Building Healthy Habits for Your Total Well Being!

Moving Upward

The New Year has arrived! How many of you have set intentions, created resolutions, and/or mapped up your plan for success? How many have you thought or verbally expressed, "My Healthy Lifestyle begins now!" .... Or, "My new beginning stars Monday!"  ???

Upon reflection of your past promises for positive change: Did things go well for a few days, a few weeks, or perhaps a month before you fell back into your old habits again? YOU ARE NOT ALONE!   Perhaps a place to begin questioning may be...Were your healthy promises made to someone else out of feeling pressured into doing so? Did your promises root from your own heart's desire to change? And/or did you vocalize your desire to change to someone for having required accountability?

Maybe you have heard the saying that it takes 21 days to change a habit. If you believe you can honestly and consistently do anything for 21 days straight, there is a high chance you will succeed at continuing it the 22nd, 23rd, 24th day, and beyond!

To begin creating and planning your Road Map for your Healthy Lifestyle and Total Well-being we must begin with a foundation. As mentioned earlier, where is the root source of change coming from? With God as our foundation, His wisdom will be light upon our feet.

With God as our foundation, we can begin our planning in light for today, tomorrow, and in confidence with light in our future!
The next step in creating your Road Map is evaluating your Priorities to create a healthy Balance. The bridge between our Foundation and our future in Balance, we must meditate on this:

"The balance of affirmation and discipline, freedom and restraint, encouragement and warning is different for each individual and season and generation, yet the absolutes of God is necessary  and trustworthy no matter whom the individual or space in time."

Inclusion with Balance and as we plan, we must remind ourselves that sometimes we require a "trial and error", process of elimination, or persistence to persevere. The commitment to oneself is the not giving up, taking one step at a time, and knowing that we all make mistakes and CAN still start over!

For Total Well-being and creating your Healthy Lifestyle I suggest you evaluate and prioritize from some or all of the following topics: God, Family, Career,  Staying Active (aerobic  & strengthening exercise), Healthy Food Choices, Relaxation/Stress Relief, Friends, etc.

This IS your Starting point and a place of reference you CAN return to always!!!! As you all may know, I am very much a visual person and love pictures! So, below I will share some tools that I have received or sought out while in the process of creating my Healthy Lifestyle choices. Also, if you desire more tools to facilitate your decision making:

- I do have some links posted under my Mission page

- Check out my previous post

- Visit my Facebook page at Celina Nicole Acosta

- Check me out on Twitter at Fitnessnspirit

- Search through my Pinterest Boards at Celina Acosta

"May you all be OPEN to Change, receive His Light, and Believe in Yourself!"

"Choose to RESPOND and not...REACT."

Choose Your Response

"Sounds wise...huh? I know it is easier said than done!" It is one of those tools in life that are just part of life's journey to practice. So, it has been quite some time since my last post...and there has been some pretty big changes in my life. The most drastic change has been the decision to put my health first, in the midst of a career of passion. Along our journey in life, it can be so easy to habitually react to the tides of change and not arrive in a healthy spot. Now, I am committed to represent what I teach. There may still be some bumps in the road, and I know either way I will realign. 

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response." (Victor Frankl)

Within our environment we receive many, and/or are impacted by many stimulus every day. It can be a chosen stimulus; in passing, pressured, or influenced. A few examples pertaining to my chosen path of healthy living and balance are: Faith, family (husband & children), friends, fitness, food, and work. As a visual learner...I share some of my own visual reminders...

Parenting within itself  is a journey that requires patience, trail & error, and resilience. And, being a teacher is a constant reminder of the value to respond and not react!

Through the many trials in my life with health obstacles, I have learned that my body requires movement and exercise for my vitality. Our mind can so easily convince us otherwise! So, take that time in your space to stop your mind and body from reacting  to fatigue or pain and get moving!

Food...well that is just another process within itself! We require food to live, and not live to eat. Food can be so pleasurable at times, and as we all know...many Americans are emotional eaters. So, let everyday be a new day and practice mindful eating. Our bodies are all different in how they respond to specific food sensitivities and we require patience, trial & error, and cleansing to learn what is best for us individually!

Where do you find yourself requiring empowerment in that space between stimulus and response? So, come with me along my journey and process to take a moment  in mindfulness before reacting...and creating a response into our healthy lifestyle!