Celebrities look great all the time. It’s their job. And they pay good money for coaches to whip them into shape. So tell me, would it be easier to meet your health and fitness goals if you had your very own personal coach by your side throughout the entire day?

Your personal health coach would be there to remind you of healthier choices, push you just enough so you can improve a little each day and kick your butt into high gear when you’re slacking.

That’s why I’m excited about my new M2 personal health coach (given to me as a Christmas gift from my thoughtful, wonderful and beautiful cousin. Thank you, Tina!).

The folks over at MyTrak have designed a health solution that fits on your hip and tracks your movement throughout the day. It’s interactive and customized, so you go online and set up your profile. After a few questions about your current state of health and your goals, you’re ready to rock and roll!

Here is a 2:48 minute video introducing the M2 personal health coach:

I registered and configured my M2 on January 15, so it’s only been about 20 days since my personal health coach has been by my side. I’m aiming for a more intense lifestyle!

Stay tuned for an upcoming M2 review post where I share my experience with it and the MyTrak online community.

What do you think of the M2 so far, Readers? Do you think it’ll help you achieve your health & fitness goals?

How do you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you are? If you want to start feeling great in 2-3 weeks, I suggest that you take an online health assessment tool by a trusted source and regard their advise!

USANA Health Sciences has a useful online health assessment tool that takes about 10 minutes to complete. I took it today and based on my current lifestyle, they recommended a variety of nutritional supplements and small changes I can start doing today to improve my life!

Good news is that I’m taking most of the supplements already. Whoo Hooo! And the suggested lifestyle changes, which I downloaded in a .pdf from the tool, will be easy to follow.

Click here to get your health assessed and allow USANA’s health experts give you some individualized advise.

If you’re ready to try USANA out for yourself, contact stephanie [at] livelighter [dot] org and I can hook you up with a trusted associate.

“PSYCH-K is a user-friendly way to rewrite the software of your mind in order to change the printout of your life.” Robert M. Williams, M.A. Originator of PSYCH-K®

Back in March, we introduced PSYCH-K as The Ultimate Self-Improvement Tool. While I stand-by the title, the weekend workshop revealed the word `self-improvement’ is misleading. The reason why has become one of my favourite features of this self-help tool.

You can find further explanation of these important features and a complete description of PSYCH-K in the originator’s own words, The Missing Piece Peace in Your Life!.

Here are the most intriguing aspects of PSYCH-K: 

1. Personal Development Differentiation. The word `improvement’ implies the need to `fix’ while `development’ denotes change. Just because we want change (a natural process) doesn’t mean our lives are broken. As Dr. Lipton deduces in The Biology of Perception, beliefs create our lives. Simple cause and effect. Put aside judgments, blame, etc. and it becomes a results-based system. Not a matter of right or wrong.
2. Kind of like conscious self-hypnosis. When you’re changing (or `balancing’) a belief, you are 100% conscious in PSYCH-K. With the help of a certified facilitator, using muscle-testing and PSYCH-K techniques, you consciously choose self-supporting beliefs and consciously `program’ them into your subconscious mind. Read the rest of this entry

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Life is fun and easy. At least, that’s what my conscious mind would like to believe. I wonder if my subconscious is on board with me on this one? Hang on, let’s see… Darn. No luck. Ok, well, that’s cool. I’ll just use PSYCH-K™ and reprogram that puppy into my subconscious right now.

It took about 4 minutes, but according to my self-muscle test, it’s in there! And thank-You because people like Emmanuel Donchin, director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Pyschophysiology at the University of Illinois, suspect that, “As much as 99 percent of cognitive activity may be nonconscious.”

So I celebrate with a little dance in my chair. You’re welcome to join in the festivities because… Yay! Life is fun and easy!

This is only a taste of what I learned and experienced this past weekend…

PSYCH-K basic workshop: a life-altering experience

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Do you tend to get in your own way of accomplishing goals and realizing your dreams, like most of us? Are you frustrated because despite all your insight, wisdom and all your hard work to be the best you possible, you keep coming up short?

That’s why I’m absolutely pumped to try this natural, non-invasive, completely holistic and ingenious method of transformation, PSYCH-K®. It’s the missing piece of the entire self-improvement puzzle!

It’s also the second half of the video lecture we shared with you 2 weeks ago in The Science of Change where we learned that beliefs alter our perception, and our perception controls behaviour, turns on genes and can even rewrite genes.

We were left with important questions, though, like how can we identify (let alone change) something as intangible as a belief? Well, believe it or not, this program promises to do just that.

Bottom line: PSYCH-K enables us to reprogram our self-limiting beliefs and upgrade our systems with self-supporting beliefs that will ultimately change our behaviour (and lives).

It’s spring cleaning for your mind!

Bonus Benefits of PSYCH-K™

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That whistle isn’t for just anybody, it’s for North America’s latest Sweetheart, the iPhone. And after reading The Health Monitor’s post, “Dr. iPhone: 20 iPhone Applications to Improve Your Health,” I can see why she’s so attractive!

This article is a must read for all you beautiful, gadget-loving people who either want/need motivation to start your New Year’s goals, or for those of you iPhone users who just want to make living a healthy lifestyle a whole lot easier.

If you’re already healthy, then this article’s for you, too! Actually, there are even a few apps that would benefit any iPhone user, like the Blood Alcohol Concentration Calculator or the iEyeExam.

If you’re not already reading the article, it lists the available health apps under categories, such as Nutrition & Weight-loss, Fitness and Wellness. The most practical of the apps listed store your medical history and emergency contact information. The most handy app might be the Pocket First Aid Guide and the coolest by far is Bob’s Sheep Counter.

I just gotta get me an iPhone!

Have you tried one of the listed apps? What did you think of it?

Last week, you walked with me through the labyrinth at Ontario’s Grail Springs in a video I shot during my healing weekend at the holistic health resort. If you don’t want to know how the labyrinth helps you solve your problems, then read no further. For those of you who would like to understand how the labyrinth works, well, let’s start off with…

Intuition

Wikipedia defines intuition as having “many related meanings, usually connected to the meaning `ability to sense or know immediately without reasoning’, and is often regarded as a divine or prophetic power, including,..” And Wiki lists them. But the one that’s most relative to our discussion is the, “understanding without apparent effort, quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences or empirical knowledge.”

It’s that gut feeling or hunch we sometimes get. It also comes in the form of “Eureka!” moments or epiphanies. Some people trust it even more than their rational mind and regularly practice methods known to strengthen it as if it were a muscle. Meditation has been known to be mind building exercise for centuries and science is finally catching up.

Meditation & Brainwaves

Tons of studies on Tibetan Buddhist monks prove that meditation activates and builds certain areas of the brain, some of which are responsible for focus and states of happiness and well-being. Some of these studies seem to suggest that consistent meditation can permanently alter a person’s brain chemistry, structure and functioning.

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There’s been a lot of hype in the news recently about the miracles of keeping a food log. Tons of stories, like the one found in Metro’s Tuesday’s article, “Start a diary, shed pounds ,” have cited findings from a recent study of nearly 1700 overweight people. It’s big news because the results show that this extremely easy-to-use, mobile and highly attentive method doubles weight loss efforts !

The authors of the study suggest that keeping a food diary give dieters the ammunition they need to triumph in their battle against the bulge. Knowing how many calories are consumed in a day and where they come from, allow dieters to create and execute a successful plan of attack.

But why do food diaries work so well?

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“In this corner… Killer Miller armed with only her rollerblades and wrist guards, a first timer to car accidents and a newbie in the steel ring! And in the other corner…a red, beat-up 1990 Mazda SE!”

Ding Ding Ding

After only 30 seconds in the first round, Steph `Killer Miller’ was down for the count. Of course, this was to be expected – no matter how tight my butt gets, there is no way I’ll win against a car!

On the other hand, being healthy and physically fit has its advantages in dealing with freak accidents like this one. Actually, I believe this incident is just another example why being healthy is worth the effort and why it’s worth the time to find the secret to making healthy living easy.

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The most rewarding aspect of being healthy is the abundant energy that it gives you to lead a full and exciting life. If you feel well in body, you’ll feel it in your mind and soul, too. With total wellness comes the ability to look into your soul and recognize what truly makes you happy, search your mind for what you want out of life and have the physical energy, courage and motivation to go get it.

My good and healthy blogger friend, Emmanuel Lopez (a.k.a. Motivatorman ), was recently compelled by his passion for chocolate . He created a phenomenal piece of video art that affected me to my core – it was so inspirational that it created a craving so deep that I just HAD to go buy chocolate within a half an hour of viewing it!

Check it out for yourself:

Emmanuel’s video art is so moving that it’s compelled me to write a blog post about the health benefits of chocolate! So stay tuned for it in the upcoming week.

So, what has your passion compelled you to do lately? Share it in the comment section!