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The Ultimate Detox and Weight Loss Secret

6/23/2015

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Detox water is a good healthy solution to activate your digestive system. For this reason I am sharing the ultimate secret to weight loss using 6 detox water recipes to flatten your belly and get you ready for the summer! You can replace your regular drinking water with detox water as you keep hydrated throughout the day.

We have been told to drink at least 2 liters of water per day, which most of us usually find hard to achieve. The good news is that these yummy recipes will probably help you drink even more water! Try to let the mix sit overnight or at least 15 minutes prior consumption; and, replace fruits after 2-3 refills to make sure you optimize their benefits.

Weight loss and fat loss require a big-time commitment, a strong focus, many sacrifices, an excellent work ethic, and a lot of mental strength. But the great thing about weight loss is that it is attainable, measurable, and very rewarding, especially if you do it as a team effort. You need to know this before starting, so you don’t give up before reaching your goals. Combine the following recipes this summer, they are great conversation starters!


1 - Flat Belly Detox Water Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 24 ounces of ice cold water
  • Slices of fresh cucumber
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • ½ sliced lemon
  • ¼ sliced orange

This is a good water to drink in the mornings with an empty stomach to power up your immune system, eliminate toxins and keep a gorgeous skin.

 2 - Craving Control Detox Water Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 24 ounces of ice cold water
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • 1 strawberry sliced
  • ½ sliced lemon
  • ¼ tsp of cinnamon
  • ¼ sliced apple

This detox water will help you burn fat even when you are sitting down! Lemon, apple and cinnamon helps you speed up your metabolism, which makes it easier to burn fat.

3 - Daily Cleansing Detox Water Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 1-2 liters of ice cold water (depends on how strong you want it to taste)
  • Slices of watermelon and cucumber
  • 1 lime or lemon
  • Fresh mint leaves (approximately 10-13)

One cup of watermelon will provide  1 gram of fiber, 17% of vitamin A, 21% of vitamin C, 2% of iron and 1% of calcium needs for the day. Watermelon also contains thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, folate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, choline, lycopene and betaine. Great for your skin, lower blood pressure, and avoid constipation.


4 - Chia Water Detox

 Ingredients:
  • 1 glass of water
  • 1 spoon of chia
  • 1 tsp of lemon

Chia seeds are gluten/grain free naturally - they are great for preventing dehydration during exercise or exposure to heat. One tablespoon of Chia Seeds has more calcium than a glass of milk, more Omega-3s than Salmon, and more antioxidants than blueberries. They also give you tons of energy but also won’t keep you awake at night. Chia seeds are supposed to be a great for weight loss, because they can absorb many times their size/weight in liquid.

5 - Water Stress Reduction

Ingredients:
  • 1 liter of cold water
  • 8 sliced strawberries 
  • 1 lemon or lime
  • Half sliced cucumber
  • Fresh mint leaves (approximately 10 – 15)

Mint helps calm down the nervous system, and lemon energizes the digestive system, while the strawberry and cucumber add a yummy fresh flavor to the water.

6 - Homemade Coconut Detox Water

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup of water
  • ½ cup of coconut water
  • 2 tsp of lemon
  • 2 tsp of aloe juice

This water helps regulate the digestive system, get rid of toxins, and lower inflammation. Your skin and hair will look bright and hydrated!

Leading from the inside out has been one of the most successful ways I have found to achieve healthy habits. Seeing the body as the most valuable powerhouse motivates me and my clients to find ways to improve diet and put more thought into how to positively achieve a healthy routine. Below is a summarized list of benefits. Each body is different, so ask your doctor/nutritionist for more information about the recipes that will benefit your body the most.

  • Mint promotes easy digestion and soothes stomach cramps.
  • Cucumbers have many anti-inflammatory properties and prevent water retention. They also help the body to flush out toxins because cucumbers contain the organic compound citrulline.
  • The juice of the orange stimulates the immune system and reduces cholesterol levels.
  • Lemon (or lime) helps with constipation by regulating and stimulating the digestive track. It clears out the digestive system providing the cleansing effect of citric acid. It stimulates bile production and thins out bile, which allows it to [something missing] down fats that we’ve consumed. Most important, lemon helps you alkalize your body, lowering its acid.
  • Strawberries contain anti-aging properties and help fight carcinogens.
  • Apples have so many benefits: repairing and maintaining teeth and bones; helping to heal wounds quickly.
  • Cinnamon manages blood sugar levels. This reduces sugar cravings so you eat less and can control your calorie intake.
  • Watermelon contains the organic compound citrulline, which helps the body flush out toxins.



Once you finish drinking all the water, you can eat the fruit. You can also prepare the above recipes in ice cubes; just make sure to use them within a week to preserve their benefits.

Self-leadership entails being the person you envision being, long before you think it most likely. In my integrated coaching practice, I work with numerous men and women who are hoping to find a purpose in their lives. Those who already know their purpose may need support on keeping their word, managing a healthy discipline and keeping up their motivation and focus. One way to access this aspiration is to envision specifically what it is we want. I hope the above recipes help you plan your work and motivate you to work your plan. Each recipe takes less than 10 minutes to prepare -- and that 10 minutes prepares you for a great day, a great life.

Share your favorite recipe below.
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Are you Trapped in a Family Pattern?

6/11/2015

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There is a lot to learn about yourself -- your triumphs and your challenges -- by learning about your family tree and ancestral lineage. You come to this world within a community, a team called “family” that teaches you directly and indirectly how to confront life and how to best develop yourself to generate a good future. You inherit virtues and traumas from your ancestors that most of the time you are not even aware of. Perhaps you find yourself following a destructive pattern and can’t find the way to freedom. Or, you see a correlation among family members, such as divorces across generations on your father’s side. Or, your mother aborted and now you are dealing with fears regarding your fertility. You may never have heard about multigenerational alignment solutions before, but I hope to pique your interest -- because the truth is that your family lineage and the position you choose to have in your family order directly affect your present situation and your life trajectory.

In my work I combine the Family Constellations approach, humanistic, psychogenealogy and transpersonal psychology methods with experimental work to identify those patterns that keep stopping you from fully developing your potential. Finding out what triggers you, what keeps you reactive instead of responsive, is key to awareness and to change. Getting a handle on daily habits that are subconsciously influenced by the past is central to my breakthrough techniques.

Conceivably at some point in your life you’ve questioned why a specific pattern keeps repeating, blocking you from fully enjoying the experiences you go through in life. For some, the challenge is finding Mr. or Ms. Right, self-love, or expanding their family. For others the issues concern work, from frustrating clients to annoying coworkers. Still others, have low self-esteem, and cannot seem to achieve or maintain happiness. We all have something that stops us from unfolding our greatness, something that prevents us from getting from point "A" to "B". Wouldn't you like to find out what is really stopping you and overcome it? 

Most of these hidden barriers stem from the systems you belong to, such us family, culture, nationality, religion, work… All of these systems are built on traditions and habits you consciously and unconsciously follow in order to belong, to feel comfortable. For example, family agreements are like deep hidden codes that unconsciously require us to follow patterns. In upholding their hidden rules and dynamics we are prevented from being who we really want to be. These "codes" are located in the depths of our minds disguised as beliefs and all kinds of inhibitions that paralyze us.

Many beliefs are contracts that we have with other members of our family tree, ideas that have been handed down from our grandparents and behind them from our ancestors that we don’t question. For example, when older members of a family say, "All the successful men in our family are lawyers," the artist within the family will not feel free to pursue his creativity -- no matter how talented -- without guilt and fear. In a sense, your family sets a system of beliefs that you become loyal to, even when it is toxic. Often these are unbearable.

Other examples of emotional contracts usually come in the form of emotional inhibitions, closely associated with children's awareness levels or developmental stages, such as when you were told: 
  • "Do not grow" - parents out of love express to their children “do not grow” and the loving children subconsciously adopt the sentence as an emotional thread causing them to stay emotionally stunted. 
  • "In this household we all cheer for Real Madrid" - From the first month of life the child is a member of the club. When he grows up, he has no alternative, if he does not like football or he does not want to be a Real Madrid fan, he will be considered a traitor or be treated by the family as if there is something wrong with him. Replace "Madrid" with a religion, a political party, a lifestyle, etc. and you get the same result. 
  • "Do not be stupid and do not find love" - the boy becomes indirectly entangled with his mother as the mother unconsciously implies that she will never disappoint him and that any other woman eventually will. A girl may find herself tangled up in her father's misdirected love in the same way.

The reality is that whether we like it or not, emotional contracts strongly bind us to the past and foster relationships based on emotional dependency. By dissolving these contracts you will be opening the door to living and loving with a higher level of consciousness. In fact, transforming the mind lies at the heart of every wisdom teaching. Every person searching for healing or elevation becomes more and more preoccupied by the possible links connecting the past, present and future as the need for a supreme path emerges.

The Greeks told us to heal the soul. The twentieth century has fortunately given rise to remarkable breakthroughs in psychological knowledge on one hand and spiritual knowledge on the other. I would say heal the mind, if you believe that the mind, our common instrument of higher perception, is not working well — that it is mired in conventional principles, ingrained memories and compulsive movements. Bringing mindfulness to your growth is one of the best gifts you can gift yourself. Think about it:

  • The future is by definition shapeless and imagined only in fantasy. Its virgin substance fascinates us; we project our wishes onto it and would like to see it fill us with satisfaction. 
  • The past, however, has fixed forms, which can pursue us even though they have already had their day. 
  • The present, which is so dear to us, is as enduring as it is elusive, like water, which freezes irreversibly into the ice of memory.  

In order to move towards an authentic life, one must get to know oneself. Firstly, this means not crushing the present into the small space between memory and expectation. Secondly, we may find along the way that other destinations are worth a detour, since the path is an end in itself. The revelation that only the present exists is not an intellectual one. It is a limitless, extremely gentle feeling, which whispers that this eternal moment is all there ever was in the little forgotten child; and, that it is all there in the old man who is drawing closer. The spiritual quest and the process of psychotherapeutic healing share this same paradigm — uncertainty. Even if we do not know how and when things will change, or if we only assume that change is probable, this has to be better than a dead-end sense of the present that keeps us trapped in unbearable repetitive loops, which undermine our existence.

Positioning yourself in the right order within your family and completing with past entanglements will bring you the ease to face the world in a refreshed and empowered way. Wherever your situation is, if you are going through transitions and looking for the right positioning to bring your full potential forward, be ready to take control of your life to unleash it. Contact me for guidance.


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