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		<title>Why You Should Love Your Food</title>
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<p>Did you know that your thoughts and feelings can impact the food you eat? Taking a moment to love and appreciate your food can improve how it reacts with, and affects your body.</p>
<p>Before I talk about how our thoughts and feelings affect our food, I want to introduce you to Dr. Masaru Emoto. I believe his research into water also applies to the food we eat.</p>
<p>Dr. Emota has spent his life studying (and proving) how words, thoughts, and emotions affect the energetic structure of water. He would even take pictures of the results. I invite you to check out some of the <a title="Water Crystal Pictures" href="http://www.hadousa.com/comparisons.html" target="_blank">pictures he has taken</a> or some of <a title="Dr. Emoto's Books" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FMasaru-Emoto%2FB001IODMIY%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dsr%255Fntt%255Fsrch%255Flnk%255F1%26qid%3D1265041847%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=developinet-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957" target="_blank">his books</a> to learn more.</p>
<p>Basically, what Dr. Emoto discovered is that when we send negative thoughts and emotions toward water, the energetic structure of the water changes into something that looks very negative. Conversely, when we send positive thoughts and emotions toward water, the energetic structure changes into something very beautiful.</p>
<p>Dr. Emoto even used this approach to clean up several polluted bodies of water simply by getting large groups of people to send loving and grateful thoughts to the water.</p>
<p>Considering that our bodies are made up of about 70% water. You might want to monitor what messages you are sending with your thoughts, words, and feelings. When you love and appreciate yourself and the water you consume, it will have a direct positive impact on the energy of the water in your body.</p>
<p><em>(to learn more about Dr. Masaru Emoto, <a title="Interview with Dr. Emoto" href="http://www.thesourceasia.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=83:the-message-is-in-the-water&amp;catid=2:spirit&amp;Itemid=4" target="_blank">check out this great Q&amp;A session with him</a>.)</em></p>
<h4>Love Your Food</h4>
<p>I believe Dr. Emoto&#8217;s research into how our thoughts affect water also applies to the food we eat. Everything in this Universe is made up of energy. So the same principles that apply to water, also apply to the food we eat.</p>
<p>What do you think and feel while you eat?</p>
<ul>
<li>Do you worry about your food making you fat?</li>
<li>Do you feel guilty about sneaking that extra cookie?</li>
<li>Do you worry that you&#8217;re going to get heartburn?</li>
<li>Do you fear that that slice of cheese is going to clog up your arteries and give you a heart-attack?</li>
</ul>
<p>All of these types of thoughts affect the energy of your food in a negative way. In fact, those very thoughts could end up becoming self-fulfilling as the negative energy of the food starts interacting with the energy of your body.</p>
<p>You can change how your food affects your body by changing the energy of the food you eat into something more positive. Take a moment before you chow down your next meal or snack to send a little love to it and thank it for giving of itself to nourish you. This one little act will help your food to nourish your body and energy in a much more positive way.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that this approach is a free ticket to go eat whatever you want without consequence. I don&#8217;t think there has been enough research on the subject yet for me to be able to say that with absolute confidence. But I am sure that if you focus on positive thoughts and emotions about what you&#8217;re eating, it will cause less problems for you and benefit you a lot more.</p>
<p>Maybe there really is something to the idea of &#8220;saying grace&#8221; before your meal. <img src='http://www.practical-self-help.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I encourage you to give it a try for the next week or two and see how you feel.</p>
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		<title>Not Sure Where To Start Your Personal Development Journey? Try This</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to figure out where to start your personal development journey.You might feel overwhelmed by everything you want to accomplish. Or maybe you&#8217;re just not sure what goals you want to set for yourself. If you ever find yourself in this position, the best thing you can do ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to figure out where to start your personal development journey.You might feel overwhelmed by everything you want to accomplish. Or maybe you&#8217;re just not sure what goals you want to set for yourself. If you ever find yourself in this position, the best thing you can do is to start by improving your health.</p>
<p>I strongly believe that all areas of our lives are intertwined and have an effect on each other. But this interconnectedness is the most obvious in the area of our own health.</p>
<p>If you are unhealthy:</p>
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<li>You have less energy to improve your other areas of life like mental, spiritual, relationships, and finances.</li>
<li>Physical pain and ailments slow you down.</li>
<li>You feel more depressed and angry.</li>
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<p>But this also works the other way. As you improve your health, every other area is also going to be affected in a positive way.</p>
<h4>Have More Energy To Work Towards Your Other Goals</h4>
<p>When you feel tired, sick, and achy, it&#8217;s hard to find the energy to work toward your goals in the other areas of your life. Taking action is hard if you&#8217;re just too tired to do it.</p>
<p>If you begin to improve your health, your energy levels start to increase and aches and pains will start to fade away. This new found energy and sense of well-being can then be used to start making the desired changes in the other areas of your life.</p>
<h4>Feel More Positive</h4>
<p>When you exercise and eat healthy foods, a chemical called serotonin is released by the body. Serotonin helps control your mood and just plain makes you feel good. By eating right and exercising regularly, you can make sure that you are getting regular doses of this feel good chemical.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry about getting addicted to it. It&#8217;s all natural and non-harmful when you get it naturally from living a healthy lifestyle <img src='http://www.practical-self-help.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<h4>Gain Confidence</h4>
<p>Success breeds more success. As you see regular improvements in your exercise achievements and in your health in general, your confidence will also naturally increase. Seeing yourself improve and succeed in the area of your health will give you more confidence that you can also improve and succeed in other areas of your life.</p>
<p>Not only will your confidence increase, your self esteem will increase as well. Healthy living leads to a healthier appearance. Your weight will begin to move to a healthier level, and your skin and eyes will begin to have a healthy glow to them. As your physical appearance improves, you will start feeling better about how you look. How would your life change if you felt good about how you looked?</p>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>You can make some dramatic changes to your life in a short period of time if you immediately do a complete overhaul of your diet and start exercising daily. However, this fast and hard approach doesn&#8217;t work for everyone.</p>
<p>Often these types of changes are just too dramatic for people to stick too. If you can do it, I encourage you to do so. But if it doesn&#8217;t work out, don&#8217;t get discouraged. This is normal and there is another way.</p>
<p>You can take slow and steady baby steps instead. Start by making one small dietary change and adding just one hour of exercise to your week. Make sure you choose an exercise that you enjoy.</p>
<p>Give it a month and then make one more change and add a bit more exercise to your week. It&#8217;s easier for your brain to accept small incremental changes, so use that to your advantage.</p>
<p>In just a few months you will have made several dietary changes and added a good amount of exercise to your routine.</p>
<p>As a personal example, I recently got over my <a title="coffee addiction" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2009/11/why-im-going-to-quit-coffee-and-why-you-should-too/" target="_self">addiction to coffee</a>. Now I&#8217;m working on <a title="alkalizing my body" href="http://www.practical-self-help.com/2009/11/alkalizing-my-body-ph-30-day-trial/" target="_self">alkalizing my body</a>. Small changes each month, but over time, all these small changes will really begin to add up.</p>
<p>Start improving your health today and over the next few weeks and months you can be sure that you will start to see improvements not only in your health, but in many areas of your life.</p>
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