Joyce Dillon

Health, Wellness & Purpose Strategy Coach

Healthy Living

Are you Willing To Do What It Takes To Live A Healthy Life?

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Millions of people are living with stress, chronic illness, loss, grief, and depression.

Is this you? If so, please consider making some life changes.

Good health is the cornerstone of our life. It determines how we ultimately look, feel, interact with others and thrive in life and work.

Here are some of my favorite suggestions for getting healthy, fit and creating emotional wellness.

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1. Exercise: Do any exercise you can stretch, walk, join a group in the park, run a 5K, swim, just get moving.

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2. Eat Healthy Foods. No matter what your budget is you can choose to eat healthier. Buy and eat fruit and vegetables every day. I often add vegetables to my organic eggs-it is delicious. Buy organic if you can, if not go to your local farmers market.

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3. Relax, Relax, Relax. My favorite place to chill out is the beach. We all need more time to unwind away from work and the stress of living in our world. It can be difficult to leave your work but just do it!

4. Surround yourself with beauty. Have fresh flowers in your house, create a garden, design a beautiful altar with sacred items, make your bedroom a sanctuary for sleeping.

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5. Honor the earth through prayer or meditation. Our mother earth needs our love and support as she goes through a deep transition and clearing. I never leave my home without meditating at least 15 minutes.

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6. I believe creating and living the life you deeply desire is one of the most important choices you can make. If you are working in a job you can not stand you will never live a healthy, well-balanced life.

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These are just a few of the ways to help vitalize your health and wellbeing. If you need assistance in creating a healthier life style, healing emotional issues or eliminating old patterns and beliefs please reach out. Call me at 404-824-7332 or go to jjdillon@mindspring.com

 

Awaken To Your Calling: Create the Life and Work You Love

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  • Are you yearning to make a life change but find it overwhelming?
  • Do you continue to work at a job that drains your very soul?
  • Are you fearful of doing what you most desire to do?

There is always a particular moment when you clearly know you need to make change in your life. That desire for change is a like a grain of sand in a shoe, imperceptible at first but grinding away until it becomes the only thing you notice. Your instinct is to dismiss the feelings. Saying, “I can tough this out “or “it could be worse”.

Often we find it easier to recognize the emotions and feeling of others but nearly impossible to recognize our own needs and yearnings. Why is this?

By midlife, after years of loss, comprise, denial, and fear we lose track of our “true self” and the dreams we had. We often struggle letting go of what does not serve our highest needs.

The ego has great difficulty letting go of anything and will defend itself with great intensity. The truth is we must let go of who we are in order to become who we want to be. Gregory Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic life says, “Sometimes we hear the calling but fear what will be demanded of us if we respond to the “call”.

Our lives speak through our actions and reactions, our intuitions and instincts, our feelings and our words. If we can learn to listen, read our own responses, we will receive the guidance we need.

You must slow down to be able to hear the “calling”, as to why you need to reinvent yourself, change your mindset, change your career, go back to school, or start a business.

Moments of awareness come in many ways to point us toward action.
They include:

  • A dream that keeps coming back.
  • A symptom in your body that reoccurs
  • A call from someone you need to hear from
  • A book that falls into your lap
  • An emotional issue that keeps reappearing
  • A e-mail that excites you about doing volunteer work

These wake-up calls stimulate your intuition; encourage you to ask deeper questions and to seek the answers. This process is a gateway into the deepest layers of your “inner self”.

The time is now! All it takes is an idea, a discovery or a breakthrough that turns the fear of your unwanted situation into the hope of new possibilities.

Strategy Session:

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To explore what your next step is request a complementary strategy session, where we’ll meet together for 30 minutes and uncover what you’d really like to create in your life, and I will show you how I can help you reach your dream.

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7 Great Reasons to Listen to Discover Your Calling

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rainbowWelcome to 2014 a New Year.

How is this year going to be different than last year? If you don’t make any changes in your beliefs, dreams or expectations for your life not much will change.

If you could live your life with more passion and purpose what would you be doing, what would you be feeling, how would your life change?

It is not that difficult to make simple life changes than can dramatically shift your life?

This is why Jennifer, my co-host and myself decided to make our own life changes this year and to offer the strategies and practices we are doing on a free teleconference: Discover Your Calling: 4 Power Steps to Activate Your Life Purpose; Wednesday, January 15th at 7:00pm EST.

We have so many people who are interested we had to get more telephone lines! If you can’t attend the complementary teleconference just go ahead and sign up and we will send you the link to download the call.

If you are struggling with feeling connected, passionate, in service and living your purpose here are 7 reasons you should listen to the teleconference.

  1. You have a sense that there is more you are here to be and do in this lifetime, but you are not clear how to tap into your brilliance.
  2. You know you’re supposed to be living a much bigger life than you are now, but don’t know how to make this change.
  3. You’re stuck in old emotions, memories and other unproductive life patterns
  4. You dread going to work or performing your current daily activities.
  5. You expend a lot of energy resisting change or trying to force things to happen or go your way.
  6. You don’t feel connected to your life anymore, or you don’t feel aligned to the natural flow of the universe.
  7. You are frustrated with your lack of progress and spend too much time with struggle, fear and doubt.

Seize this opportunity to explore 4 Power Steps to Activate Your Life Purpose. Sign up Now!

A Lesson in StillnessA Hike in the North Georgia Mountains

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About 80 miles north of Atlanta, the small town of Ellijay sits on the edge of the Chattahoochee National Forest. Renowned as the “Apple Capitol of Georgia.”

These poems by Mark Nepo reminds me of how much I love to hike in the fall in the North Georgia Mountains. It is magnificent!

Reduced to Joy

I was sipping coffee on the way to work,the back road under a canopy of maples turning orange. In the dip of woods, a small doe gently leaping. I pulled over, for there was nowhere else to go. She paused as if she knew I was watching. A few orange leaves fell around her like blessings no one can seem to find. I sipped some coffee, completely at peace, knowing it wouldn’t last. But that’s alright.

We never know when we will blossom into what we’re supposed to be. It might be early. It might be late. It might be after thirty years of failing at a misguided way. Or the very first time we dare to shed our mental skin and touch the world.

They say, if real enough, some see God at the moment of their death. But isn’t every fall and letting go a death? Isn’t God waiting right now in the chill between the small doe’s hoof and those fallen leaves? — Mark Nepo

Excerpted from Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo.

On the Ridge

We can grow by simply listening, the way the tree on that ridge listens its branches to the sky, the way blood listens its flow to the site of a wound, the way you listen like a basin when my head so full of grief can’t look you in the eye. We can listen our way out of anger, if we let the heart soften the wolf we keep inside. We can last by listening deeply, the way roots reach for the next inch of earth, the way an old turtle listens all he hears into the pattern of his shell. — Mark Nepo

Excerpted from Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo.

What is Conscious Living?

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Today’s post is an excerpt from my upcoming book “Fully Conscious Living”.

Fully conscious living is first and foremost choosing a way of life that starts by being aware, awake and responsible for our thoughts, beliefs, projections and lifestyle choices. It is becoming aware of what is occurring both externally and internally in our body and mind.

Deep, conscious living involves all forms of life choices, including:

  • Choosing to awaken and become aware of your thoughts, emotions, and unconscious aspects in your life that have blocked you from feeling fully alive.
  • Recognizing what is not in alignment with your highest and best self, and taking responsibility to release it from your life.
  • Learning to resist nothing by looking it “straight in the eyes,” blessing it and being grateful for it.
  • Remaining in integrity and honoring your soul’s authentic purpose for your life.
  • Learning how to reset your thoughts to move you quickly into a higher vibration.
  • Choosing healthy foods that nourish your brain, body and soul.
  • Aligning your heart with your brain to manage anxiety, stress and depression.
  • Getting crystal clear on how to manifest your passion, life purpose and destiny.
  • Understanding how to use the laws of manifestation to create what you want and avoid what you don’t.
  • Engaging others with gratitude, forgiveness, selfless service and self-love to profoundly shift your life.
  • Connecting with and shifting your relationship with the Earth as its caretaker.

Choosing to live a conscious lifestyle is the key to living a fully engaged life in all areas -relationships, career, health, spirituality, well-being, environment, and service.

How are you choosing to become more conscious? Let me know by commenting below or emailing me at jjdillon@mindspring.com.