What can you do to build resilience and improve your health and reduce weight?

We can all build our resilience and learn to bounce better and there's a lot we can do to assist ourselves and others to get through the ups and downs of our lives.  

It’s what’s happening in our lives that is having the most impact on our weight and health and the more skills we develop, the more in control our emotions we feel, which leads to feeling more empowered about the responses and behaviours we have to what’s going on. 

There are great short courses around that everyone can do. I did one back in 2009 at The Hopewell Centre on the Gold Coast called ASIST – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training. This is so you can help others but the personal value to yourself is also right there. There are actually a lot of places still providing this 2 day training and I highly recommend it. 

It’s important to build our own skills and knowledge on what to do in times of distress, whether it’s our distress or someone else’s because when the shit gets real, we all want to feel prepared. 

I'd lost 4 friends to suicide by the time I saw the ASIST course and I knew it was something important that I wanted to do. I would have done it sooner if I knew such a program existed. 

There are many things we can do for ourselves to build our mental health and well-being along with our resilience muscle. 

Here are 14 ways delightful ways you can do it:

1. Be discerning about what you fill your mind with (what you watch, read and listen to)
    
2. Check in with yourself many times a day, how and what are you feeling, do you like that feeling or not? 
   
   
3. Be upfront about how you feel, at least with yourself 
   
   
4. Talk about what you’re experiencing, it’s good to get it out and you never know what important advice will come back 
   
   
5. Allow yourself to rest, even if you’ve got a packed schedule, you can still remember to slow your thoughts down and take mirco moments through the day to reduce stimulation 
   
   
6. Find the right blend between down time and time spent planning forward to ensure you’re living your life by design not by default 
   
   
7. Get outside, we need open spaces and natural light, we need to feel in touch with our environment 
   
   
8. Develop a playfulness attitude; we need to over-ride the seriousness of life to be able to see all the beauty that is right there in front of us
   
   
9. Drop the drama and dance to at least one geeky boppy song a day, it will lift your mood like nothing else 
   
   
10. Eat lots fresh fruit and veg, choose ones with the most moisture, watermelon, oranges, zucchini, tomatoes and stay well hydrated with fresh cool water 
    
    
11. Move your body daily, whether that’s stretching, strength building, cardio, dancing, bouncing on a rebounder for 5 mins, hula hooping, doing a bit of something here and a bit there throughout the day, it all counts
     
12. Get out and walk, walking is bilateral stimulation, good for relaxing your nervous system by stimulating and balancing the left and right side of your brain 
    
    
13. Look for ways to add in more living to your life and little less working 
    
    
14. Stay forward focused and proactive 

It’s your life, it’s totally within your ability to step out of the waiting room, take the reins develop your Personal Health Leadership™ skills and find your freedom.  

Start here, just book in for a private consultation session $55.55 and let's just get it done this week because life is for living. 

An ounce of adjustment is always easier to implement than 20 pound of change™. 

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