June 2, 2010
Healthy Wealthy Boomer: Healthy Boomer Challenge
Healthy Wealthy Boomer: June 1 – Healthy Boomer Challenge
The Health Wealthy Boomer definition of health is being healthy mentally, emotionally, Spiritually, energetically, physically and financially. Inherent within this definition is the premise that total health is the single most important component of being a wealthy boomer – our most valuable asset. Let’s look at this idea and expand it.
First a couple of statistics…
The U.S. Census Bureau says that by 2030, after all baby boomers (born from 1946 to 1964) have turned 65, more than 71 million senior citizens will be living in the USA.
Currently, more Americans than ever are obese: one-third of the adult population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-06-05-obesity-age_x.htm
Whatever your personal situation is, far too many Baby Boomers are putting on weight and don’t exercise. Many of us who used to be in the 15% body fat (or lower) category are creeping up to the 25% range. There are much more in-powering choices and life patterns we can make than obesity, particularly as we age.
Many Boomers have decided that it’s too late to do anything about it and believe they are stuck permanently with sore joints, weak legs and being tired all the time – because that what happens after 50. Collectively, this is what we have been taught to accept as truth.
I disagree.
If you left a new car out in the elements and never waxed it from day one, eventually the paint would peel off. Who would ever treat a nice car that way – particularly at $25-40K+? You wash it and wax it regularly to protect the paint and to prevent oxidation. You change the oil and get the transmission serviced so it will last as long as possible.
Bodies need love too. If you are not already doing so, start loving your body and yourself. Treat yourself like an honored guest.
If you wait until 2030 to take action, it may be too late. On the positive side, you still have 20 years to become a healthy boomer. A few years ago at a Peak Potentials Train the Trainer 1 Certification intensive, Blair Singer made an interesting point via demonstration that puts 20 years into perspective.
Before I describe what Blair did, let me tell you a little about who Blair Singer is (in case you don’t know). Blair Singer is close friends with Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, a real estate investor and all around entrepreneur). Blair is a Rich Dad Adviser and a highly respected “sales trainer” – the guy companies call in to get results in sales by training their staff. Blair was also a student of Marshall Thurber, a genius in his own right and a protege of Bucky Fuller.
By the way, Blair Singer is a healthy wealthy boomer…
Here is a short video entitled Blair Singer: Secret Formula For Business Success that will give you a sense of how dynamic and talented Blair is and why he is such a successful trainer:
So back to my story…
Blair called volunteers to the front of the room ( we had about 600 attendees of which I was one) and had them line up facing the audience across the entire width of the room – and I would guess it was about 200 feet across. Then he had the volunteers stretch out a single rope all the way across the room each person in line holding the rope and keeping it level. He said that this rope represented a “whole lifetime”.
Next he talked about how a person can learn almost anything they need to in 90 days – with the right instruction, information and diligence.
Then Singer had another volunteer attach a piece of red string 3 feet long to the “life rope” and he asked the group,
“What do you all think that 3 feet of red string represents?”
He got all kinds of answers – and everybody’s attention.
Blair finally said,
“That 3 feet of string represents 90 days of your life. You can learn how to do just about anything in 90 days. And look what a tiny portion of your entire life that time really is. If you think about it, no matter how hard the challenge or how uncomfortable it makes you feel, you can both learn:
- whatever you want to learn, or
- need to learn or
- have to learn
and you can stand whatever it is for 90 days knowing it is such a small percentage of the total. Don’t you agree?”
He got absolute consensus from the group. In the big scheme of things, the time period is truly insignificant relative to your entire life. It really was an effective visual – and we often learn easier visually.
In this case, I certainly did.
Here is my Baby Boomer challenge to you:
Take the next 90 days and do something to improve your health.
Be realistic.
Take a step and start creating new habits.
Here are my basic suggestions:
- Start walking more… Use the stairs at work, park in the far corner of the parking lot when you shop, walk to the store to get the paper or buy a quart of milk instead of driving 5 blocks. You get the idea. Start taking a walk everyday – intentionally. It relaxes you, it stretches your muscles and it activates your metabolism. Walking for health is something all of us can do.
- Keep a journal of what you do. Keep tabs on what you are doing everyday so you can look at your progress on your self improvement journey. Not a big deal – maybe: “I walked 15 minutes today.”
- Find out about meditation – take a class or watch You Tube videos, or meet with a friend - and if you already know about meditation, start doing it again. Meditation is one of the best things you can do for your health. It improves so many things by default. And if nothing else, just sit quietly on the back porch for ten minutes (no phones, television or noise) and watch the sun come up or enjoy your garden or look at the moon. Getting quiet is a very good thing to do on a regular basis.
- Drink more clean water. Learn how to hydrate your body better.
- Stretch every day.
- Start going to bed earlier.
Do this for 90 days and you will feel significantly better than if you continue to postpone that period of time represented by the 3 feet of red string.
Why wait?
The purpose is to create new habits or re-create them…
If you choose to go further with this, we have created courses and workshops that really work and help people learn how to walk their talk. Get in touch on our contact page and let’s move forward.
In 20 years, you can actually be healthier than you have been in a long time and you can still become a healthy boomer. Why wait any longer to get started? You can do this incrementally gradually increasing the distance you walk and the intensity with which you exercise. Cut back on fried foods and start eating more Omega 3’s.
Start gradually and work up and in no time at all you’ll look forward to talking a brisk walk and having a tall glass of water. Think how much more energy you will have in 20 years compared to what you will feel like physically if you don’t start now. Many of the effects of aging can actually be reversed, so why wait?
Speaking of Boomer Health: What is your health worth to you?
As far as being healthy goes in 2030:
- what will that health be worth to you then? Or said differently,
- what will it be worth you in 2030 to get your health back?
To my way of thinking, being a healthy boomer is a really good investment in your future – and in your wealth – because the root of real wealth is based in pure health. It is one of those intangibles that you can control in your life. And in time, the results will become tangible – one way or the other.
When you are healthy, you have more creative energy, more energy to work, start new projects and build your wealth along the way. On the other hand, not only is it hard to work and be creative when you feel lousy, it’s no fun. How can you distinguish between wealthy boomer and a healthy one? Do you agree that health an essential component of abundance and wealth?
It’s amazing how many people I have met in the last couple of years – in their mid to late 60’s that wish they had taken better care of their bodies when they were younger. I have also met a number of people who are healthier now – in their 60’s and 70’s than many people I know in their 40’s.
- Will you be getting healthier all the time by the time you are 65?
- And will you be actively building your wealth and living the life you want, or
- Will you be working every day to pay the rent and eat like so many people in their 60’s today?
There’s no time like the present.
In fact there only is the present. The past is history and the future hasn’t come yet.
Wake up, tune it and get with it. I double dare you…
The choices you make today will determine what you become in 20 years. When the time comes, don’t say “nobody told me”. Are you really too busy to care of your health?
Get started now on the Healthy Boomer Challenge.
I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator and Boomer Health Coach
Filed under Baby Boomer Health, Blog, Health, Video, Walking, Wealth, baby boomer, healthy boomer, michael barrett by Michael Barrett
January 9, 2010
Are You a Healthy Boomer? I AM.
Are You a Healthy Boomer?
If you are – good for you. If you’re not yet, you can be. 2010 is the year for great possibilities.
New Years resolutions tend to be an annual ritual for many of us as we reflect upon the year that we are leaving behind and look forward to potential in the new year. Why do health club memberships skyrocket every year about this time and then peter out around March?
Basically new years resolutions never work and there is a good reason for that which I will address later in this post.
What gives ME the right to “preach”?
Because I AM a Healthy Boomer.
It is not an accident that guys half my age call me Mr. Energy. I have been focused on a healthy and natural lifestyle since 1971 – with some glitches and bumps along the way – but overall, throughout most of that time, I have chosen a path of “excellent health and vitality” as my standard. My lifelong motto has been this: I DON’T DO SICK. I have chosen a life of health as a conscious decision.
At age 18, I decided to take responsibility for my health. I made a choice to follow a path that would lead to longevity – and a vibrant, healthy life – not just a long one. I started looking at people around me and noticed how some older people had beautiful skin and bright shiny eyes and others seemed withered, with dry skin and dull eyes. Some had a bounce in their step with lots of energy, while for others, walking was difficult and labored.
I made a life choice – there and then – that I would be a member of the former group, and not the latter.
As a result of that life choice, my health journey began with the following questions emerging within my consciousness and becoming a dominant force in my life:
- How do I do that?
- How do I live a long and vibrantly healthy life?
- What constitutes this kind of lifestyle?
- How do I define this for myself?
- What rules do I need to live by?
That may not seem like a big deal to you – now – as you read this.
Consider this: On a personal level, what were you thinking about – around health - at age a 18?
In retrospect, for an invincible, highly energetic, 18 year old ‘hot shot’ – with a metabolism that required 6 full meals a day – that was a pretty profound choice and decision.
One of the things that had led up to that decision was the loss of my dearest and closest friend about a year earlier. He and his brother were both killed in a head-on by a drunk driver. His death forced me to consider mortality for the second time in my life.
Only this experience was different, it went to my core.
I went deep and sought resolution within myself. As I pondered life and death coherently and cogently, I chose to redirect my life towards another path. I withdrew from the circle of friends I had known and associated with – completely – and embarked upon my own path, alone. On some level I understood that if I did not, I would end up like my dear friend had.
Health became a driving force as a martial arts enthusiast and an “A” student in my first year of college, as a full time accounting major.
The regimen of rigorous training – 6 times a week at the dojo – and 3 to 4 hours of study daily quickly formed a solid pattern of self discipline – a skill that has been a real benefit since.
Self Discipline Is a Key Ingredient to Health…
Where it is most important – in my experience – is upholding our choices and being disciplined in our own willingness to follow through on those choices over the long haul. Consistency is what creates self discipline. And consistency in our attitude creates good health over time.
Over many years I have observed human behavior in a class and training environments – originally in martial arts and for the last 22 years, in qigong and the self development world. What I know is that people have to start where they are, with the existing skills they have – and build success upon those.
This is my mission with Baby Boomers to promote and in-power Baby Boomer health.
Why Don’t New Years Resolutions Work?
Here’s why.
Changing your mind does not change your energy body – your blueprint – until your mind and your energy body are in alignment. When you change in your root – in your energy – the change is permanent.
How do we do that?
I have looked for a method that works for everybody my whole life and in 2009 I found it. It’s called Core Health, a system of comprehensive kinesiology that both encompasses and expands upon:
- behavioral kinesiology and
- energy psychology
I liked it so much I moved from Montana to Florida and have just completed my certification as a Core Health Facilitator.
This is the most comprehensive and effective system I have ever studied and I want to teach anyone – who is sincerely ready for a change in their life – how to change their lives with new energy decisions that are permanent.
Find out more about Core Health Workshops and Heart Forgiveness and Funny with Money for 2010 and make this the year you become a Healthy Boomer. Workshops forming right now in the Sarasota, Nokomis, St Petersburg and Tampa areas.
We travel to your city for group trainings. We also do corporate training to achieve enhanced workplace productivity through more conscious employees, better working relationships, less absenteeism, and increased energy levels.
Get in touch on the contact page and let’s talk.
We do win-win in a big way and we love our work.
I AM Michael Barrett. I AM a Core Health and Heart Forgiveness Facilitator and I AM Healthy Wealthy Boomer.
Filed under Baby Boomer Health, Blog, Core Health, Funny With Money, Health, Heart Forgiveness, Longevity, Qigong, baby boomer, healthy boomer by Michael Barrett
June 1, 2009
Baby Boomer Balance
Baby Boomer balance has everything to do with alignment and walking our talk.
How many times in your life have you verbally committed to doing something and then reneged at some point because something came up – or the memory and focus of the original conversation faded and became a distant glimmer of muffled sound – like a silhouette of a campfire on the beach against a cliff late at night?
Was it your intention not to follow through? Did you actually make the commitment intending not to follow through?
In a peculiar way, this is the truth.
Recently, on a personal level, I have learned about authenticity – living it, speaking it and looking for it. This ties in directly to other aspects of what I am learning that I would like to share with you. See how it sits with you and maybe it will make sense to you the way it is beginning to in my life.
Lately many aspects of emotion are becoming clear in my life.
What emotion is, for example.
As far back as I can remember, emotion has been something usually associated with discomfort – something to “kind of walk around” or to be cautious about not stirring up the mud in the bottom of the pond, so to speak.
Because there was so much turmoil in my household as a boy, it became easier to avoid emotion than deal with it. As a memory, there is a great deal of fighting and negative emotion throughout much of the childhood experience. So looking back at the chain of events in my own experience, I see that inadvertently, as a young man my “internal” system gradually guided me in the direction of avoiding emotion as a survival tool, because many times this was easier than experiencing the emotion that was available there.
It was not a conscious choice, in retrospect.
And looking at that process, it becomes clear to me that a great deal of my subsequent experience around emotion was either directly – or indirectly – linked to the that “unconscious choice” so many years ago.
What is interesting about this scenario is that I have always been a highly sensitive human being with an singular sense of fairness and equity that has always been a major part of my personality. Being a “Cancer” with a heavy emphasis on emotion, this aspect has often been a double edged sword for me.
More often than not, I felt more than the others around me did. Many times it created a situation where I really felt like an outcast – the weirdo, the odd one – that got messages and direction that nobody else seemed to understand – or be aware of. At the age where peer approval was so important to a young man, this was often troubling and confusing. And yet on a certain level, I really didn’t care what they thought either. I rarely listened to what other people had to say.
Talk about confusion…
So here I am as a teenager:
- becoming a master of avoiding emotion while simultaneously
- being highly sensitive to the energy and emotion around me
- angry and aloof – getting tons of “downloads” encrypted in a language that only I seemed to understand
So back to the “truth” of not intending to follow commitments – of having intentions NOT to honor commitments we make – even though we are verbally nodding our heads.
In 2005, at a Peak Potentials Wizard Camp (a 5 day intensive seminar not to far from Whistler, BC) I had an epiphany. I learned first hand what commitment means. This took place in the form of a direct experience – but also, I actually saw commitment with my own eyes. I have written about this experience in depth in my book so I will not reiterate it here.
I really got something in that experience that I have carried forward with me since and have grown to realize that it affects everything we do in life – all the time.
To summarize, this is it:
Commitment does not exist in the cosmos as ‘partial’. It is all or nothing. We are either 100% committed or we are not committed. There is no such thing as “sort of committed”.
This is the crux of the theme of this post: Baby Boomer Balance.
Lately, as a I mentioned earlier, many aspects of “emotion” are becoming clear to me.
1. I have recently heard this: emotions are the way that God speaks to us.
2. Emotions are the internal guide posts that empower us to choose the right decision.
3. Emotions have nothing to do with pain or fear – both of which stem from our reaction to what our emotions are telling us – rather than what is actually being said.
4. Most of us avoid experiencing emotion like the plague because in much of our experience, when we feel emotion, we feel pain – so we associate it with pain.
5. Emotions are tools to guide us in the decision process. That decision process is very simple: Does this choice feel good? Or does this choice not feel good?
When we pull this understanding into our daily life as an operating tool, emotions make it easy to decide what to do. Esther Hicks and Abraham always talk about “going upstream or going downstream”.
I am learning how simple this is – but it took a long time for me to “get it”.
I am learning to use this tool frequently throughout the day. Any time I start to feel agitation about something I am hearing, or about something I am thinking or a choice I am about to make, I ask myself:
Does this feel upstream or downstream? If I get the feeling that the “thing” is upstream ( a choice that will take me into a situation that will mean “fighting my way upstream”), I choose consciously not to do that thing, or say those words or go that direction. No explanation, no argument and no rhetoric.
If this thing makes me feel “downstream” – like flowing with the current and really going with the flow, that is the choice I make. I find that as soon as I identify internally what feels good and what feels downstream, all sense of agitation and discomfort – in the bottom of my stomach immediately fades away and I feel good.
What a cool way to deal with emotion. It now becomes a tool for choosing our path and for making decisions all the time. And it is so simple – as long as we just listen and do not resist or react.
Now more about balance…
I am finding that living our truth is all about balance.
To be authentic we must live our truth. That means we can not go against what we know is right within us. In other words, we must always choose what feels downstream in order to follow “what feels right for us”. Any time we make a choice other than this, it means that we are making a choice out of alignment with who we are.
Maybe this is to please others whom we admire and whose approval we are seeking. Maybe we want a different outcome to be our reality so we think that if we ignore that “feeling” it will come out the way we really want it to happen.
The truth is that we can only make choices in alignment with our “authenticity” if we want to be authentic. Nothing else makes sense. The interesting part is that as soon as we choose this, everybody else around us identifies our authenticity and starts to respect it.
Now how does commitment fit into this picture?
It is very simple yet subtle – much in the same way how easy it is to choose “upstream or downstream”. Yet, perhaps commitment is one of the most misunderstood concepts in modern society at this point. Truly most of us think we are committed when we are not.
Because being committed means that no matter what we will follow through. It means our word is our bond, it is an extension of our truth and it is a big part of being authentic.
How is this so?
If we are truly being authentic, we follow through on our commitments because when we are following our inner truth, we only commit to those things that make us feel “downstream:” We choose what is right for us at all times and we choose to be in the flow.
When we are authentic, we are choosing that which is alignment with our higher self – which also means we are choosing that which is in alignment with the part of us which is Divine.
When we are authentic, we only agree to commit to anything that we choose to be in alignment with. What this means, therefore, is that it is really ok to say NO.
Simply go inside and ask yourself: If I commit to this does it make me feel downstream or upstream? Then base your commitment on that feeling – one way or the other.
If we commit to something and we do not follow through, either we were not being authentic when we entered into the commitment, or we are not being true to ourselves when we do not follow through to that commitment.
We are the leaders for future generations. What happens is our responsibility. How can we lead these kids and guide the flow “downstream” in the bigger picture if we are not committed to our principles, our values and our integrity?
And how can we expect those who are so desperately needing our leadership to believe us and follow our direction if:
- our walk is not in alignment with our talk and
- if we are not being authentic
We cannot expect them to listen because it will not feel “downstream” to them. And they will blow us off.
We have a chance to make a real change as we head into the magnificent transition into the new paradigm that is coming.
Commit to your own alignment and your Baby Boomer Balance.
Being in alignment is a big part of Baby Boomer Balance as well as a major ingredient in Baby Boomer Health. Coming to grips with these issues are not only a component of who were are becoming as leaders, it is also a big part of choosing emotional cleansing and self esteem on a conscious level – instead of an unconscious one.
Are you ready to see it all in a different light and quit fighting the inevitable – upstream?
I am.
Blessings.
Michael Barrett
Filed under Authenticity, Baby Boomer Health, Blog, Emotional cleansing, Health, Self Esteem, Video, Web 2.0, Work at home boomers, mp3 by michaelbarrett
April 16, 2009
Baby Boomer Health…
You know I just Googled “Boomer Health” and I was appalled at the titles of two of the top four pages:
Here are the search results:
- Boomers Biggest Health Mistakes
- 12 Risks of Aging that Boomers Can Avoid
- Boomer Health
- Boomer Health Care Dilemma
There is so much emphasis on illness, failure, pain, mistakes, risk and dilemmas. What disturbs me is that there is not more emphasis on successes, good choices, being pain free, creating unlimited energy and feeling great.
We have a tendency as a culture to get sucked into this focus – about all the bad things that are happening and coming our way – that we had better get prepared for. The media loves it.
The reality is that the Boomers Biggest Health Mistake Is Listening to and Buying into an illness mindset.
How about these titles for the top ten Boomer Health results as an alternative:
- Three Things Boomers Can Do Today to Start Feeling Better Tomorrow
- The Joy of Getting Older
- Life Gets Better at 40
- Choose Your Ideal Weight
- Create the Baby Boomer Lifestyle of Your Dreams
- 67 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Life that Don’t Cost a Thing
- Feel Better and Look Better in 60 Days
- Why Baby Boomers Make Better Lovers
- How To Have more Energy
- Baby Boomer Health Success Stories
People accept failure and pain and illness as the default of getting older.
Pardon the expression – but simply stated – that is a load of crap. The natural default is absolute and abundant health and prosperity. That’s how the universe was created.
As Baby Boomers, we can begin to change our lives today and within a few years can have abundant health and a joy in our physical awareness and experience every day.
There are no limits to your capability and you do not have to accept the media mantra as your default or paradigm.
I don’t.
Here is a video that addresses what I am talking about from a doctor’s perspective. Listen to Dr Cass as she speaks intelligently about baby boomer health.
It’s so simple and so true.
Baby Boomers Revolutionizing Health…
You can start changing your life today and get real results faster than you realize. It starts with a choice.
This is the theme of my book (Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st) and my passion in life. I really want to help anyone who wants to improve their life and is willing to work at it – to do so.
Let me know what you want help with and join the HWB Facebook group.
I sincerely care about my generation and want to make a real difference.
Wake up Baby Boomers, get involved and shut off the negative media.
Life is fabulous and you are unlimited.
Start making choices that reflect this.
You are all deeply appreciated and loved.
Michael Barrett
Filed under Anti-aging, Baby Boomer Health, Baby Boomers, Blog, Health, Video, Web 2.0 by michaelbarrett
April 15, 2009
EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique and Pamela Gregory
EFT is a very effective healing practice that was developed by Gary Craig.
You can find out more about it at the Emotional Freedom Technique website.
To quote from the website:
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an emotional, needle free version of acupuncture that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body’s subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. EFT has been reported successful in thousands of cases covering a huge range of emotional, health and performance issues. It often works where nothing else will.
There are three reasons I am blogging about EFT.
- EFT is something that everyone – and particularly every baby boomer – should know about and learn how to use. It is a simple yet effective system for emotional cleansing. When I find something this good, I want to share it with everybody. The information is free and the techniques are very effective. Just go the website and download the free manual and get started today.
- I have known about EFT for quite a while and have used it a few times myself with mediocre success on a personal level. But, because so many experts that I respect have said it is very effective, I included in my 60 Days To Look Better and Feel Better (the companion course to my book Healthy Wealthy Boomer) as a daily practice for emotional cleansing and balance.
- Today, I was given an EFT private healing session. That two hour session has changed me internally, dramatically. I can not impress upon you enough how much of a difference and how much better I feel. In many respects, I believe it was a re-birthing emotionally and spiritually. I feel so blessed and am so grateful, I wanted to make a public declaration and give credit where credit is due.
Whenever I See Excellence and Grace, It Creates A Sense of Awe
It’s always amazing to me when I cross paths with someone who is really good at what they do – particularly when there is genuine humility and no ego involved. I love mastery and goodness. It never fails to restore my faith in humanity and always reminds me how much unconditional love matters – and how rare it is.
Service to others is usually the primary driving force behind authentic people who really care.
Pamela Gregory is one such individual.
She has been an EFT practitioner for 6 years. In my case, she recognized my situation and the depth of what I was going through and she immediately threw me a “lifeline”. She went the extra mile and took the time to fully communicate with me and really listen.
She stepped in, was firm and very loving and she provided me with a great deal of preparatory information and support. Her session was well directed and executed professionally and with sincere kindness. She acted like a catalyst to open me up. This woman is blessed with an ability and works in Divine Love. She was an angel to me. I trust her completely and recommend her wholeheartedly.
If you have any emotional issues that have been hanging on for a long time or emotional pain, get in touch with Pamela. You will not only love her personally, you will love the results.
I mean this sincerely.
Just as a sidebar, I am not affiliated with Pamela or emofree.com and receive no compensation for these endorsements – just the satisfaction of knowing that everybody wins.
There are two videos she recommended I watch prior to the session to get a real sense of the power of EFT. I did and they are powerful – particularly the one showing veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrone being treated with EFT. I have included it here.
Vets Being Treated For PTSS with EFT
She has a Facebook group called: Forgiveness Healing. In fact this is where I found her and became Facebook friends. If you are on Facebook, go here and join this group.
You can get a Pamela Gregory EFT Private Session here.
If nothing else, go to the EFT website and download the free EFT manual.
Wishing you the best.
Michael Barrett
Filed under Blog, Emotional cleansing, Health, Video, Web 2.0 by michaelbarrett
April 12, 2009
What Health Really Is…
Health is a composite of everything that we are.
Let me rephrase that. Let’s use the analogy of making bread to describe health.
Everything we think and say and do goes into a big spiritual mixer and gets mixed up like bread dough. Whatever is in that dough determines what the bread is like when we bake it. It can have too much yeast, it can fall during the proofing process. It can be fluffy and light and marvelous coming out of the oven. Or it can be dense and have pockets of air when we slice through the loaf.
It all depends on what we throw into the mixer.
Health is much more than our physical condition. It is also a reflection of everything thing that we are at any given moment – including our physical condition – and it changes constantly.
What we think about is critical because we now know from Quantum physics that when we focus our attention on something we actually affect what we focus on. We literally change the world around us
and create the world that ‘we are thinking’. Eastern mysticism has been saying the same thing for centuries.
So it is important that we pay close attention to WHAT we think about and HOW we think.
Our emotions play a big role in our health as well. Recently I read that our emotions are the primary tool God uses to communicate with us. For the vast majority of us earthlings, emotions are complicated. Generally, we associate deep feelings and emotions with FEELING PAIN – something we want to avoid.
This is rooted in our experiences as children. We are taught, in most cases, fairly early on that when we allow ourselves to feel deep emotions and when we feel that is where we get hurt. So as a culture, most of us run from emotions and have a tendency to shut them down or deny them because it is safer – and definitely simpler.
What I have learned over many years is that avoiding emotions is the worst way to handle them because unexpressed emotions are the ones that make us sick. They accumulate in the body and get ’stuck’ if they are not expressed. Year after year they accumulate and in time they become toxic and painful almost like an infection. While we may not be aware of it on a conscious level, these emotions are constantly nagging at us to let them out. Emotions want to be expressed. In time, this turns into physical pain and manifests itself as ‘illness’ or DISease. Notice the word, it really means not-ease.
I heard a definition of emotion by a very tuned in lady in 1984. She said emotions are energy in motion and spelled it this way: E-motion.
Emotions are powerful tools and empower us to really feel and experience the greatest aspects of our lives fully and to feel LOVE to it’s intended depth and capacity. And if they really are the way God talks to us, it seems like we better figure out how to use and understand emotions effectively – just in case we miss something really important.
Aside from the spiritual aspect, which is actually an integral part of balanced health, we need to express our emotions or they will make us sick. And if we have a lot of them bottled up inside of us, it’s a good idea to get them out and clean out the “toxin” they have become.
Energetic health is critical to everything and yet it is probably the most misunderstood aspect of health from the perspective of western scientists, researchers and allopathic medical practitioners (although this is starting to change to some degree).
The Chinese call life energy CHI (QI) and refer to the energy pathways in the body as meridians, or channel chi meridians. East Indians refer to the “chakras” and the energy body. While Western medicine is still waking up – and/or in denial entirely, I can tell you from personal experience that not only are the meridians real, balancing energy, storage and refinement of energy is the real key to good health and longevity.
Spiritual balance is a big piece of the pie. And I am not talking about a particular religion or religious practice. I am talking about becoming spiritual, developing a spiritual awareness and aligning with that part of yourself deep within that knows the truth. It is getting good at remembering your connection to God.
In that context, whatever religious perspective you have, everyone should meditate. It is a key component for health and has a direct and profound influence on so many aspects of health that it could be the subject of an entire book or library.
Health is also the reflection of our physical condition. What we eat, how much we eat, how we take care of our body in all capacities – including exercise, removing toxins, rejuvenation, replenishment, and relaxation – all makes a difference.
Financial health is important in today’s world. Lack of money is the greatest destroyer of marriage today. It create stress, worry and a multitude of problems and most of us are raised with an inaccurate money consciousness. Most of us are taught a poverty consciousness. So part of real health in the 21st century includes recreating our (as Harv Eker calls it) MONEY BLUEPRINT.
To recap, according to my way of thinking and the way I describe it in my book, Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st, true health is a balance of the:
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual
- Energetic
- Financial
aspects of our lives.
Physical health is the real starting point because if we don’t feel good when we get up in the morning, it’s a really poor way to start each day and to live our lives. The body is very tolerant and also very resilient. You can choose health or not, it’s up to you.
Abundance is the true default of the universe – abundant LOVE, prosperity, joy and health. It is our job to remember that we deserve and have the right to manifest everything we want in our life and that we are worthy.
We were designed to be healthy and the universe wants us to have abundant joyful lives in all aspects. Feeling good every day and vibrant health is our right.
I’m serious about making my life everything I want it to be. Right now, I’m working on the 7 Steps to Manifesting the Life of Your Dreams, it’s a free course, it fun and it’s helping me. I recommend you do the same thing. Find out about Manifest Mastermind and build the life you want including amazing health. It teaches you how to use the Law of Attraction to get whatever you want in your life.
It’s not too late for Baby Boomers to change our health and our lives.
Filed under Baby Boomer Health, Baby Boomers, Blog, Health, Law of Attraction, Longevity, Love, meditation by michaelbarrett
April 10, 2009
How I Stay Healthy…
First off, I work at it.
I am a baby boomer. I care about people in my age group who are starting to show the signs of wear and tear and who aren’t doing anything about it. I want to help Boomers change this in a big way and I know how.
If you’re wealthy and sick, are you really wealthy? If you had a terminal disease, what would you pay to get your health back? The fact is that millions of Boomers are headed there right now unless they start doing something about it.
For the greater part of my adult life, I have been very consistent about taking care of myself. I love to feel good and I have lots of energy. Ask people that know me well and they will verify my vast reserves of energy and untiring ability to keep going after most people burn out.
I’m not a superstar, just a guy who has a system that works well for me.
I am not a tri-athlete, a marathon runner or a weight lifter. But I have amazing endurance, useable strength and overall excellent physical tone. I can’t run 26 miles but I bet I could walk 100. I can’t lift 400 pounds, but I have a healthy back and that’s what hydraulics are for – not the human body. I’m almost 56 (and that picture was taken less than two weeks ago), but most people think I’m in my 40’s and that’s not just from the way I look, it’s also how I use my body. It’s physical expression as well as surface appearance.
In my book, Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st, I go into detail. I also wrote a companion course to implement the plan and get it working in 60 days, called “How To Look Better and Feel Better in 60 days.”
I created checklists and instructions that I keep in a binder and check off the list as I follow the program everyday. I have found this to be effective for me because it creates a visual map of my consistency, diligence and where I need to improve my efforts. At a single glance, on one sheet I can see everything I have done (or not done) for 10 days.
Over the course of the last 35 years, I have read and studied all kind of programs and been a diligent student of natural health and how to create a healthy lifestyle with the objective of a primary goal:
LONGEVITY.
Here ’s a quick summary of what I do all the time.
- I walk.
- I drink lots of water.
- I eat really healthy food and know a lot about what fuel works best for my body.
- I practice qigong regularly.
- I do Tibetan rejuvenation exercises.
- I do a 6-7 minute set on the Total Gym (although right now it is in storage in another state after a recent move and I have not retrieved it yet)
- I stretch.
- I love my body and let him know often how much I appreciate everything he does for me.
- I love myself.
- I focus on positive thoughts and language.
- I think healthy thoughts.
- I work at balancing my emotions and being present.
- I MEDITATE everyday.
- I recognize SOURCE ENERGY as the root of my strength and the source of my health and I express my gratitude every day
I do lots of other things regularly – but not every day. I choose health and always take responsibility for three things:
- What I put in my mouth everyday
- What I think about and the words I use
- How I use my time
I have developed a system that really gets long range results. It is designed to work for anybody – just regular people who want to improve themselves. You simply start wherever you are and get started doing whatever you can handle to begin with. You add more to the regimen as you develop skills, expertise and the ability to handle more.
Nothing extravagant, exotic or difficult to learn.
The key is to get started and keep doing what you can everyday. I can show you how.
I’m no super star professional athlete, just a guy who has figured out how to keep thinking right and really loves to feel good. Most of it is common sense, but it helps to have a coach to bring out the best and learn how to improve – at least until you have the system down yourself.
I’m going to start introducing live workshops, online training and various programs in the near future. I am also now focused on publishing my book with three more coming after that.
For now, if you’re feeling lousy. Do something about it.
- Start walking everyday and increase the distance as your legs get stronger and your breathing improves.
- Drink a gallon of water a day forever. Start with a few glasses of water and work up. I fill a half gallon container up 2 times a day and drink it all day long. You can drink a glass every hour. Whatever works for you. Just do it. Hydration is so important.
- Start eating smaller portions of the food you are eating right now. And eat more frequently. Cut way back on fried foods – period. Eat more raw food and organic is way better.
- Elminate toxic thinking and emotions.
None of that costs anything or is a big transition. Anybody can do what I just wrote.
- Choose to start loving yourself.
- Decide.
- Take responsibility.
- Do it.
You are perfect, whole and complete and you are loved Divinely just the way you are. There is nothing you need to change or be, just to to remember that you are perfect and really believe it.
With some practice on your part, the rest will take care of itself. Before you know it, you’ll be a healthy wealthy boomer too.
Filed under Anti-aging, Baby Boomer Health, Baby Boomers, Blog, Health, Longevity, Walking by michaelbarrett
April 9, 2009
Celtic Warrior Meditation…
It seems as if I have reawakened the Warrior Energy within me lately and it has taken a forward position in my thinking and contemplation.
I have decided to focus on different aspects of meditation for a while because it is becoming more clear all the time that the whole world needs to meditate right now and get things back on track.
It plays such am important role in health. Baby Boomers have a greater need to focus more internally – than externally – just to shut out the noise, the mental clutter and information overload. It is an integral part of achieving balanced health and integrating a healthy lifestyle into today’s world.
Listen to this with headphones on and see what you think.
I find this meditation incredibly stimulating, yet very relaxing.
I call it the Celtic Warrior Meditation but the people who created it call it the Celtic Tranquility Meditation.
Men it’s time to awaken the WARRIOR ENERGY WITHIN YOU AGAIN.
Step into your power, your women need you.
May you be blessed in the Light of Source Energy in strength and serenity.
Aum, Peace, Amen
Filed under Baby Boomers, Blog, Health, Life extension, Video, meditation by michaelbarrett
May 25, 2008
What Is A Healthy Wealthy Boomer?
Healthy Wealthy Boomer is a concept based on the thought that man’s greatest
achievement in life stems from the pursuit of excellence.
As Boomer adults we have accumulated the practical experience we need to make good
decisions. And one of those decisions is a choice to be healthy. We are now at a place
in our lives where we can let go of the past mistakes and focus on creating the lifestyle we choose to live and and creating the life we deserve.
And the place to start is physical health.
True wealth is rooted in robust health. What is more costly than the loss of good health permanently? And conversely, what is a more valuable treasure than longevity coupled with vitality?
A great deal of the disease and illness in modern society is a function of toxins accumulated in the body. There has never been a greater biochemical assault on the human body – heavy metals, pcb’s, chemicals, pesticides, microwave technology and all types of other pollution are pushing the human body’s filtering mechanisms to the absolute limit.
In addition, the levels of stress in modern society are reaching unprecedented levels.As such, coupled with the toxins, our livers are maxed out for the most part and our adrenal systems are on tilt.
Recently, I read an article by Dr Mercola that said 80% of the immune system is located in the digestive tract.
Whoa…
Cleansing the Body Of Toxins Is Really Important
So cleansing the body now becomes a social imperative. We need to cleanse the colon and the liver regularly. Purge the toxins first and get the plumbing cleaned up so we can get the body back into a state where our great grandparents were before all the toxin in the environment. This must be done regularly like changing oil in your car.
This will enable to the immune system to get back on track and get strong again. And what is more fundamental to fighting disease than a strong immune system?
The cool part is that the body is amazingly resilient. It will bounce back quickly and start improving itself as soon as we provide the cleansing and the nutritional building blocks it needs to do the job.
Unexpressed Emotions Accumulate
There is a growing body of information that basically says unexpressed emotions accumulate in the body too and with time they can become toxic as well.
I firmly believe that my dad died of colon cancer primarily from unexpressed emotions that he had “stuffed” for the majority of his life – that combined with a mass of collected fecal material in his digestive tract that accumulated for many years. He was taught not to express his emotions from a very young age. But in terms of health, I am certain that if he had started receiving colonics and good nutrition a couple of years before his surgery, he would still be here today.
So Cleansing Takes on A Whole New Meaning
Once we get the physical body cleansed completely, many of the physical problems will go away naturally. We also require good nutrition for optimum performance.
After the system is running smoothly again, we can focus on purging old emotions and then learn new skills at expressing emotions in a healthy way – so that they do not accumulate again.
Next we start taking control of our thinking – first by becoming aware of what we think about all the time (which is a big step) and then choosing what we think about more carefully.
So cleansing becomes:
- cleansing the colon, the liver and the cells
- cleansing and purging old emotions
- cleansing our minds of the “stinkin thinkin”
So in order to be a healthy wealthy boomer, this is our recommended order of sequence:
Physical Health – feel great first… Emotional Health – purge old emotions, create great relationships and learn how to express your emotion Mental Health – learn to take control of the “voice in your head” Spiritual Health Financial Health
We have created a book that lays out the plan, it’s called “Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan To Make the Second 50 Years Better Than the First”. It will be released soon. In the meantime, why not join our Healthy Wealthy Boomers on Facebook Group
Have Healthy Wealthy day…
Filed under Baby Boomers, Blog, Colon cleansing, Emotional cleansing, Health, Wealth by Michael Barrett
What Do You Actually Know about Genetically Modified Foods?
Are GM Foods a long range technical solution and improvement to the world’s food supply or a great, big, uncontrollable mistake?
More and more it becomes evident that going organic and switching to raw food recipes as a mainstay of the diet – not just an occasional raw meal – is essential. We are beginning to transition permanently with the goal of achieving a 75-80% raw food ratio in our diet.
There are lots of reasons why and we’re going to do a series all about organic foods. And I would like to point out that I am a big fan of technology – it’s cool stuff. But ever changing rapid growth is creating a parallel level of unprecedented exponential growth in ethical responsibility.
This is that the magnitude of any potential problem is so much more prevalent because of the technology.
I’m addressing this issue with Boomers because as a group, we have clout and the potential to get something done about this. There are 77+Million of us and collectively we have a lot of buying power. From that perspective – as an organized body – the powers that be will listen to us because we can impact them both economically and politically.
To me, GM Foods are a really good reason to go organic.
If reading a recent Mercola newsletter article “This company may be the biggest threat to your future health” doesn’t give you the “willies”, either you’re in denial or you haven’t read the article and watched the video.
It scares me…
Before you classify me as a ranting and raving food whacko, watch the video and decide for yourself.
And if Mercola’s article doesn’t have you convinced, read this one: My God What Have We Done? When you get to the page, scroll down to: “Have you heard of the nightmare condition called Morgellon’s Disease?
Pictures of Morgellon’s Disease at the foundation website.
The idea that we have created a disease as a result of gene splicing or mutated or cross linked DNA is really a classic theme for a sci-fi flick, but not a good idea in your family or your neighborhood.
The really scary part of this is that there is no known human enzyme that has the potential to process and breakdown these fibers once they are in the body. The human body is incapable of dealing with this unnatural condition and material.
Here is a quote from Mercola.com:
As of February 2007, more than 10,000 reports of the mysterious disease have been reported on the Morgellon Foundation’s website – up from 2,000 reports a year earlier.
Many of you probably don’t understand just how ubiquitous GM foods are in the food chain.
The fact is that genetically modified foods are so prevalent in the United States that if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store’s shelves, you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with GM ingredients. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified.
GM (genetically modified) foods make me nervous. It took thousands of years for man to figure out what DNA was in the first place.
How did we become expert enough on the subject of the double helix - so quickly – to decide that we have enough knowledge and understanding to modify the fundamental components of life on this planet without making a mess out of things?
The fact is that we really don’t understand what mutations are – at least not well enough to know what the potential long range implications are if we create unnatural dna combinations or mutations – inadvertently – while we are “creating superior foods”.
Superior to what?
Nature? God?
Give me a break…
And what if some of the gene splicing we do in a lab has a long term effect that will not be evident for – say 30 years?
If the clowns in Washington can not:
- manage a budget correctly
- or implement a solution to educating our children
- or create a health care system that actually gets people well
- or develop a fiscally viable transportation system or energy policy
Why should we allow these same people to authorize companies, scientists, or special interest groups to potentially meddle with the balance of nature and the fundamental structure of life?
We can recover from economic mistakes but what happens if something goes wrong with this?
Who is culpable? And who is going to pay for it? Who the hell knows what can happen?
Oh well, sorry. We goofed.
Not !!!
This is not a little thing. It has the potential to be an irreversible global catastrophe.
What makes you think that the people interested in promoting this technology are smart enough and focused enough on your well being (and the well being of your grandchildren) to allow them to modify nature without first being very, very clear of the outcomes?
Why are they so qualified?
The burden of proof is on them to prove this – not on the public at large to prove their incompetence after a potential disaster. Who are these “experts” anyway? Are they experts because they say so and do they really have a handle on the implications of their research?
I’m skeptical to put it mildly and I want to know why I should believe what they say.
If science truly understood mutations, we’d have a full blown cure to cancer tomorrow. We don’t.
And these people have the audacity to declare their science creates less of an environmental impact on agriculture than prior methods. From what we are beginning to see, how dare they say that?
They dare because nobody is holding them accountable. The fact is that most Americans do not have the facts.
Personally any crop that can withstand a direct application of “Round Up” and survive is not something I want to ingest. And if I did, what kind of nutrition would be left in a food so resistant to that type of chemical assault?
Simple question for my “simple mind”:
If that plant can withstand that type of punishment – and survive – how could my body possibly digest it?
I simply do not understand how this can be good for my body?
Or – even more important – for the body of an infant or young child that is still developing muscle tissue, organs and a skeletal system? I’m pretty tough and have a well developed immune system because I have made it my job to do so over the last 35+ years.
They haven’t.
I simply do not understand the answer to these questions.
Do you?
The fact is that we all need to know about this stuff and what’s going on behind the scenes.
This may be the most important issue of our time and I’m not exaggerating when I say this. It is our duty as as citizens in a free society (the stock holders of our government – so to speak) to hold these guys accountable in every media venue, to shed light on the darkness and put a halt to this madness before it is too late or at least until we know for sure what we are doing.
Get informed and talk to your friends and neighbors about this – and your sphere of influence. Get involved.
- Email, write and call your representatives on a local, state and federal level and let them know you are concerned.
- Email, write and call the local food service and produce distributors that provide foods to your local community and let them know how you feel and that you are not going to buy products where they use GM foods and encourage them to stop selling GM products. They are in the phone book or you can get the names of the suppliers from the local grocery stores and restaurants.
- Email, write and call the regional offices of the grocery stores you patronize and deal directly with regional management – not the PR people or the filters – the management.
- Tell them you want answers and want this entire process halted until we have definitive proof that it is safe.
- At the very least, demand full disclosure – and labeling – of all GM (genetically modified) and irradiated food at the grocery stores and in all packaged foods so you can choose for yourself if you want to buy GM foods or not – and to know if you are already consuming them or not.
- Buy stocks of food companies (producers, processors, distributors, grocery stores and restaurant chains) that do not utilize GM foods in their processing and manufacturing
- Sell stocks that do.
- Stop buying all forms of genetically modified foods – just in case they are not safe
- Read the labels of any packaged food you buy so you know what you are going to put into your body and your children.
- Buy organic produce from local farmers, support organic agriculture and buy from the local farmers markets.
- Tell the manager at all the grocery stores you patronize that you want more organic produce and frozen organic fruits – and then support them when they stock it.
- And last but not least, start growing an organic vegetable garden wherever possible – on a local level – so you know what you are eating. Start a garden with your neighbor, grow organic tomatoes in a pot on your porch or deck.
This is a big deal. It seems like a much more important agenda for Congress than hearings on “steroids in baseball.”
What do you think?
If you think this is going to go away on its own, you’re kidding yourself. The only way it will go away is if we make it go away. There’s money and power at stake.
My final comment:
I’m not militant about very many things. Except two:
- Don’t mess with my kids, my family and the people I care about. If you hurt them or threaten them, you will have to answer to me personally.
- Don’t dare to tell me what I can do with my body. If you think the Boston Tea Party was a big deal, wait until the US population has had enough. This is the real “health care crisis” in this country – and worldwide for that matter, not the price of “generic drugs” and whether insurance will cover Chinese medicine or not.
We need – instead – to focus our science, technology and economic strength on developing methods for becoming the largest producer the most nutritious NATURAL foods in the world. We should set the standard as the world leader for constructive innovation with the largest and most beneficial impact on health and nutrition ever in the history of mankind.
We have the tools, the resources and the technology. Creating synthetic food that looks like real food is a generally bad idea and I don’t want to eat it. From here out I’m growing my own. It’s pretty clear to me that the government is not going to provide for my health, it’s up to me to do that – just like it’s up to you.
We have to take responsibility for our own health – and our family’s – nobody else will.
It’s time for our leadership to wake up and grow spines. If you want to get the attention of politicians and corporate management, use your political and economic vote to support things that make sense to you.
- Believe me, they will follow the money. 1 Million phone calls, email, letters and votes make a big difference. Out of 77 Million, that’s only 7.2% of Baby Boomers.
Healthy Wealthy Boomer: What Do You Actually Know about Genetically Modified Foods?
In this case, what you don’t know CAN hurt you.
Filed under Blog, Genetically Modified Foods, Health, Health Alert by Michael Barrett
