Health is the greatest wealth!

This week was National Healthweek at my work. One of my collegues held an interesting seminar and I want to share some of it INTERNATIONALLY - with greetings from Sweden and facts coming from our Health Studies. :)))


Sometimes I think people forget how the body reacts due to inactivity and with spending long times sitting down without making the time for regular working out. To not have a good condition the risk for overweight, diabetes and many other lifestyle related diseases are very high. I notice that many people spend  hours and hours and hours, sometimes not taking time for a short break or letting the body stretch out, by the computer for example.


Too much computertime requires those regular mini-breaks for sure. Ofcourse it will affect You sooner or later if You just sit there each and every day. Maybe first spending a lot of time sitting still at work and then also after coming home at sparetime.  Some people even have very bad eating habits as a second result due to those hours and all of it gives the chain reaction to depressions and other mentally conditions. A tired brain, low concentrationlevel, impatience and many other reactions is not an illness, but very common. 


A good example for a place where people get stuck and addicted is Facebook, chatprograms, gaming or tv. No news for anybody I am sure.


There is a very clever quote saying:
"The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility and pushing their luck!"  Very true one... 
The technological development is also very fast and we are offered more and more of devices to help us be lazy and in comfort.


Sure- I use them too as a big fan of technic and I spend a lot of time at Facebook. But I do it for short and many times instead, I stretch out, take mini-breaks and I do not get stressed out if people wondering why I am inactive at the chat for a while. 


I also have had a certain lifestyle of fitness since I was in my teens, interested in both physical and mentally health.  I love to keep my body active with good condition in every kind and I am also very interested in Mindfulness overall. Knowing about the importance of keep a good breathing. I am sure I have a great balance in my life as I feel it very quickly in both body and mind if I dont. I get awfully tired if I do NOT work out!


Also my every day as a single mother results to that I am the only one doing all and everything in the household, cleaning, doing laundry, dishes, running around putting things at right place,  going to the grossery stores carry home all the heavy bags and so on and on. 


That is for sure exercise too! :)

• Take the stairs instead of the elevator
• Take a walk or the bike instead of the car
• Play actively with Your children
• Cleaning or gardening

Research shows that physical activity is both preventive, eases and cure many diseases - that is a fact. Physical activity can very often replace medicine and in Sweden the doctors more freqvently now writes "Recipie for Activity". Patients is offered a certain amount of  exercise as treatment for that specific diagnosis instead of pills! This method is very well working for most people and has often great side-affects too,  in lifestyle, happiness and relations. 






Did you know that it is more exhausting for the body to sit down than to stand up? It is true!
Be sure You´ve  got a strong core of your body. A strong stomach, back and neck prevents injuries and give You a great posture. Both when sitting down and standing up.


Did You know that new science shows that we get new braincells - despite what old schools said for many years that we don´t. We really do, and for that we have to keep our pace and condition in place. Those new braincells can prevent dementia in older years. 


Did You know it can be more unhealthy to be skinny and inactive with working out? Many thinks that skinny/thin people is automaticly healthy, but on the contrary  - skinny people have bodies that just do not tell when the cholesterol is high or body is in need of exercise-  because gaining fat is an obvious warningsign that they lack! A skinny person can in fact have more health issues than a visibly fat person. 


I can go on and on about these things but I made my point. ;)  
Keep a good pulsating heart, make Your skin glow from freshness within and celebrate Your strong muscles!


" Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness"  
- Edward Stanley

Lifestyle Servant

First of all I must apologize for my absence here, but the truth is that I was really busy with life, lots of big changes and enjoying great times generally.

Only some months ago I wrote my "Work Wish-list" including business/lifestyle. I had a lot of fun with it mindmapping and listed all kinds of things I would want to have, to learn, to feel and to enjoy in my DREAMJOB, without any holdbacks. Thinking outside the box where everything is possible.

It is a technique to use for collecting some great energy to make things happen. A way to set goals for yourself and to give Your wantings and desires life. I use to include it with pictures to illustrate the feeling I want around my wish, I keep is as clear as I can and I often include pictures of the specific item I wish for or a place I want to travel to or simply some words that give me lots of great positive vibes about it - I cut them out from magazines or my computer, in beautyful letters. And so it is.
My wishlist is sent out to Universe.

I love to use creativity and for me this is a wonderful way to see the "passion" with my eyes and after I done it I do not think about it much. I do not put any worries about "how" or "when" it will arrive. For me it is like with any kinds of orders You make in a webshop : I require my delivery and it WILL come when time is right.

This technique I also teach my children. For them it is often easier and my son loves to make "vision-boards". Children are still often free in mind as they already have much of those thoughts from birth. It is grown ups and parents that talks about "it is not possible", "you do not have birthday" , "we do not afford" and so on - planting worries, barriers and killing that spontanity in the force of dreaming and the charming idea about things actually can happen in amazing ways. Right people, right places and right opportunity gets in motion, moving like a great force around You and can really make it happen. In ways You never thought about or was able to dream about.

So, for You - I dare You to ask, believe and recieve.

I got my Dreamjob-delivery just in right time, all wishes included! :)))))
*gratitude*

Start doing things You love

1.1.11

 

"When 111 or 1111 show up, it is a great sign of a golden opportunity. Both sequences mean that a "doorway" has opened up in which your intentions and goals will manifest extremely quickly. Seeing these numbers is almost like having the ability to make a wish when a cake with candles is presented to you."

The first day of 2011 , 1th January 2011 or 1.1.11 -that´s today.  Lots of number ONES there and I see it as a good sign.


This year I am sure is going to be THE ONE. 

The one when all in my life will reveal itself to what it was ment for all along. To have and to hold and to cherish and to unfold. It´s time. This is my soul-career in it´s best. If You know about Angelnumbers like me, if You see and hear the small stories whispered from above to guide You, then You know that sequences of ONE is magical.I wish You all a Happy New Year and Happy Moments Only!
 

The magic of a Bookstore

I can stroll in them forever. It is a warm feeling of joy. Letting my eyes search over all the amazing, colorful covers and I love the fun in reading those titles. 

The titles makes You wonder. Some with a funny twist, some is like a clue and some of them are kept simple. Without any kind of hint of the book´s content at all. Feels odd, til you´ve read that book and understands it.  

Some catch Your imagination and curiousity of wanting to know more and many of the books are just passed by leaving no bigger feeling or interest at all. If I go there any other day ofcourse my eyes always find something new that I missed out before.

I also likes the feeling and texture of different books. Some feels old and stiff, some feels young shining glossy. Even their papers inside and fonts all looks different and a good book has it all. The perfect match.

For me it is like in a candystore. I would probably like to have a sweet bookstore of my own. Looking something like this and I love this name: Book Wise 

        Source: Internetbizop.aw

Ahhh, yes now I also remember. There was a book in the bookstore that I just must read. 

“84 ^th  Charing Cross Road” by Helene Hanff. The Swedish title is “Letters to a bookstore” wich is a good description of this book. It is a true story, about an authors corresponding to this bookstore on 84 ^th Charing Cross Road, over many years.

About formel letters growing to a sweet lifelong friendship and love for the owner of the store.    

It is almost like with internet. Textcorresponding back and forth, getting to know a person with only words. The intention was maybe not at all to get interest in a person. A common place, community or subject, all those expressions and how well You are to put words of what you think, can make an unexpected difference.

Chemistry is happening, with or without intention.

    Source: etsy.com

I found the book in a part of my bookstore called “Staffs Favourite Corner”. There were books in a shelf with handwritten bookmarks inside the books with a good description of the content and a personal recomendation. Greatest thing!

I read many kinds of books, besides books about murders or crime. I have a big interest in books with facts of all kinds, books about self improvement, health, wellness or mind. 

The wanting of ever learning is big in me. The curiousity of all possible practical subjects too,  like crafting, homeinterior or cooking. 

This days mission was to find a book for my oldest son to read. A guy that do NOT like books at all, but I wanted to catch his interest for reading, to open his eyes for the big variation in books and that some books CAN be really fun and interesting.

I wanted a short book, something that could catch his interest and I found the book perfect for him!  A book with  a collection  of  SMS textmessages,  sent to wrong person by accident.

Textmessages with a sexy twist, ment for the new girlfriend coming to the boss. Or the reveling of something really embarrassing, sent by mistake to a horrified mom/dad.

It was so hilarious and embarresing only to read about it! I laughed so much and I knew

this was the book for my son, as he is sending textmessages all day long about all or nothing. 

    Source: Unknown

A fun thing happened as I was paying the book I´ve chosen. A very welldressed and handsome gentleman is standing besides me, smiling and waiting for his turn. When they wrapped my present in he presented himself as the author there for signing books!

In my life I am very sensible to synchronicity in different ways. I see the signals and signs in things I just thought about.  This time I spent in the bookstore started so many thoughts and feelings and now the author showed up.

All my desires for books, for writing, about the love I felt in the bookstore. All the people in there, so different from each other. Rich ones, poor ones, young ones and old ones. People very well dressed, people looking not classy at all. The feeling at a place gathering these great mix from different levels and professions in the society is just amazing. I love that and I love watching whom is picking up which book. 

And today there was also the gentleman, the author. 

It gave me a strong good energy. It excelled one thought of mine, a thought so many around me have been telling me, that I should live out the passion and benefit from the ease in me for sharing words, views and feelings. It would be no work. It would be a flow of inspiration just let go into what it want to be. 

So this thought, about writing my own book- someday, sometime, I am sure is coming true.

Maybe something of the many things I´ve written through the years is a treasure, just waiting for right time to occur. 

    Source: http://beyondthemargins.com/2010/12/writer-interrupted/

And how did it go with the christmas gift, was it appreciated?

Christmas arrived. And there was the book wrapped up. My son looked at me with suspicious eyes as I could see that he FEELS that there could possibly be a book inside that classy paper.

Well, for sure it was. I watched him with interest and he started to read… and You know what;  He was caught by it! 

Who would have known! He gave it his full concentration reading it, smiled and laughing out loud about it, sharing the best ones to me. This moment is one of those I really will remember about this Christmas of 2010. To see him sitting in that confy armchair besides the fireplace, turning page after page after page. 

No ordinary LOVE

Life is knocking on my door. Welcome, from all my heart! I see all the beauty and the depth in simplicity. I stop for a minute just to think, what black dark holes in me I left behind. To see adversity turned around to the brightness in me. A brightness make me feel like I am in the center of the sun.  It was a long ago my travel started towards a new life and to find my happiness. I found the keys to do it and I got lots of great insight from what I experienced- always treasured it as an exclusive lesson.

Too long there was this defensive-mode in the background of my life, felt like a warrior looking after my heart. Ready to fight with the little hurt child inside and my lack in trust.

Despite this I was openhearted and loving, too open. Because somehow I understood my wrongs from my rights. From beginning having difficulties to handle and believe all the love and friendships I got back. So I just kept my heart in some distance. Often falling for same kind of relationships. With distance.

My search for the truth of love and a goodhearted wise soul in persons has been an great ground in my social connecting with others and I was very picky with what kind of person I let into my heart. Aswell as friends as lovers. Because of all I already had learned about this life that was and is important to me. It is not easy to find an equal spirit, but when You do the bounding is above understanding. That I prefer to have really well chosen friends around me is certain.

Also nothing I regret I kept searching after in love. This was one of the things I was longing for,  such a partner, such a soul. To find true love can take time, but in my case I think it was more about to BELIEVE in true love that took all that time.

I found equals. I found soulmates. I found cherished love. But I also got hurt by my own insecurity and disbelief. And sometimes I left love, still loving, because it felt easier. So wrong!

I have kept my personality down to earth and never felt for the one-night-stand type of life when I was single. Always following my deep heart and always too romantic for nothing less than somebody really special to let somebody into my life.

But also I am proud I have always been ME and still am. I was careful and passionate in same time, in some kind of balance. I can keep the distance with much attention, I am honest and always faithful and when I fall in love I just loose it in romance and passion.

Dispite insecurity I gave it all and I said to myself ; "Just be"

I found dear ones, loved ones and amazing men- giving me there heart, affection and kindness. I found soulmates. I am so ever grateful for all opportunites great moments, good years and love I shared.
Grateful to many wonderful people, that still have a piece of my heart. Some of them really good friends of mine.

I am sorry for the relationships I wrecked, for things not turning out right, for chemistry missing. I was always having bad conscience for it a long time after.

With love the issue earlier in life was that my heart believed in it, my mind was not always that sure, but my gratitude was sometimes in the background fooling me that it was a deeper feeling than it really was.

Sometimes I just needed a friend, and in that mode my heart was impossible to open up. Those guys meeting me in that period of my life always said I was playing "hard to get". I said "not hard, just not possible". I was simply not up to dating at all, and I can not have relationships just to have company.

I took a long time to live with only myself, to get to know myself.  To be a mom. I read good books and saw insightful movies to find my relaxation and spirituality for a better health and stronger mind. And a braver heart!  That was a great period in my life and still is a part of my daily bases. The big interest in selfimprovement and mindfulness is since some years ago my new lifestyle and I enjoy it!

I am a feeling person, affectionate person and a communicating person. But how much communication there is, how much friends You are I learned it not always help in a relationship. Neither with friends or with partners. For some persons communication by words is the biggest part, and that is not who I am even if I am a big communicator too, for sure.

Then life threw me a relationship where communication was very much lacking because he spoke a different language by words but by soul we were deeply attached and in that way it was one of the most deeply communication by mind, interesting enough.  A challenge but that kind of love was head over heals wonderful and learned me a lot. Though I also learned that distance makes me crazy and my needs for intimicy is way too big to deal with hundreds of miles.

After that I found a simular relation with same kind of problematic in communication lacking,  but formed by my past relation where I was deeply lost in love and romance, I was colored to believe this was not a problem and I thought it would be amazing anyway, because now I also had the closeness.

But instead it was a relation without good communication and understanding in both words, romance and bodylanguage- no soulconnection at all. I guess what got us together was pure attraction and sex.

No surprise, it was simply not enough for me. I felt hopelessly angry. Why is life playing with me like this?!! Playing with my emotions and my heart. Tricking me with relations that not last, when my big wish is to find a serious everlasting true love.

A love from heart, body, mind and soul.

Sometimes relationships just are not ment to be, and I had to learn how to let go.  Without feeling like a horrible person. Without missing the deep friendship too much. To let go of the deep attachment with people that I thought I could never be without.

I learned to clear things out, to sort out and to stand strong with respect for myself and the other part.

Today I am thankful! Now I see a red line through it and without these lessons from my former relationships,  I would most probably have missed out THE ONE.

I smile big now. I enjoy my well learned lesson to find what I really search for, to love and to be loved with trust and relaxation. I found love within myself and with that I can give it out!

My monday is blossom, my tuesday is graceful, my wednesday is pure. My thursday is amazing and my friday is passion. My saturday is funny and my sunday is romance. I live it, I feel it and I give it;  to YOU.

I stay close connected to the law of attraction and my life is GREAT! *gratitude*
Now suddenly things happened in my past and meeting with certain people plays out its hand, and I LOVE!

Home Sweet Home

One of my big passions in life is in the creation of a HOME. In the crafting to give my home the right energy and feeling as soon as You enter it.


A place that makes people smile and feel comfort. 
A place for my family, for my friends and for me.
A place for lots of love, laugther and living. 


I really find it peaceful and relaxing in the creation with furniture and decorating my home. Beautiful things is like diamonds and pearls with jewelery for me. You can give a room a feeling with the most simple ideas.

Purity of life- flowers

It is such a joy when I find something special that catch the glimpse of my eye and fill my heart with warmth.  It can be a detail, a color, or an old rustic 18th century furniture I would love to put my hands on and give it new life. Always with tenderness to keep its great old wise character still. 
French, old and vintage shabby chic. Source: unknown

A home shall not be a museum, especially not if  You have kids. 
The feeling of coming home and living in it fully, shall be something both joyful, practial and with ease.

Often I just stumble upon new inspiration or find treasures I fall in love with for my home. I think open minded about architecture, art and design and I blend what I love from different centuries that I am particularly fond of. 


Pieces that fascinate me is really vintage old things,  like from 17th and 18th century.  Very white and light. I love colors and I prefer to blend it with my style, using textil and decors in the details. In that way I can change whenever I like and still keep my home

I love the french and danish style especially. A bit countryhouse with very modern touch.  I am much into vintage white and in my kitchen blended with very ligth pastell-colors,. I still want to keep it contemporary and clean.

My dream walking-closet. Source: unknown

I want a really big kitchen with lots of space for cooking, kids to join and family to gather with friends. In the kitchen I have a lot of glas-jars and I like cans with old vintage etiquettes and motives. Letters is beautiful and You know my love for words already. ;)


The love about typography came from growing up as my beloved fathers biggest fan.
My father was the one and only owner of his business in the advertising genre. It was my grandfathers company from the beginning and when he passed away my father took it over. He was making a very known prominent tourist guide for the capital of Sweden- Stockholm.
A guide following the culture etablissement and happenings in the city over all. Very useful both for tourists and Stockholm-inhabitants.

One of my favourite memories from childhood is all those times I spent with my father at his office. After school, in weekends and holidays. I loved be his little assistant and help him.  In that time of the 70´s he used the old writing machine and no computer or programs to make his work easy.

Oldfashioned writerdream. Source: unknown

I remember the smells from paper, from the ink, from the coffee put on in the morning put on the brewer all day. My dad did sometimes not have juice for me. He was creative even then. He gave me a glas of water and put a bit of suger in it, saying it was the swedish populair "Sockerdricka", that Pippi Longstocking found in the tree. 

The feelings only writing about these memories is a big part of me. My beloved father tragically passed away last year, too young. I so wished I could relive these memories with him. I wish he know from heaven how much it has affected me and formed my personality.
 
My father was an amazing man and I enherited his creativity. That is a blessing. <3 

When my father worked it was pure creativity and measurement from eye and follow intuition and subtile feelings. It was to astablish a magazine from mind and hands, with no lazy ways or programed manufactory.

Not strange I like scrapbooking now adays. It was exactly like that on my fathers work. From scratchtable to production. Every single step. 

Only using old letterstamps, choosing the right colors and shades of the ink and to pic the right style in the typography. I loved the feeling and look of those letterstamps. To let my little finger follow the lines on it.

And I was so fascinating when my father made his own frames, using the scissors and cutting machines by hand. All of the things took a lot of time and patience. My father tought me patience in that way. 

And to follow it through, getting so excited when we went to the printing house and I got to see my beloved fathers work, take life and be a magazine...


Daddy- I will always always be your biggest fan.... <3
My mission in life is to keep my legacy, my enherited legacy from You to Me. 
To make my dreams come true......

         Daddys girl