CB's Attention: Obesity on the rise GLOBALLY ?!?!?!

Today I was busy doing some industry catch up. Part of staying relevant in my profession! At the back of my head, I should be more aware of the bigger picture but when you in a delivery role, you do tend to get lost in the detail of it and not see the bigger picture. That has been a sore point for me workwise, been lost in detail and losing touch with the bigger picture but that is for another time and space!

So I was busy reading about the key trends in the apparel and footwear segment in the consumer goods industry. To my surprise, I saw a trend that allowed for a whole bullet point all on its own in the research material.

Growing obesity is causing the increase of plus sizes for clothing in the industry segment.

I just got to thinking where is this balance between loving yourself authentically and making excuses for just being fat????? Where is the line between saying I am the fuller figure and I love it versus I know I am sedating pain, being lazy or filling a void using food!

I believe Oprah helped me discover that I to was a comfort / unconscious eater. It definitely explains my fondess to smoking (craving the same as hunger) and food! When I am gaining weight these days, I know something is off or I am denying knowing and working on something within me. It was also on Oprah that I watched a series they did with overweight teens and the big take away for me was to see how much pain they all were in! That was the bottom line. All this pain being sedated by food!

Some facts I found from the World Health Organisation:

FACTS ABOUT OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY

WHO’s latest projections indicate that globally in 2005:

• approximately 1.6 billion adults (age 15+) were overweight;
  
• at least 400 million adults were obese.

WHO further projects that by 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese.

At least 20 million children under the age of 5 years are overweight globally in 2005.

Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings.

I am left wondering if there is really that much pain in the world that is being drowned out by food or that much emptiness that needs filling? Practically, is it merely just being caught up with a fast life with so many choices that the easiest, quickest and most available is the way to go without any consideration for the nutritional value!

Then add in the idea of the balance between allowing versus denying yourself pleasure. The mere mention of this phrase implies that you at least have the love thing going right on the inside. If that is all in place, the eating naturally takes care of itself!

At this point, all I am left with is if obesity is on the rise like it is, I pray that my kids and their kids (ok even broader than that)!

I pray that somehow we find a way to empower our younger generations with sound coping mechanisms and the wisdom to find truth and not be afraid to deal with it!

That is what is rambling in my mind as I refresh my industry knowledge!!!!!!! Till next time!!!!

Goals! Bullsh1t?

I would like to thank the Universe for taking me into this thinking loop as well as Angela for putting me on the spot from our last coaching session, you had me questioning my goals at the end of it all ;-)!

So I am now in this loop of Inspired Action vs Motivated Action. This theme has become rather strong within me so I going on the notion that it needs a space to be expressed. As I was going about my business getting ready to get to work today, this notion of:

"Setting Goals for oneself is such Bullsh1t!!!!!!!!!"

was spinning in my mind!

We live in a society where being goal orientated is the name of the game to success. It is working towards some tangible end point and thus we are motivated to work, push, go beyond our limits to reach this tangible end point. Now for me, it has been an empty experience of late. My promotion, my past relationships, my material achievements, even my obvious weight loss!!!!!

I would be thinking that all that accomplishment would have me smiling and saying YEAH BABY, BRING IT ON! But actually not, I am feeling "Oh well, if I can do this without even much hard work, just imagine what I can accomplish when I actually do!" And then comes the work to motivate for a tangible consequence and so the vicious cycle begins!

So we at this point! Let's start giving a F#$#K and moving towards inspired action! So it demanded further unpacking and when I dig a bit deeper, I come to the following notion!

It is really all about the feeling at the end of the day!

What is it that we want to feel and vibrate with at the end of the day? Because once we tune into that, goals for me is surpassed by livin the dream!

I have found lately, that when I am living and caught up in that feeling of bliss, content, gratitude and love, goals are the furthest thing from my mind and heart. Living the moment, trusting that all is safe and ok, and enjoying what is in front of me is the name of the game. Positive consequence is all a by-product and not even part of the mind & heart equation!

Goals for me at this point are too practical and scream get motivated to get a consequence or avoid a consequence! And yeah, I can believe how good some us have become at it. Our professions, society, media, close relationships, family etc. There is some element that leads us to set goals and motivate ourselves to achieve them!

I am sorry but I am looking for magic and burning on pure passion / love / source energy!!!!!!!!!!! There is a magic, a world of possibilities, no constraints, an open heart and being limitless! That is the space I believe we should be living and operating in, or at least a NORMAL day for me!!!!!!!!!

So for now, my jury is out on that! I know deep down for sure there is a balance between the magic and goals way of livin! Interested to know if there is some input out there on your take of goals vs livin the dream?

I am very interested to hear / read...................................................................

Till next time! Mwah!

Inspiration vs Motivation! Which side of the scale do we sit?

So I received the most interesting concept in my inbox today that really resonated with me. It was on the notion of what goes on inside us when we have inspiration versus motivation driving our actions. And I believe if we all dug a little deeper we would know that there is such a difference in what we manifest, create or deliver when we inspired as opposed to motivated.

So the bottom line:

Inspiration = It is very much like the sun. Lights and burns regardless. Its mission is to burn brightly and light up!

Motivation = Knowing a consequence and telling yourself I will do it or I won't do it but I am driven by the consequence rather than the action itself!

I wonder if we all took the time to see where our hearts and minds resonate (inspired living versus motivated living) and see the reality in our lives, I am sure it leaves us with some questions of where is the LOVE in what we do?

When I look at my life and see what inspired action has brought me, I am truly amazed and grateful for my inner light that was given a space to shine brightly despite doubt, fear, cynicism and the what-ifs. I see how all those actions have come into place to make my life the wonder and richness in some areas and the lack of it in some areas.

So I begin to see what this law of attraction means for us. We get still, breathe, open up to the inner wisdom and inner light that is gifted to us all. With trust and faith, we receive the inspiration and then as the definition of genius requires, we take action and work at it!

So my intention for myself and all of you is the following:

May your mind and heart be open to see possibilities in every situation effortlessly!

(borrowed from my mirror affirmation collection)

Figure out where you sit today, think back to when inspiration guided you and the result. Pray and affirm for a way to find your link back to your inspiration! Then get prepared for courageous action taking!

Practicality I am seeing how my breathe work is strengthening my link to my inspirational light. I am seeing how my spiritual work with my spiritual group and coach is helping me put context to my divine messages. By seeking truth and wisdom, it is being created within my life. I see this in my daily life at work, my blog and blogs that have come to me to follow and from various sources.

With love go forth and take inspired action..........................xoxo

I am finding a way to let you in.................

I honestly feel like I am having a "tea party" lately. Around my table are the following guests:

• Love with all her beauty, grace and wisdom


• Fear with all his irrational, highly absorbing, distracting manner


• Love's cousins who are peace, trust and self belief (all beautiful ladies really!!)


• Fear's cousins who are doubt, self sabotage and unworthiness

It has been an interesting journey that it is now becoming evident to me. I am finally finding a way to let greatness, goodness and self belief into my heart to join my tea party. It is a huge step where before I left them knocking at my door and refused to answer. Now I have opened the door and invited them in.

And now I see how I am playing nervous host seeing how they interact with my very close and dear friend FEAR and his cronies!

So this is where I am finding the source of my anxiety of late. Having found a way to attract and let in Love and her cousins and now having to deal with the new found dynamic I see unfolding at the "tea party" in my heart! It is all fascinating, a roll coaster ride and one where I am always faced with a choice!

Gravitate to Love or Gravitate to Fear! Who do I align with? The answer seems easy doesn't it? Then why the struggle?

I do see progress though which does make me excited and know that the bricks to bliss are being laid for me to one day live in my home of love! Fear and I have been together for soooooo long that I do feel battered wife syndrome with him. Somehow I do feel we belong together, well at least that was what I felt!

But there is a slow and interesting change brewing. I am seeing the cracks between my relationship with fear. When events happened in my life and presented themselves to me on a silver platter waiting for me to take action and enjoy the rapture, I have moved from a feeling of hopelessness in some instances to a person of anger.

To me this such a step up as I find anger a bit more positive than absolute depression and hopelessness on the emotional scale. It does mean that I am beginning to see and unpack what it means to have love, self belief, security and trust resonate and be real within my heart. So this is progress and this is scary and also exciting.

I am seeing how it is coming through, flowing like no big deal to the Universe and how all this beauty and greatness is being laid in front of my door. All I have to do now is open the door and let them in and enjoy the tea party. Apparently from what I have read and been exposed to, life is meant to be that simple! Letting greatness, bliss and love in your door to have a blast at the tea party in your heart!

In work, play and my bliss path, there are opportunities coming in. I have the greatest opportunity now laid before me for work, I have attracted a good man with good intentions, I have created an amazing house that makes me feel like I am home and safe, I have the greatest friends that love me no matter what, I have a family that supports and loves me without much effort and I go from strength to strength in my life!

An yet despite all this goodness and all this love I have physical evidence of, I find myself doubting and wondering when the other shoe will drop! When my long time companion fear, will play his trump card and I will then quickly and without question move to his side to continue our relationship. Before it was a feeling hopelessness, now it is just frustration/anger! This good because that can be worked on in terms of action ;-)

So yes, I am happy deep down to now looking to find a way to let Love and her cousins in! Now the fun begins with the dynamic at the tea party in my heart!

Let's see how this unfolds! Till next time! Mwah!

Halo! The sequel!

So I was really inspired to sit in silence and breathe after my "Breathe Workshop" last weekend. The sentiment I loved from that workshop was stripping off your ego, silencing the mind, and dropping shackles to make room for your GREAT, your TRUTH and your inner ROCK STAR to vibrate and exist within you. You being all connected and one with it. I am seeing how this is allowing my inner light to burn brightly!

So this week I have been smiling a whole lot but also realised something HUGE...................

MotherF#$#er have we all been programmed! We are really weighed down with dominant thoughts that do not serve us, silent tapes/scenarios that play in our heads that cripple us, buried beliefs (hidden in some snug place) yielding its influence on us and us not even knowing! This is what I love about life, relationships and the experiences we have in our lives. That inner discomfort, negative emotion is really a gift to us who believe in transmuting that emotion to its opposite. The road to our BLISS!

So my first installment of Halo covered someone seeing through your bullsh1t and looking at the inner truth. With breathing, I am beginning to look at the man in the mirror with the same sentiment. Looking beyond the bullsh1t to the beauty and truth that lies beneath the skin at the core of him. And that is becoming a fascinating and exciting process where I find myself smiling more, appreciating more, being open more and cherishing the beauty that exists. To be my own angel and not depending on someone else to be the prince in shining armour is beginning to find comfort within my heart!

To be comfortable to shine my light, open up to the world and let it in, appreciating beauty in people, nature and the process of life. To look deeper and not be afraid to see and let it just be and steer away from boxing it, classifying it or judging it! With this I find myself back in a space of gratitude for the gifts that are coming my way already with just a few days of breathing and being in fullness:

• Work is becoming more interesting again and I am beginning to enjoy it. I am finding my way back to passion which means I am finding my way back to being a tremendous value creator which is very much the space I am so used to operating within. I can finally feel my way back to that space (HOME). Loving it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




• My sense of home is strong. It is safe, sacred and has love all over. I am loving how the space is becoming a rock in my life!




• I going a date with an amazing man this week! I am ok with how it unfolds and I am looking forward to knowing someone, being me and enjoying the ride. No mental drama or wondering! Just in the moment. Being me and enjoy him being him!!!!! And trusting that whatever happens next, serves me awesomely!




• Finally trusting a bit more (I believe this is the Universal tests I get to check my readiness, having faith and trusting the greater good! I believe I constantly get tested with experiences to establishing that I am progressing in this aspect!). Trusting that my greater good is served and that it all works out as it is meant to be. Took that stance on some challenges this week and boy did they work out beyond expectation. I was even pleasantly surprised and then realised how the negative banter, the negative sentiment as my first point of call was not really worth it and just created work for me to change the emotional set point around to other side of the Fear/Love spectrum!

What I have clicked is that there is work ahead of me. I am finally beginning to see my negative programming coming to light and in some instances cannot believe why I did not see it before. All that belief that can be let go if I am just brave enough to move forward without their perceived comfort! So I find myself in a very exciting place. Testing and experiencing for myself and step by step, opening paths for new programmes that serve me! What an awesome journey this is becoming!

The walls are beginning to tumble down! Loving it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breathe!

So I have heard that trusting in your greater good, that all will be unravelled and be revealed at the right time and place is something like breathing (I think that Louise L Hay was responsible for that pearl of wisdom for me). You breathe, not worrying about the next breathe, knowing that just as you exhale you will inhale again to supply your body with oxygen. So if it is your undying trust to know that your next breathe will be there to nourish and provide your oxygen needs, why is it such an issue to trust that same universal power with the rest of life's blessing and path to bliss!?!?!?!?!

But I guess it is about the first step. That step of trusting and saying here I am uncertain, not sure WTF will happen, scared sh1tless of something I do not fully understand!

But here I am and now I decide to lay down the above burden of worry, stress and figuring out how! Here I am trusting, having faith and moving forward with strength.

I attended a breathe workshop yesterday and I finally understood the bliss of being in the NOW! You know where no past or future was in that space, just me , my breathe and simply being! I finally could allow the comfort of knowing, calm, peace and bliss to wrap around me gently and hold me sweetly while I simply just allowed myself to BE!

I will admit that I was not blown away completely by the event but more taken on a path where I would like to explore more. There is something to be understood about breaking the EGO down and shaking off the shackles of what the EGO drapes on our being to not allow for our TRUTH to shine brightly!

And that was the magic for me from yesterday, the path to my TRUTH! That gets me very excited as I delve into this deeper and explore, discover and be my TRUTH!

I know from this experience that I need to pursue the "HUG OF LIFE". But that will be explained in another post when I understand that TRUTH a bit deeper!

But this has been my Saturday, a day with Crazeebee minus the EGO for a while and simply being with no agenda, responsibilities, no need for anything just simply BEING! Amen!