Happy New Year for 2011.
Below is an exert from my book
"Radiant You, 10 Steps to transforming your mind, body and spirit in 30 days".
This is a book on change. It covers Mindset, Food and Gratitude Practices.
I thought it might be fun for the New Year as my gift to you to offer the "mindset, or goal setting portion of the book for free so you can get a taste of the work I offer..
1) Mind
Step 3) Goal Setting:
iii) Creating Your Vision Board:
This is such a fun exercise and one that allows you to dream and envision the life that you do want.
Tip: This is a private exercise for you!! It is not designed to be shared with ANYONE, unless YOU want to..This process holds the seeds to YOUR DREAMS.
Keep your completed vison board where only you can see it and activate it on a daily basis saying
"This or something better now manifests for me, Thank you".
Here is a step by step guide to creating your own vision board. It will take you about one hour to complete.
Items needed:
One square piece of cardboard 3 x 3 feet,, 1 metre square is perfect, although, any size will work.You can also use a cork board if you feel you may want to move the pictures around in time.(The square shape allows you to set new intentions for manifesting.)
scissors
Magazine selection suitable to cut up.
Glue stick
Coloured marker pens / Paint / Glitter
Copy of a favorite picture of yourself.
Your Vision
About an hour, more time is better, don't rush this process..
How do I make a Vision Board?
We are going to make this Vision Board using Feng Shui Principles. Feng Shui is a centuries old Chinese practice of energy and its flow. It allows for placement of certain items to create a harmonious outcome in life and your environment.This includes powerful Law of Attraction principles.
Basic Guidelines for making your Vision Board:
Important: make sure you will not be interupted..take the phone off the hook, make sure that you will not be disturbed during this time..
Assemble all the items under "Items needed" section above.
Cardboard Sheet 3x3 feet or 1 metre sqaure in dimension.
Light a white candle. This action is symbolic of bringing the sacred into this process. It also supports your actions and sets your intention of creation. It also is symbolic of the energy of birthing your vision.
In order for the Vision Board to have a structure as required by Feng Shui (the Chinese discipline of energy) you need to create a frame around the outside of the cardboard. Its best to use either the colours of black or gold.This action allows the board to create a form or structure.Draw this frame around the edges of your piece of cardboard.
In the middle of the Vision Board glue/stick a favorite photograph of yourself. This represents an act of self love. It also ensures you are the center of the YOUR world, the new world that you are creating!!
Next, either use a symbol or a picture that represents your guardian angel or Higher Self. (I use coloured stars) Place this above your picture. This addition is symbolic of being guided in the creation of your vision.
Create an "Intention" or "Theme" for your Vision Board. Print the words, using block type print below the photograph of yourself.
Select vibrant and compelling images from magazines you have selected that represent whatever it is you feel passionate about creating and place them on your vision board.Use photographs or printed words that either represent or reflect the image of what it is you would like to create. Stick these images onto the 3x 3 piece or 1 metre suare of cardboard. Once you have filled the page up with pictures or images, then move onto the next step.
End this process of creation with an affirmation. On the bottom of the page state
"This or something better now manifests for me in the divine or appropriate timing"
This allows the universe to be a part of your co-creation process.
End the creative time with an affirmation, say it outloud: "This is now in the divine flow of my life".
Finish with a gratitude statement re stating aloud what your intention for creating is.."My intention for creating is.....Thank you".
Say outloud "This or something better now manifests in divine flow of my life, Thank you"
Now put up the Vision Board in a place in your home or office where it will be private to you and activate it daily. Do this by saying outloud :
"This or something better now mainfests in divine flow of my life, Thank you".
Suggested locations to hang your vison board are in your bedroom, placed on the inside of your wardrobe door or in your office, tucked away out of sight.
This process works on both the following;
1) Your Conscious mind.
2) Your Subconscious mind.
Part of this book covers a detox program that I run on a quarterly basis each year..
This program is a different approach from any programs you may have tried before. It is NOT an diet. There is no struggle attached to this process. You will find it will be possible to eat food, not be hungry and still feel great, regain your energy levels and drop inches. This program is about healthy food options, planning your meals and it will seem easy and without struggle along with improvements to your overall wellness and all in a short amount of time...
By the ebook for a limited time only for US$20.00....http://www.detoxmadeeasynow.com
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
Becoming Superhuman in 2011
Becoming Superhuman in 2011
Written by Matt Frazier in Product Reviews .Rapid Fat-Loss. Incredible Sex. Becoming Superhuman.
Of the three promises contained in the subtitle of Tim Ferriss' new book, The 4-Hour Body (Amazon affiliate link), it's that third one that really grabbed me.
Not that rapid fat loss and incredible sex don't sound appealing; it's just that they're the same promises hucksters have made for eons. Becoming superhuman, though—that's one place not many marketers are willing to go.
If this were anyone else, I'd never believe it. But this is the same Tim Ferriss who drastically slashed his body weight to weigh in for the Chinese Kickboxing Championships and qualify for an extremely low weight class, only to put it all back on right away and win the competition by exploiting a loophole that disqualifies fighters who are pushed out of the ring three times in a bout. This, on only a few weeks of actual kickboxing training.
Given Tim's track record of doing awesome stuff and the success of his first book, The Four Hour Workweek, I don't see how anyone with the slightest interest in fitness could resist learning what Tim has done in the realm of creating rapid change in the human body.
A veritable smorgasbord of body hacks
The 4-Hour Body isn't meant to be read cover-to-cover. After a few essential introductory chapters, Tim cuts you loose to pick and choose, a la carte, what to read. ("Thinner, faster, bigger, stronger…which 150 pages will you read?" is the first line in the publisher summary. The entire book is 578 pages long.)
Here are the chapters I plowed through during my initial, oh-my-god-I-cannot-put-this-down fervor:
•The Slow-Carb Diet I: How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise
•Hacking the NFL Combine II: Running Faster
•Ultraendurance I & II: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks
•Becoming Uberman: Sleeping Less with Polyphasic Sleep
•Pre-Hab: Injury-Proofing the Body
•Effortless Superhuman: Breaking World Records with Barry Ross
•The Meatless Machine I: Reasons to Try a Plant-Based Diet for Two Weeks
•The Meatless Machine II: A 28-Day Experiment
The big point you need to understand is that Tim is an experimenter, an empiricist. He circumvents the red tape and politics of academia and goes straight to people who are getting massive, incredible results. Then he learns what they do, boils it down, and makes himself his primary subject for observation.
A few fascinating ideas
Here are just a few of the cool things in The 4-Hour Body I had never heard before that I can't wait to try:
•Tim advocates a binge day each week in which you eat whatever you want, so much that you almost make yourself sick and therefore have very few cravings for the rest of the week. He suggests certain measures to minimize fat gain on this day, such as starting the day with a high-protein, "good" meal, then employing caffeine, grapefruit, and brief muscle contractions to move the subsequent binge-food quickly through the body.
•In the ultramarathon-training section, Tim works with Brian MacKenzie from Crossfit Endurance. Brian trains most of his athletes for 100-mile races without ever having them run more than a half marathon! The idea is that you don't need much of an aerobic base to complete the distance; you simply need to strengthen your body and train your body to burn fat (aerobic) at high intensities without switching to sugar (anerobic). Lots of 400- and 800-meter repeats, along with functional lifting, make up most of the training.
•In the polyphasic sleep section, Dustin Curtis presents several plans for sleeping less through the use of several short naps throughout the day, rather than a single, long session at night. The most extreme plan uses six 20-minute naps which are almost entirely REM sleep if done correctly, but there are several intermediate plans for the less masochistic. I can't wait to try some of these.
•For maximum strength-gain with the smallest amount of effort, Tim recommends 2-to-3 rep sets of relatively heavy weight with lots of rest in between. In a typical, three-times-a-week workout, the muscles are under tension for less than five minutes!
If there's a shortcoming in the book, is that no chapter is quite long enough to really get all the information you want. Tim generally presents a sample plan for achieving the goal, but I find myself wishing that each chapter could be an entire book. However, there are tons of links for learning more at the end of each chapter, and I've found everything I've needed by following these links to go more in-depth.
What vegetarians should know about The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss isn't vegetarian, but he treats it like any other diet worth experimenting with and gauging results. He provides several case studies, one of which is that of vegan ultrarunning god Scott Jurek. (To me, the detailed listing of Scott's one-week grocery list alone makes the book worth the price.)
The main reason Tim isn't vegan, he says, is that he has found no culture that thrived on a purely plant-based diet. But it's not incompatible with any of the hacks in the book, even if access to animal products would certainly make it easier to double or triple testosterone levels for muscle building and sexual enhancement, another one of Tim's experiments in the book.
In "The Meatless Machine II: A 28-Day Experiment," exercise and nutrition coach John Berardi, PhD puts veganism through an unbaised test, not grounded in any morals but simply to judge its suitability as a diet for athletes. His conclusion is that veganism is sustainable even for those whose goal it is to gain muscle, though he warns that supplementation makes it more expensive than a diet that includes animal products. (I actually learned a lot about potential deficiencies that I wasn't previously aware of.) Berardi also makes the encouraging observation that vegans generally take the time to learn much more about their food and where it comes from than omnivores do, so that the increased effort required to eat a plant-based diet may actually be a good thing.
Superhuman in 2011
Last year around this time, I wrote a post called Two Inspiring Books for the New Year. This year, The 4-Hour Body gets that nod.
I'm sure it's not for everyone, especially those who like to play by the rules. As a big fan of fitness and diet experiments, I realize this this book is particularly suited to my tastes more than it will be for others. But if you're looking for something to shake things up, to get you out of a rut created by the same old principles you always hear about, The 4-Hour Body is it.
Also check out Tims other book...
Written by Matt Frazier in Product Reviews .Rapid Fat-Loss. Incredible Sex. Becoming Superhuman.
Of the three promises contained in the subtitle of Tim Ferriss' new book, The 4-Hour Body (Amazon affiliate link), it's that third one that really grabbed me.
Not that rapid fat loss and incredible sex don't sound appealing; it's just that they're the same promises hucksters have made for eons. Becoming superhuman, though—that's one place not many marketers are willing to go.
If this were anyone else, I'd never believe it. But this is the same Tim Ferriss who drastically slashed his body weight to weigh in for the Chinese Kickboxing Championships and qualify for an extremely low weight class, only to put it all back on right away and win the competition by exploiting a loophole that disqualifies fighters who are pushed out of the ring three times in a bout. This, on only a few weeks of actual kickboxing training.
Given Tim's track record of doing awesome stuff and the success of his first book, The Four Hour Workweek, I don't see how anyone with the slightest interest in fitness could resist learning what Tim has done in the realm of creating rapid change in the human body.
A veritable smorgasbord of body hacks
The 4-Hour Body isn't meant to be read cover-to-cover. After a few essential introductory chapters, Tim cuts you loose to pick and choose, a la carte, what to read. ("Thinner, faster, bigger, stronger…which 150 pages will you read?" is the first line in the publisher summary. The entire book is 578 pages long.)
Here are the chapters I plowed through during my initial, oh-my-god-I-cannot-put-this-down fervor:
•The Slow-Carb Diet I: How to Lose 20 Pounds in 30 Days Without Exercise
•Hacking the NFL Combine II: Running Faster
•Ultraendurance I & II: Going from 5K to 50K in 12 Weeks
•Becoming Uberman: Sleeping Less with Polyphasic Sleep
•Pre-Hab: Injury-Proofing the Body
•Effortless Superhuman: Breaking World Records with Barry Ross
•The Meatless Machine I: Reasons to Try a Plant-Based Diet for Two Weeks
•The Meatless Machine II: A 28-Day Experiment
The big point you need to understand is that Tim is an experimenter, an empiricist. He circumvents the red tape and politics of academia and goes straight to people who are getting massive, incredible results. Then he learns what they do, boils it down, and makes himself his primary subject for observation.
A few fascinating ideas
Here are just a few of the cool things in The 4-Hour Body I had never heard before that I can't wait to try:
•Tim advocates a binge day each week in which you eat whatever you want, so much that you almost make yourself sick and therefore have very few cravings for the rest of the week. He suggests certain measures to minimize fat gain on this day, such as starting the day with a high-protein, "good" meal, then employing caffeine, grapefruit, and brief muscle contractions to move the subsequent binge-food quickly through the body.
•In the ultramarathon-training section, Tim works with Brian MacKenzie from Crossfit Endurance. Brian trains most of his athletes for 100-mile races without ever having them run more than a half marathon! The idea is that you don't need much of an aerobic base to complete the distance; you simply need to strengthen your body and train your body to burn fat (aerobic) at high intensities without switching to sugar (anerobic). Lots of 400- and 800-meter repeats, along with functional lifting, make up most of the training.
•In the polyphasic sleep section, Dustin Curtis presents several plans for sleeping less through the use of several short naps throughout the day, rather than a single, long session at night. The most extreme plan uses six 20-minute naps which are almost entirely REM sleep if done correctly, but there are several intermediate plans for the less masochistic. I can't wait to try some of these.
•For maximum strength-gain with the smallest amount of effort, Tim recommends 2-to-3 rep sets of relatively heavy weight with lots of rest in between. In a typical, three-times-a-week workout, the muscles are under tension for less than five minutes!
If there's a shortcoming in the book, is that no chapter is quite long enough to really get all the information you want. Tim generally presents a sample plan for achieving the goal, but I find myself wishing that each chapter could be an entire book. However, there are tons of links for learning more at the end of each chapter, and I've found everything I've needed by following these links to go more in-depth.
What vegetarians should know about The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss isn't vegetarian, but he treats it like any other diet worth experimenting with and gauging results. He provides several case studies, one of which is that of vegan ultrarunning god Scott Jurek. (To me, the detailed listing of Scott's one-week grocery list alone makes the book worth the price.)
The main reason Tim isn't vegan, he says, is that he has found no culture that thrived on a purely plant-based diet. But it's not incompatible with any of the hacks in the book, even if access to animal products would certainly make it easier to double or triple testosterone levels for muscle building and sexual enhancement, another one of Tim's experiments in the book.
In "The Meatless Machine II: A 28-Day Experiment," exercise and nutrition coach John Berardi, PhD puts veganism through an unbaised test, not grounded in any morals but simply to judge its suitability as a diet for athletes. His conclusion is that veganism is sustainable even for those whose goal it is to gain muscle, though he warns that supplementation makes it more expensive than a diet that includes animal products. (I actually learned a lot about potential deficiencies that I wasn't previously aware of.) Berardi also makes the encouraging observation that vegans generally take the time to learn much more about their food and where it comes from than omnivores do, so that the increased effort required to eat a plant-based diet may actually be a good thing.
Superhuman in 2011
Last year around this time, I wrote a post called Two Inspiring Books for the New Year. This year, The 4-Hour Body gets that nod.
I'm sure it's not for everyone, especially those who like to play by the rules. As a big fan of fitness and diet experiments, I realize this this book is particularly suited to my tastes more than it will be for others. But if you're looking for something to shake things up, to get you out of a rut created by the same old principles you always hear about, The 4-Hour Body is it.
Also check out Tims other book...
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