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Step into Your Personal Power

It would be easy to assume that excess weight is simply a result of eating too much and moving too little. It would be quite simple: eat a little less, move a little more, lose a little weight. But we aren’t simple, are we? We are complex human beings. We have feelings and emotions. We have stressors and fears. We have doubts and unknowns. Our bodies process all of these things, and for some of us, it shows up as weight gain.

In the book, “Heal Your Body,” we learn that excess weight is caused by “Oversensitivity. Often represents fear and shows a need for protection. Fear may be a cover for hidden anger and a resistance to forgive” (Hay, 1988). Notice there is no mention of food or exercise, because food and exercise are a distraction from focusing on what really matters when you want to lose weight, which is stepping into your personal power.

My definition of personal power is to live the most authentic and vibrant version of myself. While most of this is mental, emotional, and spiritual, some of it may be physical as well. When I wanted to lose weight, I was very much aware that the body I was living in was not my truest expression of myself. And I understood that I had to step into that true version of myself in order to require my body to change.Ask these questions:What would it feel like to live the most authentic and vibrant version of yourself? What would be required of you to accomplish that? How would your thoughts need to change … or your beliefs? And most important, what comes first?

Weight is symbolic. It’s not telling you that you lack willpower and that you’re lazy, it’s smarter than that. It’s telling you that you can have and deserve to have exactly the life you desire. The dream life. The one where you speak up, stand for what you want, and feel incredible joy.

Your weight is not holding you back from having everything you could possibly desire; your belief that weight is the solution is holding you back from everything you desire.

Your weight is symbolic. Let it motivate you to live an incredibly joyous life right now, and then let that joy fill you up so your body has no choice but to transform. Eliminate the need to hide, and step into the world you have been gifted, excess weight and all. Face your fear of being seen, and notice that you are truly unstoppable right now. And most of all forgive yourself for any unmet expectations. You are not a failure because your body is not thin. You simply have failed at losing weight in a way that isn’t authentic to you. And thank goodness for that.

Michelle Hastie is a weight loss coach with a background in personal training, food psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, and yoga. She has been blessed with the gift of transforming lives, one body at a time, through Total Body Health Solutions.  Hastie also helps people learn about and love their bodies through her Absolute Love Publishing books, “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less” and “The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You.” In addition, she is a contributor to “Women Will Save the World.”

“Magnetize the Masculine by Honoring the Feminine” on Love For Successful Women

Caroline A. Shearer, creator of Women Will Save the World, shares her perspective on honoring the feminine within, in “Magnetize the Masculine by Honoring the Feminine” on Love for Successful Women.

“To experience more love in our lives … we want to shift this ‘Go get ‘em’ energy to one of receptivity. Instead of trying to go after attention, we magnetize it,” she wrote.”When we step fully into the feminine, we then begin to magnetize men who are embracing their masculine sides – a perfect balance of our energies. This means not only are we attracting potential partners, but we are attracting the right kinds of partners.”

Check out the full article to see what steps you can take immediately to begin attracting your best partner, including 20 ways to celebrate your feminine!

Relaxing into Weight Loss

Most people think of stress as an unwanted feeling or experience in our bodies and lives. Yet, stress has become as common as the common cold. It is normal and accepted to respond to a simple, “Hey, how was your day” with the answer of, “Stressful.” The person will most likely give an empathetic nod and perhaps describe their day as the same.

When I was preparing for my wedding, people often asked me if I was stressed out. But I wasn’t. I refused to be. Did I have other emotions prior to planning and preparing a wedding for 100+ guests? Of course, but stressed is a word I have removed from my vocabulary, and here is why.

Stress to the body is “fight or flight.” Since most people describe commonplace events as stressful, such as work, family, daily activities, or any other obligations, the perception of stress is most likely not something you can flee from. That means you have given your body no other choice but to fight – except you can’t fight off your stressful work environment or your stressful thoughts so the body is then forced to deal with it. The results are fatigue, disease, pain, and, of course, weight gain.

When your body is busy fighting off your metaphorical bear in the woods, it is not worried about digesting food, metabolizing optimally, or burning fat. It’s storing fat in case you are running from that bear for months or years. Therefore, no matter how healthy or little you are eating, and how vigorously or consistently you are moving, your body is storing.

So you look at that scale each week while you are doing everything the experts are saying to do, and it either stays the same, or worse, moves up. What can you do about it?

It’s simple, really: relax.

Why isn’t relaxing simple for most of us? Because many of us have created a connection in our minds between relaxing and laziness. We think: If I am not doing something, I am, in turn, doing nothing. And if I am doing nothing, I am lazy. And for many of us, lazy is the thing we are most afraid of.

When your body is in a state of relaxation, it is able to heal. When your body is in a state of relaxation and healing, it burns fat and transforms. This is why fitness experts communicate the importance of rest days. When you are working out, your body needs rest days to heal and grow stronger. If you never give it that opportunity, you end up exhausted and/or injured.

If weight loss is an important goal for you, there is nothing more important than learning how to relax.

When you are eating food, relax so you can digest it optimally.

When you are going through your day, adopt relaxing thoughts about food, exercise, and your body so you can metabolize properly.

When you are living your life, balance all your “doing” with a whole lot of “being,” in order to give your body the chance to burn fat.

And if you struggle with the perception that relaxation equals laziness, it’s time to check in with that belief and ask yourself: Is this really true? Is it really serving me? And is it working?

Michelle Hastie is a weight loss coach with a background in personal training, food psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, and yoga. She has been blessed with the gift of transforming lives, one body at a time, through Total Body Health Solutions.

Hastie also helps people learn about and love their bodies through her Absolute Love Publishing books, “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less” and “The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You.” In addition, she is a contributor to “Women Will Save the World.”

Now Available for Nook! “The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You”

“The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You” now is available for Nook on B&N.com!  Whether you are an expert in chakra knowledge, totally new to learning about your body’s primary energy centers, or somewhere in between, “The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You” will impart healthful and insightful body wisdom. This min-e-book™ teaches you which body part is aligned with each of your seven main chakras and, most importantly, what that body part is trying to tell you.

“The Chakra Secret” goes the extra mile by providing readers with recipes for each chakra that are nourishing and yummy, created by Chef and Satiated Soul Coach Maria Schonder.Additional inspirational reader value found in “The Chakra Secret” is a special Foreword written by the founder of Sealed With Love Elizabeth Harper, which includes a chakra connecting exercise. Self-hypnosis meditation, affirmations, and yoga poses for each chakra also are included throughout the min-e-book™.

“The Chakra Secret provides wonderful insight on how we can take responsibility for our lives, living in choice instead of in reaction. And how we can live in balance and flow, trusting that all will be well …Throughout her min-e-book™, Michelle Hastie teaches how each energy center shares wisdom that correlates with your mental and emotional states and how that wisdom manifests in the physical body. And she explains how to tune into the chakras to find paths back to living naturally, freely and peacefully.” – Becca Chopra, Becca’s Inspirational Book Blog

“The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You” is a wonderful companion to Hastie’s “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less” and the woman-centered collaboration of “Women Will Save The World.”  Hastie is the founder of Total Body Health Solutions.

New! Audio Affirmations to Raise Your Vibration

Absolute Love Publishing is pleased to announce the release of two audios based on the Raise Your Vibration min-e-book™ series. Author Caroline A. Shearer’s voices each min-e-book™’s affirmations and then guides listeners through an exercise designed to elevate their vibration. The special audio affirmations are available exclusively through the Absolute Love Publishing store and are based on Raise Your Vibration: Tips & Tools for a High-Frequency Life and Raise Your Financial Vibration: Tips & Tools to Embrace Your Infinite Spiritual Abundance.

Raise Your Vibration Audio Affirmations

Affirm the lessons of Raise Your Vibration with this approximately 15-minute audio recording of the affirmations from the min-e-book™, as well as a White Light visualization exercise, all vocalized by author Caroline A. Shearer.

Audio will be emailed in mp3 format.

Raise Your Financial Vibration Audio Affirmations

Affirm the lessons of Raise Your Financial Vibration with this approximately 14-minute audio recording of the affirmations from the min-e-book™, as well as the Be Your Own Money Tree visualization exercise, all vocalized by author Caroline A. Shearer.

Audio will be emailed in mp3 format.

Visit the Absolute Love Publishing store to purchase the Raise Your Vibration audios!

Thankful For Strangers

Be thankful for the kindness of strangers ...   Today so many of us are wary of “strangers.” The word just sounds ominous. However, as adults with responsible senses and intuition, we generally can pick out which people are best to avoid and which we can be open to. In reality, most strangers are simply people we have not met yet, such as when a conversation is born over a mutually liked item in a store. During that conversation, you know you would really like this person if you kept chatting.

Michelle Hastie on Changing Your Body from the Inside

  Absolute Love Publishing author Michelle Hastie appeared on Love, Liberty & Lip Gloss to discuss how people can shift their thoughts on weight loss. In one of her books, The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less, Hastie said the most important part of the title is “Be More.”   She said, “The point of the book is to make people go into a place they are not comfortable with,” which is inside themselves. “Weight loss isn't going to give you anything on the inside. You have to change yourself

Philadelphia Agenda Radio with ALP Author Sarah Hackley

  Absolute Love Publishing author Sarah Hackley appeared on the Philadelphia Agenda Radio show on 98.1 WOGL to discuss her min-e-book™, “Finding Happiness with Migraines: A Do It Yourself Guide.”   With host Brad Segall and alongside public relations professional Denise Kovalevich, they discussed what it is like to suffer from chronic migraines and how to cope with migraines.   Listen to the interview.   Learn more about Finding Happiness with Migraines.

Raise Your Financial Vibration with Caroline A. Shearer

  Bestselling author and creator of Absolute Love Publishing Caroline A. Shearer discussed how to live in harmony with financial prosperity on Love Liberty & Lip Gloss with Daria DiGiovanni and Lisa Tarves. Based on her popular min-e-book™, “Raise Your Financial Vibration: Tips and Tools to Embrace Your Infinite Spiritual Abundance,” Shearer said every person is capable of living in financial abundance and that it is important to “reboot your philosophy about money” in order to live your highest

Savoring Thankfulness

I’m sitting in my neighborhood Coffee Bean this morning and thinking about the new month of November. I’m excited to practice even more mindfulness with a gratitude attitude ... I glance up from my computer, and there it is - Really?! A Christmas tree! Already?!   This one image causes me to immediately stop what I was working on and start typing a reminder as much for myself as for you: It is okay not to be rushed or pushed through the holiday season that the passing of Halloween just heralded.