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Use Stress To Create a Happier, Better You … Learn to Grow With IT!
By Monique K. Chambers
Is life throwing you curve balls left and right, like never before? Causing you to question who you are and where you are going and whether you'll even make it there? During stressful times the mind can play endless tricks on you, so it is up to you to become more aware of how you are thinking. Allowing yourself to think negatively about your circumstances can be lethal and detrimental not only for your health but for your overall circumstance and can also stunt your spiritual growth.
Dealing with stress can be both painful and exhausting, although it doesn't have to be. You have to deal with it head on, face your deepest darkest fears and failures and utilize these challenges as a catalyst for your growth and expansion as a human being. You can start by learning to respond differently than you have in the past. Begin to learn to welcome the challenge and change the way in which you think about struggle, limitations, and stop resisting. Life is a journey as cliché as it may sound, and that journey wasn't meant to be a struggle it was meant to be effortless and enjoyable. The moment you find yourself not enjoying life anymore, stop and take a closer look at your true heart's desires and what you are in fact grateful for having up to this point. Gratitude is a great stress reducer. What you give most of your thought to brings more of the same into your life. So spend as much time as possible focusing on positive and wonderful occurrences in your life, especially during difficult times, and it will help reduce your stress and transform the stressful situation in your life.
Life can be full of twists and turns, and those very same twists and turns are meant to get you looking deeper within yourself, trust more in your true self and allow who you were meant to be to shine through. Once you let go and allow yourself to truly shine without fear, doubt or resistance, life begins to roll out freely and you begin to have fun again. The work is sometimes more than you have energy for and that's partly what keeps you where you are, but it's time to use new tactics and trust yourself again. Don't be so hard on yourself, because where you are is where you are supposed to be in order to get to where you want to go.
Healthy living means lifestyle changes; including a renewed way of thinking about your overall way of being. Go with the true flow of life without resistance and you will find what it is you seek. Happiness, health and prosperity are always with you, you just have to be brave enough to grow with it.
Five powerful insights on dealing with stress in your life:
1. Exercising gives you a place to move the energy around so that it doesn't sit dormant and have no place to go. Take a walk, hit the gym, do yoga.
2. Meditating creating quiet time to yourself helps you to regenerate clarity to find your path again, when you feel you've lost your way. Keeping your self in the present moment is extremely important, so that you can grow and move through the toughest of times.
3. Deep Breathing inhale and exhale slowly and deeply through the nose. Focusing on your breath alone can bring calmness and peace of mind. This can be done all throughout your day.
4. Eat Healthfully what you eat can have a great deal to do with how you feel. So be good to yourself and take the stress off your digestive system by eating quality, natural, leafy foods easy for the body to digest.
5. Laugh Often No matter the cause of your stress, laughter reduces stress. Fake it until you make it. I'm sure you have more to smile about than cry about. Besides its contagious, spread the joy.
Monique K. Chambers is founder and CEO of Mind Body Spirit Fitness. An active certified personal trainer, Pilates/Yoga Teacher and Lifestyle Coach. Contact her at 323.304.4130 or info@mindbodyspiritfitness.org
TO PEEL OR NOT TO PEEL
If you had a choice, would you apply harsh, damaging chemicals to your skin, or would you choose to apply a soothing, collagen stimulating therapy to enhance you skin's appearance? At Dermatique Medical Center in Westlake Village we offer three different "today's peels" to help rejuvenate your skin with no downtime.
Our Pomegranate Peel is specially designed for Epidermal Leveling to help lavish your skin with antioxidants to prevent free radical damage and support the life span of healthy cells. This peel works to even out the top layers of the skin and mildly stimulate collagen. Great for hyperpigmentation, Fitzpatrick (all), environmental/sun damage.
Our Purity Peel is an intense formulation designed to penetrate oil to correct skin conditions such as acne and enlarged pores. The unique blend of acids in Purity Peel clears the skin of blemishes and heals acne lesions, reduces inflammation and exfoliates the skin to reveal a glowing, dewy complexion. For acne (all grades), oily skin, enlarged pores, control of sebaceous activity, Fitzpatrick (all types), hyperpigmentation
Our Benefit Peel is a "peel" for everyone regardless of skin type or skin condition. This powerful antioxidant peel delivers vital nutrients into the skin layers that matter and has the calming, healing benefits of vitamin C. Repairs, nourishes and protects. The Benefit Peel is great for cosmetic acne, sensitive skin, rosacea, photodamage, Fitzpatrick (all).
For more information or to book a free consultation to see which peel is best for you, call Dermatique Medical Center
for Advanced Skincare at
805-230-1111.
La Barre Skin Nutrition at Spa 415 Beverly Hills
By Rita Cook
When you visit Lisa La Barre these days you will find that her latest digs are at the popular Beverly Hills address Spa 415. But, while she might have a new space her work is still the same: highlighting anti-aging from the inside and out.
La Barre touts the fact that her company's true claim to fame is and always will be her pioneering efforts, as a CN, ESTI, and certified nutritionist and esthetician, creating her own brand of wellness, which indeed keeps her customers coming back for more.
For example, when customers come into for facials she also discusses nutrition with them, achieving a combination that "works synergistically for the ultimate war against aging."
The goal overall of La Barre Skin Nutrition is to promote skin health and overall anti-aging by treating vitamin and mineral deficiencies on the inside to proper facial treatment on the outside.
While the buzz words for La Barre's facials might be "where the wrinkles are ironed out," she has actually spent years creating just the right nutrition and advanced beauty techniques to nurture the skin and slow the aging process.
La Barre's most popular facials include the Youth Glow Facial, which includes a highly sophisticated device that not only significantly plumps the skin, but has the incredible ability to actually push extra skin rejuvenating vitamins and minerals directly into the skin.
"The Youth Glow Enzyme Mask and Electric Current Collagen Stimulator offers skin polishing, pore refining gentle extractions and a calming mask all prior to an application of a violet ray to stimulate circulation and collagen," La Barre explains, discussing the treatment. "This is generally done in a series and over time the skin begins to look more hydrated, plumper and with a youthful glow. Almost 15 years experience in skin analysis has led me to visually diagnose skin vitamin and mineral deficiencies on the inside to the proper facial treatments for the outside."
The Red Light Facial is another popular option for clients with the ability to "depuff" the skin, rebalance any skin type and stimulate collagen. Another facial La Barre touts, the Ultimate Anti-Aging Service - a customized triple treat service utilizing a proven dual approach from the inside to the outside to battle wrinkles effectively - results are more refined pores and collagen stimulation.
"Clients are realizing more and more that what you put in your body reflects in your skin," La Barre explains. "Your skin is one of the first organs to show nutrient deficiencies. The body would rather not waste the little nutrients it is actually able to absorb with the skin and would rather allocate it to the more important organs that sustain life. The biggest realization my clients have is that they may be eating "healthy," but their digestion may be out of whack and therefore they are not able to absorb the nutrients correctly. Digestion is a biggy for skin. My treatments encompass the whole person and with my being virtually the only nutritionist that is also an esthetician in Beverly Hills, I'm able to truly get to the root of the acne and aging problem. Basically, with my inside out treatments, beauty has never looked better or felt so good."
To become a licensed esthetician and certified nutritionist, La Barre completed her Bachelor's degree at Kansas State University and worked for some of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world - Johnson and Johnson, Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Then she began her nutrition consultation business, developing a unique and comprehensive nutrition and anti-aging analysis to treat her many clients' aging related issues.
Her unique style and sincere approach led her to become a writer, host and an expert consultant to the corporate world. She has written dozens of articles regarding nutrition and aging and has been recognized as a true expert in her field - even being interviewed for her celebrity beauty advice by outlets such as the Inside Hollywood celebrity show series "Celebrity Bodies."
A pioneer in combining nutrition with esthetics, her prescription for the correct nutrition, according to an individual's current constitution, can effectively treat aging and acne, and then continue that support on the outside with proper facial treatments tailored to support the foundation for complete success.
For more information and to make reservations please contact La Barre at Spa
(310) 276 - 8018
www.labarrenutrition.com
Monday through Friday by appointment only.