I'm Still Alive!!!

Hi all, sorry for the infrequent posting in the past while. Parents visited in Dublin, we packed up our lives and now we're in Dubai with ELA's Dad - on our way back to Australia... So it been (and still is) hectic to say the least... so bear with me (or is it bare with me? someone leave a comment with which one is right...) for the next week.
After that, all should be good, and back on track.
In the meantime ELA has somehow managed to put some stuff together so check in on her too.

Keep it healthy!

Think and Grow...

It's Napoleon!

Napoleon Hill's 'Think and Grow Rich' (through BookDepository.co.uk)is something that I've been getting stuck right into recently.

Each person that reads a book or watches a film is bound to take something different from it - different things will resonate with each individual. Take each of these quotes, they can and should be applied to your health. One of the most important things that you can realize is that your life is in your hands - no one else will live it for you.

Chiropractic explained

I could try to explain all about Chiropractic and the philosophy behind it... But I've found this great video that pretty much explains it all nicely instead.

In the future I'll explore different aspects of health, but chiropractic is such an important part of my own health and wellness maintenance program that really, this is already overdue!

A great quote that I heard somewhere says "Like Gravity, Chiropractic Principles Work. Whether You Believe in Them or Not."

Stress

Stresses can be categorised into three groups. Physical, Chemical and Emotional. It is our ability to react and adapt to these stresses that determines our level of health, as stresses build up in the body they have more and more effect on the body - often to levels that the body will start to deteriorate and/or change the way it functions in order to ensure short-term survival.

Although the chance of short-term survival is increased, if the stress is allowed to continue, the body then has to deal with a chronic stress - changing the way it works more significantly.

Just Quickly...

ELA just posted this, I think it's appropriate for this day and age where we are all about the quick fix and shirking any responsibility for our own health... have a quick look...

Health - 101

Health is not just something to think about when it fails, it's not even what most people are doing now - that's just survival!

Health is really thriving, your body functioning as well as it possibly can - physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.

Napoleon Hill

I've just started reading Napoleon Hill's 'Think and Grow Rich' (through BookDepository.co.uk), When I first heard the title I had the same reaction as the narrator in Robin Sharma's 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' - what, some 'get rich quick' book?

Napoleon Hill from here

Indeed the idea behind it is success, but the most important thing is that it would seem that the principles can be applied to any facet of your life: Work, Relationships, Health, Wealth... what else can you think of? It can probably be applied to it.

So is it a get-rich-quick book? So far the answer is no - that would pretty much go against the principles outlined. But if applied properly it can make you rich in any and every way.

From page 38 "Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty."

Very inspirational - now, back into it!

Decreasing belly fat? Ab-solutely! Article Review

While thinking about how I REALLY need to get back into a gym soon - no, that's not me in the picture... I stumbled upon this article  (I've started doing most of my thinking online now - it's a part of the high-information diet [geeze I've gotta go on a low-info diet!] - I know that doesn't make sense, but it will in a week or so) by Michael Geary called 'My Top 55 Lean-Body Foods to Build Muscle and Lose Body Fat'.

Biomega Bikes

Biomega 'MN'

Obviously exercise is a massive part of a healthy life-style... and speaking of style, Biomega and Puma are giving us plenty of ways to exercise in style!

Biomega have decided to reinvent the wheel with the 'Copnehagen' and 'Bamboo' (after the jump) by changing the way the bike works - no cogs and chain, instead you have a crank-shaft... pretty clever... and when I had a play with one in the store, pretty quiet too!

Biomega 'MN'

Happy Anniversary

Dear ELA,
How happy I am that we met.
How happy I am that we got married two years ago.
Love you kitty!

Enough now, lets not make the nice people sick...

Happy Birthday Mother-in-Law!

Happy Birthday you!
Mother of ELA...

A Day in the Park

 

With all of my spare time, I've decided to reassess where I'm at. Where best to do that than laying on the grass in the park?

For the next month or so I'm still living in Dublin, so there are no better parks than St. Stephen's Green and Phoenix Park - the largest enclosed park in Europe (so I'm told).
Perhaps tomorrow I'll visit Merrion Square...

BUT while laying there, I realised that I was catching up on something
that I'd been lacking quite a lot of...

Any guesses?

Fear Setting

Hectic week at work, with the end result of me quitting! What a relief!

It was a case of me standing up for what I believe in and realizing that my work was causing me too much emotional stress - in the past two months I lost between two and three kilo's in weight. That puts me under my normal weight - and I don't like that!

Thanks to 'The 4-Hour Work Week' by Timothy Ferriss (through BookDepository.co.uk), and a technique that he calls 'fear setting' (define the absolute worst case scenario, is it really that bad? Are there actions that you could take to get things back on track? On a scale of 1-10, what is the highest possible lasting negative impact it could have on your life? If we're honest, probably only 3 or 4 - On the other hand, What are the positives that could come out of following through on this hypothetical action? On a scale of 1-10, what is the possible lasting impact it could have? Possibly up to 8? Even 9 or 10?).

So, now that I'm done with that, I get to recover and recuperate. Time for some more research and putting the good word out there about our healthy lifestyle alternatives - One-on-One is great, but I think I'll be able to make more of a difference with getting more information out in the public realm for you all to think about.

If there's anything in particular that you'd like me to look into - just drop me a line! I'll get onto it!

Great Sources of Info

Before I start with all of the real info-ing, here is a great source of health information:
Dr. Mercola: an MD bringing new research to all about many different topics
Full of loads research and products that can really help!
Dr. James Chestnut DC: a chiropractor that has dedicated countless hours towards researching and reviewing the academic literature to bring scientific validation of chiropractic principles to those who scoff at pro-active health care principles.
Dr. Jennifer Barham-Floreani: an Australian chiropractor and author of 'Well Adjusted Babies', the book is an exceptional guide to pregnancy and parenting - an absolute must read for couples considering children right through to grand parents.
Patrick Holford: Author of '100% Health', promoting the principles of 'food as medicine', prevention being the best cure, and also advocating a pro-active approach to looking after health, another must read.

First post... Again

It's late on a Friday night, the end of a long week and still one more full day of work to go... It's a good thing that I LOVE what I do!

Because I'm passionate about pro-active health-care I'm going to do what I can to help everyone be a little more aware of the choices we face and how to make the most of the body you have - if we're all going to grow old, we may as well be able to enjoy it right???

Stay tuned!

Healthy as an Ox

Coming soon to a blog near you!