A Chunk of Something!
Posted: September 27, 2014 Filed under: Iwannabeaskinnybitch | Tags: Candess, Candess Campbell, candesscampbell.com, cravings, eating, exercise, habit, healthy, Luke Brady, Oregon, Sisters, sugar, weight watchers, weight watchers points, wine, WW Leave a commentWhen you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.
Candess M. Campbell, 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain Through Energy Medicine
One of the easiest ways to get off track when you are changing your eating and exercising habits is to have a chunk of something get in the way. This chunk can be a work situation, a family crisis, a project, dating, or like me recently – travel!
I really enjoyed my trip to Sisters, Oregon and had a blast. I was gone for 10 days and although the food there was healthy, I also was with friends and two glasses of wine would take up a third of my points (yes I use the WW point system when I record food) for the day.
Well, one thing I found out is that as soon as I got home, my body craved to go back to eating the way I had before. I eat less food and because I am careful with sugar, I rarely have cravings.
Having my scheduled appointment with Luke Brady at the gym with was helpful. It kept my focus on my health. I don’t feel like I have been off track at all. Even in the interim while traveling, I knew I was on a path forward and so taking a little break and having wine with my friends was not an issue at all.
Focusing ahead on the goal and knowing I am in process and going to get there is helpful. Now, a week after I returned from my trip, my weight is back to where I was when I left and I am happy as can be.
This blog has also motivated me to resume my blog on my website CandessCampbell.com
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Change your Mood
Posted: January 26, 2014 Filed under: Energy Medicine DNA | Tags: alive, Candess, Candess Campbell, Change, clients, control, experience, feelings, habit, happy, heal, journal, joy, memories, mood, moody, negative, painful, past, Plath, positive, story, Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, think 5 Comments“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
When in sessions with clients, it is common they share memories and situations from the past. Memories from five, ten, twenty years ago surface as if they were happening right now. As they tell their story and express their feelings I can see the anger, fear, or sadness take over.
Healing the feelings from the past is important, but often there is the tendency to re-play the past and then the feelings don’t heal. The feelings deepen like water that flows to form a crevice in the earth.
What is great is you have control over what you think and this affects your feelings! It takes practice, but you can change this habit.
When you begin to re-play something from the past that is painful or negative. STOP. Think about what was positive about the person or experience. Write it down. This does not undo what you feel they did to you, but it does help free YOU from the past. You are in control!
Try writing about the situation from the outside looking in. Then write it again from the other person’s perspective. This can be amazing!
You can also replace the negative memory with another experience that was positive. For instance I image playful times with my friends or my experience swimming with spinner dolphins.
You have more direct control over changing your thinking than your feelings so think yourself into feeling happy, joyful and alive!
Changing Your Mood
Posted: April 30, 2012 Filed under: Energy Medicine DNA | Tags: alive, Candess, Candess M. Campbell, Change, clients, control, experience, feelings, habit, happy, heal, joy, memories, negative, painful, past, PhD, positive, story, think 1 CommentWhen in sessions with clients, it is common they share memories and situations from the past. Memories from five, ten, twenty years ago surface as if they were happening right now. I see their feelings and physiology follow their story.
Healing the feelings from the past is important, but often there is the tendency to re-play the past and then the feelings don’t heal. The feelings deepen like water that flows to form a crevice in the sand.
What’s great is that you have control over what you think and this affects your feelings! It takes practice, but you can change this habit.
When you begin to re-play something from the past that is painful or negative. STOP. Think about what was positive about the person or experience. Write it down. This does not undo what you feel they did to you, but it does help free YOU from the past. You are in control!
Try writing about the situation from the outside looking in. Then write it again from the other person’s perspective. This can be amazing!
You have more direct control over changing your thinking than your feelings, so think yourself into feeling happy, joyful and alive!