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Ho’oponopono Meditation: A Way to Healing and Forgiveness

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management

Ho’oponopono.. Pronounced “hoh OH pohno pohno,” it is the ancient Hawaiian system of healing, problem solving and transformation. If you’ve been carrying around guilt, blame, regret, anger or shame… perhaps practising Ho’oponopono for forgiveness, is just what your mind, body and spirit need. In Hawaiian the word means “to make right or to rectify an error.” This may not necessarily be something literal that you have done. An “error” can also be a memory (or memories) of emotions, words, situations and behaviours that replay in your subconscious mind and feed your limiting beliefs. By practising Ho’oponopono, we are able to open our subconscious minds to

Deep Breathing for Stress Management

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management

Breathe Your Way to Relaxation Your breath is vital for your health, healing and well-being. We so often don’t even notice our own breath even though it is the reason we sustain life. want credit Below is a quote from Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of MBSR – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. He has a wonderful way of explaining your breath and why it’s so important: “Take the breath, for instance. We take it so much for granted. Unless, that is, you have a bad cold or can’t breathe. Then all of a sudden, the breath may become the only thing

Digestion, Bloating, Gas and Gut Health – New Interview!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Medicinal Nutrition, Stress Management

MindBodyFood TV! Digestion, Bloating, Gas and Gut Health: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Why is our gut health so important to health, vitality and wellbeing? In this episode of MindBodyFood TV, I talk with Linda from Zest Natural Therapies about: What can go wrong with our gut? What symptoms or problems can we experience? Which treatments or remedies can assist us in rebalancing our gut health? online payday loans ontario To find out CLICK HERE!! And look out for further interviews with a variety of professionals in the health and wellbeing fields who will

How to Manage Time For a Balanced Life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 19, 2013 / Holistic Health, Self-Care, Stress Management

For many of us, time management is a source of stress. When we have so many things to do and not enough time to do them in, it’s very easy to feel overwhelmed, lose focus and flounder. So if you’re ready to put more life and more action into your day, then get a pen and paper (or print out this newsletter) and write down this simple system. It consists of 3 basic steps. Here they are: 1. Write down all the tasks you want to get done today in order of importance. 2. Assign a specific block of

Visualisation for a happy mind, body and soul

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 31, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Visualise Your Best Self Did you know that your mind is a powerful tool in helping you create positive changes in your life? Using creative visualisation can help the subconscious mind to create real and meaningful associations with the feelings and desires of what you truly want to instil in your daily life. This paves the way for a happy mind, body and soul. wealthy Begin by imagining what you would like more of: how you will feel to have it, feel it, be it… and then spend a few minutes playing it out in your mind as if you

Get Your Body in Motion to Still Your Mind – Elemental Movement Meditation

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 5, 2012 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Fat Loss, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Sparkle & Shine, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

I’m excited!! separate monthly Recently I spent a long weekend up in Maleny (near gorgeous Montville and Mapleton on the Sunshine Coast) at a practitioners retreat: learning, sharing, brainstorming and dancing….. yes that’s right, DANCING!! It wasn’t your normal kind of dancing – it was so much more than that. Initially I thought, hmm, I’m not so sure I want to do this in front of a bunch of people I don’t know! BUT… once we began I found myself quickly forgetting about the other people struggling to find their own personal rhythm; some swaying timidly, others clearly uncomfortable and

31 Ways to Feel Beautiful

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 1, 2012 / Confidence, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Stress Management

Easy Ways to Feel Beautiful In Your Own Skin It’s more important to recognise and embrace your own beauty, than to compare and feel like you fall short. So today I thought I’d have a spontaneous stab at writing down what makes me feel beautiful… This is really making me think for a moment so I’ll take a few breaths, tune in and start slowly: I feel beautiful when I smile I feel beautiful after a few slow, deep breaths. I feel beautiful when I meditate using personal, powerful and present tense affirmations. I feel beautiful when I eat lots

How to Let Go to be Happy, Healthy and Free

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 20, 2012 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Are you afraid of change? Sometimes we hold on to unhealthy habits, memories or relationships for fear of loneliness, resentment and uncertainty. We remain stuck in limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviours. Our happiness, health and feelings are severely compromised when we remain closed and negative to life’s possibilities. mjedwards.ca/dev/me/ In these moments of internal pain, we never ask ourselves these two important questions: Is what I’m holding onto what I really, truly want? Ideally what would I rather take hold of to feel happy, healthy and free? For many years I held onto words: hurtful, horrible, hateful words that people had said to me

Maximise the POWER of your Breath!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 17, 2012 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Maximise The Power Of Your BREATH! If you’ve attended my Meditation classes, you’ll know I keep talking about the Breath and why it’s so vital for your health, healing and wellbeing. We so often don’t even notice our own breath even though it is the reason we sustain life. Below is a quote from Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, who developed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program used in medical centres and clinics around the world. He has a wonderful way of explaining your breath and why it’s so important: “Take the breath, for instance. We take it so much for granted. Unless, that

What is Your Worth?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 2, 2012 / Holistic Health, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Worth – What is yours? The underflying feelings we mere humans often experience are directly aligned to our self-worth. We have basic needs to feel secure, loved, appreciated, valued, cared and provided for. But we also have needs of challenge, excitement, anticipation, happiness, freedom, accomplishment, purpose and fulfillment. However the greatest driving force underneath all of these needs is our own view of how worthy we believe we are. Think about your own needs in life….Is there fear attached to those needs? Is that fear fuelling the belief that you aren’t deserving of what you truly desire? When you think

Breathing 101

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 6, 2012 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

BREATHING – It’s easy isn’t it? How are you feeling today? Are you tense and tight or relaxed and calm? Breathing is an automatic function which we don’t really pay much attention to. Most of the time we don’t use our full breathing potential and our bodies don’t get a full intake of oxygen, depriving us of a variety of benefits. So what’s the big deal? Breathing 101 Breathing fully, deeply and correctly increases our oxygen intake by allowing the lungs to fully expand and inhale maximum breath. This in turn feeds the cells and organs with nutrients via the

My Hungry Heart – emotional eating

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 23, 2011 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

What are you really hungry for? When I was overweight – no matter how much food I ate – the sensation of hunger was never far away. Every meal was hurried. I ate as if I was ravenous; quickly filling my belly to hide the evidence that I was a ‘pig’. I would spend most of my time during the day thinking about food while trying to avoid it. The hunger made me crave all the wrong foods… and they always somehow made me feel better. I didn’t always feel ‘well’ after eating those foods, but for a short time I didn’t feel

What is Stress?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 17, 2011 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Positive Psychology, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

TO FIGHT OR FLIGHT? How our bodies react to prolonged stress. Stress: A pesky little word that gets tossed around a great deal in modern day life. We stress about things, we feel stressed by stuff, and situations are stressful… But do you really understand stress, and more importantly, how it affects your body? To combat stress, our bodies have a built-in protection mechanism called the Fight or Flight response. Normal day to day interactions aren’t likely to cause us physical harm, so most of the time our body is (or it should be!) in a nice calm state. But,

Body-Image

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 30, 2011 / Body Image, Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Hormone Balancing, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Training, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management

When you look in the mirror, are you seeing yourself as you ARE or how you FEAR? To be a confident, self-assured and secure woman in today’s society, we’re challenged to escape the media bombardment we face at every turn: glossy magazine pages of digitally beautified models, reality TV shows with people looking anything but real, print media and radio marketing convincing you of the latest fad diet that you really need to try… Even on a good day one phrase, one word, one look can be all it takes to dent the hard won self-confidence of the woman in

Emotional Eating

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 30, 2011 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Are you thinking, breathing and fearing food 24/7…? What we think and how we feel often dictates what we eat, if we should eat and when we should eat. This may lead us to console our emotions with food we don’t really want or need but that temporarily might make us feel better. Without a healthy self-image or balanced lifestyle, this may be enough to permanently chip away at your self-confidence and further influence your emotions. In the long term, it may be enough to spark a greater issue with food and body-image, leading to disordered eating. Do you reach

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