098146119827332013-10-22T08:44:00.000-04:002015-09-01T11:39:30.160-04:00I dreamed<div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I dreamt I died the other night.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Best believed I wanted to wake up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Couldn't.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">It was the kind of dream that I could feel. It was real.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I was sentenced to my death by someone [ can't remember who, why, nothing].</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">The process of my dying meant that </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I would throw up in a white plastic garbage bin until all of my innards were puked out. Then I would grow tired, fall asleep, and never wake up.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">I did throw up, tons (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">in the dream</span></span>). </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Someone (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">cloudy in</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"> memory</span></span>) nursed me during all this puking, so </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasn't alone. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">One of my dogs was there.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Cloudy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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I fought to stay awake, though I could see my innards filling the garbage bin. <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">"I am close to the end"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I thought about my life, what I didn't do, what I thought was important, what I was afraid to go for and take... I wanted to go back in time and get it done. To fear less. </span><br />
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I fought the sleep hard. harder.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">all through the night ➧ barfing and lifting my lids with all my strength to avoid succumbing to the sleep.</span></div>
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Morning.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">I was awake.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No puking.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I didn't die. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">person who pronounced my death sentence</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> told me there was no way I'd make it to morning.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, I did.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I didn't have anymore of the sickness.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I woke up (in real life) and smiled all frickn day. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm alive! I'm alive. I love this place! I love myself. I love, love, love dammit.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I am not finished. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Thank you for another day. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I'm here. That's waht matters. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I am alive. I must make it matter.</span></span><br />
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-13578317749097673542013-10-15T09:07:00.000-04:002013-10-15T12:19:09.527-04:00You can do it!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Biggest reason people don't fully commit to getting in shape</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">➜ including maintaining an exercise program with conscious eating ||</span></span></div>
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<strong style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they BELIEVE they cannot SUSTAIN it</span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Here are 3 ways to change this belief :: </span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">(Get) 1. Community support ( teacher, trainer, friend) </span></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">(Always) 2. Advance-schedule ☞ plan</span></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">(Totally) 3. Use your good senses</span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">1. You cannot sustain </span></span><em style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">much</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> without </span></span><strong style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">support, </span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> whether it be a consistent exercise program, a loving relationship, or raising a healthy child. </span></span></div>
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<strong style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">You need support from those who are aligned with your goals and ideals to achieve anything and sustain excellence.</span></span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">We are spiritually designed to flourish through connection. Be clear that the connections you make are with those who </span></span><strong style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">encourage you, </span></span></strong><u style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">not diminish your efforts.</span></span></u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">2. </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">We are what we do habitually.</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> So, make a weekly plan or advance-schedule your workouts and your meals. </span></div>
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<em style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If you are left to your own whims and cravings, you will surely stray to your emotions.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Consider the many emotional distractions in life - stress, time constraints, varied environments, hormones, other people's opinions. Life is a recipe for erratic, inconsistent choices.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Have a plan, instead. Live by it.</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">3. </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Employ your senses :: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste!</span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Train yourself to </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">enjoy the smell</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> of healthy food. Train yourself to know that the smell of old grease stinks. Don't eat it. </span><br />
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<u style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Remember <a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" target="_blank">The RiT </a>and follow it!</span></u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">( unless they are supporting your inner Wise One).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">LOve your BODy up close. </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">CULTIVATE A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR BOD.</span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Take baths, get massages, look in the mirror at your BOD OFTEN!! {Yep!}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">{Quit the baggy clothes, babe.}</span></span> Wear clothes that fit, especially when you exercise. You need to see the BOD you're sculpting. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Enjoy food - in </span><strong style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; line-height: 17px; white-space: normal !important; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">small portions.</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> Use herbs and spices to enhance favors. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">After a while (and after seeing your "hot BOD" results - and "a while" took me about 2 years because I finally got serious!) this becomes so frickn easy, you'll wonder what took you so long to stop pigging out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">{</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">emotional</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">}, over-eater who, </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">with patience, vision, </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">and the help from </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">gobs of amazing folks</span>, </span></span></div>
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-46641722908180233082013-10-08T15:13:00.004-04:002013-10-08T15:36:27.139-04:00the 8sIt's the eighth, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">the 8th</span></b></span>, and today I am starting <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the 8s.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">On the eighth of each month, imma be listing 8 thingies, 8 ways, 8 favs, 8 ideas</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">About something interesting and useable.</span></span><br />
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The 8s are to remind You of the infinite possibilities to expand, learn, and become full.<br />
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<b>Today</b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">I'm featuring 8 books about personal growth, slathered in spiritual gravy</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"> (the only way I eat gravy)</span></span><br />
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These are not in order of adoration. Each is absolutely life-changing.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"> am a believer in practicing consciousness and being a work in progress. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">When I say life-changing, I don't mean, that if you read one of these books your life will be forever changed. I mean that the energy in the books will inspire change. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><b>Our lives are changed by something we do regularly, </b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><b>not once.</b></span></span><br />
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1: A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson<br />
This is her masterpiece. I re- read this every 5 years. It's like a long-needed mental massage, and a way to place your heart in gentle hands for a spell.<br />
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2: Courageous Dreaming, Alberto Villoldo<br />
From the Shamanic philosophy, this book shows the ways of the psyche through nature.<br />
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3: The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes<img alt="The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition" class="artwork" height="225" src="http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Publication/d8/43/0b/mzi.nsilmiyu.225x225-75.jpg" width="149" /><br />
I specially LOve this edition. I settled into my spiritual beliefs from this text. <br />
It is a clean translation of how beautiful Great Energy works<br />
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4: Wild Succulent Woman, SARK. <img src="webkit-fake-url://3B6A3D7A-8EE3-4F6F-B0D8-82EC8472F5C4/imagepng" style="cursor: move;" /><br />
I got this book right after my Saturn Return (whew!) It lit my fire (cuz it had been burned out).<br />
I have bought so many of these for friends, I oughta be on SARK's staff.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">SARK signed my copy in 1998.</span></span></span><br />
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5: The Value in the Valley, Iyanla Vanzant<br />
I read this one after Saturn, too. A book about healing relationships ➠ well, it was about<br />
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Iyanla is a queen. And she can put anyone back together<br />
when they fall off the wall.<br />
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6: The Anatomy of Spirit, Dr. Caroline Myss<br />
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Anatomy_of_The_Spirit%2C_by_Caroline_Myss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="File:Anatomy of The Spirit, by Caroline Myss.jpg" border="0" height="200" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Anatomy_of_The_Spirit%2C_by_Caroline_Myss.jpg" width="135" /></a>Gee wiz, this is a classic. This lady is a scholar of spiritual principles, energy centers / chakras, and now, archetypal orientations.<br />
My copy of this book is stared, circled, exclamation marked, and underlined. <br />
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Topic :: the relationship between religion, chakras, and therapeutic healing of the BOD+mind.<br />
Frickn amazing.<br />
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<img alt="20972" height="200" src="http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347706965l/20972.jpg" width="131" />7: There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Dr. Wayne Dyer<br />
This could stand as a complement to A Return to LOve and Science of Mind.<br />
This was Wayne Dyer's first deeply spiritual book about transformation.<br />
He is a master of teaching <b>ways to practice</b> daily awareness and LOve.<br />
I've been his student since I was 26.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">(Thanks for that cassette, Melissa!)</span></span><br />
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8: The Gifts of Imperfection, Dr. Brene Brown<br />
I am reading the last two chapters of this right now. It feels like Brene is talking to me.<br />
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You can read it in a day or two, but don't. Let it work with you. <br />
Take time. Tell your secrets to this book.<br />
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Got any spiritual book suggestions that just WOW and fulfill?<br />
Add to the comments.<br />
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-89813980897265299482013-10-01T09:53:00.002-04:002013-10-01T18:23:49.151-04:00Doin' fat-loss for REAL<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">For sustained weight-loss, or as I refer to as FATLOSS - because essentially that is the real goal, we have got to make healthy food choices and MOve. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">Duh, right? </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">I mean, this equation has been drilled into your skull. You already know this!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But we don't actually make our choices based on what we </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">know</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we make choices when we learn </span></span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">how to implement</span></span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> what we know.</span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></span></b>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our real choices are lived through our behavior.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So, let's consider our eating behaviors/ choices. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out<a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/the-rit-and-the-post.html" target="_blank"> THE RiT</a>, an 8 part daily ritual that maps out a sure way to implement a healthy eating plan! ( one loud YaY!!)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And here are 2 habits you can implement right now - TODAY perhaps ::</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">1. Make it a habit to leave food on your plate when you're DONE.</span></span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I am certainly a reformed over-eater, and one of my biggest habits was clearing my plate of every crumb! I was a finisher, for sure.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I practice non-attachment to food. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't lecture myself and ask tons of questions ☞ </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ am I full?, ☼ will the cook be insulted? ☼ there are people starving in...Mars, right?.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No questions. I just leave morsels behind and move on. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☝ A great habit for someone who used to be attached to licking the plate</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2. Make it a habit to eat any and all white starches (besides bread) in a small, quaint, stylish dish. </span></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Of course, you're covering your mouth because I am NOT advocating the NO CARBS thing. Firstly, carbs are white starch, grains, fruits,</span></span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> and</span></span></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"> veggies- so eat em. Just reduce the white starchy ones GREATLY. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(On the DL, I would totally eliminate white starches in certain medical cases like allergies, diabetes and even cancer. There is so much to learn about how to eat ALL starches that is better learned over time with a health pro, not in this article, sweet-um.) + (With all the GMO wheat being grown, most starches and grains are best reduced -- except check out Ezekiel brands.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The small beautiful dish will help. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">I use small plates in my home - exclusively!! </span></span></span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">I recommend any and all starches be served in wine goblets or small t</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">ea cups - half filled.</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> Why? </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cuz I want to make them beautiful, guiltless, and very small, of course. </span></span><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Remember the deal-eo, a neurotic eater, a big-eater, a guilt-ridden eater will implode and binge eventually. </span></span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Manage your eating</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> with healthy habits that exert </span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">gentle</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> strokes of control.</span> </span></span><br />
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You can do it!<br />
your trainer,<br />
michelle bernard<br />
<a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/" target="_blank">www.sculptedbybernard.com </a></div>
the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-82616918004187920712013-09-24T16:11:00.001-04:002013-09-24T16:11:24.790-04:00the most common conversation i keep hearing<div style="word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">The most common conversation I keep hearing in this decade {of my life} ::</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">"boy oh boy, I can't wait till I retire...! When I retire I will be able to ..."</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"> Essentially, the statement is " when I retire, I will be happy."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">---Personally, I will never be able to retire, in the common sense of the word.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I teach exercise classes, train clients to achieve their fitness goals, encourage mind power and bravery, and teach relaxation techniques + I work for myself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I chose this path over the conventions of a teaching career in a public school, for which I earned my Master's. I chose my heart's passion as a path to live by.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Movement heals. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Maybe I will retire one of my branches of sculpting, but I don't want to ever stop working. My work is service. It connects me to others in a spiritual way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I don't ever want to retire anyway. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Being forever </span></span><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">useful</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"> is the way to </span></span><strong style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">absolute fullness.</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tony Robbins says, "growth is our purpose in life." Yep. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I say, " expansion enlivens."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I recommend that instead of kicking and screaming from day to day and frantically grasping at retirement, we seek and (be encouraged that we will) find openings into the wonderland that we seem to believe retirement holds. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We we can learn new languages and schedule trips to the land where we can use what we have practiced.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can set goals and pursue fitness, then schedule places to exhibit our new BODies, strength, agility, postures.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can take classes that interest us, learn to play an instrument, join clubs, finish what we have started. </span></span></span></div>
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-26908156315888494152013-09-17T17:43:00.000-04:002013-09-17T17:43:30.494-04:00binge on wonder<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">As the light outdoors dims and we make our transition to the next season...</span><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/74756141" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/74756141">Preserve wonder</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/michellebernard">michelle bernard</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">may the light inside of us be extended far and wide. </span></span><br /></span>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-80947260490289199822013-09-10T13:02:00.001-04:002013-09-10T13:03:42.713-04:00summer connections and the way I'm harvesting my storyI just started GONE GIRL 〈gillian flynn〉 and DARING GREATLY «brene brown».<br />
brene brown is gonna be Oprah's Super Soul Sunday guest this week, though I'm already familiar with her daring adventures into living courageously, authentically, unmasked.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">which leads me to iyanla's ( </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">pardon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> -- vanzant, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I feel like I know her, you see) </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">latest confession, her life story. PEACE FROM BROKEN PIECES.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ms iyanla (fix my life - Queen - also of OWN), did have quite a life of her own to face, fix, and forgive. this is why she and her story speak to my heart.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">this here life we all get a chance to move through is bumpy, messy, puzzling. it gets imprinted with memories that we protect by reliving and believing in them - whether they are good or bad. in order for any of us to move forward, grow, break free of unwanted conditionings, we have gotta become transparent </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">with ourselves</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thank you, iyanla. i am shining on myself. i am looking inward at my behavior, my habits, my thoughts and asking, " Am I honoring myself right NOW?" " Am I making a LOving choice?" "What am I afraid of?"</span></span><br />
iyanla calls it "doing the work."<br />
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I call it courage.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I just closed THE INTERESTINGS {meg wolitzer}. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">do you know how it feels to read a final page of a novel, to brace yourself for the emptiness that follows because you know you're gonna miss visiting the story? you want the words to slow down, last, last, last.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">when I read the first 100 pages, I questioned whether the title was even a good one. seemed too easy, generic. despite, I leaned in to the characters with familiarity, their friendships originating in their teens at a summer camp for performing and visual artists. I did that. good memories. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">big memories, actually.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but this book wasn't about the arts. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was about friendship. it was about growing up. it was about allegiance. it was about jealousy. it was about success. it was about starting over. it was about rejecting and accepting yourself. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so interesting. so good. i didn't want it to end.</span><br />
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the title of my new story, my NOW story is AUTHENTICITY. <br />
<b>chew on that a little bit. </b><br />
(say it. say it again... chewy, huh?)<br />
i choose to be me. <b>AUTHENTIC.</b> me.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">i chose to get married this summer... At the court house, on a Monday morning ( before a perfect "audience" of folks who had court dates that day!), in a dress covered in roses (pink). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO wedding, cuz I just can't stand that sort of thing and would rather receive a spiritual cleansing + blessing from a Shaman in a remote area of this great world than get hitched in a church. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(see Elizabeth Gilbert's COMMITTED). </span></span><br />
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i chose gemstones + white gold over diamonds.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">i am choosing to raise 3 canines ( our pack we've named "12 paws"), instead of kids. i'm choosing to work for myself instead of for the NYC department of Ed, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">because I am a great boss and I LOve what I do like nature. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i'm choosing to tell the truth as a way of life - and noticing how it enables others around me to do the same. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(it's frickn liberating to come out of hiding!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">i'm choosing to let my dreams be written all over blogs, be spoken to folks, be listed in my journals, breathed in prayer, and bubble in my consciousness </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">➠ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">my dreams to serve gobs of people as a teacher and example of how to LOve their BODies healthy, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">how to forgive all the bullsh*t that hurt us, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">how to get hypnotically focused on blessings, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">and how to make bold choices that honor OUR truths <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not our fears</span>)</span></span></span>!</span></span><br />
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it's raining more<br />
cooler<br />
perfect summer slowdown weather<br />
comfortable for daydreaming<br />
and summering<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">spend the rest of your summer doin' stuff that </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">feels good ♥ </span></b><br />
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☼ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paint your toe nails yellow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ plant lavender </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ walk the dog in heels</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">☼ eat dinner in the gazebo while it rains</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">☼</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"> write letters on stationery</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">☼ take pix and make a photo album of summer fun</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>☼ </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>save $3 and make your own iced coffee</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>☼ start a vision board with magazine pix</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">☼</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">put air in your tire and ride your bike</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">☼ talk to Spirit early in the morning</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">☼ take a day off work (or the whole week!)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">☼ promise no gossip</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">☼ finish your selected summer books</span></span><br />
☼ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">laugh at the beach</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ be a tourist somewhere</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ meet a new friend</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">set goals for the Fall</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">☼ plant a garden, get a tower garden, plant a window box garden</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">☼ wear glitter</span></b></span><br />
☼ have brunch in the country with friends<br />
☼ have brunch in the city with friends<br />
☼ start a gratitude journal<br />
☼ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">power walk with a friend</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"> wear a flower in your hair</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">☼ cheer someone on!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">☼ have a slumber party</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ sleep in a fort</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ create a fresh flower arrangement</span><br />
☼ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">drink sangria and laugh</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">☼ (dress up!! and) take someone out for lunch</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">☼ add an extra day of exercise</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">☼ try Zumba</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;">☼ do yoga in the park</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">☼ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eat peaches from the farmers market</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ wear orange</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☼ ban complaining</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">☼ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">drink more water </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">☼ use less plastic</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">☼ daydream for an hour a day</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">☼ say Hi first</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">and <b>five more</b> PERSONAL ♥s to feel good + celebrate <b>my 45th bday (july 22)</b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mr. porter and sage</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ adopt a new dog into my family</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ practice arm stands because they're scary</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PROF - short for professor, our new dog</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ observe birds</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ pray every day because it changes me</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☼ know that each day is precious, miraculous, and new</span></span><br />
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add to the list, my beLOved.<br />
let me know what you're gonna do<br />
to feel good<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">gracias</span></span>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-45538310850058686292013-07-09T14:11:00.001-04:002013-08-06T14:44:09.516-04:00this morning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">i sat in this chair at 8 </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">this morning </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">(wrestling ideas, counting the dangling projects and plans in my notebook, so very close to whipping out the ipad and mapping my next big workout program...)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">but instead</span></span><br />
i read<br />
fiction,<br />
<b>not self-help,</b><br />
sipped coffee + my popeye shake,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">little buddha space</td></tr>
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and admired the gardens i created<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">path of stones ( 4 days of carrying rocks - we finished this yesterday)</td></tr>
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because it feels better<br />
to rest<br />
right now<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 weeks in the tower garden so far</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">summerLOve :: serenade for Her</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">made of</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">MOvement</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">and breath</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">coarseness</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">and succulence</span></span><br />
i bow to the season<br />
of now<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">both growth and harvest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">are inevitable</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i lean into the whispers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Your wisdom</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">in this here </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">and now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i rest easy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">i wish only to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">touch your</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">natural BODy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">✦</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with hands in soil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">on stone</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">with root</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">dropping seed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">✥ i simply </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">touch You</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">speak into me,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dear Earth</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">■ i put down my mind </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">right now and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">put</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">trust</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in You</span><br />
<br />the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-41528642798134360282013-06-25T15:06:00.000-04:002013-06-25T15:13:16.259-04:00summerLOve : fountain foodlife is coming on<br />
so is the heat<br />
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and the growth of new experiences<br />
new choices<br />
a new way<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">summerLOve : earth</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">i finally got a chance to assemble the seedlings into my </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">tower garden</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><b>aeroponic vertical planter</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">planting on Wednesday, June 19, 2013</td></tr>
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the plants get watered at the roots<br />
up through the shaft by a misting fountain<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the veggies are growing ☼ Tuesday, June 25<br />
one week in the tower</td></tr>
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(similar to hydroponics)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">supposedly</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">these plants will grow faster than they</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">would in soil</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">so what</span></span><br />
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i don't care much for speed<br />
i just want the experience, really<br />
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☀ and some fresh veggies on my plate<br />
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a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nd i want to offer a gentle suggestion to you...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">find a way to grow your own food</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">✌ on your terrace, in pots on the windowsill,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">in the yard, under a light in the basement, in the</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">shared neighborhood space... in a tower</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></span>
here's why ☟<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">see this movie ✒ try the library video selection!<br />
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I want to know what you think about the breach of confidence that exists in our general food production.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">gotta check the PH of the water</td></tr>
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☒ PLUS</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I miss you, MJ</span></span></div>
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to michael jackson</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this may seem off topic,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but it's all LOve to mE</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">rest in pure peace</span></span></span></span></div>
the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-23509330480914111792013-06-18T20:08:00.001-04:002013-06-18T20:08:39.480-04:00June is cooperatingJUNE is certainly cooperating with my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">garden romance</span></span>.<br />
it has <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rained </span></span></b>virtually every day<br />
here<br />
in the east.<br />
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today<br />
i planned to finish setting up my new gardening gadget<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">TAH DAH ☂</span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfRzHud918i7QkSumEgXGf6RHJIJ9cayTOdLQVyCtOgaZ0VarMu_DEQED-9JvDh6kgzLweiWV7OWU7Go6zTCbZfo_zPipBCrhsD5t2EQquhZmYjH8qVJURCvyWPKB_31KGRjhJ5-Wcq23R/s1600/tower+garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfRzHud918i7QkSumEgXGf6RHJIJ9cayTOdLQVyCtOgaZ0VarMu_DEQED-9JvDh6kgzLweiWV7OWU7Go6zTCbZfo_zPipBCrhsD5t2EQquhZmYjH8qVJURCvyWPKB_31KGRjhJ5-Wcq23R/s400/tower+garden.jpg" width="400" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the tower garden</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">these pods get watered at the root</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">through a pump that shoots the water up the shaft</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not that i might melt,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's raining</span></span><br />
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again<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>so imma be finishing this set-up </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>tomorrow</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">can't wait to show you my vertical garden</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">next week...</span></b></span>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-44758210015229718002013-06-11T09:45:00.006-04:002013-06-11T09:47:13.642-04:00soil and possibility...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i grew up in IOWA. not rural iowa.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">city-like iowa, but small enough that most people did not lock their doors everyday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i never cared for it. not the open land, quiet streets, backyard leisure. the simplicity of it made my heart race. i ached for "the brownstone", subway tracks, red lipstick, taxi rides.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now i know why.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">my palate for DIVERSITY was starved. my hunger for cultures other than just White and a speck of my own was deprived. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i wanted to taste the world socially ☀ i wanted Asian, Indian, African, Italian, Canadian, Jamaican, French people. i wanted to co-exist with all colors, sexual orientations, creeds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">so i did. i planted myself in Chicago, LA, New York City, and now ☞ New Jersey - and it has been worth the discovery.</span><br />
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today<br />
i hunger for another experience. <br />
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the one i missed in IOWA.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>(my mother is laughing right now. giggling...)</b></span><br />
i have fallen in LOve with my backyard. <br />
<b>a garden romance.</b><br />
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so much soil and possibility...<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">i, ms. IOWA, am a (new- never wanted to be, don't know what i'm doing AT ALL)</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">gardener!</span></b><br />
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YAY<br />
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here's what i've done so far ✲<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">imma be sharing my </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">experience on blog. </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">maybe you can explore your own summerLOve and share it with me?</span></b><br />
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michelle bernard<br />
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<a href="http://www.michellebernardspeaks.com/">www.michellebernardspeaks.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.aboutpebble.org/">www.aboutpebble.org</a>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-12695852497828441952013-06-04T10:28:00.001-04:002015-09-01T11:42:48.623-04:00perfect curiosity<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I have found a cafe I adore.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Wooden. Shabby. Red. Brown. Crowded.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">chalkboards and ceiling fans, croissants and exposed radiators. beauty.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">the best seat are up front on the cushions in the window ledges, especially when it rains.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">i have to squeeze into the bathroom and practically stand on the toilet to close the door.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">i fell in love with these creative centers - cafes - when i was a young girl </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in search of my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">poetry </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">during intermissions from my studies - at university.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">me. alone, in a big hat and Mexican shawl, burrowed in the corner cafe with highlighter and notebook.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gentlemen found it attractive then. i knew this because many would approach me on campus and mention -</span><br />
"i've seen you before. you like to hang at that cafe, don't you?"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">sally was my LIT teacher when I was 19. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">19 and full of art and wonder. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">bubbly, smiling for no reason, singing, dreaming, collecting friends, happy every day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">sally. a Ph.D candidate teaching English LIT to undergrads - perhaps to pay her bill. sally was an ivy league-r with an impeccable straight A history, always in layers of thrift-store recycled capes and wraps and coverings - pale white skin and small blue eyes and massive blonde Afro-mane of nappy curls unfit for a comb.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">I was mesmerized.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with glossy smile and glazed eyes, she told of how much she adored Literature - was wedded to Literature beyond need for academic accomplishment, beyond her desire to become a published novelist. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she simply loved Literature and wanted nothing less than to read more of it, to feel it, to see it living in her mind, and to create a portal for us to be pleasured by it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I adored Sally. she was a rare jewel of perfect curiosity. raw and passionate. rough and gorgeous. an unbridled lover.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sally began every class reading an excerpt of a poem or prose. at 19, i was like a toddler attending school for first time, admiring the bigness of my teacher, sitting on the floor, kicking my toes together, listening - hoping i could be just like her when I grew up.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at semestre end, I waited until the other students had gone. I thanked Sally for class, of course.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sally smiled through her gloss and mane.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Michelle, I see stars all around you. They are all around you, you know?" Twinkling."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">she fluttered her fingers around my head and shoulders.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I took one last look at my guiding star, Sally.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;">"Thank you."</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span>
I never saw her again. not on campus. not in any bookstore. not on any book jacket. not in any cafe.<br />
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I could not remember her last name. don't think I ever wrote one down.<br />
but maybe Sally wasn't a first name and a last name. maybe she was one name. <br />
Sally.<br />
angel<br />
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thank you, Sally<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{I have been blessed by earth angel <b>messages</b>. Yes. and so have you! Yes.}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here are 3 more angel messengers that have imparted starLIGHT on my path.</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">SARK </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☞ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">honest, playful, nap-taker, curious, artist, risk-taker, magic cottage dweller</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☀ ms. SARK tells the truth about how life can get horribly messy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">( i appreciate truth-telling optimists over the life-is-perfect kind) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">SARK offers gateways to healing in journal-esque style!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">start with SUCCULENT WILD WOMAN</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">then try TRANSFORMATION SOUP</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Danielle LaPorte</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> ☞</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> sassy, passionate, daring, firecracker, sensual, poet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☀ if you are an entrepreneur, writer, artist, speaker, desire-lover ➟ ms. danielle will speak to your soul.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">start with THE FIRE✥STARTER SESSIONS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">then try THE DESIRE MAP </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">yanla Vanzant</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> ☞</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> priestess!, hilarious, surviver, alchemist</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">☀ she's currently on OPrah's IYANLA FIX MY LIFE. ➟ Iyanla gets to the core of you. she facilitates healing like I have never seen before. plus, you'll be laughing while you're doing it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">start with ANYTHING!! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">but here are 2 ➻ VALUE IN THE VALLEY</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">then try IN THE MEANTIME</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my cafe reading list for this summer!</span><br />
<b>Mind over Medicine by Lissa Rankin</b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Daring Greatly by Brene Brown</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Peace from Broken Pieces by Iyanla Vanzant</span></b><br />
<b>Being of Power by Baron Baptiste</b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Courageous Dreaming by Alberto Villoldo ( a re- read!!)</span></b><br />
<b>Ja<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">mbayala by Luisah Teish</span></b><br />
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I'll let you know how it goes.<br />
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read what i have been writing ➻ <a href="http://www.sculptedbybernard.com/">www.sculptedbybernard.com</a><br />
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<br />the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-39792420830936904472013-05-28T16:50:00.003-04:002013-05-28T16:58:24.274-04:00my inner-view<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: medium; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000099;">☞What made you take an interest in fitness?</span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;">i used to eat like a pig. i couldn't stop, had no gauge for fullness. it was emotional eating, of course. <span style="font-size: large;">i didn't know how to control it </span>(and it showed)<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><u>my first aerobic teacher</u> had lost 100 lbs. and still had more to drop. <span style="font-size: large;">i chose </span><u><span style="font-size: large;">her</span></u><span style="font-size: large;"> as my guide</span> because <span style="font-size: medium;">she showed the kind of </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">triumphant behavior</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> that could make me believe</span> that leanness was even a possibility- for someone like mE. </span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">thanks, Anna from chicago! </span></span></span><br /><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000099;">☞What is your fav healthy snack?</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span></span>a handful of almonds or a FAGE yogurt.</span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><br /></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000099;">✌How often do you workout every week?</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">4 days a week total. </span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"> i lift weights for 20-40 minutes 3 times and cardio for 20-30 mins 3 times. </span></span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">i do yoga poses 20-30 minutes / </span></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;">3 times a week.</span><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><br style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;" /><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium;">☛What have your clients taught you?</span></span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white;">to listen.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #000099; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">☟What knowledge do you seek to impart to your clients?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000099; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 27px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #330033;"> :: <u>discipline</u> is <span style="font-size: x-large;">necessary</span> for good health.</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;"> :: <span style="font-size: medium;">gratitude is </span><span style="font-size: large;">the doorway</span> to transformation.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium;">✌What is </span><span style="font-size: large;">good health</span><span style="font-size: medium;">, in your opinion?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">good health happens when one practices </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">a </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">daily ritual</span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"> of deliberate movement and fueling for the BODy +</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"> one engages in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">courageous</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"> reflection and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: large;">truth-full decision-</span><span style="font-size: small;">making</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium;">☟What are some of your fitness/wellness goals?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">well, </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">i LOve to lift weights and i LOve self-development</span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">so, i aim to maintain a sculpted, strong BODy +mind into my fifties, sixties, seventies and on!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #330033;">to live from my soul desire :: <span style="font-size: large;">to improve Self-honor and facilitate desired transformation</span> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;">for my clients and students </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;">through my written, spoken, and BODywork offerings</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;">:: to eat from my own garden</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;">:: to create art forever</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-family: Quattrocento, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: right;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;">smiles. </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">service.</span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"> transformation. female-muscles. dancing. puppies. my joe. waterfalls. </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">courage. </span><span style="font-size: small;">teaching.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #000099;">☟What turns you off?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">short-cuts.</span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"> quick fixes. fast-food.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium;">✔What do you most like about yourself?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #330033;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">my resilience. </span></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px;"> i never give up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Connect with me for help when you need it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Connect with your SELF to know what you are worth.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">You are a treasure.</span></div>
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the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-43760927891409258842013-05-14T12:50:00.000-04:002013-05-14T12:51:29.053-04:00choose it and use it, sweet pea<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #330033; font-family: Muli; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #330000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DID YOU KNOW...? </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Up to 72%</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> of people who BUY products, programs, + learning tools for life enhancement </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">DO NOT</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> even use them!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I WANT YOU TO USE THIS PROGRAM!!! ☟</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">michelle bernard</span>the wanderer [bernard]http://www.blogger.com/profile/11993997950139178095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795712323998742274.post-29633236651618827822013-04-30T11:38:00.001-04:002013-04-30T12:18:44.132-04:00respond!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><u>genetics ✧ BODy shape/ size ✧ and all that stuff</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;">You <b><u>might</u></b> inherit <span style="color: indigo;">some</span> of your family's BODy shape / size,<br />BUT<br /><span style="color: navy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>most</u></span> of your BODy size+weight is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">influenced</span></span> by the lifestyle<br />YOU CHOOSE to LIVE!</b></span></span><b><br /></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Your shape and size is up to 75% determined by your lifestyle choices.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">That's great news, eh?!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You have tons of pOWER<br />and reSPONSibility to<br />shape your BODy (and, to a large extent, your health) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">by adopting </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">a lifestyle of healthy eating </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and the ritual of exercise. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yeah, well crap...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">you've heard this before, haven't you?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">what's frickn new??</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NOTHING. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">except,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">YOU!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we all know sooooo much about fitness, dieting, exercise,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">blah-blah-blah</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we try-out some of the stuff we know</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on our BODies with great intentions</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">YET</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">cannot maintain </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>the weight-loss, the smaller-size, the diet, the routine</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AND IT's FRICKN <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">overwhelming!!!!!!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so what's new ☞ you ask...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YOUR IDENTITY.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you need to visualize a new identity, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">REALLY.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VISUALIZE yourself living healthy every day. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">see yourself two ways ✧✧</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">✧ one with old habits, routines, and beliefs</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">✧ one with NEW, healthy habits, routines, and beliefs</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ask yourself "would a healthy person eat this?" right before you </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">drive up to dunkin donuts</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ask yourself " would a fit person wake up and do the 30-minute walk </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on this beautiful morning?" right as you roll over in bed with the snooze button under your finger.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">then answer each</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">☞ <u>i am</u> a NEW healthy person OR <u>i am</u> the old identity </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">then CHOOSE</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">become conscious + accountable to </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the NEW identity you have</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VISUALIZED!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">need help?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">visit mE (at)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe in you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the NEW you</span></div>
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