For those of you who joined us for the first time yesterday, welcome. For those of you who joined us for the second time, welcome back.
If you missed yesterday’s Instagram live yoga class, here is the 45-minute Zen Flow Yoga Class Online. All levels welcome. Grab your partner, your kids, and join along in moving your body to breath. You will need a yoga mat (or beach towel).
Where is our joy located? It’s an odd question. Especially during these past few weeks. Perhaps you think joy is in your heart, or maybe you experience joy as a state of mind.
It turns out, according to scientists, joy originates in the limbic system of the brain—the part of the brain that controls emotion, behavior, and long-term memory. Unlike happiness, which is a cognitive experience based in the brain’s neocortex, joy is an emotion we feel without conscious thought. We feel joy without thinking about it, and we can train our brains to feel it often.
Living an Empowered Life Filled With Love, Happiness & Success IS Absolutely Possible For You
You probably don’t hear this often enough and I want you to really take this in…
You are SO LOVED!
More than you know…
Life loves you and wants you to succeed!
You are a magnificent human being with unique talents and gifts that are truly valued.
But that’s not why you are loved.
Love is your birthright … you are loved, just because you exist.
If you missed today’s Instagram live yoga class, here is the 30-minute Zen Flow Yoga Class Online. All levels welcome. Grab your partner, your kids, and join along in moving your body to breath. You will need a yoga mat (or beach towel).
The playlist that accompanies this class: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sFvGXAcpmeerlj2J14hhr?si=J4wGxYftTF25rtn08xCOrw
Happy practicing this weekend. Harvard medical school is recommending yoga to deal with COVID-19 anxiety. Stay well. Self-care is pertinent.
Happy International Day of Happiness!
I know these days do not feel particularly happy, so I wanted to create a kind of happiness checklist for you. I wanted to share some activities and rituals you can do to boost morale, to boost your happiness and wellness quotient today and beyond.
Let’s get right to it:
Be social from a distance! My girlfriends are having morning coffee dates over FaceTime, happy hour over Zoom, and we had a block party on Sunday outside with everyone 6 feet away from each other. How about a FaceTime dinner party with another family? Keep the social connectedness to fight feelings of isolation. Check in with family and friends, virtually.
Again, I am grateful for my community who keeps reaching out daily. Since we all…
A bunch of you have reached out asking me to host a Facebook or Instagram live for community support. There are a lot of people in quarantine right now who are feeling frightened and alone.
I put a call out and you voted for Instagram live. I will be doing a live group video chat every day this week at 12pm EST at @EricaDiamond on Instagram where we can all connect, and help each other overcome feelings of isolation or fear or lack of connectedness. I look forward to seeing you there daily, Monday-Friday at 12pm.
This should soak in I bumped into my doctor yesterday coincidentally who explained to me…
“Forgiveness is powerful and hate is too, but one heals and the other destroys. Determine what end you want to be on because they both affect your life and that of others. Lessen the burden on your spirit by carrying less anger and more love instead. Don’t hold yourself hostage to what impedes your growth. –Marala Scott
The U.S. News & World has released their 10th annual ranking of the best and worst diets in 2019.
They looked at 35, including Keto, Whole 30, and Paleo, concluding that many of the most popular diets ranked among the WORST in terms of safety, weight loss, nutritional adequacy and sustainability (ease of following).
For example, the Ketogenic Diet ranked almost last at #34. This is a popular, very low carbohydrate diet which puts the body into a state of fat burning for energy. Experts gave it very low scores for safety, nutrition, long-term weight loss, heart health, and ease of following. I personally agree that it is unnecessarily restrictive for most people, and comes with too many potential drawbacks.
I help busy women (like you!) prioritize self-care so you can experience less stress, more calm and greater joy every day!
