< Previous29SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINE30SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEHOW 5 MINUTES CAN TRIPLE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY by Jessica GwynneJessica Gwynne is an Australian life coach who helps business owners live their purpose by confidently being who they truly are. She is a lover of business and success and yet understands that we’re all connected and are here to create positive change on a collective level. Her philosophy is that a business is really an extension of the owner, so have the person living on purpose and the business will flourish. She speaks around Australia on personally aligned marketing after 20 years in sales and marketing herself. Connect with Jessica at jessicagwynne.com.31SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINE...we can move energy with our thoughts...Using this simple 5 minute morning process that includes gratitude and setting intentions, you can stay focused and triple your daily productivity.Meditation, morning pages, journaling, breathing exercises, making your bed, gratitude lists, standing on your head and reciting the national anthem... if you’re anything like me, you’ve tried all the things that people have said you SHOULD do as your morning routine. And if you’re anything like me, they became very overwhelming and so you dropped them all over time anyway.I am a believer (and put into practice) that a good morning routine will set you up for the day, but how do you create one that doesn’t take 3 hours, isn’t laboursome and can be done if you’re not at home?I invite you to consider the 3x3. It takes 5 minutes, it helps you to align your day to your purpose and my clients who use it have doubled (and in some cases tripled) not just their productivity, but their income!Science now shows us that at the smallest level, we’re all made up of the same stuff - energy - teeny tiny particles constantly moving and interacting with us and the world around us. We can move that energy with our thoughts. You may have heard ‘thoughts are things’ and this is now proven by science. The other thing science shows us is that the tiny particles that are moving, move (or more accurately, vibrate) at different speeds. Higher vibration equals more positive things, while lower vibration equals less positive things and experiences. 32SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEWe use this science in the 3x3 to create your day and triple your productivity in an incredibly simple format.Here’s the process:1. Write down three things you’re grateful for.2. Write down three intentions (outcomes) for the day.3. Write down three action steps to move you towards those intentions. 4. Now get to it!We start with the things we’re grateful for, as this raises your vibration, allowing you to ‘match’ with more positive outcomes. Setting your intentions, which is really another word for the outcomes of the day, allows you to channel your thoughts into the things you are wanting to create. Once you set the intention, the energy around you works with you to bring it into fruition. And then the actions - these are imperative. This is often the missing piece in manifesting and the Law of Attraction. We cannot create by lying on the couch and doing nothing. Similarly, we cannot reach our outcomes if our actions are not inspired. There is no purpose to writing a 500-word blog if your intention for that day was to record sales videos. Small inspired actions are what allow us to achieve our goals. You don’t need to know all the steps, just take the next step.Give this process a go for just 7 days and watch your productivity soar!“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.” -Marilyn Monroe34SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEBODY GRATITUDE: HOW WE END THE WAR AGAINST OUR BODIES by Myola WoodsAward winning Myola Woods, is an Author, Certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Sex Educator, and an International Intimacy & Relationship Coach. Myola specialises in teaching individuals and couples the art of connection, creating and cultivating the choice of arousal, to deepen intimacy, sensation and pleasure … even if it has been a very long time! As a sexual being, mother of 4 teenagers and pleasure enthusiast, Myola appreciates the time constraints, daily and social pressures that can play havoc on our erotic lives. Myola teaches ways to explore and enhance your love making in everyday life, using techniques and practices that can turn you, and your life, ON. Connect with Myona at eroticcoaching.com.Are you at war or at peace with your body?We are often focused on the war outside when most of us are having a war on our own bodies with our thinking.What were your last thoughts about your body? Were you harassing it to look a certain way, fit into something, not want to eat that sweet thing that caught your eye? In a survey conducted in 1998 by David Sloan and Lorna Hastings, written into Susan Quilliams’ book Women on Sex, the following is stated93.2% of women would like some part of their body to be differentOnly 2.8% have never done anything to change their appearance.Just 10% of women say that they are happy with the way they lookThis survey is 20 years old, does it still seem relevant to you? Would the results be different if they were done today? Do you think we have improved, are making progress, keeping the status quo or going backwards?By the media we are given a very narrow range of bodies, looks and styles that are acceptable, sexy and worthy of acceptance. 35SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEOur minds are fed images constantly that tell us this is wrong or that is wrong. It’s difficult to know exactly what is right but as long as we are getting the message that we are wrong, we can keep up the negative self talk and believing what we see and are is not good enough. Imagine if your best friend said to you every day “jeez you look fat” “That colour… really?” and kept criticizing you, how long would you stay friends? There is a good chance you would stop being friends and hanging out. We speak to ourselves and our bodies worse than this!As an intimacy and relationships coach, I hear women loathing their bodies and this affects their self esteem, confidence, posture, sex and intimate lives. I hear stories from women whose partners have not seen completely naked and this is not because they think leaving half a skirt or top or slinky heels on is sexy (because it can be); they leave part of their clothing on and the lights off because they are ashamed of their bodies. Can you relate to this? How free are you in your body? Imagine hiding that much of yourself in such an intimate act with your partner, we want connection, vulnerability, curiousity in our intimate lives which is near impossible without body confidence and love.“Body confidence and love, well how do we get it?” I hear you asking.Over my lifetime I’ve had many different sized and shaped bodies, having birthed and fed 4 babies.My learning has been to love the body I am in, and not wait until I have the body I ‘think’ I should be happy in, but right here and now in the present. These 3 steps are my favourites that I use with my clients as well:1. SLOW DOWNOften we are very busy and we take our bodies for granted they carry us around, send us messages, they try and be here for us no matter what. Slowing down your breath and your busyness will give you a chance to notice what is happening with your body, how it moves through life, what it feels, notices, likes and dislikes, maybe even what brings it pleasure. 36SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINE2. CONNECT WITH YOUR HEART AND BODYStand or sit in front of a mirror - if you have a full length great if not, begin with what you have. Look into your own eyes and notice what you see, do you notice your wrinkles or freckles or do you notice your own beauty. Stay with yourself as long as you can, and bringing your awareness into your heart centre, allow the love from your own heart to flow out to your body, even if there are parts you may not like. You could practice and revisit this exercise until you see all of your assests shining in the mirror.3. REVERSE THE WARAs you go about your day, begin to notice what your thoughts are about your body. Begin to collate a list of them ‘my butt is too big’, ‘my boobs are too saggy’ once you have a reasonable list begin to write, have gratitude and acknowledge these parts, my butt carries me around gives me wiggles when I dance, my boobs fed 4 babies and they give me lots of pleasure. Once you have shifted from the negative response to acknowledgement and gratitude turn your statements into positive ones. 37SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEI love and appreciate my body, my butt and boobs are so delicious and gorgeous and I show my deep gratitude my connecting with my body each day in nurturing ways.Be your own best friend, stop the war, create peace in your body and mind. You will find your body shows you mutual gratitude for being cared for, loved, considered, appreciated because ultimately isn’t that what we all want. You never know when the war on our bodies is healed, maybe the wars outside will stop as well. It is worth a try to see if the microcosm of our bodies effects the planet. I wish you love in success in the gratitude and acknowledgement of your glorious selves....show deep gratitude by connecting with your body each day...38SMART HEALTHY WOMEN MAGAZINEIf you want to explore your creativity and you’re wondering where to start, Willowing Arts offer short online classes as well as longer in depth classes. Some classes run ‘live’ and others are what they call: ‘self study courses’, focussed on stylised/ layered/whimsical and symbolic art, using many materials (mixed media). If you want to unlock your creative rebel, then I highly recommend Willowing Arts and Tamara Laporte.WE LOVE THIS...Next >