How to "Embody" Your Health

Today I was reading a daily excerpt in "Marie-Claire's Book Club" out of the fourth chapter in my book "Plant Based for Profits - How to Eat for Success." The title of step four is "Embody."

I already had the word jotted down in my mental note pad when I started writing, as it speaks so much to me. There is a roundness to it, it has so much... body to its sound. Even though I had a good intuitive feel of what it meant, I did look up the definition.

"Em-bo-dy" - be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling)."

To me, this chapter is all about "becoming" and the BE-ness of our actions versus the DO-ness.

BE-ness is the silent integrity when the cameras stop rolling and our loud DO-ness has no listeners or viewers anymore.

It is about internalizing and fully absorbing the good we do for ourselves, even when that may seem scary or extreme at first.

I won't lie. It was the hardest chapter to write! I mean: I struggled in that messy middle of everything else that felt like a breeze (and I hardly ever have trouble writing).

This beautiful word I couldn't wait dedicating a whole chapter to forced me to look deeper, go further, go back and forth, until I found the right substance and depth to dive into.

I got stuck several times, stopped and took distance, stared at a blank page, walked around in the apartment like a caged lion, got my hands dirty in the garden every day for a week, laid awake at night, wrote too much (dirt still under my nails), womans-plained without making a point, wrote all the wrong things, cleared out pages and pages because...

... how do you "become" in terms of health and wellbeing?

Where do you start from?

What does it take?

And how could I keep a complicated concept simple, doable, practical, understandable, straight forward?

We tend to make changes within the conveniency of what we already know and so, you may start eating healthy with the expectation that results will flow in soon. But it does take a step outside the tool box you have worked with most of your life.

When your computer refuses to work due to 79 open tabs, you will be forced to shut it down and restart.

What most businesswomen forget when they embark on a healthy journey is; rebooting their body for a fresh start. Frustration is usually the consequence of not feeling or seeing much difference from your efforts. So what's missing?

To become an expression of quality, you get to start with a clean slate. A body that has indulged in fast, highly processed food and shaped itself over the years with that information, won't be able to process and absorb all the goodness of real food. It takes a reset, a good swipe to get rid of what has slowed you down.

That's where the shift of visible change happens; from undoing the harmful effects, then restart with a rebooted system. That's what a good detox and cleanse do: push that reset button of your body.

I have seen many successful businesswomen resist this crucial step, because they fear it will interfere with their busy schedule. Which is why I cover other -tested- ways of detoxing that allow you to keep working.

But yes, a mentality shift is much needed in order to em-body. We take the garbage can out when it's full, but when was the last time you did the same for yourself?

Which brings me to the most important question that supports the change you want to become.

Who do you get to BE in order to enable the highest expression of yourself and your health?

I'm looking forward to your thoughts!