Your Choice 🌼

Your Choice Blog Body Fuel Nutrition and Movement Ballina, NSW
 

You cannot choose everything that comes your way nor all the situations life brings you. But what you CAN choose is stronger than any circumstance or other person’s opinion.

I can choose to pay close attention to my energy levels, my hunger cues and my intentions and how I respond to what I feel there 🌱

It’s never going to be too late to make a different choice 🌿

When I actually connect to my intention for my morning, afternoon and following day - I come back to my inner knowledge & knowing with deepened positivity, perspective and conviction.

I've found the best way to provide for your ability to choose your response over just reacting, is to be present.

Yes, it's that old adage that comes back to greet us - "Be in the Moment". The most simple starting strategy to begin to be present is just 2 minutes away. Allow yourself to take one minute in the morning and one minute in the evening, out of your busy schedule to gift yourself with presence and you will reap so many rewards in terms of your health both physical and mental, your clarity of thought, your ability to make choices that serve you well and your ability to cope and enjoy those events that may appear as "stressful" and that use to drive you towards unhelpful foods and choices.

Let's try it out - find at comfortable place to sit for the next minute. Breathe in through your nose for the count of four, hold that breath in your belly for a slow count of seven, and then exhale through your mouth with an auditory release for a slow count of eight. Repeat this 4 times.

If you put this two minute breath pattern into your daily habit for three weeks or so, you will notice that even when you are not performing this task you receive this overall calmness through your whole body. You then have this magic tool to use before any stressful situation or decision and you will find that you are indeed able to think clearly and make more effect decisions.

Give it a whirl and let me know how your inner core responds 🌲


 
Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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