Dust away the cobwebs

Walking away your woes

Do you ever feel fuzzy-headed? Not clear, not confident, slightly confused and a little fed up? Have you ever felt so angry that you wanted to explode?

I recently I had a situation that made me feel very upset and agitated, I was tempted to get very angry and start letting sparks fly. Instead I put my coat on and went out for a walk. I need to cool down and get a clear perspective.

It's amazing how when you walk your mind clears. I don't know how it happens. Is it the fresh air? Is it the movement of your feet? Or is it the fact that you're away from your familiar surroundings or the situation? But it gives you a clearer perspective on everything. It as if the movement of your body enables your mind to think clearly! The freedom of being outdoors in the fresh air and away from your familiar surroundings seems to do wonders.

Since that day I went back to walking every morning before starting my day. I used to do it often but lapsed over the winter months.

I now remember why I did it. When I'm walking it gives me a chance to think things through clearly. I don't have to try, it just happens naturally. When you're walking there's nothing else you can do but think! There are no other distractions. It's a time to reflect, analyse, consolidate thoughts and feelings and get everything into perspective. I don't know how it happens but I do know it gives you a chance to blow away the cobwebs from your mind and clear your head. 


So today, while the sun is shining, take the opportunity to get alone and just walk. See it as your 'me-time'. No one will miss you for half an hour and believe me at home you just don't seem to get that quiet time alone. 

Walk at an easy pace, no need to power walk and just allow yourself time with you to think, dream, sort, plan, categorise and sift through thoughts, feelings, emotions and ideas so that you can dust away the cobwebs! You will be calmer, clearer and more organised and less fuzzy-headed. Even motivated!

You'll also get a bit of exercise while you're at it!


Email me feedback! Would love to know how you got on.


Have a great day!

Sally x


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September is here! Are you ready?
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Women's Weight-Loss Workshop, Saturday 5th April, 10am-2pm

Giving Up Something for Lent?

Giving up something for lent?

Many people, religious or not, give up something for lent. They use it as a time for reflection and controlling desires and addictions that they struggle with. Whatever your disposition, it's not a bad idea to use this time, when many colleagues and friends are doing the same, to challenge yourself to give up something that is not beneficial to your health. In other words, there's no better time to go on a diet, give up junk food, chocolate, alcohol, meat, swearing, fizzy drinks, coffee, etc! 




The benefit of doing this now along with others are:

1. Support and Accountability: It is likely others are also giving up something for lent so you will have a support network as well as accountability to friends, family and
colleagues at work

2. Lose Weight and Get Healthy: It is a good build up to spring where, if you've decided to give up something fattening, you will have lost a few inches by the time spring is fully here!

3. Give yourself a good detox: Think how clean and clear your system will be after six weeks, sugar free or junk food/alcohol (or whatever you're giving up) free you'll be. Even if it's swearing you're giving up you will feel clear mentally and spiritually as you unblock your pipes from bad and negative connotations

4. More Time: If you're giving up something like Facebook or TV for lent you will have more time on your hands to do other things! 

5. Break Bad habits: They say it takes about one month to break a habit or form a new one. Well after six weeks (40 days) you will certainly have broken the habit and hopefully formed a new one! 

Are you giving up something? Why not email and tell us what it is and your progress. Will post success stories on our Facebook page. 

Tell us your struggles and what challenges you think you'll face!

Happy Ash Wednesday (or not so happy for some!)

Have a great day

Sally x

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More to read:

New Year New YOU Staying on track with your goals for 2014
How to survive the Festive Season (and still have fun!)
Are vegetable and seed oils good for you?
September is here! Are you ready?
It starts with food - The Whole30 Programme
Don't waste your time!

Three things you can do to change your health now!
Life on your terms

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Get in touch! Email: info@sallyhumphries.com Would love to hear from you or call 020 8133 1997 or 07984 033 310

The Perfect Lifestyle

 

Is the one you create for yourself…

What is the perfect lifestyle? Guru's aim to promote a utopian existence if you follow their ten step plan, personal trainers make promises of a healthier, happier you (myself included!), the media promote a successful career as ideal, or having a family of 2.4 children, a nice home and car with at least one holiday per year, the ideal. But the truth is that the best lifestyle is the one you create for yourself. If it wasn't so then you wouldn't have millions of people straying from the norm and being perfectly happy even though it doesn't fit into mainstream ideals. I'm thinking of people who spend their entire lives devoted to helping others, sometimes at the expense of their own lives; I'm thinking of people who never marry or have children or never reach the top of the corporate ladder but are perfectly fine thank you very much.

Your best life is the one that you create not one that is created for you by others' expectations. I work with young people as a youth worker in my spare time (what spare time she says!) and I see so much conflict between what young people want to do with their lives to what is expected of them. This is not just in terms of career but also fashion sense, music preference and how they have fun. It's such a shame that we often fall into the mould that others have set for us. It's even worse when we haven't even noticed it happening.

In my work as a lifestyle coach I see conflict with people's goals. On the one hand they really want to achieve a particular goal and on the other they seem to fail at every attempt. With a bit of digging we both find out that it was never really their goal in the first place but an expectation they had put on themselves due to others' expectations of them or their own pre-conceived idea what they 'should' be doing.

The truth is you will only ever do or be what you really want to. So you will find yourself reaching for these pseudo goals half-heartedly, with less enthusiasm than goals that you have set for what really makes you happy.

For example if all you ever wanted to do is get married and have children, you will never be quite happy being in the rat race. You will have no sense of motivation or competitiveness or drive to reach the top of your career (or if you do it will never really satisfy).

Equally if all your parents ever wanted for you was to settle down and have a family and live close to them so that you can look after them, and all you want to do is travel the world and have adventure, then there could be some conflict.

I'm not saying that we should shirk responsibilities and disregard family and friends. What I am saying is to be true to yourself. Eventually people catch up and if they love you enough they will accept you for who you are and what you want in life.

I am delighted that some of the young people I know have chosen to live outside of normal. They listen to different music to their friends, wear different types of clothes and are interested in different things as a career (I know one person in particular doing this) and do you know what is happening? She is leading the way for her peers to be different. By being different she is introducing new things to her friends that they have never been exposed to.

We are created to be innovators in our world. Whether you want to be a mum or a business woman, a missionary or a nanny; create your own perfect lifestyle by filling it with what makes you happy and be a better person to be around.

I find the older I get the more I appreciate family and friends, helping others and being content with what I have. If this is you, enjoy it.

Your life is yours. No one will blame you for making it your own. Own it! Live it and create your perfect lifestyle.

Love Sally x