Chocolate Rum Balls!

Choc Rum Balls for a Christmas Treat! Purely for inspiration – here are some delicious Chocolate Rum Balls I made yesterday that make a yummy Christmas Treat! Not having made these babies since my early twenties I simply put together what I thought until they were the right consistency for rolling. Chocolate Rum Balls are not exactly a healthy food, but in moderation – just like anything else – there’s no reason why you cannot enjoy them. Ingredients that I used are short and sweet: Weet-bix or Vita-weet bix Condensed Milk Cocoa Powder RUM! As one family member doesn’t like

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You ARE Good Enough!

It’s been a quick year and we’re nearly to Christmas! I wanted to remind each of you that regardless of what stage you may find yourself at on your personal journey through life, always remember…. You ARE good enough! You ARE worth what you want! I believe in you.  If you don’t believe in yourself or your own worth then it’s time to conquer the fear or anger that’s stopping you before it monopolises another year of your life.  To change your life for the better, start with your THOUGHTS about your life. Your thoughts shape your experience and then

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5 Steps for Creating Change

5 Steps for Creating Change

5 Steps for Creating Change To first create change you must know what you want to be different: This is where you are… this is where you want to be. Visualisation is a powerful tool that can impact your subconscious mind when practised regularly. Take a few minutes to breathe slowly, deeply and naturally. Settle your breathing into a natural rhythm and just focus on your breathing. Once your thoughts and breathing settle, visualise your life how you want to be living it: use images, feelings and emotions. Make it as real as you can in your minds’ eye… See

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How To Be Grateful in a Challenging World

How To Be Grateful in a Challenging World

Practising Gratitude Even though Thanksgiving is an American holiday, it’s a wonderful act of gratitude that I teach my students and clients to do on a daily basis. Particularly for those struggling to shift negativity. When our attention is constantly focused on the annoying, uphappy, challenging, upsetting or just plain hard aspects of our lives, negative thoughts can consume us. This constant worry and stress can perpetuate feelings of helplessness, depression and anxiety – particularly leading towards Christmas time. In this state of mental stress and tension it’s all too easy to forget that whatever it is, it will pass in time. In

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

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

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31 Ways to Feel Beautiful

31 Ways to Feel Beautiful

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

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EASY Nutrition for Health & Weight Management

Colour Your Plate and Get Healthy! I’ve always loved chopping up fresh fruit and vegetables and creating different blends of slop in my blender! Over the weekend I decided to experiment with Kale. Here’s a pic of chopped Kale in my blender.. KALE is very high in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, and reasonably rich in calcium. A member of the cabbage and broccoli family, it contains sulforaphane (particularly when chopped or minced) – a chemical with potent anti-cancer properties. Blending is a quick and easy, nutritious way to incorporate a variety of nutrients, vitamins and minerals

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Where does your happiness come from?

Where does your happiness come from?

HAPPINESS – is it really just a never ending, elusive, undulating pursuit…?   You know those moments where you instantly move from happiness to sadness? Do you sometimes find yourself asking, Why am I so unhappy? Why can’t I just get over it and stop feeling/being like this? Could it be that happiness for you is dependent on external things? If you want things to change in your life, YOU must be the catalyst. Others’ cannot be changed; not by force or anger or resentment. No matter how much you withdraw, pout, yell or accuse, others will remain as imbedded

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How to Let Go to be Happy, Healthy and Free

How to Let Go to be Happy, Healthy and Free

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

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Maximise the POWER of your Breath!

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

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Make Your Life Happen!

TAKE HOLD OF THE MOMENT!             To experience the profound potential of happiness and fulfilment in your life, be the person you dream of being right here and now. You don’t have to wait for the right moment, time or place – create it Now! You are in the driver’s seat of your life. Be mindful, be aware. Pay attention to your beliefs, thoughts and feelings about what you want, why it’s important, and what’s keeping you from your true path on life’s journey. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel, listen to backseat drivers or

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Conscious Versus Subconscious

Did you know that Conscious thought is only 7% compared to Sub-Conscious thought being 93% ?? The conscious mind can process about 40 bits of information per second; the subconscious mind can process 40 Million bits of information per second!! We are constantly programming our subconscious minds without realising it. The conversations we have with ourselves and others, the information we expose ourselves to, our experiences, and our general way of thinking, all program the subconscious mind by default. The result can be seen in patterns in our lives. That means that no matter what you are saying, it’s more

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Self-Talk

What’s on your mind?   Have you paid much attention to your self-talk lately? When you challenge your internal dialogue you challenge your beliefs.   Is what you believe your choice? Why do you believe that to be true? Is it a belief that is relevant and true for you now according to what you value in your life? So often in our childhood we adopt the beliefs of those around us. We learn to behave in certain ways: to get what we want, please others, or stay away from conflict. As we grow, those beliefs take hold and influence

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Love Your Body, Live Your Life

Lover Your Body So You Can Finally Starting Living Your Life   Q – How do you love your body when all you can think of every spare minute of the day is what’s wrong with it? A – Start thinking what’s RIGHT with it! Think of your favourite pet: cat, dog, horse, bird…etc. If all you showed your loyal, loving pet was neglect, disappointment and resentment at looking after it, how do you think your pet would grow towards you? What do you think your pet would feel every time you showed it anger or frustration? Your body is similar to

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Recovering from Bulimia

Recovering from Bulimia

I am Recovered… In 2011 I moved house and home to be with the man I loved, and to start my own business to do what I do best – help and inspire others. Until recently I had refused taking on clients with Eating Disorders. Any close association elicited a strong urge to resist the memory of what my own existence and struggle was; I had been focusing my energy into moving forward and releasing the past. Making the decision to take my passion and put it to good use in my new community forces me to recall things I have learnt

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