Kim's Fitness and Nutrition

While attending an Abraham-Hicks, Art of Allowing workshop last October, they called me to the ?hot seat.? I had raised my hand with a specific question in mind; however, I have found over the years that ?the? question is rarely, if ever, the actual question. That was the case here. As we chewed together, what came to the surface was that I had not yet fully embodied my vibrational nature. In other words, I had one foot in the world of ?reality? and one foot in the vibrational world, and frankly it was creating quite a conflict in my energy. When our energy splits, we diminish our power to create. It is very compelling to look at ?what is,? and yet often ?what is? is not what we are wanting. Herein lies the challenge. The more focused we can stay on what IS WANTED, the more rapidly the Universe can orchestrate our THAT into our reality ? even when ?what is ? is right in our faces.

I have just returned from a national fitness convention, where I attended several outstanding lectures. All of the presenters were highly qualified, often scientifically based, exceptional teachers, there to share their latest finds. One lecture particularly impacted me. A very large (500 plus participants) study conducted over a period consisting of five 8-week segments, simply astounded me. The results proved several very important points: 1) Living active lives during one?s childhood lengthens one?s life span. 2) Our bodies were undeniably designed to move, and that ?sitting? is creating dozens (maybe hundreds) of physical issues. 3) That our bodies are re-trainable at any age, period. This information was both encouraging and worrisome. It then became clear that our upcoming generations are setting themselves up for shortened lives and many physical problems. Simultaneously, out of the other side of my thoughts came how grateful I suddenly was for my mother, who basically locked us out of the house every day. If we were not doing homework or household chores, then we were expected to be outside playing. Although I didn?t know it at the time ... that was such a blessing.

When was the last time you took an afternoon off in the middle of the week? Making time to recharge and nurture yourself is every bit as important as the food choices you make and the exercise you get. Our bodies, minds and souls need all three components to be truly healthy, and even more important, to be truly happy. We are human BEINGS, but often our lives become so busy that what we really are is human DOINGS. When every minute of our day becomes a task or action toward the means to an end, we are not present in this beautiful moment, and we miss the miraculousness that is all around us.

I was trained very well as a child to be a productive member of the family, and then of society, and ultimately of my own family. The only problem with this is that in the process I had forgotten how to simply ?be.? We are not human doings, we are human beings, but many of us have forgotten this. I got the message early on that if I wanted praise, to be rewarded and treated at all special, what I had to do was chores. This was even better for me if I could somehow second guess my elders and get the chores done before they had even thought to ask me. Huge kudos for that! The end result was a child who was very helpful, well behaved, and who had learned how to please the adults she admired. Unfortunately, I lost myself in the process. As I grew into adulthood, I was on a never-ending quest for people to please in order to feel okay about myself. Not good ... not good at all. I failed over and over again to keep them happy, only to, of course, go right back out there and try again. Thankfully, somewhere around my 40s I began to wake up and finally smell my own coffee brewing.