Hi Everyone!
Meditation is one of the best ways, that I have found for myself, as well as for many people I converse with, to calm, center and focus yourself toward a new, more controlled way of thinking, and being.
It has been a vital part, and always will be of my daily routine, as it gives the ability to think clearly, focus on what is important to me, and relax, something that 10 years ago, would have been impossible.
Many people I encounter though, have the question of how to start, where to begin, and what kind of meditation to follow.
I suggest to start with guided meditations, short in durations, as they are an easy way to get the feel for the practice while giving you the same results, in a short, quick, easy to use way.
A guided meditation, is a practice, where you listen to an audio recording of someone talking you through the process of meditation, how to relax, and how to use guided imagery to come to a deeper level of relaxation.
The website "Learning Meditation", www.learningmeditation.com is my favorite place to get people started. Pleasant guided meditations, with easy to follow instructions are what this site is filled with.
Begin simple, once a day at first, until you find a meditation you are comfortable with, just for a few moments. You can increase to twice a day, with longer meditations if you feel the need, later.
Put this time of meditation into your routine, right up there with brushing your teeth. Once you feel the benefits, you will be looking forward toward your few moments of solitude each day.
Have a great day!
Claudia Blanton
For more information on setting a healthy living routine, living with the principles of Law of Attraction, and focusing your thinking, contact me directly at
813 - 531 - 8379 or via email at claudiablanton@lycos.com for a free telephone coaching-session.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Apprechiation and Self-Love Quote
Hi Everyone!
"Are you understanding that appreciation and self-love is the most important tool that you could ever nurture, that the appreciation of others and the appreciation of yourself is the closest vibrational match to your Source energy of anything that we ever witnessed?
When you are appreciating or when you are loving or when you are acknowledging the value of something, you are in that moment a vibrational match to the Source, that is truly you.
Do not worry about where you are at any point in time. Don't take score and beat on yourself. Just make a desicion from right here where I stand, I am going to reach for the thought that feels the very best of anything I have access to, and understand, that your inner being is adoring you, always...."
Have a wonderful day!
For more information on Motivational Life Coaching, and Improving your Self Talk, contact me at 813 - 531 - 8379 or via email at claudiablanton@lycos.com
"Are you understanding that appreciation and self-love is the most important tool that you could ever nurture, that the appreciation of others and the appreciation of yourself is the closest vibrational match to your Source energy of anything that we ever witnessed?
When you are appreciating or when you are loving or when you are acknowledging the value of something, you are in that moment a vibrational match to the Source, that is truly you.
Do not worry about where you are at any point in time. Don't take score and beat on yourself. Just make a desicion from right here where I stand, I am going to reach for the thought that feels the very best of anything I have access to, and understand, that your inner being is adoring you, always...."
Have a wonderful day!
For more information on Motivational Life Coaching, and Improving your Self Talk, contact me at 813 - 531 - 8379 or via email at claudiablanton@lycos.com
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Part Two of the Dr Oz - Oprah Recap
Hi Everyone!
Real quick, and then back to motivation, here is the second part of the recap as promised from Tuesday's Oprah show about Anti-Aging:
Here are Dr. Oz Vitamin recommendations (you can check out the transcripts on Oprah.com)
1000 unites of Vitamin D per day
600 milligrams of calcium plus 200 milligrams of magnesium TOGETHER twice a day
DHA omega 3 - 600 milligrams per day
over 40 - under doctors supervision - 2 baby aspirin
Multivitamin - cut in half ( I did not know that either) - one half taken in the morning, the other half in the evening.
On Oprah. com Dr. Oz has posted a printable by age-group divided vitamin guide, so take a look at it.
This information is not meant as medical advice, therefore check with your doctor, and check out the info for yourself again on Oprah.com. I am by no means a medical professional, I am a Life Coach, who wants to point you into the direction of valid information, so you can make the best decisions for yourself.
Have a wonderful, inspired day!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Life Coach, Self-Talk Expert
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
Real quick, and then back to motivation, here is the second part of the recap as promised from Tuesday's Oprah show about Anti-Aging:
Here are Dr. Oz Vitamin recommendations (you can check out the transcripts on Oprah.com)
1000 unites of Vitamin D per day
600 milligrams of calcium plus 200 milligrams of magnesium TOGETHER twice a day
DHA omega 3 - 600 milligrams per day
over 40 - under doctors supervision - 2 baby aspirin
Multivitamin - cut in half ( I did not know that either) - one half taken in the morning, the other half in the evening.
On Oprah. com Dr. Oz has posted a printable by age-group divided vitamin guide, so take a look at it.
This information is not meant as medical advice, therefore check with your doctor, and check out the info for yourself again on Oprah.com. I am by no means a medical professional, I am a Life Coach, who wants to point you into the direction of valid information, so you can make the best decisions for yourself.
Have a wonderful, inspired day!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Life Coach, Self-Talk Expert
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
A Quick Oprah - Dr. Oz Recap - Part One
Hi Everyone!
This is going to be a quick recap of Oprah's show from yesterday, about ant-aging, and living a healthy lifestyle. (Part one)
White tea!
Again Dr. Oz stressed the importance of drinking white and green tea, but pointing toward the white teas, as they have a more powerful level of antioxidants.
I agree with the good Doctor. Drink your white tea! Available now in so many different varieties, my daughter loves the strawberry flavored one, and I am a blueberry tea person. Check them out!
Dr. Oz also mentioned spices. Here are a few to have in your cabinet at all times:
1. Cinnamon
2. Ginger
3. Cayenne Pepper
4. Turmeric - which is within cumin
5. Paprika
6. Rosemary for focus.
Now, lets get to the fiber, people!
Women need 25 grams, men need 35 grams, a day!
Remember to please add them slowly over time to your diet, to avoid digestive problems, as I have mentioned in various posts, here, on my groups, and in my articles. Slow down people!
How do you add fiber into your diet?
1. Eat 100 % Whole Grain Bread!
2. Eat beans
3. Eat fruits and veggies (don't drink them, chew)
4. Eat Whole Grain Cereal!
5. Switch to Steal Cut Oats
6. Switch to brown rice
7. Switch to whole grain pasta
Tomorrow, I will be posting the second half of info from the show, which will mainly include exercise and the recommended dosing of vitamins according to Dr. Oz.
Have a wonderful day!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
This is going to be a quick recap of Oprah's show from yesterday, about ant-aging, and living a healthy lifestyle. (Part one)
White tea!
Again Dr. Oz stressed the importance of drinking white and green tea, but pointing toward the white teas, as they have a more powerful level of antioxidants.
I agree with the good Doctor. Drink your white tea! Available now in so many different varieties, my daughter loves the strawberry flavored one, and I am a blueberry tea person. Check them out!
Dr. Oz also mentioned spices. Here are a few to have in your cabinet at all times:
1. Cinnamon
2. Ginger
3. Cayenne Pepper
4. Turmeric - which is within cumin
5. Paprika
6. Rosemary for focus.
Now, lets get to the fiber, people!
Women need 25 grams, men need 35 grams, a day!
Remember to please add them slowly over time to your diet, to avoid digestive problems, as I have mentioned in various posts, here, on my groups, and in my articles. Slow down people!
How do you add fiber into your diet?
1. Eat 100 % Whole Grain Bread!
2. Eat beans
3. Eat fruits and veggies (don't drink them, chew)
4. Eat Whole Grain Cereal!
5. Switch to Steal Cut Oats
6. Switch to brown rice
7. Switch to whole grain pasta
Tomorrow, I will be posting the second half of info from the show, which will mainly include exercise and the recommended dosing of vitamins according to Dr. Oz.
Have a wonderful day!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Play with your Food
Hi Everyone!
Sounds like a strange title for a blog.
This is an invitation to do exactly, what we were told not to do, when we were kids: Play with your food.
Okay, I am not talking about having a food fight, what I am talking about is, to get more in touch with what you are eating, by getting more in touch, literally.
Touch your food - feel the texture of the flakes of your (hopefully whole-grain) cereal. Break it, crunch it up, really examine it. You are putting this into your body, don't you think you should know, how it feels like, and what the texture is?
Become familiar with all of your foods, your lunch meat for example. Bend it pull it apart, hold it in your hands, feel it. You can find out lots of things by it's texture, like the fat-content, just by the way it feels, and looks.
When you make a cake, feel the dough, touch the flour with your hands, to break up the clumps before sifting. Can you feel a difference between whole-wheat flour, and regular cake-flour? Find out!
The purpose of this is the following:
1. Too many times we connect so many emotions to how we are eating, that we forget how it feels like to really be present with food. This exercise or game if you will, gets you back in touch with the food, and away from the emotions.
2. You should really think about what you are putting into your mouth. After all it effects you greatly. Then shouldn't you know all about it, at least all that your senses have to offer?
3. Being aware that the rules we are usually taught in childhood about food, are not because they have any merit - expect the one of not talking with your mouth full - but because they were either a convenience for our parents, or they were simply brought forth, because they were taught that way.
This gives you a chance to detach from these rules, and make up your own. After all, it is your life, not that of your family you are living, so why play by their rules still? At the same time, you are giving yourself an opportunity not to pass those rules onto another generation, who is already beginning to struggle with issues relating to food.
Think about it!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
Sounds like a strange title for a blog.
This is an invitation to do exactly, what we were told not to do, when we were kids: Play with your food.
Okay, I am not talking about having a food fight, what I am talking about is, to get more in touch with what you are eating, by getting more in touch, literally.
Touch your food - feel the texture of the flakes of your (hopefully whole-grain) cereal. Break it, crunch it up, really examine it. You are putting this into your body, don't you think you should know, how it feels like, and what the texture is?
Become familiar with all of your foods, your lunch meat for example. Bend it pull it apart, hold it in your hands, feel it. You can find out lots of things by it's texture, like the fat-content, just by the way it feels, and looks.
When you make a cake, feel the dough, touch the flour with your hands, to break up the clumps before sifting. Can you feel a difference between whole-wheat flour, and regular cake-flour? Find out!
The purpose of this is the following:
1. Too many times we connect so many emotions to how we are eating, that we forget how it feels like to really be present with food. This exercise or game if you will, gets you back in touch with the food, and away from the emotions.
2. You should really think about what you are putting into your mouth. After all it effects you greatly. Then shouldn't you know all about it, at least all that your senses have to offer?
3. Being aware that the rules we are usually taught in childhood about food, are not because they have any merit - expect the one of not talking with your mouth full - but because they were either a convenience for our parents, or they were simply brought forth, because they were taught that way.
This gives you a chance to detach from these rules, and make up your own. After all, it is your life, not that of your family you are living, so why play by their rules still? At the same time, you are giving yourself an opportunity not to pass those rules onto another generation, who is already beginning to struggle with issues relating to food.
Think about it!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
Friday, February 1, 2008
Bean and Cheese Quesadillas Recipe
Hi Everyone!
Try out this quick and easy recipe! It is delicious, fun to make, and nutritious.
You will need:
2 Small Whole-Wheat Tortillas
1/4 cup of refried beans
1/4 cup of shredded cheese (I prefer 2% mild cheddar for this dish)
substitute for a Mexican blend if you prefer
Salsa ( get your desired heat-level - I am a medium gal)
Red Chili Sauce
Spread the beans on one of the tortillas.
Place the tortilla in a nonstick pan, over medium high heat.
Top right away with cheese.
Top the whole thing with another tortilla.
When the cheese begins to melt, flip like a pancake.
Heat for about 2 more minutes, or until the cheese is melted completely.
Remove from pan, cut into wedges, and enjoy immediately, with a spoonful of salsa on the side.
You can add some spice to the refried beans, if you like it really hot! Use some red chili sauce (just a few drops) or put some jalapenos slices in the tortilla before topping it with cheese.
Enjoy!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
Try out this quick and easy recipe! It is delicious, fun to make, and nutritious.
You will need:
2 Small Whole-Wheat Tortillas
1/4 cup of refried beans
1/4 cup of shredded cheese (I prefer 2% mild cheddar for this dish)
substitute for a Mexican blend if you prefer
Salsa ( get your desired heat-level - I am a medium gal)
Red Chili Sauce
Spread the beans on one of the tortillas.
Place the tortilla in a nonstick pan, over medium high heat.
Top right away with cheese.
Top the whole thing with another tortilla.
When the cheese begins to melt, flip like a pancake.
Heat for about 2 more minutes, or until the cheese is melted completely.
Remove from pan, cut into wedges, and enjoy immediately, with a spoonful of salsa on the side.
You can add some spice to the refried beans, if you like it really hot! Use some red chili sauce (just a few drops) or put some jalapenos slices in the tortilla before topping it with cheese.
Enjoy!
Claudia Blanton
Motivational Coach, Fundraiser
813 - 531 - 8379
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
More Motivation
Hi Everyone!
If you are interested in more motivational articles, visit my blog on typepad at
http://livingpossibilities.typepad.com/motivation
Also watch out for more articles and motivational tips, as well as some discussions, at my Yahoo Group "Think Well of Food."!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkwelloffood
Join in the discussion, introduce yourself, and get more info on an active, motivated lifestyle!
Have a great day!
Claudia Blanton
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
If you are interested in more motivational articles, visit my blog on typepad at
http://livingpossibilities.typepad.com/motivation
Also watch out for more articles and motivational tips, as well as some discussions, at my Yahoo Group "Think Well of Food."!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkwelloffood
Join in the discussion, introduce yourself, and get more info on an active, motivated lifestyle!
Have a great day!
Claudia Blanton
www.create-your-life-dreams.com
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