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What is Muscle Memory?

What is Muscle Memory?

 

I know it’s been a while. But it’s like riding a bike. It’ll all come back to you. ~ Unknown

Bike riding is so commonplace we use it as a cliché for learning and retaining new skills.

This is referred to as muscle memory; however, it has nothing to do with muscles, but rather the brain.

What is muscle memory?

Permit me to explain … however, please keep in mind I am not a psychologist and this isn’t a psychology class so will do my best to explain this phenomenon and then will even show how this relates to Whole Body Health.  ::giggle::

Psychologists usually […]

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10 Life Lessons I Learned from Star Wars ~ The Force Awakens

10 Life Lessons I Learned from Star Wars ~ The Force Awakens

Warning: Contain spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to know anything about it, please cease reading now and come back after your viewing. And by the way: Why haven’t you seen it yet? ::giggle::

Story telling is an art.  The best stories teach us lessons.

For nearly four decades, Star Wars has been an excellent example of great story telling.  And even though events in the Star Wars Universe involve bizarre creatures, dark and light forces, and seemingly much more exciting elements than are happening in our world; there is a relevance […]

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2016 Word of the Year: Breathe

2016 Word of the Year: Breathe

Sigh.

I sigh a lot.

So much so that people I have been around at different times in my life will say, what’s wrong?

I am like, um, nothing.

But you just sighed.

I did not.

Yes, you did.

Ok … so I have this thing — I sigh.  A lot.

I never really attached any meaning to it … just thinking to myself; ok, I guess I must sigh a lot.  So what.

Until I had the opportunity to go to an acupuncturist a few years ago.

While doing the preliminary intake interview, he mentioned to me, do you realize you sigh a lot.

I said, so I have been […]

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5 Tips for Getting Through the Holidays

5 Tips for Getting Through the Holidays

Did you know Albert Einstein’s memory was notoriously poor?  It’s been said he wouldn’t even memorize his own phone number.

With a brain used for advancing revolutionary accomplishments in Physics, I choose to believe he was very smart about using his energy for things that mattered to him.

I do that a lot … choose not to remember some things in order to concentrate on more important things. If I don’t compartmentalize certain things, I can go furiously fast from sane to complete overwhelm in a matter of minutes.

The holiday season can do that to people … heck, it can do that […]

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Word of the Year ~ 2016

Word of the Year ~ 2016

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ~ Pearl Strachan Hurd

It’s that time of year when we start to think about resolutions.  What we want new and different in the coming year.

This year, instead of a list of resolutions, how about choosing a Word of the Year.

This focus word will serve as a touchstone for all the changes you want to see in the coming months.

Why the shift from resolutions? Because they don’t work.  You know why?  Because they address only one part of your life.  The DO level.

It’s the:

I will DO this thing […]

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Has the hCG Diet Bubble Burst?

Has the hCG Diet Bubble Burst?

Like sands through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives. ~ Unknown

Tick … tick … tick …

Time passes so quickly.

I can’t believe in just a few short months, I will have been involved with hCG for nine years!

And even though I have all this experience, I can still learn something new.

More about that in a moment …

Even though I have been less active online over the last couple of years, it doesn’t mean my research has stopped.  It’s in my blood.  I still search online daily. Recently, I checked if the hCG community is still active.

I could tell […]

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Alpha-Huh?

Alpha-Huh?

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. ~ Nikola Tesla

Ever hear of Nicola Tesla?

In short, he believed that energy could be passed from one object to another without wires. He proved […]

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Develop an Attitude of Gratitude

Develop an Attitude of Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie

Another way to describe this thought is in the poem from the 1940 edition of The Rotarian entitled The Optimist:

“Life handed him a lemon,
As Life sometimes will do.
His friends looked on in pity,
Assuming he was through.
They […]

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