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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