Optimized Health Includes Body-Mind-Spirit by Nancy Clairmont Carr

We need to balance all areas for optimized health

So what does this mean? When we discuss health, aren’t we just talking about how our physical body feels and maybe some mental health imbalances? I think that is the norm, however that only begins to address what really drives optimized health.

Yes, all the physical health markers are important and provide a good baseline for understanding our health. To really understand how to improve it and any associated pain, we need to look at the underlying causal factors.  Everything that affects our body-mind-spirit energy system impacts our health, and everything else about our life!

We usually look at our lifestyle habits to evaluate our health- our nutrition, physical exercise, sleep, stress management and perhaps even the impact our relationships have on us. These are some of the critical factors, although not a complete list. What I have learned is that our every belief, thought, habit, food and other lifestyle choice, sleep, hydration, cleaning supply, cosmetic choice, environmental impact, color around us, as well as all past experiences affect our health. Because many of these factors are subtle and not visible to us most of the time, we don’t realize the impact they have on us. However, they work together to form our physical, financial, mental/emotional and spiritual health. Achieving optimized health is only possible when we look at all the causal factors.

Realizing that an integrated health approach is required is the first step to achieving optimized health. How do we accomplish this? We can begin by doing self–evaluation of what is not working in our life and take inventory of non-supportive beliefs and habits that keep us from our lifestyle goals. If help is needed to address the gap between where we are and where we want to be, the emerging functional medicine health approach provides many solutions. Institute for Functional Medicine > What is Functional Medicine?

Another major contributor to our imbalances is trapped emotions, which cause distortion in our energy fields.  Energy healing provides very effective tools to address these stuck emotions and rebalance the body’s total energy field. Energy medicine practices and tools help create a self- healing environment, yielding optimized health for body, mind and spirit. Traditional medicine does not tap the majority of the root cause of our health and well-being challenges, as it does not account for the synergy of our energy field and the impact each area has on  the other.

A quick example demonstrates how trapped emotions and toxins impact overall health, and normally would not be detected through allopathic or traditional medicine. A client was dealing with an ongoing cough that would not go away with normal health treatment practices. During an energy healing session we discovered several causal factors including a new virus she had acquired, toxins from the chemically treated coffee she was drinking and trapped emotions in several areas of her body. It would have been impossible to detect the trapped emotions and toxic chemicals causing distortions in her energy field, and thus complete healing would have been impossible. We recommended a non-toxic solution for the virus and cleared the trapped emotions and residual energy from the toxic, chemically treated coffee to create rapid improvement of her cough.

No matter what source of help you seek to address the gaps in your desired health and lifestyle, dealing with your total body, mind, spirit energy field is necessary to create overall balance and optimized health.

You are awesome, we appreciate you!                              

 

 

 

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformation Guide

Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

TheJoyEffect.com; 612.385.3220

Optimized Health Includes Body-Mind-Spirit

Self-Care for the 21st Century by Nancy Clairmont Carr

Self-Care or Health Care- What is Your Choice?

What comes to mind when you hear the words self-care?  Hopefully, strategies you can do for yourself that help you improve some aspect of your health and well-being. Now when you think of the words health care, does the image change?  Absolutely!

For me it conjures up an industry that is responsible for taking care of us, removing responsibility from us to make optimal choices for ourselves for long term health and vitality.  How is that working out? Is our health care system creating a healthier society?  Is it affordable or sustainable?  It doesn’t look like it.

With a $3.24 Trillion Health Care industry in 2015, (https://www.plunkettresearch.com/trends-analysis/health-care-medical-business-market/ ) and ranking 37^th in health by the World Health Organization, it’s no secret that what the US is doing isn’t working to create healthier citizens efficiently or effectively. It’s incumbent upon us as individuals to find less expensive and more effective ways to create real health and make sure we become responsible for ourselves.

Enter self-care. I view self-care as strategies that can be used by individuals to empower them to create better health and well-being by solving problems at the root level.  Or at a minimum, strategies that create more personal balance without negative side effects.  Although self-care has been growing as an industry consistently for the last 30+ years, there is always resistance from those who benefit from society not solving the core health challenges of its citizens.  Industries abound that benefit from keeping us sick, or at least not really solving the problem, which creates dependence on products, services and institutions that fall under the current health care industry $3.24 T umbrella.

As a holistic health and transformation guide, I have been using, teaching and offering self-care strategies for over 30 years.  I love it when I find people who want to help themselves to a more vital lifestyle. It is so exciting when a person makes small or large changes to their daily habits and see immediate and significant improvements in their well-bing. You see, it really is our daily choices that change the trajectory of our future health.

If you are interested in learning some of those strategies, join us this Thursday, May 12. See information in link below. In the end, the health care industry resources are limited and rationed. Those taking responsibility for themselves through self-care will enjoy a longer and more vital life.

You are awesome, I appreciate you!

 

 

 

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformation Guide
www.thejoy-effect.com

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Self-Care for the 21st Century

2016 Spiritual Goals- Are Yours Defined? by Nancy Clairmont Carr

Have You Defined Your 2016 Spiritual Goals Yet?

When most people sit down to write their next years plans and the areas in which they want to grow or improve, the three most common categories around which goals are made include health, wealth and relationships. Those are all critical areas and need to be defined and updated continuously.  I submit that spiritual goals are equally if not more important and are overarching to all other goals.

What exactly does a spiritual goal include?  I look at it as defining who you want to be, how you want to show up, identifying your highest values and then how you are going to live them.  It is not a religious definition, but more of a description of your being. It can also include practices that make you feel more alive and fulfilled.  Some specific spiritual goals could be to learn mindfulness meditation, begin a daily gratitude practice, raise  your consciousness, learn to live in the present moment. If you need some ideas for some spiritual practices that you resonate with, check out this website for a list of 60 ideas. spiritual bucket list

I was having a conversation with a friend recently who was describing how her daughter was behaving, which at that particular moment was not something to brag about.  Instead of badgering her daughter or reprimanding her, my friend simply asked her if that behavior was how she wanted to show up, what she wanted to be known for. My friend said “If it is, be that way all the time.  If it isn’t, it’s your choice, you can change it. But be who you want to be consistently.”  I thought that was brilliant!

Your spiritual goals would guide you into specific behavior and choices at every level. Assume for a moment you decided to be more accepting of others, allowing them to be who they are and being less judgmental.  This may mean you stop defining other’s success or acceptability by your standards. If you live a congruent life, this single decision will impact every area of your life. The way in which you conduct your business endeavors will follow suite, as well as your relationships, how you serve the community, how you lead your teams and family, what you set as personal development goals and strategies, what sort of role modeling you choose. Every choice you make will be inline with this single objective and can be easily measured against it.

It is not unlike what you do in business when you set your purpose, values and mission statements. Only it is much more intimate.  You alone have total control of being congruent with your spiritual goals.  There is no one else that is responsible for you, for your decisions and how you show up.  It is a powerful way to live life if you want to grow, be responsible for yourself, live on purpose and maximize your potential.

This last benefit of maximizing your potential is a wonderful result from setting spiritual goals and living by them.  If your purpose is to grow into who you were meant to become, setting these goals and incorporating them into every area of your life will be life changing and optimizing for you.  Identifying and living your most important goals, including spiritual goals, is worthy of your time at year end and in between.

For more ideas on defining and living your spiritual and other goals, let’s talk. I would love to help you explore this idea, expand it or live it out to create the lifestyle you desire.

You are awesome, I appreciate you!

 

 

 

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformational Guide

Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

www.TheJoy-Effect.com; 612.385.3220

2016 Spiritual Goals- Are Yours Defined?

Setting Intentions, Noticing the Signs by Nancy Clairmont Carr

Setting Intentions + Mindful Actions = Great Outcomes

We all have signs, signals and inner voices that help guide us, or try to.  Some of us notice and pay attention to those signs and others push them out of the way. Why should we notice them?

Good question. What difference does it make?  A big difference. You actually have the answers within you to know what is the best decision going forward in most situations.  The problem many times is not taking the time, or not getting quiet enough to listen to what your inner guidance system is telling you.  Listening to this inner voice will help you make great decisions in all areas of your life.

So how do you hear the voice or notice the signs to get your best answers? Before you can get answers you need to identify the question for which you need an answer. And this would be preceded by deciding what it is you want to do. In other words, setting intentions, or goals or expectations is your first step.  Identify exactly what you want, with as much clarity as possible.

Once setting intentions is completed, you need to pay attention to what comes your way.  It could be in the form of a person that shows up with ideas or suggestions, or the feeling you get in your gut at certain times.  It could be a book that jumps out at you in the bookstore.  Or it could even be your 6^th sense kicking in with a knowing of which direction to take, who to contact, or which activity to pursue next.  Listen to this voice and act on it. Of course, you must be open to how this can work for you.  And you need to get off autopilot to take notice of these signs and signals.

How can you create more mindfulness to notice the signs? By taking a few minutes each morning and throughout the day before each new activity to set your intention and expected outcomes.  It will help you to do only those activities that support your intentions and move you towards your goals most efficiently. It also creates a stronger awareness for hearing your inner voice and noticing the signs to get the answers and support you need.

If you have not had success with intention setting, mindfulness or noticing the signs that will help you get your best answers, I can help you with this.  I help people become more intentional and maximize their potential to create the lifestyle they want.  Call me to learn more.

 

 

 

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformation Guide

612.385.3220; Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

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Setting Intentions, Noticing the Signs

Choose Your Feelings, Create Your Future by Nancy Clairmont Carr

Choose your feelings carefully!

You can choose how you feel about any situation in the moment.

It is very empowering to know we get to choose our mindset.  If we don’t like what we are thinking or feeling, we can change it. In this moment.  In fact, it is only in the moment that we have influence over ourselves and our future.  All decisions and actions come from how we think and feel.  Our decisions in the moment create our future. And all wellbeing comes from creating positive feelings and actions. The more positive our feelings and emotions are, the easier it is to attract what we desire.  It is a choice.

How do we make those shifts from negative to positive emotions?

Gratitude is the most well known strategy.  We know that any act of gratitude creates an immediate change in how we feel.  In fact, it is nearly impossible to continue to feel negative emotions when we begin to express or feel gratitude.  If the negative feeling is deep, go deeper into the specific person, thing or event for which you are grateful.  Consider what contributed to it, how it came about, why you are grateful for it, how it contributes to your wellbeing.  The deeper you go into gratitude, the more profoundly you change your feelings from negative to positive.

Performing an act of kindness is another powerful way to shift. By focusing on serving others in any way, we remove the negative energy we have been focusing on ourselves. And doing it not for their benefit but from the place of knowing you are giving of yourself.  You can’t help but change your internal feelings, especially when you don’t expect anything in return.

Thinking about something that gives you joy and happiness is another quick way to shift inner feelings. One of the things I love to do is see my children in my minds eye, when they were babies and sleeping, playing or now at their current age living independently and successfully accomplishing their goals.  What a quick turnaround that provides!

Creating internal shifts can also be accomplished by reflecting on past successes and accomplishments.  We tend to focus on whatever is negative at the moment.  By going to recent and other past successes, we can create the feelings we had with those successes and know it’s possible to feel that again.

We have control over ourselves and our future by choosing our attitude, feelings and actions now. Our feelings determine what we attract to us so it is important to take charge of them by any one of these or other effective strategies.

If you need help with these shifts, let’s talk.  I love nothing more than to empower humans to be more, to be the best they can be in every area of their life.  It is my life’s work- to help people create the skills, feelings and actions that attract to them the lifestyle they desire.

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformational Guide

612.385.3220; Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

www.TheJoy-Effect.com

 

 

Choose Your Feelings, Create Your Future

Insomnia - you can"t really live with it! by Nancy Clairmont Carr

Insomnia can be cured!

Living with insomnia my entire college life and the first 15 years of my career has made me keenly aware of how it robs one’s quality of life. I have discovered the cure and no longer allow outside pressures and other people’s choices to bring about a cycle of sleeplessness for me.

I actually left my corporate marketing career voluntarily to create more balance in my life and figure out the insomnia thing, along with addressing a few other lifestyle choices that caused undue stress in my life.  It has been a life-altering journey.

After much reflection, several lifestyle choice changes and many courses, I turned my insomnia-free life and passion for wellness into a business 16 years ago. I can spot stress and sleeplessness in others within a nanosecond. You recognize it too.  The short temper, quick judgment, bags under the eyes, never enough time and no energy are all key signs that not much mindfulness is being practiced, and certainly not much sleep. The thing is, it is so easy to incorporate small changes that can create an intentional, stress-reduced life.  Even if you own your own business or have a big corporate job.

What it takes is a decision to not live that way anymore, to create a plan and make some changes. It doesn’t mean you have to give up your job necessarily, or change everything.  It does mean, however, that you will need to approach what you do differently. Setting clear intentions, creating boundaries, incorporating self-care practices, and valuing yourself enough to take charge of your health are absolutely required. Thinking that doctors alone will take care of you, or anyone else for that matter, no longer serves you. Taking personal responsibility for your health and life can be pretty exhilarating.  Very empowering. And can certainly cure insomnia.

There are many people whose entire focus is helping others create a more vibrant, energetic lifestyle.  Take advantage of the growth of the wellness industry and all it has to offer to create more balance in your life and yes, even better sleep. For some small-changes, big-results ideas, let’s talk.

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformational Guide

612.385.3220; www.TheJoy-Effect.com

Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

Insomnia - you can"t really live with it!

How important IS hydration? by Nancy Clairmont Carr

We forget the simple things that keep us healthy.  Like hydration.

I was visiting with my Dad recently and we were discussing his water consumption, or lack thereof.  At 89 years old, although he has done pretty well, he has habits that don’t always support his longevity and vibrant health goals. I have been asking him to increase his hydration over the last several years and for some reason, he finally did.  Going from 1 glass of water per day to 4-5, he noticed a considerable increase in energy.

Now, my dad is tough to convince of anything, but once convinced, he becomes a zealot of sorts.  He was talking to my Uncle Bud, his younger brother, and Bud mentioned how he had been feeling like death lately, no energy, lethargic and just wanted to hang out on the couch.  So my dad talked to him about increasing his hydration.  After much deliberation with Bud and a few weeks later, my dad called to tell me what happened.  Bud said his whole system changed after he started drinking more water.  He didn’t feel like death anymore, had much more energy and couldn’t believe it!  Just by drinking more water.

Increase your hydration with clean alkaline water to increase your energy!

Of course, I now walk on water in my dad’s eyes.  It is easy to be a hero with basic nutrition information.  There are many different recommendations of how much water to drink for optimal hydration, however as a Health Coach and having worked with all aspects of wellness for over 30 years, I simply ask people to drink about half their weight in ounces of water. Keep it simple!  Most elderly people and about 2/3 of Americans are dehydrated.  If you work out a lot, are on medications or are aged, increase the amount of water you drink. If you eat your 9-11 servings of water based vegetables, maybe you don’t have to drink quite as much.  However, I can tell you that you WILL feel better if you consume more clean, alkaline water. Your brain won’t shrink, your joints will be lubricated, your inflammation is reduced, you will naturally detox, your performance increases, and cognition improves, all just from increasing your hydration with great water! If you want some other great small-change, big-result ideas, let’s talk!

Nancy Clairmont Carr

Holistic Health and Transformational Guide

612.385.3220; www.TheJoy-Effect.com

Nancy@NancyClairmontCarr.com

How important IS hydration?