New Beginnings for 2012

Here is a video that I just finished watching done by Tony Robbins. In the video, Tony talks about how to make 2012 a great year. The big take away for me that I wanted to share with you is a quote, "There are 2 pains in life, the pain of DISCIPLINE or the pain of REGRET" Which one do you want to live out this year?

Enjoy!

Dr. Jennifer Bonde

Excellent Blog

Please check out this blog detailing the Tony Horton Armed Forces Entertainment tour!

Five easy tips for packing a healthy school lunch that your kids will actually eat! | Environmental Working Group

Five easy tips for packing a healthy school lunch that your kids will actually eat! | Environmental Working Group

Gluten Free Recipes

Please check out the recipes tab at Birminghamwellness.com for 2 great Gluten Free Recipes!

We are almost there!

We are almost there! Birmingham Wellness Center will be ready to serve you at our new state of the art facility at 219 Elm Street on Monday, August 1, 2011. We are still at our old location until Thursday July 28th and will be putting the finishing touches on our new facility over the weekend.

Our new home offers all of the services we have offered in the past as well as some new services all meant to support you. Continuing services include Chiropractic care, different types of massage therapy, Ion cleansing foot bath, detoxification and weight loss programs, body composition analysis and nutritional counseling.

"How Happiness Happens"

I am happy to announce that the Birmingham Wellness Center will be hosting the first ever Birmingham Community Wellness Day! Community Wellness Day is a national event that will be taking place during the fall in many communities around the country, all with the same goal: to educate residents with information critical to achieving total wellness.
I recently read Marshall and Kelly Goldsmith’s article, “How Happiness Happens” (Bloomberg Business Week) which sparked an “ah-ha” for not only myself, but why Community Wellness Day is so important. One part of wellness we often overlook is happiness. The results of their study were quite surprising. There is a direct correlating between people’s happiness and meaning at work and at home. In an essence, “those who experience happiness and meaning at work tend also to experience them outside of work.” Because the environment between both work and home are significantly different, it begs to suggest that both happiness and meaning come from within us, not from where we are and those who surround us.
The Goldsmith’s suggest that to understand how we feel, we must look at how we spend our time.

Here are some suggestions to increase our overall happiness and wellness:

• Reduce TV watching. It’s stimulating but doesn’t increase overall satisfaction with life---at work or home.

• Cut back on surfing the Web for non-professional reasons (except to learn about health and wellness!) It’s negatively correlated with the experience of both happiness and meaning.

• Do as few chores as you can (what-ever that word means to you).

• Spend time exercising and with people you love (respondents who did this had more satisfaction with life at work and at home).

• Feeling challenged is linked to greater satisfaction, so challenge yourself.
To check out the full article go to:
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_51/b4160092992355.htm

Michigan Earth Day

Join BWC at the Rochester Earthday Event!  We will be offering complimentary chair massage and a flat screen TV raffle. 

Age and our state of mind

“ Mindfulness is crucial to our health in several ways. First, when we’re mindless, we ignore all the ways we could exercise control over our health. Second, we turn that control over to the medical world, which despite the many things it can do, can’t treat us as individuals. Third, we mindlessly accept health limits that we’d be better off questioning, which closes us off to the power of possibility.”


Dr. Ellen Langer, published in Spirtuality and Health, Nov-Dec 2009



What a thought provoking statement. This quote comes from a study was an out of the box creation that gave us a very insightful conclusion. The mind is a powerful thing. Have you ever noticed that certain people seem old for their age and others young- despite their outer appearance? Our energy level and level of health are dramatically affected by our mind. Our mind is affected by our health and what we do to maintain it. So, let’s think today about what we can do to raise our level of energy -mentally and physically, so our quality of life can be the same at age 70 as at age 30.

Obesity can shorten your life by up to 12 years

"Overall, about 66% of adults in the USA are either overweight or obese. About one-third of people are in the obese category, meaning they have a body mass index of 30 or greater. "

I have to say I was shocked at this number.  I knew that Americans were overweight, but not 66% of us.  If you care to take the time to read the full article, you will learn that Obesity also now accounts for up to 9 % of all medical spending. 

I know it can be difficult to know the best way to eat and exercise, there are many great programs out there, it is just a matter of finding out what will work for you.  My suggestion would be to start with a basic cleanse and get the toxins out of your body.  Once you do this, you will be more capable of shedding the fat. 

Begin changing your diet by starting with small changes like eating one meal each day of salad and a protein choice such as chicken or fish.  Or just eat a piece of fruit for a snack.  As far as exercising, just start with a 20 minute walk 3-4 days per week and work into a more strenuous exercise program. Just start moving..........

WHICH ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS WORK?

"Alternative medicine is no longer truly alternative."

This is an interesting article that supports the idea of the wellness movement.  We need to be looking for ways to keep ourselves healthy as we move thru any stressful time in our lives.

After reading the menopause portion of this article, I wanted to suggest, there is another alternative menopausal product that has hit the market in the past 2 weeks.  Metagenics has just recieved exclusive rights to a product that has been in existence for the past 16 years in Europe.  This product is called Estrovera.  The research that has been done during this time shows a 72% reduction in menopausal hot flashes as compared to hormone replacement. For additional information about this product please visit Metagenics or to order online visit  Metagenics supplements from Metasavvy.