Daily Selfseed #8 Tempo In Workout

A super easy way to challenge yourself in your workout, is to go slow with the weight training.  By slowing down, you have to use the entire range of your muscle’s range:  eccentric (lengthening under tension), isometric (holding under tension), and concentric (contraction phase.) For functional strength, flexibility, and stability, we need our muscles to…

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Daily Selfseed #6 Touching Inner Stillness

Can you have inner stillness without having outer stillness?  My experience is yes. Is it easier to find inner stillness in a quiet, safe environment?  Most likely in the beginning, but since it is an inner state, one can grow to experience it in all situations.  1:51 Daily Selfseed #6 Touching Inner Stillness HD Wonderful article…

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5 Steps to Behavior Change

  Morning walk in Jaipur, India Thank you NASM for this clear outline for the steps to behavior changes.  Sharing what I learned in the personal trainer’s course.  4:38 Selfseeds Emotions 5 Steps to Behavior Change HD 12 May 2013 15:43 Most of us are looking for ideas for motivation.  Here is one idea that applies…

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Daily Selfseed #5 Sacred Space

Stephen R. Covey Motivation is a fire from within.  If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.  2:54 Daily Selfseed #5 Sacred Space HD 17 May 2013 15:57   Do you have a sacred space that you would like to share?  Please let us know in the…

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Daily Selfseed #4b Animal Soul

Greeting a favorite “ancient” kitty at the stables Interesting that somehow I snuck Flexibility into the #4 spot for Daily Selfseeds when the animal soul is the official #4–and one of my favorites!!! Let’s hear it for the animal soul and how remarkable that touchstone is to our daily lives!!  I would love to have…

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Daily Selfseed #4 Stretching 4 Ways (Flexibility)

   5:42 Selfseeds Flexibility Stretching 4 Ways HD 12 May 2013 17:07 Picking just one stretch is a great start to planting your Selfseeds personal garden!  I like the feel of being limber, flexible, and unlimited in my range of motion. A major aspect of stretching is to support range of motion which we need to…

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Daily Selfseed #3 Nature And Your Soul

 2:08 Daily Selfseed #3 Nature and your soul HD 11 May 2013 4:57 One of my favorite videos and a few quotes too. “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau “Horses aren’t my whole life, but…

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Daily Selfseed #2 80% of Fitness Is What You Eat!

  This statistic got my attention!  The personal trainer, Kim, who I am working with to develop my personal training skills shared this fact with me. Wow!  We hear that we are what we eat and drink, but it is easy to dismiss.  Thank you for the opportunity to share this idea and the more…

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