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Come visit me at the My Healthy Life Fair. I will have yoga instructor, Barbara McCarthy, from "A Yogi's Center" demonstrating Svaroopa Yoga in my booth. Come experience how amazing it feels!

My Healthy Life Fair!

Event Website: www.myhealthylifefair.com

Saturday May 26, 2012

To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
~ Agnes de Mille

It's no big secret that I am a big fan of healthy strategies that move us toward feeling freakin’ fabulous inside and out.  This particular strategy that I’m talking about in this article addresses something that we all live with every day, yet most of us do not realize just how often we do it.  What’s worse is that we go about our days largely unaware of the intrusive and undesirable physiological consequences it has on our health. 

Jane Thompson and Melanie Banayat

I attended an amazingly inspiring and educational health conference in Long Beach, California a week ago, and one morning me and my colleague (friend), Jane Thompson, took a nice brisk walk along the waterfront.  We brought our cameras with us to capture anything that caught our attention.  This “Education Vessels” sign just seemed to encapsulate the weekend for us so perfectly.

I Love FOOD!

Lately I’ve noticed that many people feel strongly inclined to clarify something about them selves to me, probably because they know I’m a health coach.  The conversation usually goes something like this, “You have to understand, Melanie, I really, really, REALLY love food!” 

Ahhh, Change. It’s the most popular topic on the Internet this week, and probably for the remainder of the month. Some folks love resolutions; some call them intentions, rituals, goals or promises.

On the other hand I’ve noticed that there appears to be a New Years Resolution revolt going on all over the place – on Facebook, on blog posts, in newsletters, newspapers, etc…

Eat Only What You Can Savor
We certainly love a juicy holiday meal don't we?  And, Guess what?  We have another whole month of Holiday foods and desserts to experience, so enjoy your meals but eat only what you can savor.  No need to eat everything on the table...twice.

Follow Your Bliss

My daughter Mikhaila is 18 now.  I’m grateful that she didn’t need to worry about getting married by age 14.  She understood that she had the choice of where she wanted to go and what she might want to study in school. She knew that she needed to work hard to get into a college. She’s now attending a wonderful college studying industrial design.

In contrast, many young teenage girls in developing countries have few choices – in some cases, no choice at all in the direction her life takes.