Energize Yourself This Holiday Season!
We’re here again. Another new holiday season promises party food, extreme calorific drinks, sinful desserts, and a to-do list that’s already a mile long. And, it’s only just Thanksgiving around the corner! The challenge is to get to 2025 without feeling depleted.
HOW TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE:
Control your Day in Your Morning
Don’t Let Dehydration Zap Your Energy
Create an Autopilot Eating Plan
Are your schedule and to-do list scary? Two things you can do to get the most out of your day include a healthy breakfast and an early-rising morning walk. (If the walk is out, a few minutes set aside for exercise are good.)
I like an early walk because I feel that the exposure to the early-morning sun really helps. I like getting my Vitamin D fix early in the day.
SET YOUR BREAKFAST UP FOR STEADY ENERGY THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY. Include protein, healthy fat and carbs.
My preferred breakfast includes muesli topped with a protein powder and applesauce.
I pour 1 serving of Bob’s Red Mill Muesli in a bowl. I add 1 scoop of Collagen peptides from Woodstock Apothecary (in Woodstock, NY) and 1 serving of Musselman’s Unsweetened Applesauce which I get at my local Hannaford’s Grocery store.
This breakfast is nutritious, delicious, and the easiest meal I’ve found. There is nothing to heat up, nothing to chop, and nothing to cook.
If you feel like you need more food, add a small container of yogurt or 4 ounces of milk.
You really can’t get anything easier than this and it is optimum nutrition. This recipe offers the most nutrition with the least amount of preparation.
This covers step 1 of my holiday success plan.
STEP 2: KEEP YOURSELF HYDRATED.
Develop hydration habits which become second nature. Drink something often throughout the day. Just because you’re not sweating doesn’t mean you don’t need the water.
People younger that me can’t keep up with my energy if they don’t keep hydrated. To avoid fatigue, begin drinking your fluids early in the day. Water is essential to your holiday to-do list success. Include teas, broths, and soups. The rule here is this: whatever works. Just keep fluids in your daily activities.
STEP 3: YOUR DIETARY AUTO-PILOT PLAN
prepare meals which are fun to eat, nourishing, and easy. Save the exciting meals and adventurous foods for parties. For everything else, stick to your easy-to-buy-and-fix favorites.
These three things should get you to to 2025 without feeling depleted.
If you can squeeze it in, schedule a Reiki or Reflexology Session just for you!
ALSO, my wish for you is that you will be able to develop new health habits which are easy to use and help you get through your days better.
Thanks for reading this article!
TWO HOLIDAY READS:
This is a fun book to read if you’re questioning your future moves.
Volume 1 is still available on ebook.
This holiday book: “Just for Gabriel” is available on both hardback and ebook.
Order them at ThurmanGreco.com or email me at thurmangreco@gmail.com.
Again – Thanks for reading the article.
What to do When Your Life Begins to Unravel Around the Edges
What bodywork does for you when your life unravels around you:
Years ago, I took a reiki class in Reston, Virginia, in Reiki Jinkei Do, taught by Gilbert Gallego. This was at a time when I was taking Reiki classes from anyone and everyone who taught one. I learned something wonderful at each class. I remember each and every class fondly.
Giving my memory one takeaway, it is this: Bodywork in general works in our best interest, supporting health and healing on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level. Reiki and Reflexology are in this mix.
I write a lot about Reflexology and Reiki because I spent the most time studying those two modalities. I teach both of them and I know the good they can do for a person.
Bodywork in general is cumulative, whatever the modality, which means that the more sessions someone has, the greater effect they will have on that body.
So far, the only modality I’ve found without contraindications is Reiki therapy. This means you can use it on anyone, anytime, anyhow, anywhere. Reiki is a soft touch on a clothed body so that it can be used in a private healing space, a bus station, airport waiting area, ICU, or accident scene.
Bodywork of all kinds have reactions. They depend on the modality, the client, the healer, and what is happening in the life of people on the day and time they receive help.
When clients receive Reflexology and/or Reiki, their reactions are different each time they receive a session. One of the reasons we don’t think about is the fact that our bodies are different each and every day.
I’m discussing this now because I’m seeing more and more people whose lives are unraveling. Stress and uncertainty over a long period of time have a way of untethering a person from those things that ground us.
There are many things you can do. The first of these is to recognize your situation for what it is.
The second is to list the things you can do. You want to know what you can choose from. The options are, possibly, many. Which ones are more realistic and which ones are less realistic?
Make your healing list. .
Be prepared to change your list several times, at least. Maybe you should be prepared to change your list more times.
What is practical?
What is affordable?
What is the option that you prefer?
Work this list through as you winnow it down to fewer and fewer options. Finally, this list will be short – possibly only 1 or 2 items.
Until you get down to the final option, there is one thing you can do now. There is one thing which will help you. It probably won’t interfere with your life.
It can change your daily life for the better.
And, what is that? BODYWORK!
There are many modalities that ground the person receiving the work. A good thing to do when the “going gets tough” is to schedule and receive regular grounding bodywork.
Your body will be grateful for the attention.
One example of this is sleep. Both Reflexology and Reiki sessions can help restore disturbed sleep patterns.
The effects of a bodywork session are often experienced immediately after a treatment. For example, a client may notice that a headache has disappeared or a frozen shoulder may has become much more mobile. Other symptoms may take three or more sessions to improve a condition or complaint.
Generally, a disorder that has been around for a long time may take a longer time to improve.
The problem with this is that we live in a society that wants instant results.
Schedule regular bodywork sessions as part of your life. These regular sessions will stimulate your body’s own healing processes over time as you have regular visits.
If you find regular sessions to be challenging, take some classes and learn to give sessions. That way, you can exchange sessions with others.
Ask a friend to join you in a learning adventure. The two of you can learn together and exchange sessions. This is self-care which is extremely important in these times.
With blogs, books, classes and sessions, I am not here to change your story. Instead, I am here to be a conduit for your own healing.
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Thurman Greco
