Kim's Fitness and Nutrition

This is one concept that I have to watch myself about almost constantly. I, like so many adults in their 40's and 50's, was raised by well meaning depression era parents who instilled deep beliefs of "Anything worth having is worth working hard for!" As well as,"If you plan to make anything of yourself or get anywhere in this world you had better plan to work harder then the average person or you can forget it!" The German work ethic was drilled into me and I bought it hook, line and sinker. All my praises revolved around my ability to produce and preform a good days work. Consequently an enormous amount of my self worth was tied up in this concept as well. If I worked hard at the end of the day I could feel proud but if I had laid around and didn't do a heck of a lot, I felt pretty bad about myself. Crazy I know but I'm far from alone in untangling this boondoggle.

I have found that spending time visualizing, imagining, contemplating and actually allowing myself to feel how good it will feel when I have arrived, is tremendously productive. "They may say I'm a dreamer ... but I'm not the only one" ... to quote McCartney, is really very powerful advice. Our society has often frowned upon those who daydream or spend time visualizing, because it is considered idle or wasted time. This is far from wasted time. In fact, I think it can prove to be some the best spent time of all. Consider the Olympic athletes who have learned that if they spend time sitting still, breathing and visualizing their routines or events ... seeing themselves making every single move with the utmost precision, with ease and grace and perfection ... feeling how over-the-top fantastic it feels to have completed their moment in time perfectly and to embrace the acceptance of that gold medal ... this hugely enhances their performances and is by no means a waste of time ... to the contrary, in fact. Research has shown this to be the case beyond the shadow of a doubt. So then, wouldn't it stand to reason that this is a productive method available for all to use?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to step back and observe people for just a few minutes and conclude what their lives are generally like. By the same token, you can evaluate your life experience, the people you have in your life, the situations you find yourself in and clearly see what your dominant attitude/vibration is. The thoughts you think the most create a vibration that goes out into the Universe like a radio signal and attracts back to you an exact match ... every single time ... no exceptions ... ever. It is quite impossible to be thinking predominantly uplifting, positive thoughts and attract hatefulness, disaster or disease. The only way those things find their way into anyone's lives is by that person attracting them through the power of the thoughts they think.

The fact is that this is quite enough work for one human being. My theory as to why we are so often drawn to other people's business is threefold; 1) It is always easier to see what needs to be fixed in someone else, rather than look at our own stuff that needs fixing; 2) It is easier to spend energy on someone else, because after all, they are more deserving/worthy of my love than I am.( Big one); and 3) If we are busy saving someone else, it takes the focus off all the garbage that we are in need of either unloading or cleaning up. Bottom line ... when I am in anyone else's business, yours or Gods ... it feels bad. That is a really good thing, because that is my inner guidance reminding me to pay attention ... that I'm moving out of alignment with my Higher Self. If I continue to put my focus and attention over there, I'm going to be unhappy with whatever it is I am drawing toward me, when it arrives. Isn't that nice to know?