The last blog entry is one that I would like all of you to go back over from time to time. I will be writing more about the subject and will be further exploring the mind/body connection as we move forward but I think it is a great start.

     The ultimate goal is to fuse together the lifestyle choices we make in our day to day with the philosophical ideas we are embracing.  That is to say, work daily on changing our internal dialogue and attitudes about our bodies while also making good choices here and now.

     We want to educate ourselves about the food we put into our bodies. Begin to make choices that are based on thought and not emotion.  So many people eat emotionally and food and body image is a hugely emotional minefield we stumble through instead of choosing a path that will carry us to the place that we want to go.

     How do we begin to turn around the issues we struggle with the most? How do we break our own habits and change our thinking and attitudes about ourselves, our bodies and the world around us? These issues are huge.  The answer is small.  Small changes. Small shifts in what you do today. How you think and talk about yourselves and others. What you choose to feed your body.  How much you decide to let your logic, your brain and your reality here and now be the ruling force in your life is your choice to make. It is my choice to make. It is a choice we are faced with  every minute of every hour.  

    We start with right now.  Over and over again we deal only with RIGHT NOW. We decide where our mind will be. What thoughts we will focus on. What we will do and not do. Try living and choosing in the present.  The other "lists" and fears and doubts that crowd into your mind, push them aside and just deal with what is "at hand".  It sounds like such a simple thing but it is something that takes a lot of practice and commitment over and over again. 

     I invite all of you to just start. Small.