North Star Mental Fitness

Children's Anxiety Following an Accident

Children's anxiety can be significantly reduced in play.  Parents, grandparents and friends can play with children and reduce children's anxiety at the same time.

Recently, one of my daughters and two of my granddaughters were in a car accident.  Fortunately, no one was hurt.

When I found out about the accident, I immediately recalled a similar accident I had with my son.

Mental Fitness and Childhood

Dad and Mental Fitness may seem like a strange combination.  To me they are intimately connected.  My Dad taught me me a lot about life, love, giving, and success

I was raised after the great depression.  As a child I experienced the victory at the end of World War II.  I recall the rationing of gas, food stamps, and no or limited food in stores.

Above all, I remember what my Dad taught me about life and success.   

Choose Thin

Taming urges for eating forbidden foods is a struggle. Remember when you committed to becoming thin and you lost weight. Recall how good you felt with your new body image and outlook on life.

 

Although you enjoyed your thinness, eating right was still a struggle. You liked your weight loss, but the gorgeous sights and enticing aromas of your favorite foods, the forbidden foods, were

beginning to fill your mind. Besides, eating the right foods was becoming a chore.

 

The more you denied yourself of the stuff you really wanted, the more you seemed to want it.

What did you do? Did you eat the forbidden foods or did you eat the right food?

 

Denise Wakeman has a wonderfully human, website, Slim People in Progress, for people who want to be healthy and slim

 

In one of her postings, Denise asked for strategies to reduce this struggle. I gave her this suggestion.

 

Imagine, your desired, forbidden foods with their tantalizing aromas and delicious appearances in front of you. Now visualize yourself taking two steps towards the tempting foods. Stop and turn around. Now you are no longer looking at the desired foods and the attractive foods are no longer in your sight.

 

Now visualize yourself walking towards the thin you. You want the benefits from being thin. Fill yourself with the benefits from being thin. Immerse yourself in your thinness. Notice your energy, the lightness in your step, and the ease of your movements. Enjoy what you see in the mirror. Realize your improved health. Feel your emotional well-being. Claim your happiness and peace of mind. You are free.

 

Take the time and make a compelling and satisfying list of benefits for being thin. You can only have these benefits if you are thin.

 

Now, the struggle is no longer between eating and not eating forbidden foods. You will never make the choice to not eat forbidden foods.

 

Now, you will choose to eat the forbidden foods or you will choose to enjoy and keep your thinness and the benefits from being thin.

 

I have written about this strategy, The Turn Around Choice, and why it works in my two e-books I live Within the Environment Created by My Choices and The North Star Mental Fitness Program. Please visit, Nirth Star Institute, Inc., my website for your mental fitness needs.

Remember, You Live in the Environment Created by Your Choices!

 

Dr. Hal

Live and Mental Fitness Coach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Permanent Weight Loss

Keep weight-loss!  It is possible to lose weight and not gain it back.  There is nothing more discouraging than to lose weight and gain it back.

Have you have experienced the joy of victory, when you have lost weight?

Have you experienced the agony of gaining back your weight loss?

Do you want to lose weight and not gain it back? 

Parental Anxiety

I felt the gut-wrenching anxiety only a parent would know in regard to his or her child. The anxiety you just can't escape.  It's in your body and mind.  You can't sleep.  It is with you all the time.

When parenting and anxiety come together, the age of the child does not matter.  Even when children become adults and self-sufficient, the anxiety does not recede.

Accepting Frustration

Frustrations are inevitable and often times unexpected.  I am in the process of moving my office.  Obviously, there are numerous frustrations associated with this undertaking.  However, I never anticipated the additional frustrations associated with having to change my website.

I now have a new website www.Northstarmentalfitness.com.  I no longer will be blogging at Northstarmentalfitnessblog.com.  Changing my website was not anticipated and has created tremendous frustrations.

Is Mental Fitness for You?

Take Care of You.  Take Control of Your Life.  Think to Be Strong.  Think to Be Stronger Than Your Problems.  Organize and Empower Your Mind with Mental Fitness Strategies.

Life is full of changes, risks, disappointments and challenges.  Mental fitness training can help you find the strength, clarity of thought and confidence to successfully take care of yourself, even during difficult times.

The goal of mental fitness is to make you strong enough to achieve your goals and solve your problems.  The goal of mental fitness is much larger than solving specific problems.  You can be stronger than your problems.  You will find peace of mind and solutions for any and all of your problems by increasing your mental fitness.

At North Star Mental Fitness we believe everyone can improve their mental fitness.  We can all improve our mental fitness by concentrating and making our thinking more organized, efficient and powerful.

Just ask us how!

You can have the tools to turn your past failures and disappointments into successes by applying mental fitness strategies from the North Star Mental Fitness Program and the e-book, I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices.

Remember, You Live within the Mind, Body and Environment Created by Your Choices!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

 

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Jobs on Choices

What made Stephen Jobs so successful?  One of Mr. Job's friends, Dr. Dean Ornish, shared the answer.  There is no doubt that Mr. Jobs knew the secret of mental fitness and success.  The secret of Mr. Job's success is

The Freedom Choice

THE FREEDOM CHOICE

I WANT FREEDOM FROM “THE WAY THINGS ARE”,

SO I WILL MAKE A NEW OR DIFFERENT CHOICE!

 

In situations that enslave and limit you, you can say to yourself,

“I WANT FREEDOM FROM MY PAST”.

“I WANT FREEDOM FROM THIS”.

“I WANT FREEDOM TO BE”.

“I WANT FREEDOM TO HAVE”.

“I WANT FREEDOM FROM THE WAY THINGS ARE”.

After making one of those powerful declarations make a new choice. Your new
or different choice may be a thought, feeling, behavior or activity.

As often as possible during a day refresh and energize your mind by finishing the
thought: “I WANT FREEDOM FROM” or “I WANT FREEDOM TO.”

As THE FREEDOM CHOICE becomes more meaningful to you, you will become aware that you create your environment with your choices. Once THE FREEDOM CHOICE becomes a regular part of your experience, there will be new meaning to the statement:

I LIVE WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENT CREATED BY MY CHOICES.

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach

The Freedom Choice is one of the tools for recreating your life from my companion books, The North Star Mental Fitness Program and I Live within the Environment Created by My Choices.

Stretch Your Mind

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions".

This wonderful quotation was made by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The essence of mental fitness is expressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes' quotation. In order to grow our mind and have a healthy, strong minds, we need to find new ways to think or new ideas to expand our comfort zone.

Isn't it comforting and exciting to know that once we really stretch our minds with a new idea, our minds never regain its original dimension . New ideas challenge the tyranny of our past and usual way of thinking about ourselves and our lives.

New ideas can refresh and remodel our lives. We need to add new ideas into our minds so we can turn our failures into successes or turn our weaknesses into strengths.

Remember, We Live within the Environment Created by Our Thoughts!

Dr. Hal

Life and Mental Fitness Coach