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Turning Stress Into Strength

March 1, 2011 Fitness, YogaRhea11 Comments

With her permission, Ellie Miraftabi, MFT. Ph.D. has been gracious enough to allow me to post her article on my website. Ellie is a licensed psychotherapist and coach. Thanks for contributing, Ellie! Turning stress into Strength By: Ellie Miraftabi, MFT. Ph.D. Today I want to discuss self-care and turning stress into Strength. More psychologists recognize that self-care helps them be better caregivers. There are self-care basis –eating right, getting enough sleep and exercising regularly – and more luxurious ones. Using them all If you do just one thing, make it exercise. Psychologist’s research and clinical experience show the critical importance…

Meditation (A Running Into Reality)

January 9, 2011 Motivational, YogaRhea12 Comments

I’d like to address a common misperception I have heard from the public in their attitude towards meditation or people who meditate. This misperception is that practitioners of meditation are escapists. They meditate in order to escape reality. They escape to the mountains or to retreats in order to get away from things because they cannot handle life. This misperception is contradictory to the true meaning of meditation. To Quote Psychologist and Mindfulness Expert, Larry Cammarata, “meditation is not an escape from reality but a running into reality.” Meditation is not worrying about what we said or what other people…

How to Make Your New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2011 Fitness, MotivationalRhea1 Comment

It’s that time again when we make our New Years resolutions to shed off those extra pounds we gained from the holiday festivities. This is also the time that we decide to take better care of ourselves this year. But losing weight is not easily done on a whim. Every year, many people make the choice to lose weight in January. By March, a very small percentage stick to their resolution. It is one thing to make the choice to lose the weight, but doing it is another matter. This requires proper goal setting and planning. After all, twenty pounds…

How to Raise Your Metabolism (and keep the weight off for life)

January 2, 2011 FitnessRhea15 Comments

TweetMaking the resolution to raise your metabolism is a great idea. This lifestyle change can help keep weight off for the rest of your life. As a fitness professional, I find that the greatest mistake people make is to crash diet or lose weight without exercising. This can be disastrous to one’s metabolism. Taking extreme measures to lose weight leads to self-deprivation and ultimate failure. Self starvation puts the body into survival mode. This leads to a lowered metabolism. The body will react by storing fat and burning off muscle and bone. This is the reason why careless dieting can…

Exercise for Stress Relief

January 2, 2011 Fitness, YogaRheaLeave a comment

Tweet Exercise for Stress Relief Stress relief through exercise is not a new trend. It may seem this way with all of the mind body movements that have made their way into the industry such as yoga, pilates and tai chi. Keep in mind, however, that yoga and tai chi have been around for thousands of years. Although, incorporating mindful awareness and breath to physical activity seems new to westerners, exercise has always been a form of stress release. The mere act lifting weights requires much focus and breath work. One does not need to be consciously meditating during exercise…

Plateauing

November 30, 2010 FitnessRhea9 Comments

I mention plateaus a lot in my intense classes such as interval challenge and body blast because most of the people who take those classes are looking to change their bodies. In order to change your body, you must do things that the body is not used to. The body will make adjustments such as fat loss and muscle gain in order to adapt to the new stressor. Usually, when people work very hard to lose weight, their body changes. They also become fitter which is a positive thing as fit people have less incidences of heart disease, diabetes and…

You Inspire Me

November 30, 2010 MotivationalRhea2 Comments

This post goes out to every student and client I ever had. I appreciate your support and I have received much gratitude from you for my teachings. So I just want to let you know that you absolutely and truly inspire me to be the best that I can be. You motivate me to come in every day and make something of myself. Every time I see a mom or dad taking care of their health and being a great role model of health for their child, I am inspired. Whenever I see people work hard and change their bodies…

Why women should strength train

November 29, 2010 FitnessRhea4 Comments

“Why should I strength train? I don’t want to get big.” I hear this misconception over and over again. Many women are so fearful of increasing muscle mass that they miss out on the benefits of strength training. Some never get the results they want. How can you change the shape of your body and fight flab if you don’t strength train? We live in a society obsessed with size. Women want to be really small and men want to be really big. The awesome presence of some body builders intimidate women who want to get in shape but do…

Seven laws of success

November 29, 2010 Motivational, YogaRhea5 Comments

I was so inspired by Deepak Chopra’s Seven Law’s of Success that I broke down the laws for my students to read: Law 1: The law of Pure Potentiality: “We are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity… When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.” Practice silence: water ripples example. “In…

Empowering and Disempowering Beliefs

November 29, 2010 MotivationalRhea8 Comments

The longer I train and teach others, the more I realize how greatly our personal beliefs and attitudes affect our results. “Do you know the story of the four-minute mile? For thousands of years, people held the belief that it was impossible for a human being to run the mile in less than four minutes. But in 1954, Roger Banister broke this imposing belief barrier. He got himself to achieve the ‘impossible’ not merely by physical practice by constantly rehearsing the event in his mind, breaking through the four-minute barrier so many times with so much emotional intensity that he…

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