Balance Your Life, Balance the Scale by Jennifer Tuma-Young

Author:Jennifer Tuma-Young
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

Mind-Set Purification

Our mind-set has a very powerful effect over our being. One of my favorite writers, philosophers, and teachers, Douglas Pittman, says, in his book Principles for Living on the Edge, “It is estimated that half of the content of our mind, the beliefs, the judgments, and the programs that operate our autopilot are in place by the time we are four years old . . . by the time we are eight years old as much as 80 percent of our belief systems are in place. . . . And as much as 95 percent of our daily actions are generated from this content of our mind, albeit unconsciously.”

We all have ingrained thoughts and beliefs about life, health, wellness, nutritious eating, and weight. Many are simply self-limiting beliefs. These self-limiting beliefs can easily turn into excuses that block us from finding balance and good health.

I always used to say I was just big boned and that my body couldn’t lose weight because of the way I was built. I don’t know why I thought that, but I truly believed it. When my body changed and my weight went down, I proved myself wrong. I nurtured myself, and my body responded. And I realized my bones are my bones—I’m not sure if they are big or small, but it doesn’t matter anyway!

It’s important to recognize our beliefs and then to test them to determine whether they’re true or false. If they’re true based on an indisputable fact and they are working for you in your life, stick with them. But if your beliefs are false or they have become roadblocks, you’ll need to let them go and educate yourself so you can replace them with a true, effective set of beliefs. Clinging to a belief system based on failure makes success impossible.

Once I met a woman named Nina. She told me she could never work out. I asked her why and she said she was too arthritic and she would damage her body more. She said working out was too painful and she was too old to take on the burden anyway. The more I tried to tell her working out would help her, the more she resisted my advice. “It’s not an excuse, Jennifer! It’s true. I can’t do it.” Rather than arguing the point, I encouraged her to just open her mind, to educate herself about arthritis and natural ways to relieve the pain, and to let me know what she learned.

Nina called me the very next day. She said she wanted to try working out. She’d read several articles online about how resistance training could help her, and when she called her doctor to ask his advice, he encouraged her too. Within weeks she felt more flexible and experienced a lot less pain in her joints.

I take a no-excuses approach with my clients. It doesn’t mean we can’t have valid reasons not to do something, but we must recognize what they are in order to educate ourselves and make the plan to overcome them.

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