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Yesterday I found myself perusing through the isles at the book store. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular and was simply allowing my body to lead. To me, allowing my body to lead is ‘healthy.’

I engaged in whatever came into my awareness when I was walking and allowed my eyes to take in what was there. Something caught my eye and I walked over with a sense of curiosity and yet I realize now that it was as though I was confirming for myself that I see the world through different lenses.

The subject that caught my eye was, ‘Healthy Life Style.’

My eyes glanced over the many books that were there. I allowed myself to pick up the books and see if the inside reflected what was on the outside. Unfortunately, Yes!

I’m 44, happier than I’ve ever been in my entire life. I wake up in the morning simply happy to ‘be.’ I don’t plan for my day I simply allow for it to unfold moment to moment and breath to breath. I have what I’d call a Healthy Life Style.  My healthy life style goes far beyond the food that I put in my mouth, the shape of my body, how much I weigh and how my hair is done or whether I choose to wear make-up.

According to the many books that were there, “I do not have a healthy life style.”

Was I surprised by my findings? Not in the least bit. You see I believe that there are different perspectives of what a Healthy Life Style is. One is viewed as external referencing and mine…is from the inside where the signal that I am moves my physical being to engage. There is a deeper understanding and sense of who I am and what I am. And I am clear…I Am not what you see with your eyes. I am a quantum biological being. And yet our society tells us that what we see with our eyes is truth. My knowing, is my truth and my eyes, well sometimes they tell me something very different which doesn’t always align with the inside sensory cues in my body.

Do I always eat tofu and spinach? Nope and I do enjoy them quite often. Do I get up and exercise or jog every morning? Absolutely not and I enjoy exercising and walking quite often. Do I get up and make sure that my hair is perfect and make up is ‘just so’ before I leave the house?  No. And yet according to most of the books that I looked at, those are some of the requirements to have a Healthy Life Style.

Beyond technique, strategies and rules that tell me how to live my life and tell me what ‘qualifies’ as to whether or not I have a ‘Healthy Life Style,’ I’ll stand present to myself and know from the inside out that I have an absolutely wonderful life style.

Despite that I don’t have ‘perfect’ skin, that I do have cellulite, that I have gray hair and that my body doesn’t look like a ‘Barbies,’ I am a living breathing expression of what is possible in life.  Although my skin isn’t perfect, I glow with excitement and happiness for the knowing that I have in my body.  Although my body isn’t slim or trim and doesn’t have the physical appearance of what Healthy ’should’ look like, the excitement and passion that I exude, emanates from the core of my being and is felt by many.

I am a Registered Nutritionist who learned well that you are what you eat.  What I hadn’t learned, was that you are what you think.  I am not what others think of me, I am what ‘I’ think and beyond that…I AM what I Know.

With every breath I take, I grow and my life expands.  The physical appearance is a reflection of whatever it is that you need to see and has nothing to do with what I know as my truth.

Having a Healthy Life Style is whatever you believe it to be.  I believe in a world of Endless Possibilities.  Beyond what I eat or do with my body, I know that for me viewing the world/my life as an opportunity to grow and expand is indeed, “A Healthy Life Style.”

Aloha & hugs,

Amy

I have a different understanding of what seems to make our lives so complicated.  If we stop and plan for all kinds of things that haven’t even happened yet, we can possibly drive ourselves insane.

There are those who would beg to differ with me when they see and watch me create things that are going to unfold in the future and yet what I know is,  I have but this moment and this breath to engage only that which presents for me.  So if it’s information about something that is unfolding in the future, I engage in it and only in that moment and only in that breath.  I choose not to sit down with a  pen and paper and continue focusing on the last breath (because that breath is over).  Of course in the next breath if what is presenting is ‘future’ stuff again then I’ll engage it and not unless it comes up again.

When I say the ‘Plan is there is no plan,’ I don’t just say it, I live it.  I only engage in the moment that presents so my life truly isn’t difficult.

What is it that I’m noticing in this breath?  Wait a sec…it’s already over.  So what’s the use of getting wrapped up in it when it has already passed?  Now in the next breath, in the next moment, what am I becoming aware of?  What choice do I need to make ‘in this breath?’

When I say that I live my life moment to moment and breath to breath, I realized this weekend that others didn’t having an understanding of what I was sharing.  Is it important for me we have others understand me?  Absolutely not.  And yet, in that moment and in that breath that I was sharing information, it was indeed important.  Again…I engaged what was present for me.  Normally I don’t care if others agree, understand, support or whatever because truly form me, in a breath it won’t matter anyway.  However in the breath that I took, I found something held meaning for me that usually doesn’t and so…I engaged what presented in the moment.

As I expanded on what I said, I saw eyes open wider, heard breath deepening, I witnessed deeper connection to self.  It was magic.  What I’d like to share with you is that living in the moment, is magic.

In this moment and in this breath, what is it that I’m choosing to engage in?

Life can be insanely complicated when we’re planning for things weeks and sometimes months away.  Can you trust the knowing in your body and know that if something holds that much meaning for you that it will present again in another breath?  And when it presents, engage.  If it doesn’t, engage only what presents.

Why make up stories about what was or what will be?  It’s useless  really.  The past is over,  so is that breath.  The future hasn’t unfolded,  so you haven’t taken that breath yet.

Living in the moment and I mean truly living in the moment is a very different way to live.  Being creatures of habit we put so much wasted energy on what was and what will be that we lose track of the magnificence that the ‘moment’ has.

Live in the now and don’t worry about what was or what will be, Notice what is and engage from there. 

We can only truly live in this moment.  Not the one that was or the one that will happen, only in this one.

So in every breath I take and in that moment, I only choose to engage that which presents and maybe I’ll choose not to engage what presents….and that too is my choice and a whole different blog. 

Living in the Moment and Loving it,

Amy