OH....SURPRISE!!

Ever play with one of those toys as a kid that gave you complete control over the outcome. Slide the marble down the shoot and it would hit a bell, aim your dart gun at the rabbit and bing...ya hit it? Don't you wish it was that easy to know the outcome of everything? Do you ever wish you had a peak into even the next few weeks so you could better make decisions? Boy, I do.

The other day I was sitting in my office, just had finished my coffee and deciding what the Top 5 on my "TO DO" list would be for the day, when the phone rang. It changed the entire day. Like a Jack in the Box, life is unpredictable. You never really know when something unexpected will pop up. So we just keep cranking away unaware don't we? As you may have guessed by now, I am passionate about taking your health seriously. How many people have you known that didn't, and all of a sudden had a major health condition suddenly pop up? It's so easy to neglect our responsibility when it comes to our health.

Humor me while I step up on this soap box__/------\__
No one knows how you feel, what you eat, what activity you do, how happy or sad you are, how stressed or worried you are better than YOU DO! Make your doctor a part of your own, hand picked, health mastermind team. A mastermind team is a group of individuals with a common goal---Your Health. Add a good nutritionist, a massage therapist, a financial counselor, a chiropractor, a psych therapist, a religious guru, a holisitc health nurse, a dentist, eye doctor, music therapist, hearing specialist....you get what I am saying?? It takes a team of individuals, including YOURSELF, to make your life as long and healthy as possible. Without your health, life changes dramatically. Don't just keep crankin' like nothing will happen because your doctor said you are ok.
I'm not saying that Jack won't pop up and scare you from time to time, but the more people you have helping you stay on the track to wellness....the better.

Stay Healthy!!

Sandra Bullard LPN, HHN
Licensed Holistic Nurse
sandrabullard11@gmail.com

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*ALERT* Brain Stress*

When we are frightened or angry, the blood vessels in our body contract and limit the flow of blood to our extremities. This is known as vasoconstriction, which is our automatic response to stress. Now you may not consider your brain to be an extremity but it is. Ahhhhhh so that is why we have difficulty thinking straight when we are scared or mad??? Absolutely!!Your forebrain-the pre-frontal cortex, where our rational thought, planning, and execution occur just shuts down. That's when your mid brain takes over. That is your primal/animal section of the brain. Very "reactive" and driven by emotion. That allows the outer layer of your body to become like armor. Unless an artery is struck, you won't bleed very much. It was for going into a fight. We used to fight off predators and other humans for food etc. Your muscles are affected as well, only they become less moveable and you may loose some fine motor control. Like if you need to write your name or button a shirt or zip your coat it would be more difficult. Now I just learned something interesting about this stress reaction from the military standpoint. We realize they are in a different type of stress than we are because they are in life threatening stress much more often. If the level of stress continues they loose their ability to hear and they get tunnel vision. This would be like looking through a paper towel tube. Isn't that strange?? It gives you a HUGE wake up call about stress and how it affects us.

Now you see how it physically affects us, but do you realize in the every day life we live that this type or extent of stress causes illness?? I have personally reviewed thousands of individuals medical history and the disturbing thing I have learned is that stress puts you and I at risk for cancer and other illnesses. Do you know someone that has had cancer? Think about them for a minute. What was their life before they were diagnosed? Was is full of too much of something? Did they run themselves ragged for a reason? Did they encounter any depressing or discouraging situation on a regular basis that was too much to handle?? I would say YES.

Stress on your brain, causes illness if you have no way to get away from it. SO now that you understand the problems of stress and the risks to your health, let me ask you...do you suffer from too much stress on a regular basis? Do you have a way to get away from it?? Do you have someone who can teach you what you need to know?? I am a holistic nurse and I am here and ready to speak to you about your situation. Don't wait. Contact me now so that you can get on the path to wellness BEFORE the stress causes more damage. We all have stress. Everyone learns how to deal with it by our past experience. If that doesn't work for you then let me help you learn something new.

Email me: sandrabullard11@gmail.com

Best to you in health,

Sandra Bullard LPN,HHN
Diamond Health Network

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Hocus Focus

 

I used to multitask like a wildwoman. Now that I am older I wonder exactly how well I did at that. No matter, in this moment in time I have learned to do one thing at a time, do it at a moderate pace and do it well. The quality is much more satisfying when you look back and I have this saying..."Your work is your autograph" when people see what you do, it should be a true reflection of who you are. I would like to think people see value in what I teach. I know there was value for me when I learned it. I also hope they see love and respect and kindness and deep appreciation for life.

Before I owned my own business, something was missing. My business has helped me step out of my comfort zone. It encouraged me daily to learn and grow to meet it's endless needs. All things I am grateful for. 

If you focus on something you are passionate about, it becomes magical. All the distractions fade. You pour your thoughts and heart into it and could work late into the night at whatever you desire without getting weary. 

Whatever you want in your life, you know what that is. You can have it. Focus on it with persistence. Be willing to change. Give it your full attention long enough each day to move it along. Be consistent and never never quit.

Skin Disorders

Resolve and Prevent Recurrant Eczema & Other Skin Disorders

Skin disorders like eczema, psoriasis, dandruff and chronic dryness are all heavily effected by the moisture content of the skin.

Showering and bathing in chlorinated tap water robs skin and hair of their natural protective oils, causing scaling, itching and bacteria imbalances. Chlorine is a strong oxidant and causes damage to skin and hair even at very low levels. Most tap water maintains a residual chlorine level greater than is recommended for swimming pools, 1.5 ppm.

Chlorine also kills much of the beneficial bacteria on the surface of the skin that offers a natural defense against skin disorders.

By removing chlorine from our shower water, where most of the exposure to chlorine occurs, and keeping our bodies hydrated properly, we allow our body's natural healing mechanisms to work properly. In many cases shower filtration can help prevent and cure skin disorders. As with most health problems, prevention is usually more effective than treatment.

If you have dry, cracked or broken skin, use a non- greasy moisturizer. Follow this link to see the one that I use every day. It says nite creme but I use it any time and all the time.

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The Chains are Broken

Not are you a weak link...but where is your weakest link? Parts of our personality make up the whole of who we are. I have spoken to thousands of people all over the United States over the years and find that we are all so busy doing, that we don't take time to just think anymore. Maybe a better word is ponder.When was the last time you shut off or out, all of the distractions in your life??  What did you hear? What did you think about? How did you feel? 

I am on a quest. I will prove to myself that my weakest links...(yes I have quite a few of them), can be found and fixed. First, I needed to take the time to find my weakest links in my personality.  By 55 I guess I honestly expected to be the person I wanted to be, but I find I am still evolving.  On review of myself recently I discovered that I talk too much, don't listen with intention of remembering details all of the time, defend poor decisions to myself, don't laugh nearly enough, have the ability to do so much more, allow myself to be complacent too easy, get assertive intermingled with aggressive at times and the list goes on. It helps to be a critical thinker. I learned this art of thinking by being a part of "Mentoring for Free".  So my quest is to cut out all the distractions, stop the negative chatter and get to work. That may seem oversimplified but bottom line...if it's to be, it's up to me.

Discipline, that's a nasty word isn't it? Self disipline, sounds like we are trying to really hurt ourselves now doesn't it? But that is what it takes. It takes, what only 3% of the people on the planet can or will do. It sounds a little like paddling up stream doesn't it? But, actually, it is just the opposite. It's going with the flow.

Picture where you want to go in life. See it, feel it, taste it. Get it into focus and get the sharpest picture of it burned into your mind. Get all the details down. Now picture that you buy a boat to get to that destination down stream. So you get into the boat with all of the supplies you will need for the trip, you push away from the shore to head down stream and away you go. Don't look back!! You know why? You need to steer the boat where you want to go!

Now picture each distraction, each thing in your life that has you pulling your boat over and getting out and spending time there. Here are some recommendations...you see your family, you pull the boat over, bring them in the boat with you, so you can spend time with them and still get where you are going. You see a facebook icon, do you need to pull over? A twitter email, do you need to respond? A Linkedin request, will they help you today? Rotary, BNI, Meetup, ....I am saying that all of these distractions make you feel like you are getting somewhere or doing something to get your dream but aren't they actually keeping you from your destination? We have 24 hours each day. What you want is down stream. Get all of those people in the boat that are helping you get what you want and keep your eye on where you are going.

So here is my quest. I am taking a 2 month distraction free boat trip starting tomorrow 8/29/2011. I will step out of the boat only when absolutely necessary until 10/31/2011, then I will get out, look around and determine how far I have come and will update you. I will miss being able to write to you, keep me in your prayers.

~Sandra*

It's Contagious!

You may think that only illness is something you can catch from someone else. Today I reflected on my attitude and how that affects others and myself.

Simply stated, how you think and feel about your life, your current situation will rub off on everyone you see or talk to today. Make it worth catching!! Smile...share a laugh...see the good in everything.

Every day we have choices to make regarding those around us. We may be locked in the same environment as they are (either at work or home) but we don't have to catch their bad attitudes.

Find an anchor, either a web based site with positive quotes, youtube with positive speakers, books you can read a break time, CD's you can listen to anytime in your auto, but get something positive and uplifting. People don't realize how easy it is to be negative in just a few minutes around a negative nelly.

Here is what I do know. Your healthy thoughts will keep you on the side of wellness. Mentally and physically don't catch the bad behaviors, the bad attitudes or provide feedback when people around you are sending out low energy to others. Get away if you can. Just get up and walk away. It's your right!

Be a positve, high energy being...after all, it brings you the good things in life:)

~Sandra*

Belief Becomes Reality

Today was a day for questioning beliefs. A belief is a feeling of certainty about something. Our beliefs are the biggest driving force in our life. Where do these come from? Well, our environment (TV, newspaper) personal experience and influential people in our lives. We have beliefs about our current situation, our abilities, limitations, imperfections, past mistakes, future hopes and on and on.

Our beliefs impact our self esteem and self confidence. So if our self esteem or self confidence is not good, how do we change it? We have to challenge our beliefs. We must become an optomist, we should raise our standards and do some positive self talk .

They say we will be like those we keep company with. Well, that makes sense, we are most comfortable around people like we are. But when being around people that make us have poor self esteem or poor to no self confidence...time to change it up.

Why don't more people make changes that could make themselves feel better? Complacency.  It reminds me of the story about the dog that was laying on the nail poking up on the floor. Why didn't he get up? It didn't hurt bad enough yet. But when it hurts bad enough, change is inevitable.

Here is my challenge to you...question your beliefs, change your thoughts, take action now and you will be successful at whatever you choose.

Blessings,
~Sandra*