Health Makes Money -with your Online Pilates Coach

Gone is the day of the fat cat business man puffing a stogie, wearing a the suit with a bushel basket inside. Many of today's successful are in better shape than their employees. Whether you have 400 or are home caring for loved ones, improved health builds earning potential.

So many of us stress out and put health aside when it come to work, but beware. This could be bringing less business, a lower level of output, service, or personal care to clients or students.

In James Ray's book "Harmonic Wealth" he explains how neglecting one area of your life brings the other areas down in some way. Education, Relationships, Health, Finances, and Spirituality are referred to as pillars which support your life as a whole.

Melisa Rachiele writes, "Confidence is important in personal finance. Fitness breeds confidence.... Between the short term cost of lost wages, and the long term cost of increased health care expenses, your health is your most important investment."

Sadly we talk ourselves into trade-offs from time to time. Enjoying a relationship while omitting prayer or meditation; Having a great time spending money and neglecting to keep our appointment with the treadmill. Most of us have done it. Or maybe you are considering regular fitness for the first time.

Those who have found a way to maintain these five pillars mentioned above have what most of us want. Lots of love, fun and the ability to give back. Let's beef up our mental clarity, stamina, longterm health, AND ability to earn money by looking at one of the most important things you can do: Stabilize your blood sugar 24/7.

• Begin the day with good protein.
• Eat 5 or 6 small meals including good fat, carbs, and protein.
• Learn the basic glycemic index chart (see earlier post).
• Keep good protein in your purse, car, or desk.
• Let most of your carbs be colorful and raw.
• Begin with some fat and protein when you eat out.
• Eat sweets in small portions only if you've had some healthy protein and fat first.

Did you know that when you live like this you don't need that diet club. You can toss that calorie counting book and know the feeling of being sated (the real word for feeling comfortably finished).

Let's educate ourselves: ALL the illnesses that are ravaging our heath care system are related in a some way to blood sugar. It is very simple to understand. Stable blood sugar with moderate exercise like regular pilates classes or whatever you like, will bring you to your perfect weight and blood levels before you know it.

Look out. These changes will result in improved relationships, spirituality, more money, and more feeling good.   Your thoughts are welcomed below.

Is This is Really My Body? - with Your Online Instructor

When we grow accustomed to a way of life, we begin to believe that it is our limit, that our current circumstances are as far as we will go in life experience. Even though we know there is a bigger world out there, we get in our car, drive to work, go through the day, and come home to our town and family, and begin believing that this is what our world is.

This often happens with people and their bodies. We've heard that our bodies are magnificent and excellent machines. We've seen dancers and gymnasts perform feats that leave our mouths hanging open. And of course there's all the hype around sexual pleasure that many of us feel is for someone else.

Then we get into exercising and health. We begin to feel stamina, mental clarity; we feel good. One of the best things about teaching mat pilates classes is that I get to facilitate this discovery. I get to see people smile as they feel their body do something they thought they could never do. I get to hear someone share about fitting into their clothing or crawling through the tunnels with their grandson at McDonalds.

These human joys are the result of becoming more aware of the body they have had all these years and beginning to move it well. The body level they had plateaued at for so long has become new. It may even feel odd. They may have to adjust to feeling so good!

One of my pilates students had been learning to stabilize her blood sugar and said, "I still love going out for coffee but I don't need it so I'm trying new drinks."

I often refer to the international exhibit "The Body." This excellent exhibit helps us to see our physical selves as they are. We discover ourselves under each layer of skin, connective tissue and muscle. For many, this awareness even brings unexpected, strong emotion.

Dr. Gil Hedley encourages us to discover and pay attention to our bodies, "not because it is a world you want to get lost in, or an end in itself, but because it is a way to more fully live and be."

Unity of mind and body is at the heart of our identity. Our bodies are not the "it" part of ourselves, separate from our thinking and emotions. We have plenty of science to prove the mind and body are continuously working as one. Many of us need to begin to really pull those two together. This unified approach is the basis of how we consider and care for ourselves and those around us.

Where do I start? Here are a few suggestions:

• Try to really appreciating and be grateful for all the parts of your body.
• Pay attention to your body's needs and respond to them as a loving parent to a child.
• Make the effort to stay in the moment with your body while exercising.
• Tell yourself how beautiful or handsome or perfect you are. Feel sexy, lover or not.
• Avoid discussions of illness or injury unless they focus on getting better.

Just thinking through those makes you feel pretty good, right? It only gets better.