Category Archives: Health improvement

Finding time to meditate

Finding time to meditate daily is essential for our inner peace and as we become more peaceful , we can help create more peace around us too and subsequently for the world.

In todays busy lifestyle, many find it difficult to find time to meditate for any length of time. However it is often found that when we regularly meditate we become much more productive.

This is because we become more present in each moment and therefore more efficient. It can then happen that you begin completing your tasks much earlier than expected and find you have more spare time.

The best time I recommend to mediate is in the morning. This is because, if you sit to meditate first thing in the morning, then it will benefit your whole day and help your mind to be clearer and therefore more productive.

If you really struggle with the morning then the next best time would be before bed, for this time, set aside 20 minutes before you go to bed to meditate and you’ll find you sleep much deeper.

20 minutes is the optimal time to start with, however you can adapt this and build up. If you do struggle, start with 5 mins and build by 5mins a week until you get to 20 minutes.

When you are comfortable and if it feels right for you, you can then do both first thing in the morning and last thing at night for optimal results.

As with any new habit; stick to the same time each day if you can and this will help to form the habit much more easily.

Also remember your reasons why and all the benefits you will gain from taking the time to meditate daily.

Benefits such as reducing stress and anxiety, improving productivity and efficiency and many more give you lots of reasons to stick to this life changing and life improving habit. 🙏💕🙏

To your Healthiest and Best,

Miranda

How to Manage Overwhelm

Experiencing overwhelm and anxiety has become much more common, but how can we best cope with this when this comes up?

In learning how to manage overwhelm and anxiety often simple strategies work best. The following two are what I recommend most of all;

  1. Get out in to nature; whenever you feel overwhelmed or anxious just stepping out in to nature and taking a walk or just spending some peaceful time in a local park can really help you feel centred again.
  2. The power of one; break things down and focus on one thing at a time, this can really help ease the overwhelm and allow you to focus with much more clarity again. Once you have done that one thing Whether it be to go for a walk or do that first item on your to do list, you will find your momentum will return.

For further support and coaching on this if you’re struggling, please get in touch via the form below. Also please check out the video below where I outline these tips in one of my favourite nature spots 🙂

Overcome anxiety and overwhelm

To your healthiest and best 🙏💛💫

Miranda

Adapt & Flow

Find Flow in Movement 💫

Just as water naturally adapts and flows with change,

We can be the same

Adapting and flowing in movement,

Just as in life and all things

Following the natural flow;

The way our life shows us to go 🙏💕💫

~ M.L Adams

Happy Monday 🙂 here’s to finding your way and adapting with flow to any changes this week may bring 🙏

To your healthiest and best,

Miranda

For more info on finding flow through movement, please get in touch via the form below.

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3 Top Reasons to Love Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is a state of conciousness between waking and sleeping. When in the Yoga Nidra state, we can create powerful changes that are difficult to make in other states of conciousness, such as normal waking and sleeping.

Yoga Nidra then can be a very powerful state and one you can grow to love and want to practice regularly.

3 Top Reasons to Love Yoga Nidra;

  1. It can help you to heal trauma; being able to access the state between waking and sleeping allows for you to make helpful changes on a subconscious level and in a safe and relaxed way.
  2. It can help you to achieve your goals; accessing the subconscious mind in yoga nidra also allows for your deeper creativity and with regular practice, subsequent manifestation.
  3. It can help change any negative belief patterns; accessing the subconscious mind, can also help you to plant new positive affirmations and intentions. Replacing any old negative patterns and changing your focus to positive belief patterns.

If you would like to try Yoga Nidra and experience these benefits first hand, I’m currently offering the first session for half price.

To book your first session please fill out the form below and start manifesting your dreams 🙏🙂💛

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Yours Health and Happiness,

Miranda

5 Ways to Lose Weight with Low Impact Exercise

A question I have been asked recently is whether it is possible to lose weight with low impact exercise. The answer is of course yes, it just requires a different strategy.

The main benefit of low impact exercise is that it is far safer on the joints and you are less likely to injure yourself or aggrevate a previous injury.

Low Impact exercise is gentle on the body and therefore much easier to approach in terms of motivation also, particularly if you have been injured or struggle with fatigue.

5 ways to lose weight with low impact exercise.

  1. Focus on larger muscle groups.
  2. Do a higher rep range.
  3. Go for a longer workout. (Particularly with cardio. Longer walks 3-4 x a week for example can be an excellent way to help you lose weight.)
  4. Exercise regularly (3-5 x a week is ideal)
  5. Do a combination of weights and cardio. (A common mistake for people who want to lose weight is to just do cardio, ensure to include weights also.)

As with any goal and way of training the right strategy is essential. Following the above advice will certainly get you ahead.

For any further support and advice for your training, please get in touch via the form below.

Stay happy and healthy 🙏😊

Miranda

How coaching helps you to achieve your goals

Having a coach for life or training goals can really help you get ahead. Heres why;

• Extra motivation, having someone who you can share your goals with and who encourages and supports you to achieve them, can be hugely motivating and make a lot of difference to your efforts and therefore your outcomes.

• Being accountable to someone also gives you that added extra. Knowing that you have to check in with someone and they’re keeping track of your goal and where you’re at alongside you can be incredibly helpful.

• Extra knowledge, whether it be technique, instruction or just that extra angle of perception, a coach can always provide you with that something you may be missing.

If you’re still unsure, the only way to really find out is to give it a try. To get your introductory coaching session please send a message below with your info & details of your goal(s) and I’ll get back to you asap.

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As always, stay happy, healthy and motivated 🙏😊

Miranda

5 Benefits of Forest Bathing

Forest Bathing or ‘Shinrin Yoku’ its known in Japan is a practice of walking in nature for a period of time, recommended 30minutes or more. Doing this has many therapeutic benefits and in Japan where it originated, doctors actually recommend this form of therapy to patients to help improve physical, mental and emotional health.

These are the top 5 benefits of Forest Bathing;

5 Benefits of Forest Bathing

Walking in nature has been shown to have a number of health benefits, including:

1. Reduced stress and anxiety
and improved mood.

2. Improved cardiovascular health and lower blood pressure.

3. Improved immune system, helping to fight off many minor and/or potentially major illnesses.
4. Improved creativity and concentration.

5. Improved productivity.

All the above may seem difficult to believe from spending some regular time walking in nature. However it has been proven to be effective, simply spending regular time in nature for a consistent time period really can help your overall wellbeing this much.

Give it a try and allow yourself to experience the amazing benefits and maybe much more. Most of all, enjoy. 🙂🙏🌳

5 Benefits of Calisthenics

Moving over from a weight based training programme to purely Calistheics was something I decided to do a few years ago and it has definitely benefited my movement practice in many ways.

These are my top 5 benefits of Calisthenics;

  1. Improved mobility; this one is extremely noticeable, all movement becomes much easier and more fluid.
  2. Whole body strength; within Calisthenics training you are using your whole body in movement, therefore increasing strength all over.
  3. Easier on the joints; although it can be very challenging as a movement practice, it is far easier on the joints.
  4. Doesn’t require equipment; for some exercises, equipment such as bars and bands can be used, but for most this is not required, and for all the exercises very little space is needed.
  5. Improves balance and core strength; due to controlling your own body weight and movement this adds the additional benefit of improving your balance and core strength greatly.

Many people do a combination of Calisthenics and weights and some purely one or the other. However if you are someone who hasn’t given this a try and would like to know more, please get in touch for ideas and programmes.

And as always,

Happy training 😊🙏

Miranda

The Importance of Core

Most are aware of the importance of core stability, however it can still often get neglected.

This post serves as a simple reminder of why to not neglect the core part of your training.

With regular core training all of the following elements will improve;

• Balance & overall stability

• Functional Movement & Control

• Back strength, particularly lower

• Ability to lift and carry safely & effectively

• Posture and co-ordinated movement

• Injury prevention

For all the above reasons it is essential to add a regular core training element to your exercise routine. It is something you can do daily for as little as 5-10 minutes and can build up to with a variety of different exercises.

In addition to this try to include a regular practice of engaging your core muscles in daily activities such a shopping or washing up. The more you do this the stronger and more automatically activated your core muscles will be.

Below is a short video of a good core activating exercise you can try.

As always enjoy the process and progress.

💪🙂🙏💫

To your healthiest and best,

Miranda

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Core Stabilty & Strength

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Being content in your training

Along with having personal intentions, it’s important to also be content in your training.

So how can you have both of these without them opposing each other?

This is very possible and in fact having both is what helps you to be even more content and even achieve a flow state in your training.

By being content in your training you are happy with what you are doing and grateful for every time you exercise. Always enjoying the feel good factor returned to you.

In having intentions also, you are aligned in the process of what you need for your own journey.

This allows you to not only be happy and content but to maintain this and evolve along the way. As always, enjoy the journey.🙏💫

Miranda