5 Secrets to Beautiful Skin

Skin care doesn’t need to be a complex chore: It can be simple, natural and basic. Find out how to make your skin radiant, healthy, and beautiful with tried-and-true techniques.

1. Cleansing Routine: A beauty must! Cleanse your skin twice daily (only once if your skin is dry) using a mild, natural, inexpensive cleanser designed for your skin type. Add a couple of drops essential oil of rose, spearmint, or orange to your cleanser to boost its cleaning effect and aromatic quality. Cleansing your skin is especially important before going to bed, because your body excretes toxins through your skin as you sleep. If facial pores are clogged with makeup and dirt, breakouts can occur.

2. Exercise: Try to exercise outside, to help oxygenate your cells with fresh air and facilitate waste removal through your skin. Exercises such as walking, biking, in-line skating, and weight lifting improve cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance, which translates into increased energy and a rosy complexion.

3. Blissful Sleep: Being deprived of sleep will cause your skin to look sallow, dull, tired, and saggy.  Satisfactory sleep gives a youthful glow to the skin because during deep sleep, the body rests, replenishes, rejuvenates and regenerates. Face it..It’s not called beauty sleep for nothing!

4. Sunlight: Ten to 15 minutes of unprotected exposure to sunlight several times a week is essential to the health of your bones and skin. It helps your body absorb calcium, due to the skin’s ability to convert the sun’s rays into vitamin D. Sun exposure helps heal eczema, psoriasis, and acne, and energizes your body. Plus those warm rays just make you feel good all over

5. Water: What goes in must go out, and water helps move everything along. Impurities not disposed of in a timely manner via the internal organs of elimination (such as the kidneys, liver, lungs, and large intestine) will find an alternate exit, namely your skin, sometimes referred to as the “third kidney.” Pimples and rashes may develop as your body tries to unload its wastes through your skin. Eight to 12, 8-ounce glasses of pure water a day combined with a fibrous diet will help cleanse your body of toxins and keep your colon functioning as it should. Water also keeps your skin hydrated and moisturized, so drink up!

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/five-rituals-for-beautiful-skin.html#ixzz1MF7eYM5W

Less Talk.... More Intervals

HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a form of aerobics designed to strip body fat at a faster rate. It is built upon alternating short, high intensity bursts of speed with slower, recovery phases throughout a single workout

You can vary your workouts and recovery based on your goals. Four variables you can manipulate when designing your interval training program include:

Intensity (speed) of work
Duration (distance or time) of work interval
Duration of rest or recovery interval
Number of repetitions of each interval

Common Interval Training Workouts

Stair Running

Plyometrics

30-Second Sprint Drills

Boot Camp Workouts

Explosive Exercise Training

Tuck Jumps


So, what are you waiting for…… Time to start sweating....  NOW!!!!!!

Hair Talk~ More Moisture Please

Since I’ve been on this healthy journey for my mind & body, hair care has become just as important…

One thing that I am learning more and more is that our hair needs MOISTURE, just like our bodies!!!

Moisturizers are simply products that are water-based and nourish your hair deep within the strand.

Who needs moisture more…People with naturally curly hair, chemically treated, hot styling tool users or people who live in hot sunny and dry climates.

Moisturizers you want to stay away from have petroleum, mineral oil or lanolin in it. These ingredients will normally weigh your hair down and lock out essential moisture.

Here are two of my FAVORITE products....

                                               COCONUT OIL

           Neutrogena Triple Moisture~ Silk Touch Leave in

So, if you touch your hair and it feels dry & brittle… it’s probably trying to tell you……  More Moisture Please!!!!!!!

Learn more about moisturizing your hair

Easy Beauty

Be scent-sitive

The next time you stop by your favorite store, pick up some essential oils or candles.  Aromatherapy scents have been known to help relieve stress and soothe the body and mind.

Squeeze, Please

When life gives you lemons, make lemon aid….for your face. Lemons are packed with astringent and antiseptic properties that can help clear up excess perspiration and eliminate unwanted shine.

Lighten up

“Less is More” when it comes to everyday make-up.  By keeping your application light, you are able to allow your natural beauty to shine through.

Law of Attraction

 

Have you ever heard of the movie “The Secret?” If not, it’s a must see!!!

The basis of the movie is that everything on earth is made up of energy and with that energy you attract to you, what you put out!

                               The Secret = The Law of Attraction
The Law of Attraction is a Universal law, just like gravity. It is working all the time, whether you realize or believe it…

The Law of Attraction simply states, “Like Attracts Like”

It means you create your own reality. What you focus on, what you think about all day long~ Positive or Negative, is what you draw into your life!

                     Watch this powerful clip

“You are an electromagnetic being emitting a frequency. Only those things that are on the same frequency as the one you are emitting can come into your experience. Every single person, event, and circumstance in your day is telling you what frequency you are on. If your day is not going well, stop and deliberately change your frequency. If your day is going swimmingly, keep doing what you are doing." - Rhonda Byrne

Peace of Mind

                                                    “I just want peace of mind” 

                     We all have heard that before... Well, what if you could get it!!!

 It is estimated that the average person has about 15,000 thoughts per day…. Yes,  15,000!!! No wonder there is so much chaos in the world. Our minds are running on “E”.  Just as we sleep at night to rest our bodies, we must rest our minds. And Yes it is really possible to rest your mind, you just have to learn how to.

So how does one quiet their mind..… Through Meditation! 

Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to go beyond the conditioned, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. 

The benefits of meditation are endless.

Physiological benefits:

It lowers oxygen consumption.
It decreases respiratory rate
Increases exercise tolerance.
Reduces activity of viruses and emotional distress
Helps with weight loss

Psychological benefits:

Builds self-confidence
Resolve phobias & fears
Helps control own thoughts
Helps with focus & concentration
 Increase creativity
Increased emotional stability

 Spiritual benefits:

Helps keep things in perspective
Provides peace of mind, happiness
Helps you discover your purpose
Increased self-actualization.
Growing wisdom
Deeper understanding of yourself and others
Brings body, mind, spirit in harmony
Deeper Level of spiritual relaxation

It is important that you learn to put your stress, tensions and worries to the side before you fall asleep.  Meditation can help achieve this relaxed state and focus on peace and harmony.

Eat your way to a Bikini Body

No this isn't a joke... Keep reading

Have you ever heard of the saying “Abs Are Made In The Kitchen”

Well... its true!!!

You can do a thousand crunches a day for 1 year and never have a flat stomach!

Why...  B/c your body fat percentage is to high to see them!!

The truth is, we all have abs! Their just covered with fat and the only way to remove it, is through the good old fashion exercising & eating right.

Achieving your sexy new body isn’t about starvation. It’s about making healthier choices.

If about 80% of all your meals are compiled with healthy food choices and you are eating every few hours & exercising....

Then allowing yourself a "cheat meal" a couple times a week won't hurt you! It's eating processed foods like pizza, dunkin donuts, burger king, KFC everyday, that will!!

You must also drink plenty of water... this will help cleanse your body of harmful toxins. By not taking in enough water, it can cause cellulite to appear more dramatic and making it harder to lose weight. Water is crucial to living a healthy lifestyle and keeps your body working in proper order.

Eating frequently will increase your metabolism. When adding foods to your new eating plan, look for fruits, vegetables, lean meat, fish and dairy. You’ll want to avoid highly processed foods, sugar and fried foods that remove many of the nutrients your body needs.

There is no secret to achieving a sexy body…. Only education!!!

For free diet and fitness advice.... Check out http://www.bodyrock.tv/

Be Proactive

There’s only one book that I kept and can remember reading during my college years, that I believe has helped me tremendously in life. You’re probably saying, only one….. Well, there were more, I just didn’t keep or can remember any of them.   

The book I’m referring to is “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey.  Now at the time, I may not have utilized everything I learned from it, but I have re- read it several times since. Out of the 7 habits- I believe Habit 1 is the most important.

So what is Habit 1: BE PROACTIVE

In the book Stephen Covey says, “Being proactive means more than merely taking the initiative. It means that as human beings we are responsible for our lives.  Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

Being proactive means your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices you make today, affect your tomorrow. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Every now and then I pull this book out and re-read Habit 1 to make sure I’m on the right tract. So if you never heard of this book or maybe you have it and never read it…. I challenge you to.

*YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME*

More Water Please

Did you know that the human body is made up of 55 - 75 percent water (lean people have more water in their bodies because muscle holds more water than fat)   Water is crucial to your health b/c It makes up, on average, 60 percent of your body weight.

Every system in your body depends on water. Water hydrates your body and helps it work efficiently. Water improves your joints, hair, nails and muscle.  When all of your cells are healthy and hydrated, your body is able to function optimally. That means your hair is healthier. Your skin is vital and healthy. Your joints tendons and muscles have what they need to function as well. In short, drink more water to look and feel better.

The health benefits of drinking water are numerous from increasing your metabolism to burn more calories and boosting your energy levels, to hydrating your body and moisturizing your skin

So the next time somebody tries to hand you a can of soda or sugary juice….. Just say, no thank you…more water please!!

The Natural Butt Lift

You don't need expensive surgery or inserts for your pants to give you a nice, round, tight booty. There are things that you can do, for free, that will give your butt a nice natural lift!!

     Check out 2 of my favorite Youtube Vids that you can do right at home....

       You will see results in no time... Just remain consistent