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Getting and staying in shape is important for you – but your workouts may be more important for your family. The reason: your  family is inexorably drawn to follow your fitness example – for good or bad. How you manage your personal fitness and nutrition has a ripple effect that spreads across your entire family.

Your “personal ripple effect” may be one of the most powerful forces shaping your family’s mental and physical future. Consider the following:

We are products of our environment. We gravitate toward what we are repeatedly exposed to. It’s a simple matter of repetition. The more we see, hear, use, or eat something the more it becomes ingrained in our psyche. In fact, social scientists believe environmental repetition may have an effect on gene expression and can literally change your biochemistry.

The power of suggestion is strong. The power of repeated suggestion is practically unstoppable. So if you’re making poor fitness and nutrition choices at any age, it’s likely your family will be making the same choices shortly.

“When Junior sees Dad parked in front of the tube and digging into a bag of chips, it’s hard to resist the same lifestyle. And chunky Mom, plus chunky Dad, often equals chunky kids”.

The evidence is compelling. Your example, your behavior, your habits are being absorbed by your family at warp speed. The secret is making it a blessing instead of a curse.

It’s never too early or too late to start. In the research center,
my staff and I see the impact that consistently exposing people to a healthy lifestyle has on individuals. As people mature, they embrace exercise as a natural, fun part of their lives.

You have the power to influence the health and fitness of every person in your family (your children, your spouse, your siblings, your parents — and even your friends). The fitness habits you help them build will keep serving them in every area of their life. I can think of no better gift to give people than the gift of health.

But here’s the secret…

You absolutely must lead by example. Never “tell” a person what they should do, just keep living a healthy life in a tight lean body, and  people will instinctively gravitate to you and learn from your examples.

The process for some “hard-headed” folks might be a bit slower, but they’ll come along once they see how much more fun you’re having in your new body than they could ever hope to have unless they pick up the pace and learn from your example.

So how do you do it? It’s a day-to-day process and a series of
repeated small steps that add up to awesome health habits. Every time you choose the vegetables over the chips, a walk over a drive, and an active game over T.V., you’ve just made another donation to yourself and to your families lifetime health and fitness fund.

It’s your personal ripple effect in action…

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Not Enough Time to Exercise

Lack of time is the most common excuse for avoiding exercise.  As a personal fitness trainer, I hear it all the time, “I’d love to workout but I don’t have time.”  My goal is to help you find the time or more importantly, make the time to exercise.  There are too many benefits for your health and well being to make excuses not to exercise.  The older you are, the more important exercise is to your overall well-being and health.  Strength training has been proven to reduce the risk of falls, increases bone density, reduces the symptoms for arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity and back pain.  Studies have show exercise to have a profound effect on a person’s mental and emotional health.  With all the benefits of exercise and if your health is a priority, you could find the time to exercise.

If you have time to watch television, you have time to exercise.  These two activities can easily be combined.  A television placed in front of your exercise bike or treadmill will help accomplish your cardio needs and make the time go by faster.

Be creative; break your workout program into two shorter sessions rather than one long session to fit more easily into your day.  Many studies show that cardiovascular training for fat burning is best in the morning.  Stop snoozing to your alarm clock and hit the cardio for 20 minutes in the morning.  It’s a great way to start your day.  Save your strength training for the evening or after work.  An effective strength training workout doesn’t take more than 40 to 50 minutes.

If you’re a parent, it’s your responsibility to be a role model for your children.  A healthy lifestyle and balance in life educates your children about values and priorities.  Build fitness into your family’s playtime.  Activities, instead of allowing children to park themselves in front of the TV or computer all weekend, will serve your family’s need for exercise.

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stop-smoking-hypnosis

Quitting the habit of smoking is not easy. Among the common forms of vice, smoking is perhaps the hardest habit to withdraw from. When a person decides to quit smoking, he must commit to it seriously, for the said vice can reoccur or trigger again.

Millions of people are smoking worldwide, and almost half of these smokers want to quit the habit. To address the increasing need for aids than can help smokers have an easier and faster process of recovering from smoking addiction, numerous quitting programs are developed and established each year. In line with the strengthened anti-smoking programs and treatments to help smokers quit from the said vice, hypnosis is among the types of therapy that can provide significant improvements to smokers’ addiction condition.

Hypnosis therapy to quit smoking

Yes, there are quite plenty of treatments and programs available for those who want to quit smoking. These treatment, however, have certain side-effects, making the process of withdrawal really difficult for smokers. A person undergoing any type of anti-smoking treatment may become moody, restless, and irrational. As such, smokers who do not want to experience the hassles brought by conventional anti-smoking therapies prefer to undergo hypnosis to quit smoking.

Hypnosis as a quit smoking therapy involves two process. One is the hypnosis therapy per se and the other is the self hypnosis. In hypnosis, a smoker needs to look for a hypnotist who is well-experienced in handling similar cases before. After setting an appointment with the hypnotist, one will go through several hypnosis sessions. In session, a person is put into a relaxed, altered state of consciousness, and after which the hypnotist talks to the smoker’s subconscious. Once the person is awake, his mind works or functions like a non-smoker.

Some people are doubtful of hypnosis as a treatment for smoking addiction because of the fear of having their subconscious corrupted by thoughts and things that they do not approved of. But this is not how hypnosis works. This type of psychological treatment works by conditioning the mind and body to work to what one decides or approves to do. Hence, it is important for one to have a firm decision to  stay away from the addiction so the hypnosis will produce positive results.

On the other hand, self hypnosis is recommended to those who do not want to consult or undergo therapy sessions with hypnotist. Self hypnosis works, but it needs a lot of work on the part of the smoker. As information guide in self hypnosis, one can use books, online resources, videos, and journals that feature self help scripts and relaxation methods that can help in reconditioning or reprogramming the mind to quit the habit of smoking.

Although self hypnosis works for most people, it may also not give any improvement to some smokers. This type of self-help really requires a lot of determination and perseverance from smokers to avoid habit rebound. If self hypnosis does not seem to work, a smoker then needs to decide if consulting a hypnotist is better than conducting a self help therapy.

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