Healthy living inside and out
Healthy living inside and out is one of the hallmarks of the Arbonne 30 days to healthy living. I’ve recently started another round of this amazing program. It’s a great reboot for your nutrition and health, with an amazing nutrition range to back it up. Then on Friday when I was lucky enough to close a big sale, and did succumb to a celebratory drink. It got me thinking how often we fall into the trap of thinking: “I’ll restart on Monday” or something similar when we have a moment of weakness, and let our healthy eating, or other good habits slide. Why do we think this? We use this as an excuse to take the easy road out, and to have a cheat day, or few days. Why not flip the script, and get started again straight away? Getting back on the horse, and getting back to our good habits sooner, this can help us to ensure we don’t undo all our good work, and don’t just let everything go. This has rebooted my passion for coaching clients, and helping people to achieve good results. I’m getting back to the healthy habits now, and am looking forward to sharing some of these insights. Is there anything you’re using as an excuse, or getting lazy about?
Mind, Body, and Beauty
With Melbourne going back into lockdown this week, I’ve had a bit of time to think, and one of the things I’ve been thinking about it how Mind, Body, and Beauty are all interconnected. I posted a video on my social media earlier about this, on Facebook, and Instagram. I finally had the confidence this week to get on a Zoom call with no makeup on. Previously, I never would have done this, always relying on makeup to look my best. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I’m finally starting to understand what it means to be confident in your own skin, and look after yourself. Don’t get me wrong, I still love makeup to enhance how I look, but I’m just not hiding behind it anymore. Then we got hit with another lockdown, and I found myself feeling a bit lack lustre, and my skin looked a bit dull. I then realised this morning how Arbonne’s Mind, Body, Skin philosophy is so true. When we look after our mind, keeping our stress levels under control, keep our body healthy with good nutrition and movement, and take care of our skin, our whole body can flourish, and that’s a great way to be. This is why, during this lockdown, I’ll be taking good care of my skin, and indulging in a bit of self-care. I’ll also be starting to post some snippets on how to take care of our mind, our body, and our beauty, which is exactly where my business name comes from, SGD Body & Beauty. If you think you’d like a bit of support with this, please contact us. As all these three areas, mind, body and beauty are interconnected, we love helping people get all three areas under control. We can help with products to use at home, virtual consultations, and self-care tips at home, including yoga, wellness, meditation, beauty, and nutrition.
Why Meditate?
Why meditate? What is meditation? So many times, I hear that someone can’t meditate, often because they can’t sit still, or they can’t stop thinking. Meditation doesn’t have to be about stopping your thoughts. It can be as simple as just stopping for a few moments to breathe. If you want to learn to meditate, why not check out some of our classes, or even book in for a private lesson? Did you know that meditation can also have beauty benefits as well? 1GiantMind also has a great app, if you’re looking for an app to help you meditate.
Beauty (and other) benefits of Meditation
Meditation has really been hitting the mainstream, particularly with the special times we find ourselves in now. Many people ask what meditation can do for them. We were asked recently, what are the beauty benefits of meditation? We definitely believe it can, as well as helping with your health and wellness as well. As we say all the time, stress can be responsible for a lot of things, including wrinkles, and tense muscles. As our muscles tense, and stress hormones flow, the body channels blood flow away from the skin, and to the muscles and vital organs, which is fair enough, according to the “fight and flight” mechanism. When blood flow is channeled away from the skin and hair, they may not get as much nourishment as they normally would, leading to the possibility they may start to look lack-lustre. Check out this article from Women’s Health mag if you’d like to read more on this. This “fight or flight” mechanism, and the associated stress hormones, such as cortisol can also affect our ability to loose weight, and can affect our health, so it’s well worth looking at this for these reasons alone. We’ve also discussed previously how sleep can impact your beauty routine, and your skin health. Meditation calms the mind. When the mind is calm, we usually find it easier to sleep, when our mind is not wandering over the place. As such, this also then helps with our sleep. I know from experience, when I am calm, I definitely sleep better. When we are calm, our muscles are generally more relaxed. Frowning, as we often do when we are stressed, uses more muscles than smiling. With tight muscles, we can be more prone to wrinkles as well. Skincare can only do so much to reduce wrinkles, when the wrinkles may be being caused or impacted by the tense muscles below the skin. Meditation can also help to change our point of view of many things. Episode 24 of the 1GiantMind Podcast has some interesting thoughts on this, and is well worth listening to. If we change our point of view to a more positive one, this can help reduce tension, as I’ve indicated above, and the benefits of reducing tension for the mind is just amazing. What are some of the other reasons meditation helps us stay healthy and look better? We’d love to hear from you in the comments. Also, if you’re struggling currently with some of the restrictions happening in Australia, I’d love to help you with this. We’re offering a free 3 day learn to meditate course starting on 11 August, 2020. Bookings are open on our events page.