The fridge of a healthy person.
(See all those bags? There's veggies in 'em.)
(See all those bags? There's veggies in 'em.)
Today was a much better day... started the day off on the right foot, journaling, praying, reading (just re-started Mark Nepo's "The Book of Awakening", which I cherish and highly recommend!)
Funny how doing these things makes a huge difference as to what kind of day I have. That's certainly an experiment I don't need to keep repeating in my "Life Lab"... but I do. Days that aren't started like this go a bit bumpier, for sure. Like yesterday, for example... but let's not go there.
This afternoon, I brought my Cleanse grocery list to Sunflower Market and shopped til I dropped. Had to ask for help repeatedly, felt a bit out of my comfort zone around the plethora of things I have no knowledge or experience with... all those 'weird healthy things that healthy people eat...' but I must say, I rather enjoyed shopping like a healthy person.
A tool I recommend to my coaching clients all the time is one I've used myself. Several years ago, when I was trying to change and shift out of some old, destructive patterns, I couldn't seem to get past 'who I'd always been'. So I would start each day writing at the top of my daily planner: "Today I make choices based on who I want to be, rather than who I've always been." Day after day, I did this. And day after day, I made choices, some big and some small, as if I was already the person I wanted to become. And guess what? I became that person.
Because change happens only when we finally decide to let go of who we've always been. Change happens when we stop talking about being and start ACTING like the person we want to be. Change happens choice by choice. One good choice at a time.
Fill in the blanks as it pertains to your life and change you are wanting to create:
When I make choices, day after day, like someone who is ____ , eventually I will BE someone who is _____.
It's where the rubber meets the road, I suppose. And here I am again, making changes based on who I want to be (this time, a healthy person) rather than who I've been (a less than healthy person.)
So today I shopped like a healthy person. I drank lots of water, like a healthy person. I made a delicious pot of vegetable soup, like a healthy person. I ate three cups of it like a person who still has to learn portion control. But... still, I feel good about my choices. It wasn't cheese. It wasn't cookies. It was delicious veggie soup, loaded with cabbage, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, green beans and cilantro.
Because someone who eats healthy is loving herself well.
In a world where 'cheap and easy' rules, and eating well ain't always easy, or cheap... I'm finding that my choices are actually declarations:
YES, I AM WORTH CHOPPING VEGETABLES FOR.
YES I am worth 50 cents more for a bag of organic carrots.
YES I am worth hydrating for...
The truth is revealing itself.
Perhaps the missing key, all along, has been quite simply, a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth. Mmmm... I'm gonna read that again to myself, real slow and silky-like...
a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth.
And isn't a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth SACRED and SEXY?
(It's sure sexier than a hangover. Or wearing only elastic stretch pants cuz all of my jeans have 'shrunk' while hanging in the closet. Or pressing the snooze button for two and a half hours...)
Maybe I'm finally catching on.
Transparently yours,
Lisa Carmen
Funny how doing these things makes a huge difference as to what kind of day I have. That's certainly an experiment I don't need to keep repeating in my "Life Lab"... but I do. Days that aren't started like this go a bit bumpier, for sure. Like yesterday, for example... but let's not go there.
This afternoon, I brought my Cleanse grocery list to Sunflower Market and shopped til I dropped. Had to ask for help repeatedly, felt a bit out of my comfort zone around the plethora of things I have no knowledge or experience with... all those 'weird healthy things that healthy people eat...' but I must say, I rather enjoyed shopping like a healthy person.
A tool I recommend to my coaching clients all the time is one I've used myself. Several years ago, when I was trying to change and shift out of some old, destructive patterns, I couldn't seem to get past 'who I'd always been'. So I would start each day writing at the top of my daily planner: "Today I make choices based on who I want to be, rather than who I've always been." Day after day, I did this. And day after day, I made choices, some big and some small, as if I was already the person I wanted to become. And guess what? I became that person.
Because change happens only when we finally decide to let go of who we've always been. Change happens when we stop talking about being and start ACTING like the person we want to be. Change happens choice by choice. One good choice at a time.
Fill in the blanks as it pertains to your life and change you are wanting to create:
When I make choices, day after day, like someone who is ____ , eventually I will BE someone who is _____.
It's where the rubber meets the road, I suppose. And here I am again, making changes based on who I want to be (this time, a healthy person) rather than who I've been (a less than healthy person.)
So today I shopped like a healthy person. I drank lots of water, like a healthy person. I made a delicious pot of vegetable soup, like a healthy person. I ate three cups of it like a person who still has to learn portion control. But... still, I feel good about my choices. It wasn't cheese. It wasn't cookies. It was delicious veggie soup, loaded with cabbage, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, green beans and cilantro.
Because someone who eats healthy is loving herself well.
In a world where 'cheap and easy' rules, and eating well ain't always easy, or cheap... I'm finding that my choices are actually declarations:
YES, I AM WORTH CHOPPING VEGETABLES FOR.
YES I am worth 50 cents more for a bag of organic carrots.
YES I am worth hydrating for...
The truth is revealing itself.
Perhaps the missing key, all along, has been quite simply, a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth. Mmmm... I'm gonna read that again to myself, real slow and silky-like...
a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth.
And isn't a radical, wild and luscious sense of self-worth SACRED and SEXY?
(It's sure sexier than a hangover. Or wearing only elastic stretch pants cuz all of my jeans have 'shrunk' while hanging in the closet. Or pressing the snooze button for two and a half hours...)
Maybe I'm finally catching on.
Transparently yours,
Lisa Carmen
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